Trial Attorney (35+ years); CEO @ https://teapaw.org/t.co/7aeZSHNtBM. Innovations at the interface of law, economics, game theory, and conflict and crisis management.
Boston, MA, USA
Joined February 2011
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Privilege to join @karaswisher + @gtconway3d + @akapczynski. In response to Kara, I suggested at the end that Court might want to set Mississippi abortion case for re-argument in the Fall, or dismiss it as improvidently granted, in this extraord situation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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CALL FOR COMMENT: The @ABACJS Plea Bargain Task Force is examining concerns/issues with the plea process. To ensure a range of perspectives in the report we encourage those interested to provide written comments. You can email me at [email protected] and...
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MA Trial Court Announces Triage Plans to Reduce Numbers of Persons Coming to Courts: mass.gov/news/trial-court-an…
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This game says something deep about human strategic thinking. Game theory predicts we should just choose randomly!
Instead, we engage in recursive thinking: I expect that they expect that I expect...
It’s what gives salience its “fatal attraction”.
See: static1.squarespace.com/stat…
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Economists designing institutions for people to make better decisions.
👉 Slow feed bowl
People adapting their behaviour accordingly.
👉 Dog
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If what lawyers do in real life inspires MPRE sample questions, then there really are litigators who, before sending opposing counsel 35,000 individual pieces of paper during discovery, shuffles the pages around to frustrate opposing counsel's efforts in examining them. SMH...
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Ethical problems don’t generally get worked out over time - at best they get worked around. Most opponents of litigation financing don’t oppose it based on data or theory. In most cases, it’s because they’ve read and understood works such as Bleak House.
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If only there were no ethical issues, the market-size for champerty would be incalculably huge. That’s why it was outlawed. In our age it’s only limited by #LegalEthics rules. If folks find those rules frustrating & hard to work around, let’s just go back to treating it as crime.
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Demand for legal tools to manage social and economic relationship is not dropping, it is ballooning. What’s dropping is demand for what our current legal infrastructure is supplying. #legalinnovation teapaw.org/AndrewArruda/status/99…
"Almost half of U.S. law firms surveyed said that they could not reach their billable hour targets last year and around the same amount admitted that their partners are 'underutilized'"
- What are folks opinions on this?
#lawfirms #law
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This really is hot stuff! First time I like a legal innovation product teapaw.org/fairoutcomes/status/98…
Unlike all other methods for dealing with disputes, the design of the Fair Proposals System (fairproposals.com) negates any incentive or rationale for either party to try to use it (or to refuse to use it) in an effort to bluff or posture. #legaltech #litigation #CLOC18
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From Sunday: Startups target the legal biz: b.globe.com/15KGHy5 (incl. @mootus, @brightleaf, @lawspendclarity, @lexspot, @fairoutcomes)
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Carney says it was "careful negotiation"..Hafer says yea, after bullet fired by his head, gun pointed at face, and Russian Roullette #Bulger
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"You knew how the system worked, didn't you?"......"If I knew how the system worked I wouldn't have hired a lawyer." #Bulger
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New site for @Suffolk_Law Inst on Law Prac Tech & Innovation - lawpracticetechnology.blogs.…
@richardsusskind & @jordan_law21 speak 4/18
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Wonderful post by @jordan_law21: Reinventing the right things zite.to/ZYfHqM
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James Rule argues that, far from eliminating human conflict, science & tech have expanded human destructiveness. nytimes.com/2013/03/19/opini…
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New tools for resolution based on game theory. Brilliant!! bit.ly/V7RvwB #lawyers
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Interesting article about on line dispute resolution ow.ly/aVgue mentions @FairOutcomes @david_bilinsky @jordan_law21
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While no bullshit detector was found, there was a “friendship deterrence system” is.gd/LhXbJq via @sanjicak
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RT @FairOutcomes: “Ending Cheap Talk In Legal Bargaining.” Vote for a talk on this at LexThink: pointonelaw.com/goodbye-to-a…