Quick takes on news relevant to the CodeX crowd

From Above the Law

• Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg BNA legal division president David Perla launches his new monthly column: “What’s Possible: An Introduction.” Of special interest to CodeX crowd will be his assessments of artificial intelligence; the future for law students, women and minority attorneys, law firm COOs, litigators, et al.; how lawyers will use data to perform their jobs; and “Where is the dividing line between legal tasks that can be automated and those that must be performed by humans.”

• “Five Legal Startups You Should Get to Know,” (Zack Abramowitz).

• Tech columnist Sean Doherty‘s roundup of exhibits at ILTA’s 2015 annual conference, held in Las Vegas.
“The End of Fairy Tales:”
Part 1  LexisNexis InterAction, Gwabbit, Intapp, Microsoft Matter Center for Office 365, Aderant, Chrome River Technologies, DocAuto, Formpipe Intelligo, Ipro Tech, Evolver, Everlaw, Canon, Cicayda Spirit.
Part 2 iManage Inc.’s buyout from HP, LawToolBox, NetDocuments, Handshake Software, Sony Electronics, World Software Corp., eFax Corporate, Elegery, Konica Minolta, and Nuance Communications.

From Legaltech news

• “Proskauer Rose Explains Vendor Selection Program Overhaul,” (Dera Nevin).

• “Why You Need to Institute Your Own Kaizen Info Gov Program,” (Jason R. Baron).

From The New York Times
“VW Scandal Shows a Need for More Tech, Not Less,” (Farhad Mangoo).

From Bloomberg Big Law Business:
• “Citi Analyst: Fundamental Shift in Litigation Market,” (Gabe Friedman).

• “The Next Level: Smart Contracts and Real Estate Deals.” (Joe Dewey & Shawn Amuial).

From the ABA Journal:
• Fastcase acquires Loislaw (not exactly breaking news, but in case you missed this).

• Will video visitation be helpful or harmful for prisoners & their families?

• Florida law firms can send tex-message ads.

• DOJ funds $19.3M to body cameras for police.