Predictive coding

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.25.15

* Dildos and cock rings. Just another day for the Eleventh Circuit down in America's wang. [Southern District of Florida Blog] * Everything you need to know about today's Alabama redistricting decisions from Professor Rick Hasen. It's a longer and more nuanced way to say "Pyrrhic victory." [Election Law Blog] * The Supreme Court is way eloquent. [Lowering the Bar] * Looks like we already have a real-life example of what happens when white-collar industries adopt new technology. Enjoy unemployment! [Law and More] * Another scintillating legal debate coming up next week: do the President's war powers exceed constitutional authority? [Intelligence Squared] * If you're in Nashville, you can see Lat in person. It's on April Fool's Day, so start thinking of how you want to punk him. [Vanderbilt Law] * Harvard Law's Lambda chapter kills its diversity amendment. Guess it was too much to hope a bunch of law students had solved de Tocqueville's "tyranny of the majority" puzzle. [Harvard Law Record] * Another installment in David's chat with Bloomberg. Lat compares some firms to Ferraris... I'm guessing he doesn't watch much racing unless he meant to say, "some firms spend massive amounts of money to remain woefully second-rate to Mercedes and Renault." [Bloomberg BNA / Big Law Business] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoS0wdteBS0

By Joe Patrice
11th Circuit

Non-Sequiturs: 04.12.13

* The Dukes of Hazzard and Braveheart cited in the Eleventh Circuit. Other circuits, the gauntlet has been thrown down. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Dave’s not here, man. Probably not the smartest stoner on the planet. [Lowering the Bar] * Former Skadden attorney loses her appeal claiming that insomnia constituted a disability. It’s a setback for her, but nothing worth losing sleep over. [National Law Journal] * The Second Circuit agreed with every other court that heard the motion and denied the effort to recuse Magistrate Judge Peck from the Da Silva Moore predictive coding case. [IT-Lex] * Maybe it’s time for law professors to get off their duffs and try helping out their unemployed students directly. [Concurring Opinions] * Judge Easterbrook allows a $25K student-loan discharge for a ‘destitute’ paralegal. The educational-industrial complex is not going to sit still for this. [ABA Journal] * Saira Rao, of Chambermaid (affiliate link) fame, has a new publishing venture — check it out. [Kickstarter] * Oh, BARBRI. What’s the Matter with Kansas, indeed (after the jump)…. * Posted previously on Facebook (now pulled):

By David Lat
Bankruptcy

Morning Docket: 01.18.13

* “The bottom line is … I’m the 800-pound-gorilla that you want to settle with.” By the way, if you weren’t sure, Howrey’s trustee Allan Diamond wasn’t kidding about suing the firm’s former partners. “Either we’re going to cut deals, or I’m suing you.” [Am Law Daily] * It takes two to do the partnership tango: in the expansion of its Financial Institutions Group, Goodwin Procter picked up Brynn Peltz, an attorney with more than 20 years’ experience, and an ex-partner at Latham and Clifford Chance. [Fort Mill Times] * Hello, predictive coding! Goodbye, jobs! Not only can computers do the work of lawyers on the cheap, but they can do it more intelligently, too. Get ready to welcome our new digital overlords. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * Another day, another op-ed article about the law school crisis in the pages of the New York Times. But at least this one is about something most can support: changing the third year of law school. [New York Times] * As it turns out, with 82 applications for the program’s first five spots, there’s actually a demand for Yale Law’s Ph.D. in Law. So much for this being “[t]he worst idea in the history of legal education.” [National Law Journal] * Linebacker Jonathan Vilma’s defamation suit against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in connection with Bountygate was dismissed. Wonder when Goodell will suspend Vilma for thinking he could win. [Bloomberg] * Francis Lorson, former chief deputy clerk of the Supreme Court, RIP. [Blog of Legal Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
Court Reporters / Stenographers

Non-Sequiturs: 06.18.12

* Roger Clemens was found not guilty on charges of lying to Congress about using steroids. [New York Times] * Why did the ABA Journal kill a feature story on mentoring by Dan Hull and Scott Greenfield? The world may never know, and the world may never see the story. [Simple Justice] * Q: What does a male lawyer do when his female secretary gives him a nice little Father’s Day gift? A: Freak out because random acts of kindness are so unusual, and then write a letter to a New York Times advice columnist. [New York Times] * If you’ll be in D.C. this Thursday, June 21, check out this battle of the law firm bands — a fun event that we’ve covered before, as well as a fundraiser for a worthy cause. [Banding Together 2012] * ATL readers are awesome. You guys have already been a huge help to this court reporter who almost died when he fell into the Chicago River. The family is still taking donations, and now there’s a PayPal link, so it’s even easier to lend a hand to Andrew Pitts and his family. [Kruse Reporters Blog] * A closer look at the continuing rapid progress of predictive coding (or, as skeptics would say, our new computer overlords) in legal discovery. [WSJ Law Blog] * New York’s “hot dog hooker,” Ms. Catherine Scalia (no, not that Scalia), was sentenced to jail. Maybe she should have deigned to sell chocolate milkshakes instead. [Gothamist]

By Christopher Danzig