Speculation here about a proliferation of apps for in-house lawyers was on the mark (See my post of June 15, 2010: apps that screen out distractions; Feb. 1, 2011: cottage industry of apps for matter management; and March 29, 2011: HTML5 enriched apps.). Eversheds has released an app for the…
At irregular intervals I have collected posts from this blog about specific countries. Canada beckoned, and it turns out there are at least 28 posts related to law departments in that country. A few of them cover Canadian matters in general (See my post of May 31, 2005: case loads…
So-called micro-history “takes small events in the past involving inconspicuous people and a limited number of sources and teases out of them stories and meanings that presumably throw light on the larger society.” This quote from Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose Of The Past (Penguin 2008) at 127, holds for…
Academy of Court-Appointed Masters (ACAM). This organization “is composed of judges, attorneys, and a few non-attorney subject matter experts who are often called in to serve as special masters” in cases that have significant e-discovery issues. I read about ACAM and extracted this quote from Met. Corp. Counsel, March 2011…
On Monday my column appeared on InsideCounsel.com regarding three uses of metrics. Grandly, the uses are analysis, explanation and persuasion, the latter also known as rhetoric. It is useful to understand these powers inherent in credible numbers used skillfully. If you would like to find out more about this topic,…
Since I will be speaking at Mitratech’s Interact Forum next month, I looked back over some earlier presentations. In one of them, Steve Harmon, Senior Director of Legal Services at Cisco Systems, spoke on a range of topics, including the law department’s ongoing efforts to spend the bulk of its…
A case study prepared by Bridgeway describes the past five years of Rockwell Automation’s implementation of matter management systems. In addition to a chronology of a successful project, the study offers a few specific points I would like to emphasize. If you would like to see the seven-page paper, write…
The epistemology of the 19th century assumed that “facts” about the past were “out there” and that historians’ primary task was to collect and state them. Assiduous fact-gathering, they asserted, would bring us to know the truth about the past “as it really was.” In the 20th century this notion…
Anheuser-Busch InBev (See my post of March 28, 2011: Anheuser-Busch and InBev with 15 references.). Checklists, etc (See my post of April 4, 2011: guidelines, checklists and annotations with 13 references and 1 meta.). Decision-assistance (See my post of April 12, 2011: decision-making software with 10 references.). Fully-loaded cost per…
Watson’s triumph may be overplayed, but the PR coup points to a movement in which lawyers ally much more with software to become better decision-makers. So-called augmented cognition software has great allure in the law. Integrated wetware and software can be generic (See my post of Sept. 4, 2005: computers…