With locations in: Brussels, London, Paris,
Zurich, Hong Kong,
and Shanghai
From the “Department of Trust” : my recommended book on blockchain
Gregory P. Bufithis
Founder/CEO
18 August 2019 (Chania, Crete) – This summer I returned to Crete to continue an ongoing project my wife and I started a number of years ago: volunteer work with a sea turtle research and conservation organization based in Chania which is on a mission to protect endangered sea turtles and their natural habitats. They offer a very unique learning experience to the volunteers who join their efforts, and promote public awareness. To achieve their goals, they operate a science-based research and conservation project on the island, in collaboration with local and national authorities. My wife and I volunteer as well as provide funding for their research efforts, and we sponsor two oceanography students who will spend part of their summer here.
For this summer’s readings I have tried (tried) to eschew anything to do with AI and computer systems and technology and have turned to climate eschatology, that a warming Earth will radically change life as we know it, that we can’t change it, so let’s just face the adjustments we’ll need to make … Read more
THOUGHTS ON THE RUN-UP TO ICLAAIBD 2020: legal analytics as a source of competitive advantage
Eric De Grasse
Chief Technology Officer
InfoTech Europe
(a division of The Project Counsel Group)
5 August 2019 (Paris, France) – Over the weekend I began to pour over some of the papers to be presented next year at ICLAAIBD 2020, the International Conference on Legal Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. It brings together some of the leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars in those areas. Since it will be in our “home town” we are taking an active role.
One aspect continues to intrigue us: for lawyers (especially litigators) performing accurate legal research has always been the core skill of successful lawyering. But over the last two years better and better tools has appeared in litigators’ key tool box: legal analytics. As I noted in my client memo last month, Owen Byrd … entrepreneur, lawyer, data geek, politico, urbanist, developer, and Chief Evangelist and Legal Counsel at Lex Machina … broke it out like this:
Legal analytics involves mining data contained in case documents and docket entries, and then aggregating that data to
LIVE FROM LEGALWEEK NYC!! Russian bots, blockchain …and those data privacy blues
30 January 2017 (New York, New York) – This place is wall-to-wall lawyers so obviously one would think the debacle that is Trump and the “rule of law” would be discussed. Especially given last night’s State of the Union speech. But no, most lawyers here are to sell and talk tech so it is a bit of a bubble, as Louis Armstrong’s “It’s a Wonderful World” warbles in the background.
But Legalweek (I still want to call it Legaltech) is more interesting not for the sessions (almost all bland, with no depth) or the vendors in the exhibit hall (fewer this year, and the crowd pretty sparse) but for some of the attendees you meet.
INTERESTING NOTE: non-exhibiting vendors had to pay $2,500 for a Legaltech pass this year. But many vendors … cutting expenses … opted for the $1,200 personal badge and are not here “officially” as a vendor but as “John Smith, Cyber” or “Jane Smith,