Interesting article on the Google & Facebook decision not to co-operate on blending search with social network data. John Battelle gives plenty of background for this and Venture Beat took up the issue of reduced trust, but what I find interesting are implications for the practice of law. Just as the average lawyer is finally [...]
I’ve taken a few years off from actively working on my Agile Law concept…and 2012 is when you will finally see what I’ve been hinting at over the last 3 years. Writing another book is daunting. The first book I wrote was 1994,–and that was a LONG time ago both in terms of technology and [...]
Listening now to a webinar by Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle and Susan Cartier Leibel of Solo Practice University on “going solo.” As someone who went solo in the practice of law back in 1994, then decided that legal tech was FAR more interesting, I like their perspectives. I’ve been watching the growth of their [...]
I’m in love with H5 and not just because of their killer website and name that has more cowbell than I can handle, but I also am having special moments with Cataphora. In the run up to the Sedona Conference, I’m taking another look at legal tech from the perspective of what lawyers really need [...]
No, it’s not a Second Life island. It’s doc review and it’s being held under the microscope this past week. Disclaimer I do doc reviews. I like doc reviews. And, yes, I’ve practiced law,–corporate, criminal, legal services, international, state, federal, appellate…blah, blah, blah! And that, more than any other reason, is why doc review is [...]
Something to think about, that goes beyond the issue of multi-byte data ( a problem that can be solved ). Law is a process of communication that reflects and re-inforces what is and is not “OK.” Even though we have only a few major systems of law (Anglo-American, Civil, tribal, communist, etc), the complexity of [...]
This news is bit old, but it’s never too late for good cheer! welcome to the profession, Boyo! From the press release: 21 May, 2008 Bono, U2 lead singer and anti-poverty activist to receive Honorary Doctorate from Keio University Bono will also deliver a lecture to Keio students Keio University will confer the Honorary Degree [...]
Today, “The Mighty Snarker” ( as I have recently been dubbed )..:o))…went back to the Michigan Bar website and with an abundance of curiosity started clicking around to see what was new. What I found was a section on “Practice Management Resource Center.” Again, with an amount of curiosity that directly contradicts my list of [...]
Occasionally, I stick my head up and actually read the articles that discuss the role of technology in the litigation process. Having thought about this stuff on the small scale for a LONG time, it’s always kinda fun to see people state the BLEEDING OBVIOUS…so very cogently and thoughtfully. I am SO no one to [...]
Still here. Still studying semantics. Or, more precisely, engaging in semantics. Found this quote from this thoughtful blog entry by a guy named Kashori in 2005, in response to a query about how to redesign my databases so that they can evolve and communicate with other applications: The comparison of semantic web and database technologies [...]