As we shift gears into the weekend, here’s a great reminder, from Basecamp CEO, Jason Fried (who knows a thing or two about productivity, success and the future of work), that being tired is not a badge of honour.
In his words:
“Your brain is still active at night. It works through matters you can’t address during the day. Don’t you want to wake up with new solutions in your head rather than bags under your eyes?”
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Here's a quick wrap of 5 key trends exercising the minds of in-house counsel, as witnessed by ACC Australia National President, Gillian Wong:
Interesting to note that it's not so much legal issues or technology, but management and culture that dominates the list.
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Finally clicked into this little beauty called QnA Markup - a free, open source app for in-house and private practice lawyers alike to create interactive Q and A sessions, or to be fancy about it, build stand-alone expert systems or for rule-based document construction. Or even, dare I say, a bot!
Creating the rules feels like writing clauses in Word (if you’re used to flowcharts/rules, you’ll have an edge) and the end result is a super clean chat interface that looks easy enough to implement on a webpage.
Tonnes of scope for creative lawyers to add-value to clients/the business.
Start playing with the chat on the right, then watch the video intro to get a good feel.
Hat tip to David Colarusso for crafting it :)
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Here's another brilliant LegalTech wrap (primarily US) by Robert Ambrogi.
My picks would be AI (#1) and data analytics (#4), with the digitisation of US case law (#8) feeding into both of those nicely.
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There’s a bit to get through before the good stuff, but Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style are packed with old fashioned brilliance.
My fav: Rule #5
“The richness of life reveals itself through a richness of gestures. One must learn to feel everything — the length and retarding of sentences, interpunctuations, the choice of words, the pausing, the sequence of arguments — like gestures.”
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