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.

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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.

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

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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

Filed under: Articles and papers Tagged: Eunomos, Legal document management systems, Legal information systems, Legal knowledge management, Legal knowledge management systems

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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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