Vilified in death to such an extent that his bones have been moved on a number of occasions to prevent attempts at desecration, Hernando (Fernando) Cortes was one of the most successful conquistadors of the 16th century. The man who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico winning vast tracts of that country for the Spanish empire, once said… Read More: Vanilla »
Called upon to give advice to an excited 27 year old who had just heard she had been offered her dream job and wanted to give her current boss a piece of her finely educated mind, I believe I was able to prevail upon her that that particular approach is almost always doomed to ultimate… Read More: Go Figure »
No, this is not a post by a disgruntled North London fan fed up with the inability of Arsene Wenger’s team to win a trophy! We are on much more interesting territory! It appears to me that there has been a lull recently in the flood of articles and comment on predictive coding or computer… Read More: Whither the Arsenal? »
For rather less time, and over shorter distances than the heroic Mo Farah, Millnet’s blog has been running for over three years now. The actual anniversary was lost in the euphoria surrounding the stellar performance of Team GB at the Olympics, followed closely by the team’s spectacular efforts in the Paralympics which followed. Apart from… Read More: Olympian achievement »
At this time of year when many people are on holiday and the news appears to be sluggish, articles start appearing which seek to take a longer view or which report results of research which has previously taken place. A recent example is the review in The Lawyer of July 30th into what they call The… Read More: The way of the world »
Software that sifts through millions of documents for relevant information gets the green light to replace human lawyers When you see such “Shock! Horror!” headlines many lawyers will throw up their hands in despair. They have just about come to terms with the idea that technology exists which, in appropriate circumstances, may shorten the time… Read More: Lawyerbots take the strain »
Many of you may have wondered what is actually involved in a project where lawyers decide to use some of the latest technology to help them and their clients make sense of a vast amount of data in a way which is relatively quick, straightforward, reliable and cost-effective? Further, I suspect that many people will have… Read More: Case study: All in the mix »
This short post contains something new and something not quite so new! In the “not quite so new” corner, The Times reports (April 25th 2012) that a BP engineer has been charged with allegedly trying to destroy evidence about the true scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The interestingly named Kurt Mix is alleged… Read More: Deepwater rafting »
The last few weeks in the e-disclosure blogosphere have been dominated by news of and reactions to the various pronouncements in the US on predictive coding. Led by Judge Peck, we have become used to almost daily updates in relation to the Da Silva Moore case where we currently have something of an impasse as… Read More: Predicting a green future »
Two things: Firstly, try saying this out loud as quickly as you can: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Secondly, some of you will recall that in… Read More: A peck of pickled peppers »