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Fastcase Gets Negative Treatment
May 18, 2013
Product of the week ending April 26: Bad Law Bot Manufacturer: Washington, D.C.-based Fastcase, Inc. Description: The...
May 18, 2013
Product of the week ending April 26: Bad Law Bot Manufacturer: Washington, D.C.-based Fastcase, Inc. Description: The...
Lawyers Like Storing Data Online
May 18, 2013
For a profession sometimes criticized as being slow to change, the law seems to be flying into use of cloud computing for legal...
May 18, 2013
For a profession sometimes criticized as being slow to change, the law seems to be flying into use of cloud computing for legal...
Winning the Internet with Social Media
May 17, 2013
It is no longer surprising to find your mother or second-grade gym teacher on Facebook, nor should we be surprised by the rise...
May 17, 2013
It is no longer surprising to find your mother or second-grade gym teacher on Facebook, nor should we be surprised by the rise...
The Next Frontier of Technology: Making Divorce Easier
May 17, 2013
Even the divorce process is getting easier thanks to technology. Meet Wevorce, a startup coming out of esteemed startup “school” Y Combinator. It’s an online service that breaks the process of getting a divorce into discrete steps that are easily managed without having to get into a messy court battle. Here’s how it works: The process identifies a couple as being a certain “archetype” (there are 18 total) and then walks through the process of the divorce step-by-step. It covers...
May 17, 2013
Even the divorce process is getting easier thanks to technology. Meet Wevorce, a startup coming out of esteemed startup “school” Y Combinator. It’s an online service that breaks the process of getting a divorce into discrete steps that are easily managed without having to get into a messy court battle. Here’s how it works: The process identifies a couple as being a certain “archetype” (there are 18 total) and then walks through the process of the divorce step-by-step. It covers...
New Jersey Court Mulls Liability for Sending Driver Text Message
May 17, 2013
It's common knowledge that texting and driving is a bad idea and, in a number of jurisdictions, illegal. New Jersey is one of them. But what about sending a text to someone you know is behind the wheel? In addition to moral responsibility, could there be any civil liability for doing so? That is the question currently being considered by a New Jersey appeals court, after a trial judge in Morristown dismissed a claim brought by two injured motorcyclists against a teenager who texted a male friend...
May 17, 2013
It's common knowledge that texting and driving is a bad idea and, in a number of jurisdictions, illegal. New Jersey is one of them. But what about sending a text to someone you know is behind the wheel? In addition to moral responsibility, could there be any civil liability for doing so? That is the question currently being considered by a New Jersey appeals court, after a trial judge in Morristown dismissed a claim brought by two injured motorcyclists against a teenager who texted a male friend...
Dallas Appeals Court Compels Arbitration in Interlocutory Appeal
May 17, 2013
The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has ruled in an interlocutory appeal that a lower court committed error when...
May 17, 2013
The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has ruled in an interlocutory appeal that a lower court committed error when...
Big Data Could Transform Global Financial Markets
May 17, 2013
Big Data is a big topic in academic and high-tech circles. And in case you haven't noticed, it's a big -- and growing -- topic in financial services too. In the next few years, expect big data to change the way financial services firms approach almost every part of the business, from asset and risk management to determine credit worthiness and trading, according to a new white paper from BNY Mellon. The paper, titled "The Transformational Influence of 'Big Data' on the 21st Century Global Financial...
May 17, 2013
Big Data is a big topic in academic and high-tech circles. And in case you haven't noticed, it's a big -- and growing -- topic in financial services too. In the next few years, expect big data to change the way financial services firms approach almost every part of the business, from asset and risk management to determine credit worthiness and trading, according to a new white paper from BNY Mellon. The paper, titled "The Transformational Influence of 'Big Data' on the 21st Century Global Financial...
Supreme Court Confidential
May 16, 2013
All rise and download the latest iOS update of PocketJustice http://at.law.com/LTN136x . If it seems like years since the maiden version of PocketJustice hit the iTunes store and quickly positioned itself as a top-shelf mobile multimedia resource for constitutional law, that's because it was way back in early 2010 when the Oyez Project, now at Chicago-Kent College of Law, first released the jammin' app delivering audio of Supreme Court arguments to smartphones. PocketJustice presents audio...
May 16, 2013
All rise and download the latest iOS update of PocketJustice http://at.law.com/LTN136x . If it seems like years since the maiden version of PocketJustice hit the iTunes store and quickly positioned itself as a top-shelf mobile multimedia resource for constitutional law, that's because it was way back in early 2010 when the Oyez Project, now at Chicago-Kent College of Law, first released the jammin' app delivering audio of Supreme Court arguments to smartphones. PocketJustice presents audio...
Improving Mediation with Consent?
May 16, 2013
Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley, Professor of Law and Director of Fordham University’s Conflict Resolution & ADR Program,...
May 16, 2013
Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley, Professor of Law and Director of Fordham University’s Conflict Resolution & ADR Program,...
Stanford Looks to FutureLaw
May 16, 2013
The agenda of the first FutureLaw conference at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics wasn't your typical continuing...
May 16, 2013
The agenda of the first FutureLaw conference at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics wasn't your typical continuing...
