21 May 2013 - 21 May 2013 - We tend to wax lyrical when it comes to the Georgetown Law CLE events.  We have been covering them since the epic “Law Firm Evolution” conference in 2010 right through to the outstanding “Corporate Counsel Institute – Europe” events, as well as the Georgetown annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute. Larry Center … the guiding light behind (over?) the programs … always assembles an “A List” of law firm leaders, government…

21 May 2013 – We have all seen the almost daily analysis. In terms of the “innovation category” Europe continues to lag behind the US and Japan with regard to innovation drivers, knowledge creation, intellectual property, innovation & entrepreneurship and applications. The expenditure of R&D, ICT expenditure, broadband penetration rates, the population with tertiary education, etc. all lag.

These were some of the key points made at the Open Innovation…

17 May 2013 – Has Big Data made anonymity impossible?  As the amount of data expands exponentially, nearly all of it carries someone’s digital fingerprints. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the amount of data created in 2012 reached a whopping 2.8 zettabytes — that’s 2.8 trillion gigabytes — and that number is predicted to double by 2015. Most of it is made by individuals as they go through their daily interactions, and consequently,…

16 May 2013 – Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP introduced Manatt Digital Media, an entity combining legal, consulting and investment services for digital-media, entertainment and advertising clients. It will be led by Los Angles partner T. Hale Boggs.

Peter Csathy, formerly the chief executive officer of Sorenson Media Inc., was hired as CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a part of the platform that will provide non-legal business consulting and evaluate investments…

By:  Alex Hania, Chief Technology Officer, The Project Counsel Group

5 May 2013 – Gartner analyst Doug Laney first coined the term ”big data” over over 12 years ago although one suspects — at least in its current form — people have been complaining about “information overload” since Roman times. But the term’s meaning is still far from clear and it wins continuous nominations in the “Tech Buzzword That Everyone Uses But Don’t…

3 May 2013 – 451 Research, an analyst and data company focused on enterprise IT, has long been a partner of ours and we have been fortunate enough to attend many of their events each year on e-discovery/e-disclosure, cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, etc.

In March they released their report “E-Discovery and E-Disclosure 2013: The Ongoing Journey to Proactive Information Governance” which is based on 451 Research’s legal, e-discovery, and information governance…

2 May 2013- Interesting article in this month’s ABA Journal on how law firms are using Big Data to identify which cases will be easy slam dunks and those that are air balls. And the technology they use to get a read on what other law firms are charging, so they can adjust their rates accordingly. And scores of other uses as tech-savvy department heads are crunching data.  For the article click here.

It comes…

By:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.   Founder/CEO

15 April 2013 – The legal industry remains Lady GaGa-ed with Richard Susskind and his pronouncements on the deep and rapid technological advances (of the disruptive kind) leading to major threats to various aspects of the traditional law firm business model, and the relentless connectivity in the burgeoning electronic legal marketplace. He has his critics and even he was somewhat self-deprecating in a recent Oxford University Press…

Please join the New York Law Journal and Pangea3 on Monday, April 15th, as they present “New Normal: Big Data and the Future of Litigation.”

The panel will discuss emerging ways to manage massive data sets using predictive coding and other technologies, limitations in the current technology and whether recent court decisions will require a paradigm shift in the use of these methodologies.

Further, they will explore ways that attorneys may defend their search parameters…

22 March 2013-  For those of us in the European Theatre of War (corporate law speaking of course) the European Commission can be a heady beast. And not just with respect to its power to fine (ask Microsoft and Google). In its role of enforcing Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (the EU rules prohibiting restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance) the Commission has the power…