IoT and the next Legal Revolution

17 February, 2017

In 1986, British police asked a molecular biologist to help them out. They were investigating two brutal rape-murders in the English midlands and a 17-year-old boy with mental disabilities had confessed. But the confession didn’t quite match up to facts. Fearing they were hounding down the wro...

Legal News: Neil Gorsuch Nominated to Supreme Court

3 February, 2017

What Would a Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Mean for Plaintiff-side Lawyers? Hailing from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado, Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch is best known for his comments on ‘culture war’ issues like religious liberty and euthanasia. But President Trump’s pick f...

#Found: the Information Revolution Comes to Case Management

1 February, 2017

The average information worker spends two hours every day searching for information (a number that’s probably higher for document-swamped legal workers). But a bit of overpriced tea set off the American Revolution — and the next information revolution is hatching from something as small...

Ethics of ALF: Navigating the New World of Legal Investments

20 January, 2017

Remember when ALF was a furry puppet on TV who ate cats? Simpler times. Now ALF refers to Alternative Legal Funding, the burgeoning new terrain of third-party investment in litigation. The tactic is exploding on the legal scene: one poll estimates that 28% of all law firms used ALF in 2015, which is...

8 Challenges to Plaintiff Attorneys in the Age of Trump

5 January, 2017

The electoral upset has sent every sector scrambling to recalibrate their outlook on the future. The upcoming president isn’t making it easy for the prognosticators and pundits: as consumer- and worker-advocate Paul Bland notes: president-elect Donald Trump “ran a campaign where there wa...

Access to Justice Gets a Tech Boost

30 December, 2016

The crisis of access to justice — when you’ve been harmed, how can you ensure that you can have your day in court? How could we have a system that is fair and accessible to all, regardless of their wealth? World Justice Project found in 2013 that in the U.S., when poor people have been w...