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14 Sep 2012, 6:56 am
Lenders are refreshing their mortgage loan documents with provisions based on the “lessons learned” during the recent (continuing?) economic experience. One change is to add a service of process provision.
The change is based on this basic lesson learned: when the tough times hit, borrowers and guarantors sometimes are hard to find.
A few simply disappear behind gated communities, on yachts, or regularly move from one remote estates to another – maybe intending to make it… [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 12:04 am
Accepted papers have been announced for JURIX 2010: The International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 16-17 December 2010, at the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science, in Liverpool, England, UK.
Invited speakers for the conference have also been announced.
Filed under: Articles and papers, Conference papers Tagged: Automatic classification of legal documents, Automatic updating of legal documents, Burden of proof, Conflict of laws information… [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 12:16 pm
Slides are now available for many papers given at JURIX 2010: The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, held 16-17 December 2010 at the University of Liverpool Computer Science Department, in Liverpool, England, UK.
HT JURIX Blog.
Filed under: Applications, Conference papers, Conference proceedings, Slides, Technology developments Tagged: Automatic classification of legal documents, Automatic updating of legal documents, Burden of proof, Conflict of laws… [read post]
14 Sep 2012, 6:56 am
Lenders are refreshing their mortgage loan documents with provisions based on the “lessons learned” during the recent (continuing?) economic experience. One change is to add a service of process provision.
The change is based on this basic lesson learned: when the tough times hit, borrowers and guarantors sometimes are hard to find.
A few simply disappear behind gated communities, on yachts, or regularly move from one remote estates to another – maybe intending to make it… [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 1:13 pm
Monica Goyal, J.D., M.Sc., of MyLegalBriefcase gave a presentation on technology, access to justice, and MyLegalBriefcase at the “Startups in the Law” panel at NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall, in Berkeley, California, USA.
In her presentation, Ms. Goyal discusses MyLegalBriefcase, an innovative interactive online service that provides customized forms and procedural… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 3:09 pm
Videos are now available for all of the workshop panels and the Law.gov panel from Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), a workshop held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).
Click here for a summary of the legal-information-related discussion at the workshop.
Posted in Applications, Articles and papers, Conference papers, Conference proceedings, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: AustLII,… [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 5:45 am
What's new in Rhode Island Divorce proceedings? Initial Rhode Island divorce packets must now be typed. No, this is not a joke. At first I thought it was a bit extreme because it seemingly limits access to those filing for divorce to those who have a word processor, a typewriter or know how to use one or the other. So why might this be? Who writes out their initial divorce packets anyway? Almost no attorneys do that. It would seem then that this new requirement is directed at those people who try to… [read post]
13 May 2010, 2:13 pm
Florian Kuhn of Universität Potsdam Department Linguistik presented a paper entitled A Framework for Graph-based Parsing of German Private Law Decisions, at LIT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, held 3 May 2010, in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with BIS 2010: The 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems. Here is the abstract of the paper:
We present a work in progress report of our research on automatically analyzing German court… [read post]
19 May 2011, 12:46 pm
Too often, we lament the seemingly intractable challenges of electronic discovery without taking the time to step back and look at the progress we are making. In December 2006, following the enactment of the electronic discovery rules, I received an email from a litigator asking: “How can I avoid doing eDiscovery?”
He saw eDiscovery as an expensive roadblock to trying cases. And he was right. We have struggled with the sword of Damocles hanging overhead facing a choice of doing eDiscovery… [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 12:01 pm
The final program has been posted for JURIX 2010: The International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, being held 15-17 December 2010, at the University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science, in Liverpool, England, UK.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #jurix.
Click here for papers from the 15 December workshop: Modelling Legal Cases and Legal Rules 2010.
Click here for information about the invited speakers, who include John L. Sheridan of The National Archives… [read post]
14 Jan 2012, 8:15 am
A call for participation — with registration deadline of 30 January 2012 — has been issued for the First Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts, part of SPLeT 2012: The “Semantic Processing of Legal Texts” Workshop, to be held 27 May 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey. (SPLeT 2012 is being held in conjunction with LREC-2012: The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.)
According to the call:
[T]he goal of the shared task at SPLeT 2012 is to provide common and… [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 9:00 pm
Do you think it is a good idea to appoint a committee or do research in the world wide web so you can write your own CC&Rs? Think again. It can be hard to explain – why it costs more for an attorney to use your rewrites as a base document rather than create their own templates when updating and restating governing documents. But try to think about it this way:
If you have a handyman build a house without regard to architectural or construction standards, someone who gets their plans from internet… [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 10:55 pm
Timothy B. Lee of the Princeton University Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has posted What Gets Redacted 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, Mr. Lee — using a non-random sample of 1.8 million PACER documents, of which 11,000 appeared to contain redactions — identifies the types of information… [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 2:55 pm
Michael Lines of the University of Victoria Law Library presented a paper entitled Are Legal Texts Grey Literature? Toward an Understanding of GL that Invites the Preservation of Authentic and Genuine Originals, at GL 11: The Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature, held 14-15 December 2009 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
Legal, archival and textual-critical concepts help to clarify important elements of the relationships between… [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 4:58 pm
It's one thing not to have enough money to hire a lawyer for representation in your divorce. It's another thing altogether because you simply don't want to pay a lawyer ANY money at all to make sure your divorce is done right. The fact is, that divorce lawyers exist for a reason and serve a valuable purpose. The law is often not all black and white. Yet at times even one word makes a difference. Jacob (not his real name) came to me after he and his wife completed their own divorce by agreement and… [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 2:33 pm
Teresa Gonçalves and Professor Paulo Quaresma, both of Universidade de Évora Departamento de Informática, have published Multilingual Text Classification Through Combination of Monolingual Classifiers, in LOAIT 2010: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, European University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy, July 7th, 2010, at 29-38 (Enrico Francesconi, Simonetta Montemagni, Piercarlo Rossi, and Daniela Tiscornia eds., 2010). Here is the… [read post]
21 May 2010, 8:06 pm
Christopher Dozier and colleagues, all of Thomson Reuters Research and Development, have published Named Entity Recognition and Resolution in Legal Text, in Semantic Processing of Legal Texts: Where the Language of Law Meets the Law of Language 27-43 (Enrico Francesconi et al. eds., 2010). (Click here for a description of the print version of the book.)
Here is the abstract of the paper:
Named entities in text are persons, places, companies, etc. that are explicitly mentioned in text using proper… [read post]
23 May 2010, 12:34 pm
Mírian Bruckschen of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, and colleagues, will present a paper entitled Named Entity Recognition in the Legal Domain for Ontology Population (for the full text of the paper, click here for the conference proceedings in PDF and scroll down to the page numbered 16) at SPLeT 2010: The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts, to be held 23 May 2010 in Malta.
The workshop is part of LREC 2010: The 7th International Conference on Language… [read post]
1 May 2012, 10:33 pm
Lots of times I get asked if the association can save money on the amendment and restatement of governing documents if they do some of the work themselves. Sometimes they ask for “boilerplate” documents. I don’t believe a board or committee is capable of drafting a good set of documents and I do not believe boilerplate documents serve an association well.
Why? As to the question about doing the work themselves, very few lay persons have any special training, education, or experience with… [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 2:08 am
Translating a Disclosure Document to Another Language is Fine
NFA Member Firms are required to have their disclosure documents reviewed by the NFA generally before such firms can distribute the documents to potential investors. One issue which sometimes arises is when the firm (generally either a CTA or CPO) has potential clients/investors who are non-U.S. citizens and do not speak English. In these cases the question arises as to whether the CTA or CPO can translate their disclosure documents… [read post]