William Webber, author of the research blog IREvalEtAl, conducted a study to see how well high school seniors stacked up to legally trained document assessors. Statistically speaking, they are remarkably similar in productivity and efficiency says Webber. To read about the experiment and the detailed results, go to http://blog.codalism.com/?p=1609
Contract Analysis Software
Kingsley Martin, a former tax attorney turned legal software designer, has taken a new approach to analyzing contracts. Martin’s software program, Kiiac (knowledge, information, innovation and consulting), analyzes hundreds of contracts per minute to help lawyers make sure their writing will stand up to future legal challenges. To read more … More »
Lexis E-Book Library
Prior to e-book library development, legal professionals could only purchase LexisNexis e-books separately. The new Digital Library provides firms with customizable software that allows employees to check out titles, and for librarians to establish lending policies. The Digital Library includes 1,100 titles from Lexis as well as thousands of titles … More »
Microsoft’s OmniTouch Improves Interactive Interface Projector Technology
Interactive interface projectors can turn almost any hard surface into a touchscreen. The highly mobile devices project an image onto any nearby surface, turning hands, walls, books, tables, and almost any other flat surface into a keyboard or keypad. This impressive mobile technology is not a new development. However, kinks … More »
Does the Use of a Fake Cell Phone Tower Constitute a Search?
Wired has posted an article on a case where the FBI nabbed a suspected identity thief using by using a fake cell phone tower to pinpoint the suspect’s wireless card. The FBI has claimed that the fake tower, known as a “stingray,” is a pen register/trap and trace device that … More »
D.C. District Court Rules That Warrant Is Not Needed for Cell Phone Location Data
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that police do not need a search warrant in order to obtain information from a phone service provider about the location of a call. The ruling, which came in a case dealing with an alleged robbery of an armored … More »
A Duty to Warn Clients of E-mail Risks?
Nicole Black at Sui Generis takes up a formal ethics opinion on the subject of warning clients about the risks of electronic communication, recently issued by the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. The opinion (No. 11-459 [PDF]) contains the following broad conclusion: A lawyer sending or receiving substantive communications with … More »
The CLCT 2008 Lab Trial: How do the Elderly Engage Courtroom Tech?
The Center for Legal & Courtroom Technology analyzed the elderly response to modern courtroom technology on September 13, 2010, in a Laboratory Trial at the William & Mary School of Law. The fictitious case In Re Leslie Lyndon decided a guardianship dispute between an elderly woman and her adult children. … More »
The CLCT 2010 Lab Trial: Due Diligence for Digital Evidence
Though the test trials held in the McGlothlin Courtroom over the years have utilized technology extensively, the 2010 Lab Trial is notable for being about the use of technology itself. The mock case, United States v. Varic, focused on the difficulties in ascertaining whether the accused had actually been responsible … More »