Updates Now on Legal Informatics Tumblr and Twitter

Updates on selected legal informatics developments are now being posted on Legal Informatics tumblr and on Twitter.

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Can You Still Get Paid Even After Losing a Case?

We've all heard of car insurance, but what about case insurance? Well, that's the basic service being offered by two personal injury lawyers out in Florida who launched their company Level Insurance last month. It's too soon to tell if...

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How to Communicate With Millennials in Your Firm

They've never seen a Walkman. They don't get your references to Henry Kissinger or Tabitha Soren. You definitely don't get their apps, or understand why they're so into Pokemon right now. Can the gap between Millennials and the rest of...

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Is Skype Safe for Attorney-Client Privilege?

Skype is A-OK for attorney-client privilege, right? Actually -- and you know this was coming -- it turns out the answer is a little more complicated than that. As electronic communication supplants the many ways in which we communicate with...

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Landlord and Tenant Law in a Changing New York

The de Blasio administration announced yesterday that it was beating its affordable housing goals, but if you're a New York City resident, you might be forgiven if you haven't noticed. Rents continue to skyrocket in NYC, and if you're...

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5 Top Foodiest, Tastiest, Booziest Practice Areas

Are you a lawyer with an appetite? A lover of fine wines, heirloom vegetables, perfectly frosted donuts? Well, you don't need to keep your food, booze, or candy passions outside of your work life. For the lucky few, there's...

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Handling Fee Splitting With an Outside Attorney

There is much confusion out there when it comes to ethically handling fees between lawyers. One of the most common scenarios involves a primary attorney (from the client's point of view) working with another attorney. But the arrangement has its...

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Growing Trends in Agricultural Law, From GMOs to Totally Organic

You don't have to be a major foodie to know that American food and agriculture has been undergoing some significant changes recently -- and we're not just talking about the demand for gluten-free everything. There's such a strong demand...

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Why You Should Discuss Litigation Financing With Clients

Your clients may not be aware of litigation finance, but you should be. And you should also be aware that handling litigation finance can be like trying to catch a falling knife. And if that's the case, then you're going...

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3 Tips for Gathering Digital Evidence

Many lawyers are still unaware of some of the basic steps behind the procurement of digital evidence. In many ways, the basics are not too different from typical civil discovery -- it's just that the medium is different (and more...

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Handling Client Fee Arrangements -- Ethically

If you're like the majority of attorneys, you got into this business to be paid. In an ideal world, you do the work and your clients pay you upon completion -- promptly. Alas, this is not the ideal world. Fed...

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Small Firms Should Host Networking Events Now

The success of a modern law practice is directly related to how visible the firm is on the internet and on social media. For better or worse, this is the business paradigm of the millennials. But you should never discount...

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5 Best Ways to Network, When You Don't Want to Network

If you want to make it rain, you've got to hustle. But some of us would prefer not to. Maybe you're an introvert, or maybe inauthentic schmoozing turns you off, or maybe you'd just rather go home after a...

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Logistics of Hiring Your First New Associate

If your firm is growing, it may soon be time to hire your first new associate. This sounds great, but beware: you should be cognizant that legal pitfalls await the employer who fails to properly navigate the small business legal...

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5 Pieces of Technology That Could Help You Practice Better

You're probably a fine lawyer, but if you're like most others, you could be better. What you probably don't know is that the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer could be as little as the great lawyer's...

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3 Firm Metrics You Should Be Measuring

Lawyer and professional "how to run a firm" expert Christopher T. Anderson probably gets the bulk of his living from attending and hosting talks for lawyers than he does actual lawyering, but a good number of us wouldn't have it...

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Can Gretchen Carlson's Lawyers Get Around Her Arbitration Clause?

Last week, Gretchen Carlson dropped a bomb of a lawsuit on Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News. Carlson, a longtime Fox personality until she was let go three weeks ago, accused Ailes of propositioning her, creating...

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Don't Flip Interns, Invest in Future Lawyers

Summer is upon us and many firms have begun the hiring and on-boarding of hoards of relieved student interns. The word "intern" is not a universal one. More hoity-toity firms use the term "summer associate," though this could be regarded...

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Lawyers, Tech May Change Your Job, but It Probably Won't End It

You don't have to look far to find news about bots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning moving into the legal sphere -- and potentially displacing flesh-based attorneys. There are online chatbots handling traffic disputes, machine learning programs doing associate-style...

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5 Best Ways to Find Peace of Mind at the Office

Law firms can be stressful places. You're rushing to meet deadlines, reassuring anxious clients, and trying to keep everything running smoothly. In between all that, it can be hard to find a moment to stop, relax, and find focus....

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Greenwood: Law Itself is the Killer Blockchain App

Dazza Greenwood has posted Law Itself is the Killer Blockchain App.

Excerpts:

[…] On a panel discussion about blockchains and the law at the Legal Hackers Congress in NYC this weekend, I’ll provide a sneak-peek at a new, systematic approach for using open blockchains to open the law. All the law. […]

[…] when the law can is publicly verifiable and openly computational, it will be possible to make more definite legal statements and ensure more predictable legal outcomes. A killer blockchain app to liberate law as verifiable, standard data may also hold the key to render law understandable and usable by people, groups and organizations.

