It’s been a very busy few weeks in cyberspace. Here are some news and opinions relevant to the CodeX community, ranging from Twitter to blockchain tech to Fastcase/Casemaker friction to self-driving cars to Big Law clients, to what Ravel Law has found about the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. So here we go, in alphabetical order:

Above The Law
• Twitter is the World’s Most Important Social Media. (Kevin O’Keefe)
• The Circuit: Warm Up To E-Discovery. (Monica Bay)

ABA Journal
• Bitcoin’s blockchain tech is being used in business, finance and contracts. (Victor Li)
• California is getting a jump on regulating self-driving cars. (James Podgers)
• A simple exercise to solve annoying tech problems (Dennis Kennedy) [Wonderfully pragmatic!]

Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business
• Perspective: For Clients, Bigger Isn’t Better—Better is Better. (J. Stephen Poor, chair, Seyfarth Shaw)
• U.K. Decision Signals Growing Automation in Discovery Process. (Gabe Friedman) [includes comments by kCura’s David Horrigan]
• Perspective: Lessons Learned From a UK Predictive Coding Order (Philip Favro)
• The Age of the Ph.D Law Professor is Upon Us, Study Says. (Blake Edwards.)
• Perspective: The Rise of Legal Knowledge Management. (Ron Friedmann)
• What Technologies Will Most Affect Big Law in 2016? (Sean La Roque-Doherty)

Law Sites (Robert Ambrogi)
• Fastcase Sues Casemaker Over Publishing of State Laws
• Casemaker Says it Won’t Fight Fastcase Lawsuite Over Georgia Law
• CosmoLex and Casemaker Integrate to Merge Practice Management, Research
• New Lex Machina Feature Corrects Erroneous Lawyer Listing in PACER• Avvo Officially Launches its Fixed-Fee Legal Services in 18 States

Legaltech news
• Op-Ed: The Best Speech at LTNY On the In-House/Firm CIO Relationship (Part 1). (D. Casey Flaherty.)

Ravel Law
• Unraveling Scalia: His Off- and On-the-Court Friendship with Ginsburg.
• Unraveling Scalia: Howe Influential Was Scalia? 

CodeX fellow Monica Bay is the former Editor-in-Chief of ALM’s Law Technology News. She is a freelance journalist for Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business and a columnist for Above The Law. She co-hosts Legal Talk Network’s Law Technology Now with Robert Ambrogi.
Twitter: @Monica Bay

Find an article/post/tweet of interest to the CodeX community? Ping me with the link: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.