Mashable: “Facebook is infamous for the numerous ways in which folks use — and misuse — the platform, from your uncle sharing conspiracy theories to your roommate selling your couch on Marketplace. There’s one tool Facebook offers that is almost unilaterally helpful to users, though, and that’s the option for business owners to create a… Continue Reading
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The Big Four Legal Arms Are Growing, But Don’t Panic
Artificial Lawyer: “A new report by LexisNexis has outlined just how far the Big Four’s legal arms have grown in recent years. What also has changed is their strategy. As Harvard Law School’s David Wilkins explains in the study: ‘The last time they tried to enter the legal profession in the 1990s, their strategy was… Continue Reading
Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third
Sisk, Gregory C. and Catlin, Nicole and Anderson, Alexandra and Gunderson, Lauren, Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third (2021). U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3910536 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3910536 “This updated 2021 study explores the scholarly impact of… Continue Reading
Ten Rules for Presenters
Filament: “We don’t use a lot of PowerPoint here at Filament because there are usually better methods to convey information and engage an audience. However, if you’ve got a presentation to give, keep these Ten Rules in mind. Your audience will thank you.” Continue Reading
Buying Legal Tech Is Becoming Like High Street Shopping
Artificial Lawyer: “First we have the ‘own-brand megastores’. These are like the flagship stores of Apple or Microsoft on Regent Street in London. They primarily sell one brand’s products and those products are designed to fit together. They may work with other companies’ systems – out of necessity – but the goal is to offer… Continue Reading
Atlas of Strategy Traps
BCG Henderson Institute: “The exploration versus exploitation trade-off is at the heart of all business strategy. Learn to navigate the course using this atlas, which will help identify the sirens (warning signs) to avoid and the lighthouses (best practices) to look for. Guided by the experience of famous explorers and inventors, you can make timely… Continue Reading
2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession
ABA Journal: “The COVID-19 pandemic prompted one-third of older lawyers to change their retirement plans, according to the 2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession released Thursday. Of those attorneys, 53% said the public health crisis caused them to delay their retirement and the other 47% said the pandemic spurred them to hasten their retirement.… Continue Reading
What is the difference between current awareness and horizon scanning?
Vable: “Legal professionals are busy people. They are concerned with doing the best they can for their clients and making sure that their business runs smoothly. Trend spotting or horizon scanning isn’t necessarily at the top of their daily “to do” lists but if they want to grow the firm effectively, everyone – from trainee… Continue Reading
Explainable artificial intelligence, lawyer’s perspective
Explainable artificial intelligence, lawyer’s perspective. Authors: Łukasz Górski, Shashishekar Ramakrishna ICAIL ’21: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law June 2021 Pages 60–68https://doi.org/10.1145/3462757.3466145. Published:21 June 2021 “Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is a research direction that was already put under scrutiny, in particular in the AI&Law community. Whilst there were notable developments… Continue Reading
The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable
The Atlantic – Why targets of deliberate deception often hesitate to admit they’ve been deceived – “…In Missouri and other red states, vaccine refusal on partisan grounds has become a defining marker of community affiliation. Acceptance within some circles is contingent on refusal to cooperate with the Biden administration’s public-health campaign. Getting vaccinated is a… Continue Reading
Law Society Lawtech and Ethics Principles July 2021
UK Law Society – Law Society Lawtech and Ethics Principles, July 2021 – “The world has evolved – it is changing still. By some estimates there have been 5.3 years of digital transformation in the last year. Thankfully, our jurisdiction is one of flexibility where the regulatory environment has enabled the legal services community to adapt… Continue Reading
Yet another firm bids farewell to the pre-pandemic status quo
Above the Law: “An excerpt from a memo sent by Katten CEO Noah Heller and firm chairman Roger Furey, regarding the firm’s plans for a return to the office in the wake of the pandemic. Heller and Furey noted that the firm’s policy will provide associates with “the flexibility to continue to balance the demands… Continue Reading
