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ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content (via MicrosoftResearch)
April 7, 2013
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate...
April 7, 2013
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate...
How Law Firms End Up on IBM GC’s Do-Not-Hire List
April 7, 2013
Lawyers who lead corporate law departments often have a do-not-hire list of banned law firms, even if it’s not committed to writing. IBM general counsel Robert Weber is no different. There are about 10 law firms and 10 individual lawyers he refuses to hire, the American Lawyer reports. He explained why in an interview with the publication. “The first sin is pretty simple,” the story says. “Forget what all those business development gurus say. Don't solicit Weber's corporate counterparts...
April 7, 2013
Lawyers who lead corporate law departments often have a do-not-hire list of banned law firms, even if it’s not committed to writing. IBM general counsel Robert Weber is no different. There are about 10 law firms and 10 individual lawyers he refuses to hire, the American Lawyer reports. He explained why in an interview with the publication. “The first sin is pretty simple,” the story says. “Forget what all those business development gurus say. Don't solicit Weber's corporate counterparts...
ABA Techshow: Southwest by South
April 7, 2013
The southwest and south exhibit halls to the American Bar Association's Techshow at the Chicago Hilton opened Thursday. There were no flash mobs, but plenty of signs in the southwest hall that new and enhanced products continue to be released afterLegalTech New York. Among the offerings: • Santa Clara, Calif.-based Connected Datadebuted its Transporter product (pictured left). It is an on-premise, network storage device designed to share files with other Transporter devices anywhere in the world,...
April 7, 2013
The southwest and south exhibit halls to the American Bar Association's Techshow at the Chicago Hilton opened Thursday. There were no flash mobs, but plenty of signs in the southwest hall that new and enhanced products continue to be released afterLegalTech New York. Among the offerings: • Santa Clara, Calif.-based Connected Datadebuted its Transporter product (pictured left). It is an on-premise, network storage device designed to share files with other Transporter devices anywhere in the world,...
Take Harvard Law Survey On Online Arbitration for Consumer Disputes Today!
April 7, 2013
If you want to have an impact on the design of the first online arbitration platform designed specifically for consumer disputes,...
April 7, 2013
If you want to have an impact on the design of the first online arbitration platform designed specifically for consumer disputes,...
Job Market for Would-Be Lawyers is Bleaker Than it Looks
April 7, 2013
The job market for prospective lawyers is even bleaker than the law school employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar would appear to suggest, according to one group's analysis of the data. Excluding jobs funded by law schools, only 55.1 percent of all 2012 law school graduates were employed in full-time, long-term lawyer jobs on Feb .15, according to the analysis by the law school reform group Law School Transparency. "Law...
April 7, 2013
The job market for prospective lawyers is even bleaker than the law school employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar would appear to suggest, according to one group's analysis of the data. Excluding jobs funded by law schools, only 55.1 percent of all 2012 law school graduates were employed in full-time, long-term lawyer jobs on Feb .15, according to the analysis by the law school reform group Law School Transparency. "Law...
Texas Legislative Roundup April 3, 2013
April 7, 2013
The following bills relating to arbitration were introduced during the ongoing 83rd Texas legislative session. The last day of the regular session will be Monday, May 27, 2013. Please click on the bill number to read its text and on the status link to find the bill’s legislative history. Senate Bills: S.B. 1255 – “Relating to binding arbitration of an appraisal review board order determining a protest of an unequal appraisal of the owner’s property.” Bill status. SB 1691 –...
April 7, 2013
The following bills relating to arbitration were introduced during the ongoing 83rd Texas legislative session. The last day of the regular session will be Monday, May 27, 2013. Please click on the bill number to read its text and on the status link to find the bill’s legislative history. Senate Bills: S.B. 1255 – “Relating to binding arbitration of an appraisal review board order determining a protest of an unequal appraisal of the owner’s property.” Bill status. SB 1691 –...
Legal Market Disruptions Ignite at ABA Techshow
April 7, 2013
An event that started as a "lark" is now a tradition on the eve of theABA Techshow: LexThink.1 (formerly Ignite Law). LexThink.1 is a collection of thematic monologues delivered in six-minute increments that expound the future of law practice. It is produced byMatthew Homann, CEO at Kendeo and founder at LexThink, andJoAnna Forshee, CEO of InsideLegal.com and Envision Agency, and last night was sponsored by Clio, the practice management sofware as a service. The theme for 2013: market disruption...
April 7, 2013
An event that started as a "lark" is now a tradition on the eve of theABA Techshow: LexThink.1 (formerly Ignite Law). LexThink.1 is a collection of thematic monologues delivered in six-minute increments that expound the future of law practice. It is produced byMatthew Homann, CEO at Kendeo and founder at LexThink, andJoAnna Forshee, CEO of InsideLegal.com and Envision Agency, and last night was sponsored by Clio, the practice management sofware as a service. The theme for 2013: market disruption...
Associate Attorney is the Unhappiest Job in America, Survey Says
April 7, 2013
Long work days and billable-hour pressures are well-known in the legal world. Now a jobs website is taking notice in a new list of the top 10 unhappiest jobs in America. Associate attorney is No. 1, making it the unhappiest job, Forbes reports in a story noted by Above the Law. Legal assistant is No. 7 on the unhappiest jobs list, compiled by the jobs website CareerBliss. Heidi Golledge, chief executive of CareerBliss, told Forbes why associates are so unhappy. “In many cases, law firms...
April 7, 2013
Long work days and billable-hour pressures are well-known in the legal world. Now a jobs website is taking notice in a new list of the top 10 unhappiest jobs in America. Associate attorney is No. 1, making it the unhappiest job, Forbes reports in a story noted by Above the Law. Legal assistant is No. 7 on the unhappiest jobs list, compiled by the jobs website CareerBliss. Heidi Golledge, chief executive of CareerBliss, told Forbes why associates are so unhappy. “In many cases, law firms...
Automation and Employment
April 7, 2013
The question I consider is whether automation, technical progress, outsourcing, and the increasing complexity of products and services—all closely related phenomena—are reducing demand for workers, especially but not only those who do not have a high IQ. There is a long history of exaggerated concern, rightly derided by economists, with the replacement and hence displacement of workers by machines. The idea at its simplest is that labor-saving devices whether in home or factory production,...
April 7, 2013
The question I consider is whether automation, technical progress, outsourcing, and the increasing complexity of products and services—all closely related phenomena—are reducing demand for workers, especially but not only those who do not have a high IQ. There is a long history of exaggerated concern, rightly derided by economists, with the replacement and hence displacement of workers by machines. The idea at its simplest is that labor-saving devices whether in home or factory production,...
Amelia Earhart’s Agreement with Husband
April 7, 2013
We already knew that Amelia Earhart was ahead of her time, what with her passion for aviation and wearing pants (both unheard of for women in the 1930s). But the doomed pilot's prenuptial agreement, posted to Feministing on Monday, presents a version of marriage that is remarkably forward-thinking, even by today's standards.
April 7, 2013
We already knew that Amelia Earhart was ahead of her time, what with her passion for aviation and wearing pants (both unheard of for women in the 1930s). But the doomed pilot's prenuptial agreement, posted to Feministing on Monday, presents a version of marriage that is remarkably forward-thinking, even by today's standards.
