Tag: data mining

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3 Thoughts on E-Discovery in 2015 and Beyond – LegalTechNYC 2013 – ( Daniel Martin Katz + Michael J. Bommarito II )

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The focus of my panel was “E-Discovery in 2015 and Beyond.” My Panel included: The Honorable Faith Hochberg, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; Joe Looby, FTI Technology & Dawn Hall, FTI Consulting. As was true last year, I was the only Law Professor asked to speak at an event which draws more than 12,000 attendees from many of the law divisions of the Fortune 500, many of the law firms in the AmLaw100 / NLJ 250 and the large number of emerging legal technology companies which as Bill Henderson noted are not really being held back by Rule 5.4.

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Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Electronic Discovery – Mike Bommarito Guest Lecture in Katz / Candeub Course

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Yesterday I asked fellow Computational Legal Studies blogger Mike Bommarito to give an expert and fairly technical guest lecture in my e-Discovery seminar. Here is what Mike wrote over at his blog and the slides he generated for class are featured below.

“This seminar, taught jointly between Professor Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Adam Candeub, is an excellent example of MSU’s strategic pivot to deliver practical, 21st-century skills to their students. The goal of the talk was to provide students with the ability to understand and communicate with their discovery and predictive coding software vendors and service providers with respect to the underlying mechanics of predictive coding. It was a pleasure to present to these students, and I would encourage anyone interested to follow up by email with any questions they might have.”

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Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say {via NY Times}

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(1) Kinda amazing – the NY Times decided to have the public chew on a dendrogram – pretty damn cool 🙂

(2) Among other reasons, I also post this because this topic is of great import to the ungoing study of the origins of Western Civilization and Western Legal Thought.  In particular, this is part of an important active conversation in the legal academy community – (see e.g.  Rob Kar’s  paper  On the Origins of Western Law and Western Civilization (in the Indus Valley).  Also, check out – The Early Eastern Origins of Western Law and Western Civilization: New Arguments for a Changed Understanding of Our Earliest Legal and Cultural Origins – Part I, Part II and Part III.   They are a real tour de force!