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2015 Legal Tech Open Challenge Winners Announced
The Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge saw legal professionals, technologists, data scientists and entrepreneurs from around the globe compete to create unique technology applications that provide high-value analytics to legal practitioners. Participants were given access to editorially-enhanced federal court dockets content, outside data, and the Thomson Reuters open-source company-identification system, PermID, to develop the new applications. …
- December 15, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Whatever Happened to Political Campaign Theme Songs?
It wasn’t long ago that every Presidential campaign had its own theme song. Even George Washington had one. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. All the way through to Jimmy Carter. But in recent decades, the music stopped. Or at least went Top 40. Presidential campaigns switched from original campaign themes to using hit pop songs, which …
- December 11, 2015
- Leonard Lee
West km Integrating with Handshake SP Bridge
West km results will now be available through SharePoint search for users of Handshake Software’s SP Bridge. West km will identify and extract legally relevant metadata, such as judge, jurisdiction, court, attorneys, law firms, etc., and allow users to apply multiple filters using West km criteria for more effective searching. And users can use the …
- December 10, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Handbook, 2016 edition
The 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, 2015. Some of the amendments apply even to cases that were filed prior to that date. The authors of the Federal Civil Rules Handbook, 2016 edition, William M. Janssen and Steven Baicker-McKee discuss the treatise and the new 2015 amendments. …
- December 10, 2015
- Leonard Lee
United Airlines, Gawker Media & Rio 2016 – Ill Repute for November 2015
A monthly look at reputation management in the era of social media & the 24 hour news cycle – United Airlines: Should you disclose when your CEO suffers a heart attack? – Blame it on Paris. Will the tragedy in Paris affect the Rio Olympics? – Gawker Media & “#SlackLayoffBingo” To listen, click on the …
- November 24, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Mind Your Business – November 2015
Patsy Doerr interviews Deirdre Stanley, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary, Thomson Reuters on diversity inclusion, its role in corporate strategy and managing your career. To listen, click on the built-in player below, or to download right-click here
- November 23, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Half of Americans Use the Internet for Personal Reasons While at Work, Says FindLaw.com Survey
If you’re reading this at work, that’s ok. Keeping up on legal news is probably part of your job. But after you’re done, you decide to update your Facebook page and shop for something online, that might not be so good. A new FindLaw survey says half of Americans say they use the Internet while …
- November 23, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Wait, What? Episode 14
Jason Thomas is on the Ashley Madison list! Wait, What? Oh, it turns out there are several Jason Thomases in Arlington, Virginia. And one of them may have been outed in the infamous Ashley Madison case. And it wasn’t this Jason Thomas, it turns out. But it begs the question, what are the ethics of Doxing — …
- November 18, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Donald Sterling & The Inside Story of the Sale of the LA Clippers
What really happened in the tumultuous events that led to the sale of the LA Clippers by owner Donald Sterling for $2 billion? Shelly Sterling’s attorney, Pierce O¹Donnell of Greenberg Glusker, reveals the inside story that led to the sale of the Clippers. Secret meetings with the NBA. How Shelly Sterling got Donald to initially …
- November 5, 2015
- Leonard Lee
