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Building a citator through indirect crowdsourcing: Fastcase’s Bad Law Bot

April 25, 2013

Fastcase announced today the impending release of a new algorithm enhancement to their Authority Check system—dubbed Bad Law Bot (BLB)—whose job is to identify other opinions that indicate the case you found has been treated negatively. I won’t go into the particulars (go see Greg Lambert’s post over at 3 Geeks this morning) other than [...]

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ABA TechShow 2013: Vendors I’d like to see

March 21, 2013

If I were painting technology-oriented trade shows for lawyers with a broad brush, then I’d say ALM’s LegalTech is mostly iPad carrying, big law CIO/CTOs and ediscovery vendors and ABA TechShow is mostly iPad carrying, small law practitioners and practice management software vendors. For each show, the vendors trot out refreshed technology that will undoubtedly [...]

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Westlaw Analytics: Mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery

February 4, 2013

So, I was perusing this month’s edition of Thomson Reuters’ PracticeInnovations (pdf), and was about to dive into the piece on Westlaw Analytics when I caught a glimpse of the screen cap.   And then I thought, here we go again.   [Image from Google Analytics] At the end of the day, mimicry of what we know [...]

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Could Improvements in Page-Flipping Navigation Make eReader Reference Books Compelling?

January 30, 2013

After watching this video from last year, I’m reminded once again of how we’ve really only touched the surface on touch navigation. Regardless of where you come out on skeuomorphic design, it’s hard not to see how this might more easily translate to reference books, like annotated codes and rules. [Image (CC) by Horia Varlan]

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Current Awareness Trend Continues (or ends): WestlawNext’s “Practitioner Insights” & Alerts Center *UPDATED*

January 28, 2013

“Current awareness is the knowledge of recent developments in a field. This is crucial for any professional, even more in our markets. Without a knowledge of the latest developments, a person loses the competitive edge associated with lifelong learning, new electronic communication and business transactions, and better job performance.”  Ornella Zampieri, Project Manager & Content Architect, Electronic [...]

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Legal publishing is dead! Long live software solutions!

January 21, 2013

This was the proclamation from the Thomson Reuters’s bloggers summit last week, or at least the way I heard it. Others might disagree, however. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ve gathered all of the comments on the matter from my fellow attendees for your easy digestion. The bolded terms are my random emphases. From Bob [...]

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Citators & Compliance Algorithms: Some questions for the future. **UPDATED**

January 13, 2013

I read with some interest last week Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch’s paper Are all Citator Services Created Equal? A Comparison of Google Scholar, Fastcase, Casemaker, LexisNexis, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg (link to pdf). Their reasons for testing the services interested me because it dovetailed with some thoughts on citators I’ve been screwing around with. Here’s how [...]

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Dear Laid-off Law Partner, Come teach computers with us!

January 13, 2013

Well, tip of the hat to Rob Richards over at Legal Informatics for pointing me to a gem of a piece by Noah Waisberg (Diligence Engine) titled: Legal Automation: Career Alternative for Laid-off Law Firm Partners?  We have a career suggestion for laid-off partners who are highly skilled at legal work and less skilled at client [...]

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