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2 Jan 2010, 11:55 am
A call for papers, with submission deadline of 7 February 2010, has been issued for LIT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, to be held 4 or 5 May 2010, in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with BIS 2010: The 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems. Papers are invited on the following topics:
“Information extraction & categorization of legal documents
Computational models for legal reasoning
Information Technology & Dispute… [read post]
5 May 2013, 12:38 am
Several legal informatics presentations are listed in the program for e-Government Konferenz 2013, to be held 11-12 June 2013, in Linz, Austria:
Mag Michael Fuchs & Mag Markus Poplari: Aktuelles zum Zentralen Personenstandsregister
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Michael Glatz: Justiz 3.0
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Habernig: ePartizipation in Wien
ADir. Thomas Halwachs & Mag Gerhard Köhle: Durchgängiges e-Government zwischen Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Bürger/innen am Beispiel des Zentralen… [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm
Qiang Lu and Jack G. Conrad, both of Thomson Reuters, will present a paper entitled Bringing Order to Legal Documents: An Issue-based Recommendation System via Cluster Association, at KEOD 2012: The 4th International Conferencel on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, to be held 4-7 October 2012 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Here is the abstract:
The task of recommending content to professionals (such as attorneys or brokers) differs greatly from the task of recommending news to casual… [read post]
23 Sep 2012, 5:56 pm
The American Bar Association’s eLawyering Task Force has compiled a draft set of best practice guidelines for legal document providers, which can be downloaded here*.
An increasingly popular – and controversial – category of service providers are those that supply customer-specific documents over the Internet, using interactive software and/or human resources, without purporting to be engaged in the practice of law. There are literally hundreds of these legal documents Web sites. More of… [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm
Qiang Lu and Jack G. Conrad , both of Thomson Reuters, will present a paper entitled Bringing Order to Legal Documents: An Issue-based Recommendation System via Cluster Association, at KEOD 2012: The 4th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, to be held 4-7 October 2012 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Here is the abstract: The task of recommending content to professionals (such as attorneys or brokers) differs greatly from the task of recommending news to… [read post]
4 May 2011, 10:04 am
This is a quick demonstration of searching for a document in Worldox document management software versus searching for the same document using a Windows file search. At the end of this video, ask yourself what you think your time is worth and calculate the cost.
Share me! [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 11:50 am
The call for papers and presentation proposals has been issued for LVI 2013: Law via the Internet Conference, to be held 26-27 September 2013 on the Channel Island of Jersey.
The conference Website does not seem to state the deadline for submitting papers or proposals. If you know the submission deadline, please feel free to tell us in the comments to this post.
Papers are invited on the topics covered by any of the seven tracks in which the conference program is divided:
E-Learning: distance,… [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 12:58 pm
The Howrey estate is embroiled in the painstaking process of destroying old files or returning them to former clients. There is still a long, long way to go. In today’s Washington Post, we get to see a vivid illustration of the problems involved in putting to rest a massive law firm that bridged the paper and electronic eras. It is also a good cautionary tale for other firms: these documents will not just go away, even if your firm bites the dust…
Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on… [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 2:53 pm
Applications are invited for the Akoma Ntoso Developers Workshop to be held 17-18 Sept. 2012, at the University of Bologna’s campus in Ravenna, Italy.
Akoma Ntoso is a legal XML standard.
The workshop is being held in conjunction with the LEX 2012 Summer School: Managing Legal Resources in the Semantic Web (formerly the Legislative XML Summer School), to be held 10-15 September 2012, in Ravenna. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 12:58 pm
Incomplete public inspection files were the largest source of fines during the last license renewal cycle. We wrote last week about two noncommercial broadcasters whose renewal applications filed many years ago have just now led to consent decrees and voluntary contributions to the US treasury in lieu of fines. To help commercial broadcasters avoid these issues, we have prepared a Guide to the Basics of Public Inspection File Obligations for Commercial Radio and Television Broadcasters,… [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 2:21 pm
I discovered an interesting web site called The Law Wizard, still in beta, for pro se parties doing their own probate, in the United Kingdom. The site promises to offer a unique package of online interactive tools, guides and videos. The Probate Wizard is initially designed for individuals who want to probate their own estates, but the site states that the tools will be made available for law firms as well.
