Rees W Morrison

August 10, 2022 | Legaltech News

Natural Language Processing and Survey Data: LDA and the Importance of Topic Modeling

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

Natural Language Processing and Survey Data: Word Clouds, Associations, Sentiment and Bigrams

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

Unleash Natural Language Processing for Survey Comments

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

How to Focus Your Thinking About Scatter Plots in Law

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

September 12, 2011 | National Law Journal

No major shift in metrics in past two years

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

What in-house counsel may expect in 2013

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

Data on in-house productivity may be buried

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

Going, Going, Sold

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

10 truths about innovation in law departments

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

June 13, 2011 | National Law Journal

Firm selection: susceptible to three pressures

A GC's autonomy and objectivity on occasion give way to power, business or personal pressures.

By Rees W. Morrison

7 minute read

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