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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.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$21M in Attorney Fees and Costs After Bracewell Lawyers Win Against IBM

Trial evidence showed that to avoid paying BMC the required license fees, IBM decided to disregard its contractual obligations and undertake a complete replacement of BMC's software products at AT&T as part of a secret project, expecting that if challenged it could settle for "pennies on the dollar."
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Federal Privacy Legislation Moves Closer to Reality

While passage of any legislation immediately prior to midterm elections is difficult, the bi-partisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act may prove to be an exception. This article provides an overview of the ADPPA's key provisions and compare it to some of the current state statutes.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Plaintiffs Attorneys Seek Additional Sanctions Against Google in Data Privacy Case Over 'Incognito' Searches

Attorneys from Boies Schiller Flexner, Susman Godfrey and Morgan & Morgan are asking a federal judge to order additional sanctions against Google in a case where the tech company, represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, already had to pay nearly $1 million in attorney fees and costs for discovery-related sanctions.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

4 New Types of Lawsuits Against Social Media Platforms

Plaintiffs are finding new ways to "bite the apple" that is litigation against social media platforms. Though it is difficult to circumvent the third-party publisher protections it enjoys, litigation against Big Tech is ramping up.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Kepler Group Taps Former Twitter, Visa Lawyer for New GC Role

The digital marketing agency's new top lawyer, Ruchi Prasad, most recently served as GC for the Americas at competitor Media.Monks.
2 minute read

Legaltech News

Lex Machina Adds State Motion Metrics to Legal Analytics Platform

While State Motion Metrics currently only has data on five state courts, four in Delaware and one in Los Angeles, the legal research company ultimately wants to offer its feature to the 27 state courts that it covers.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Data Trends in the Legal Industry: Transitioning from Data Silos to Data Portability

The world is increasingly data-centric, and with the growing glaciers of data being created daily, data portability (or the lack thereof) will continue to define which law firms and legal departments are poised to pivot and adapt when new challenges arise.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Great Data Reset: How to Manage Risk Around Massive Data Growth

One of the most prominent challenges facing global businesses today surrounds the deluge of massive data growth and the risk it presents to companies as the management issues of this data take shape.
10 minute read

Legaltech News

How Legal Organizations Build Competitive Advantage by Proactively Tackling Unstructured Data

As dealing with unstructured data feels daunting and all-consuming, many procrastinate on tackling the problem either intentionally or inadvertently. But cleaning up unstructured data creates several benefits associated with regulatory compliance and strong organizational reputation.
6 minute read

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