Rees W Morrison

August 10, 2022 | Legaltech News

Looking to gain greater insights into surveys? This third part of a series on NLP and survey data explores Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a popular tool to ferret out elusive themes in text comments, referred to as topic modeling.

By Rees W. Morrison

6 minute read

June 30, 2022 | Legaltech News

From a mass of text written in response to a survey question, natural language processing tools can depict common significant words, quantify relationships between words, classify mood, and help us learn from words that often pair together.

By Rees W. Morrison

7 minute read

June 13, 2022 | Legaltech News

The old-fashioned way to identify and classify ideas from free-text responses to text questions has been to read and code them by hand. The difficulties of that process is why you can benefit from natural language processing (NLP) tools.

By Rees W. Morrison

7 minute read

July 13, 2017 | Legaltech News

Scatter plots are one the most common types of graphs to help legal managers make decisions. Here's how to make sure you're using them effectively.

By Rees W. Morrison, Altman Weil

6 minute read

June 29, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff R.B. Christel, Inc. does excavating and hauling work. Plaintiff filed a complaint for money owed to it by defendant, Ericka Kirkpatrick. The court recommended that defendant's appeal should be denied and its decision and verdict affirmed.

By Rees W. Morrison

3 minute read

September 12, 2011 | National Law Journal

Survey of 122 North American law departments defuses some myths of tightened belts and tumultuous change.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

December 24, 2012 | National Law Journal

In the new year, legal department lawyers may discover better apps and metrics — and even 'cogniceuticals' to boost brain power.

By Rees. W. Morrison

4 minute read

March 11, 2013 | National Law Journal

Managers can mine and analyze electronic traces and databases, which reveal a lot about a lawyer's activity.

By Rees W. Morrison

7 minute read

January 23, 2006 | National Law Journal

In their bid to reduce legal fees, many law departments auction off their legal business. Although auctions are generally a great idea for law departments, it's a good idea to have a clear understanding of the different types of auctions and how to choose the right one.

By Rees W. Morrison

10 minute read

April 18, 2011 | Daily Report Online

In tumultuous times, the cry goes up for change. Pressed on all sides, general counsel welcome the idea of new practices and different forms of service delivery innovations that hold promise of improvements in productivity, quality or costs. But innovation comes dear. More broadly, even though law department leaders exalt new methods, their beliefs about innovation are honeycombed with myths.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read