Software is Writing News Articles. Here's Why Lawyers Should Care
The New York Times recently ran an article on Narrative Science, a Chicago company that transforms data into high-quality editorial content. Our technology application generates news stories, industry...
View ArticleSolving the "First-Year Dilemma"
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece on the growing number of corporate clients who refuse to pay to have junior lawyers staffed on their matters (also see the WSJ Law Blog post on the article...
View ArticleAI: Threat or Opportunity for Lawyers?
The Economist recenly ran a post on their Babbage (science and technology) blog on whether the "Luddite Fallacy" remains a fallacy as artificial intelligence takes on more and more white collar tasks....
View ArticleBetter Legal Training is Only Part of the Problem
The New York Times recently ran a long, detailed and worth-reading article entitled "What They Don't Teach Law Students: Lawyering". The title pretty much says it all: (1) Law schools are stocked with...
View ArticleBlackBerries 8x More Data-Efficient than Androids
We try to restrict ourselves on the DiligenceEngine Blog to discussing (1) legal tech and efficiency and (2) what we're up to. But sometimes we make exceptions. Like now. The upshot of much too much...
View ArticleWill New Technology Kill Off Junior Lawyer Jobs?
Was out for drinks last night with a pair of my former Biglaw colleagues. Talk turned to junior lawyer work. One of my companions started as a corporate associate at a large law firm in the early...
View ArticleHow to Compete with Increasingly-Powerful Technology
Increasingly powerful technology is transforming industries worldwide, and there's more to come. Even white collar work like that done by lawyers and doctors is more-and-more susceptible to...
View ArticleStepping Out!
I'm happy to report that we now have a website that says what we do. Which is build software that helps users review contracts and organize their findings. More specifically, our system reads...
View ArticlePub Crawls and Information Overload
Information overload is one of the world's major commercially-addressable problems. More information than ever is accessible. But it's hard to find what we're looking for. Many companies have stepped...
View ArticleIs Technology Making Us Dumber?
Has your once-good ability to remember phone numbers declined to the point where you can dial few without looking? Do you now also forget facts, dates or the exact wording of legal rules that you once...
View ArticleApril Fools! Or Not.
Google announced a partnership with NASCAR for their 2012 April Fools joke: Google's self-driving cars were to compete in NASCAR races. This set-up a Watson on Jeopardy! moment for computer-driven...
View ArticleWe're looking for a Web Designer!
DiligenceEngine Inc. is a Toronto-based startup focused on building lawyer automation software. We understand the importance of design in creating the ultimate web experience for our users and, as...
View ArticleWe're looking for a Clojure Developer!
;; Clojure Software Developer @ Toronto Startup (ns com.diligenceengine) (def startup "DiligenceEngine Inc.") (def about-us "We're a Toronto-based startup using modern computer science techniques to...
View ArticleIs Your Due Diligence Accuracy a "Known-Known"?
Do you know how accurate your due diligence contract review is? Seriously, do you? Does your team find every relevant change of control provision? 75% of them? Under 50%? How do you know how accurate...
View ArticleDiligenceEngine's Alex & Noah Presenting at lawTechCamp May 12th
Alex and I (Noah) are speaking at lawTechCamp in Toronto this Saturday, May 12. We're trying to make our presentation My Coworker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics great, and there are...
View ArticleMy Co-Worker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics Presentation...
Here's a video of Alex's and my presentation at lawTechCamp 2012 (held on May 12, 2012 in Toronto, Canada) titled My Co-Worker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics. Really enjoyed the...
View ArticleIs Lawyer Regulation Killing Law Firms?
Today's Wall Street Journal features a piece by Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall of the Brookings Institution, attempting to hitch their lawyer deregulation drive to Dewey & LeBoeuf's...
View ArticleHow to Cheat at Due Diligence
The DiligenceEngine team has been speaking with a lot of corporate lawyers lately. A few partners have mentioned that one worry with using our system (which automatically populates diligence contract...
View ArticleWhere Legal Jobs are Going to Be
The New York City Bar Association has convened a task force to study the current tight legal job market. The Wall Street Journal writes: The New York City Bar Association has conscripted law-school...
View ArticleTapping Out Our Story: New DiligenceEngine Website
In their stellar book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath and Dan Heath describe the tapping game: In 1990, Elizabeth Newton earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford by...
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