The site is scheduled for launch later n 2011. The site looks interesting because it… [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 4:03 am
Environmental investigators are not allowed to seize private documents unless they have prior judicial authorization (i.e., a search warrant) or the consent of the owner of the documents. However, this does not always stop them. One feature of my current trial was an attempt by a Ministry of the Environment investigator to introduce into evidence documents that he had seized outside the scope of the search warrant. The investigator claimed that the company president had given him a… [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 3:22 pm
Susanne Fröhlich and Berthold Konrath, both of Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, and Alexander Leiningen-Westerburg of Siemens, gave a presentation entitled Digital Archiving (Long-Term-Preservation) at the Austrian National Archives: A Status Report = Digitale Langzeitarchivierung im Österreichischen Staatsarchiv: Ein Statusbericht, at e-Government Konferenz 2010, held 16-17 June 2010 in Villach, Austria.
Click here for the slides of the presentation.
Thanks to Ms. Fröhlich for sending the URL for… [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 4:34 pm
A panel on Digitization Projects and Law Libraries will be held 18 March 2010 at the library of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The panel is sponsored by GPLLA, the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association.
The panelists will be:
John Joergensen, creator of the Rutgers Camden Law Library Digital Collections and blogger at The Hacked Librarian; and
Michelle Ayers of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Library.
The panelists will discuss the… [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 7:19 am
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on September 15, 2011 released the following: "Former Bookkeeper Indicted on $2 Million Fraud Charge WICHITA, KS- William H. Nolan, 50, Wichita, Kan., former bookkeeper for Steckline Communications, Inc., is charged with one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud in connection with the embezzlement of more than $2 million from the company. The indictment alleges that while Nolan worked for Steckline, which was previously known as the Mid-America Ag… [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 8:14 am
CALI, the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction, is offering a free, online course on digital law practice, from 10 February – 6 April 2012.
The course will address topics including management of a virtual law office, electronic document automation and standardization, court technology, unauthorized practice of law, unbundling of legal service, and lawyers’ use of social media.
The instructors include Stephanie Kimbro, Marc Lauritsen, Richard Granat, Ronald Staudt, Kingsley Martin,… [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:12 am
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is offering a free online course on digital law practice, primarily for law students and law professors, but anyone can register.
I don't doubt that most law faculty will find these topics to be irrelevant, but its connecting with law students, as over 500 law students have registered nationwide.
For lawyers interested in delivering legal services online, this course would be a good introduction to the subject.
The first session is… [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 11:31 am
This summer the whole country, particularly those of us living on the gulf coast, anxiously watched the seemingly endless images of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico following the deadly explosion on the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon. While the leak has only recently been capped, litigation stemming from the oil spill has already commenced.
In a recent article on law.com, Fred Blum and Nader Mehizadeh noted that much of the litigation stemming from the BP oil spill will depend on volumes of… [read post]
28 May 2011, 2:07 am
Timothy B. Lee of the Princeton University Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has posted Studying the Frequency of Redaction Failures in PACER, on the CITP’s blog, Freedom to Tinker.
In this post, Mr. Lee reports on research respecting documents from the U.S. federal courts’ PACER database. Using customized software, he found that, respecting some of these documents, redactions have been attempted, but have failed. The information not redacted… [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 6:30 pm
Professor Dr. Maarten Marx and Anne Schuth, both of the Universiteit van Amsterdam Informatics Institute, will present a paper entitled DutchParl: The Parliamentary Documents in Dutch, at LREC 2010: The 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, to be held 17-23 May 2010 in Malta. The DutchParl corpus is available here. Here is the abstract of the paper:
A corpus called DutchParl is created which aims to contain all digitally available parliamentary documents written in the… [read post]