UPDATE: Project site is now up, at: http://LawChain.org

The project’s GitHub repo is at: http://ift.tt/29uoOcB

HT @dazzagreenwood and @thelawchain

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Prolonged Exposure to Silence Benefits Your Mental Health

There is a growing body of scientific literature that indicates a relationship between loudness in our daily lives and degrading health. And on the flip-side, a piece by Daniel A. Gross from Nautilus suggests there are health benefits associated with...

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Someone Please Warn This Genius Teen About Unlicensed Practice

When Joshua Browder kept getting hit with parking tickets in London, he decided to stop paying the fines and start beating the tickets. He soon became an expert at fighting traffic tickets and has since helped people overturn 160,000...

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SubTech 2016: International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice: Storify, links, and resources

SubTech 2016: International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice was held 7-9 July 2015 at University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

The conference website is at: http://ift.tt/29C23qr

The conference agenda is at: http://ift.tt/29uim57

Twitter hashtags for the conference included: #subtech16 and #subtech2016

A storify of images, links, and Twitter tweets from the conference is at:
http://ift.tt/29C2sct

HT @weblawlib

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New Online Group for Those Who Teach Technology to Law Students

A new online group for those who teach technology to law students, called Teaching Technology to Law Students Special Interest Group, is being hosted by CALI.

HT @johnpmayer

Filed under: Discussion groups, Syllabi Tagged: CALI, Legal educational technology, Legal instructional technology, Teaching Technology to Law Students Special Interest Group

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LTDCA 2016: Workshop on Legal Text, Document, and Corpus Analytics: Proceedings, Report, and storify

Karl Branting and Jack Conrad have posted the proceedings and a report of LTDCA 2016: Legal Text, Document, and Corpus Analytics Workshop, held 17 June 2016 the University of San Diego School of Law.

The event Website and program are at: http://ift.tt/1Y38BC6

A storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the workshop is at: http://ift.tt/26bDvJJ

HT @jackgconrad

Filed under: Conference papers, Conference proceedings, Conference reports, Conference resources, Uncategorized Tagged: Legal informatics conferences, LTDCA, LTDCA 2016, Workshop on Legal Text Document and Corpus Analytics

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Vlek et al.: A method for explaining Bayesian networks for legal evidence with scenarios

Charlotte S. Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij, and Bart Verheij have published A method for explaining Bayesian networks for legal evidence with scenarios, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law:
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Filed under: Articles and papers Tagged: Bayesian networks, Legal evidence information systems, Statistical methods in legal informatics

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Boella et al.: Eunomos, a legal document and knowledge management system for the Web

Guido Boella, Luigi Di Caro, Llio Humphreys, Livio Robaldo , Piercarlo Rossi, and Leendert van der Torre have published Eunomos, a legal document and knowledge management system for the Web to provide relevant, reliable and up-to-date information on the law, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law: http://ift.tt/29IvNDM

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Do Lawyers Need Implicit Bias Training?

Black children are regularly viewed as older and more suspicious than they are, leading to harsher treatment at the hands of authority figures. When imaging powerful figures, women rarely come to mind as often as men. Yet, pretty much...

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Lawyers Must Report Each Other's Malpractice, State Bar Says

Things just got a bit snitchier in the Empire State. In a recent ethics opinion, the New York State Bar Association has said that lawyers must report co-counsel's mistakes to their client, should the other attorney's error or omission...

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Key Performance Indicator for Lawyers: Do Your Clients Like You?

Metrics are all the rage these days. Given the steady invasion of technology into our lives, it was only inevitable that metrics would impact the legal field. For example, now metrics can be used to measure you productivity (or non-productivity)...

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Why Law Firms Don't Keep Up With a Changing Marketplace

The legal marketplace has changed dramatically over the last decade: the Great Recession halted the legal boom of the mid-aughts, putting a renewed focus on value and efficiency in BigLaw, while the rise of online legal services has undercut business...

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Getting Money From Deadbeat Clients

It's the eternal struggle for solos. We've all been there. You render services, and you don't enforce the strict terms of the agreement. The client can't recharge her retainer because her transmission blew out, she had a family emergency --...

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Developments in Family Law in the Post-Nuclear Family Age

Our definition of family has changed greatly since Eve was fashioned from Adam's rib, Athena sprung fully-formed from her father's head, or Oedipus gouged out his eyes -- even since Ward and June Cleaver settled down together. Just last...

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5 Top Tips for Lawyers Who Want to Take a Summer Vacation

The long July 4th weekend just passed, and if you were able to take our nation's birthday off, you might be thinking to yourself this Tuesday that a three-day weekend just isn't long enough. We agree. After all, your...

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These Small Law Firms Already Practice Inside U.S. Walmarts

It's been a while since news came out that Canadian lawyers were offering legal services out of Walmarts. It was only a matter of time before Walmarts in the States began offering space for lawyers. As it turns out, this...

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Updated: Legal informatics conference calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has been updated as of 4 July 2016.

Valentino Spataro’s enhanced version of the calendar is available at http://www.gloxa.it/rr/

Thanks to all who contributed.

If you know of other legal informatics conferences that are not on the calendar, but should be, please feel free to tell us in the comments to this post.

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3 Easy Tricks to Work Faster in Your Law Practice

There's never enough time. If this is something you find yourself repeating again and again, you're not alone. Some studies that suggest that this feeling of "too much to do, too little time to do it" might actually be an...

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