What Effect Will Big Data (Tracking Case Outcomes) Have on You?

Remember the myth of a "permanent record" from elementary school? What if that myth was a reality, it tracked your legal career, it was easily accessible to the public, and it cataloged every single case you ever handled? Scary thought,...



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Shutdown: The Skinny for Federal Courts, Cases, and Counselors

Whether you blame the donkeys or the elephants, this is not where anyone wants to be. With Congress's failures comes a federal shutdown. Some employees will be furloughed. Others will work for free, and possibly be paid later. Some facilities...



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If Your Firm is Offering Health Care: 3 Things to Know Under Obamacare

Is your small firm offering health care under Obamacare? While the new Obamacare mandates may not necessarily require your firm to offer health insurance (it's only required for those employers with 50 full-time employees or more), you may decide that...



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Wyner and Governatori: Translating Regulatory Rules from Natural Language to Defeasible Logic

Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Aberdeen and Dr. Guido Governatori of NICTA have posted A Study on Translating Regulatory Rules from Natural Language to Defeasible Logic , a paper presented in the special track on Human-Rules at RuleML 2013: The 7th International Web Rule Symposium, held 11-13 July 2013, in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Here is the abstract:

Legally binding regulations are expressed in natural language. Yet, we cannot formally or automatically reason with regulations in that form. Defeasible Logic has been used to formally represent the semantic interpretation of regulations; such representations may provide the abstract specification for a machine-readable and processable representation as in LegalRuleML. However, manual translation is prohibitively costly in terms of time, labour, and knowledge. The paper discusses work in progress using the state-of-the-art in automatic translation of a sample of regulatory clauses to a machine readable formal representation and a comparison to correlated Defeasible Logic representations. It outlines some key problems and proposes tasks to address the problems.

HT Adam Wyner

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Blackman: The Path of Big Data and the Law

Professor Josh Blackman of South Texas College of Law has posted The Path of Big Data and the Law , a chapter in the forthcoming book entitled Big Data and the Law (West Academic Press, 2014).

Here is the abstract:

Advances in artificial intelligence are transforming many aspects of our society, from Google’s autonomous cars to IBM’s Watson defeating the Jeopardy! world champion. The legal profession, as well, is evolving from today’s time-consuming, customized labor-intensive legal market to tomorrow’s on-demand, commoditized legal services market. Today, the legal services industry is standing at the dawn of what Professor Larry Ribstein referred to as Law’s Information Revolution. The promise of this revolution is the intersection, if not the collision, of the power of big data, and the law.

This essay opens the first chapter in this process, and sets forth an agenda of issues to consider as the intersection between law, technology, and justice merges. First, I break down the role of the lawyer, and posit how these familiar tasks can be automated. Next, I explore the ethical, jurisprudential, and regulatory implications of algorithms offering legal services. I conclude by offering a sketch of what the law offices of Robot, Esq. will be like.

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Law Firm Website SEO 101: Tags, Keywords, Links and More

Last week we went over the basics of SEO and why you should implement SEO as part of an effective online media strategy. Now, we're getting into the nitty gritty of SEO: keywords, page tags, links and content....



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Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag 2013: Tweets and Resources

Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag 2013 was held 25-27 September 2013 in Saarbrücken.

The theme of the conference was: Vom elektronischen Rechtsverkehr zur elektronischen Justiz?

Click here for the conference program.

The Twitter hashtags for the conference were #edvgt2013 and #edvgt

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

Posts summarizing the conference panels and papers are available at LAWgical .

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