Is there anything left to buy?

Fire up the obligatory background music as you read about Litera's latest purchase. Netherlands-based Clocktimizer (law firm billing data analysis) will join Foundation Software in Litera's newly minted Firm Intelligence business unit. For those of you that have been complaining that the vendors in the legal space were too small, Litera's fixing that for you! Read more at LawSites: Litera Acquires Clocktimizer, Rounding Out Its Firm Intelligence Business

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Can you hear AI now?

I haven't had time this morning to listen to the hour+ long podcast where Azeem Azhar talks to Kate Crawford, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research and research professor of communication and science and technology studies at USC Annenberg but it is on my follow up list. They talk about the potential impact of AI, it's impact on hardware supply chains, why the AI industry should be subject to strict airline/pharma-style regulation and that tech leaders "should take a much greater responsibility for the social and environmental effects of technical systems." I am intrigued. Listen to more at Harvard Business Review: Mapping AI's Societal Impact

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Two key questions

"Data integrity" and "data validation" are terms you hear often. In his post today, Bobby Balachandran attempts to answer two key questions on data integrity: 1) How does an investigator prove that collected endpoint data hasn't been modified since collection? And 2) How do we ensure defensible and repeatable collection, processing, review and production?" Read more at Exterro's E-Discovery & Privacy Breakdown: Data Integrity, and Why It's Important

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