Slides: Legal Informatics Research Today: Implications for Legal Prediction, 3D Printing, and eDiscovery

I’ve posted slides of my presentation entitled Legal Informatics Research Today: Implications for Legal Prediction, 3D Printing, and eDiscovery, given 16 May 2013 at CICL 2013: The Fifth Conference on Innovation and Communications Law, 16 May 2013, Glen Arbor, Michigan, sponsored by Michigan State University College of Law.

Here is the abstract:

This presentation describes methodologies and results of recent legal informatics research on eDiscovery and legal prediction, and describes two possible scenarios for the application of legal technology to 3D printing. In addition, the presentation describes a four-level framework that enables comparison of legal informatics research studies in different areas.

I thank Professor Adam Candeub of Michigan State University College of Law for inviting me to give this presentation.

April 26: CodeX FutureLaw 2013 Conference: Tweets and Resources

The CodeX FutureLaw 2013 Conference is being held 26 April 2013 at Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, USA.

The conference focuses ‘on how technology is changing the landscape of the legal profession and the law more broadly. The conference will bring together leading thinkers, entrepreneurs, investors and technologists that are experimenting and actively working to re-architect the future of the law. If you’re of a similar mind, we’d love to have you there.’

Click here for the conference program.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #futurelaw

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

The conference Chair was Tim Hwang.

The legal informatics-oriented panels at the conference include:

• Legal Disruption: Why Now? Why Here? What Next?
• Computational Law and Contracts
• Designing Legal Data
• Open Source Legal Practice

Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State University and the ReInventLaw Lab will give the closing keynote address.

The conference is sponsored by CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.

Please see the comments to this post for additional resources related to the conference.

ReInventLaw Channel: Videos of Talks at ReInventLaw Events

The ReInventLaw Channel is now available, providing access to videos of presentations given at ReInventLaw conferences.

The presentations cover topics including innovation in legal technology and legal services delivery.

The channel currently includes videos of presentations given at ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 and LawTechCamp London 2012.

The channel is produced by the ReInventLaw Lab at Michigan State University College of Law.

HT @computational

Proposals invited for talks at ReInventLaw London 2013

Proposals are now invited for talks at the ReInventLaw London 2013 Conference, to be held 14 June 2013, in London, England.

The proposal submission deadline is 5 April 2013.

The conference is organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake of the ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law.

Talks will be chosen by a crowdsourced voting process.

Here are the proposal guidelines:

Talks must relate to some aspect of law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship.

This is about big ideas—no sales pitches or product pushing.

Submit a talk pitch of 300 words or a link to a 30 second YouTube video by midnight April 5, 2013.

Voting opens after submission window is complete at http://www.ReInventLawLondon.com

One person, one vote—but feel free to encourage colleagues, friends, family and more to vote for your pitch!

Winners will have up to 10 minutes to speak, and will then respond to dynamic, real-time, audience-driven Q&A. [...]

For more details, please see the conference Website.

HT @reneeknake

8 March: ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 Conference

ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013: a conference on “technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the legal services industry,” is being held 8 March 2013, in Mountain View, California, USA.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #reinventlaw

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013, in .csv format.

The speakers for the event have also been announced.

Click here for the conference schedule.

The event is sponsored by The ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law and is organized by the Reinvent Law Lab‘s co-directors, Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

Admission is free.

Videos of conference presentations will be available at ReInventLawChannel on or after 1 April 2013.

For posts and links related to the conference please see the comments to this post.

For more information, please see the event’s Website.

Katz and Bommarito: Three Thoughts on E-Discovery in 2015 and Beyond

Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State University College of Law and Michael Bommarito of Computational Legal Studies have posted slides of their 2013 Legal Tech New York presentation entitled 3 Thoughts on E-Discovery in 2015 and Beyond.

The slides address topics including predictive coding, machine learning, information visualization, pattern recognition, and “scaling relationships,” including scaling involving costs of computer processing and rates of growth of electronically stored information.

Registration Open for ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 Legal Technology & Innovation Conference

Registration is now open for ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013: a conference on “technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the legal services industry,” to be held 8 March 2013, in Mountain View, California, USA.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #reinventlaw

The speakers for the event have also been announced.

The event is sponsored by The ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law and is organized by the Reinvent Law Lab‘s co-directors, Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

Admission is free.

The event description says that “anyone interested in the future of law or technology or entrepreneurship will want to participate. Come hear about the innovative ideas generated by the highly-engaging atmosphere of the event!”

For more information, please see the event’s Website.

Lettieri and Faro: Computational Social Science and Its Potential Impact upon Law

Nicola Lettieri of ISFOL and Sebastiano Faro of ITTIG-CNR have published Computational Social Science and its Potential Impact upon Law, European Journal of Law and Technology, 3(3) (2012).

Here is the abstract:

Over the past decades, social sciences have gradually learned to use quantitative methods and computational tools. According to the emerging paradigm of so called “computational social science” (CSS), the study of social phenomena is more and more often identified with the use of statistical and analytical tools, with data mining techniques and with the construction of simulation models, in other words, with computation.

Law has substantially fallen behind in exploiting the methodological and scientific outcomes of CSS research. The ongoing change though should involve legal culture for at least two reasons. Firstly, the making, interpretation and application of legal rules conceived to regulate social life cannot ignore the scientific knowledge and methodologies illuminating social dynamics at both individual and collective level. Secondly, CSS are going to provide lawyers with methods and tools offering new scientific basis to their findings and their concrete choices in applying and interpreting law.

The goal of the paper is twofold: on the one hand, to present CSS and discuss, in general terms, how it can positively influence law, offering to lawyers new tools and approaches for addressing legal problems; on the other hand, to focus on one of the most interesting research sectors that can take advantage from CSS approaches: the study of support methodologies and tools for policy making.

The article cites research by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz, Professor Seth Chandler, and Michael Bommarito, among others.

Katz on Quantitative Legal Prediction

Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of the Michigan State University College of Law and the ReInvent Law Laboratory has published Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry, forthcoming in Emory Law Journal.

Here is the abstract:

Do I Have a Case? What is Our Likely Exposure? How much is this Going to Cost? What will happen if we leave this particular provision out of this contract? How can we best staff this particular legal matter? These are core questions asked by sophisticated clients such as general counsels as well as consumers at the retail level. Whether generated by a mental model or a sophisticated algorithm, prediction is a core component of the guidance that lawyers offer. Indeed, it is by generating informed answers to these types of questions that many lawyers earn their respective wage.

Every single day lawyers and law firms are providing predictions to their clients regarding their prospects in litigation and the cost associated with its pursuit (defense). How are these predictions being generated? Precisely what data or model is being leveraged? Could a subset of these predictions be improved by access to outcome data in a large number of ‘similar’ cases. Simply put, the answer is yes. Quantitative legal prediction already plays a significant role in certain practice areas and this role is likely increase as greater access to appropriate legal data becomes available.

This article is dedicated to highlighting the coming age of Quantitative Legal Prediction with hopes that practicing lawyers, law students and law schools will take heed and prepare to survive (thrive) in this new ordering. Simply put, most lawyers, law schools and law students are going to have to do more to prepare for the data driven future of this industry. In other words, welcome to Law’s Information Revolution and yeah – there is going to be math on the exam.

Click here for slides from the presentation version of the paper, Quantitative Legal Prediction.

Tweets and Resources for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012

Twitter tweets from ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship”, held 10 December 2012 in Dubai, UAE, are archived here in .csv format.

Click here for the event’s Website.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #ReInventLawDubai

Click here for the event’s program.

The event was sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and was co-organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.