http://www.contractalchemy.com Brought to You By WhichDraft.com Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:03:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Highly intriguing new firm, Clearspire, uses separate law, consulting and IT entities to assist clients http://t.co/Mp2F82M9 # Do you use a coach to help you with your work? This surgeon did with great success http://t.co/uVbFolV0 # 15 more law schools sued over employment transparency issues, is this a good idea? http://t.co/oNpYevUO # LegalZoom ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/tweets-by-jason-mark-anderman/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-10-09/ Flipped classroom: fascinating idea for legal education - class lecture becomes study time, study becomes class. http://t.co/E4usqrB # Great new job at the SEC - New Learning Attorney position where you teach and develop materials on securities laws http://t.co/FNlE6gV # For hospitals, check out these Joint Accreditation and HHS online quality sites ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/tweets-by-jason-mark-anderman/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2011-09-18/ I'm not a huge fan of dispute resolution and arbitration clauses, as they often lead to time consuming contract negotiations over settlement discussions that will happen anyway, and can generate arbitration requirements that are often more expensive and time consuming than litigation. But I was pleasantly surprised by this take ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/contract-training/but-soft-what-arbitration-through-yonder-window-breaks/ Taming the Wild Mississippi. It might be impossible, and all our levees increase the risk of floods. Disturbingly Poor Prospects for Legal Jobs. Underscores the need to grow the size of the legal market. Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism. Fantastic series of long form articles. Modern Day Moonlight Graham - A Single ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/links/links-im-reading-2/ Litigator Jerome Kowalski has created a new metric to evaluate value in attorney performance. His goal is to categorize the complexity of a matter and add or subtract points based on whether the attorney completes the matter within an appropriate number of hours and with acceptable quality. Here's his idea: In ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/metrics/a-new-metric-for-attorney-performance-the-kowalski-value-index/ I had a fascinating conversation with my web site developer last year. He mentioned that, on average, one programmer could do the same amount of work today as six programmers could do in the late 1990s. That's a massive productivity improvement: 600%! Some people even recommend that, when building an ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/big-law/lawyer-productivity-why-are-software-programmers-way-more-productive-than-attorneys/ Fascinating video on the unexplained phenomenon of our tendency to spin in circles without a fixed point to guide us. A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? from NPR on Vimeo. http://www.contractalchemy.com/humor/why-cant-people-walk-straight/ Smoking ACES: Reduce the Cost of Litigators The Music Industry: Big As It Ever Will Be Due to Piracy? In New WSJ Op-Ed, Has John Yoo Compromised His Research Integrity? Open Sesame! Use This Automatic Password Generator to Feel Secure http://www.contractalchemy.com/uncategorized/links-im-reading/ Justice Dept. sues Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for using most favored nation contract clauses http://bit.ly/97lHQ9 # What's a meter? Fascinating explanation of how we measure the world here: http://bit.ly/aWCA6C # Google challenging U.S. government and NYC decisions to sole source no bid contracts for Microsoft software http://tcrn.ch/bSdWyp # EFF countersuing copyright ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/tweets-by-jason-mark-anderman/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-11-07/ An Interview With Deborah Gordon, Law Firm Efficiency Expert Today we are interviewing Deborah Gordon, a health law expert and partner at the full service law firm, Seyfarth Shaw. Deborah is one of the most innovative law firm attorneys I have met, and is on the cutting edge in using advanced ... http://www.contractalchemy.com/big-law/innovative-services/