June, 2019

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State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting 2019

Legal Talk Network

Set against the eclectic backdrop of Austin at the JW Marriott on 2nd Street, this year’s State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting offered a lot to attendees. The programming struck a winning balance between the educational, entertaining, and intriguing. Opportunities to receive CLE were vast, with 37 bar sections producing more credit-collecting sessions than anyone could possibly attend.

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The Supreme Court and the Registration of the Trademark “FUCT”

Brett Trout

“Viewpoint discrimination is poison to a free society. But in many countries with constitutions or legal traditions that claim to protect freedom of speech, serious viewpoint discrimination is now tolerated, and such discrimination has become increasingly prevalent in this country. At a time when free speech is under attack, it is especially important for this Court to remain firm on the principle that the First Amendment does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination.

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PDF Attachments

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How to Add an Attachment to a PDF This fast tip demonstrates how to add another file as an attachment to a PDF file. This feature is available in Adobe Acrobat (even the Reader version) and Nuance Power PDF.

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Ep 043: LexLab’s Alice Armitage on Teaching Innovation and Mentoring Startups

LawNext podcast

As director of applied innovation at UC Hastings College of the Law, Alice Armitage oversees two innovation-focused projects at the law school: LexLab , a multifaceted innovation program for students, startups and the broader legal tech community; and Startup Legal Garage , a program offering free legal assistance to early-stage technology and biotech companies.

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Episode 22: Kate Gaudry on Lawyers (Really) Using Big Data to Help Clients

Technically Legal

For Episode 22 we headed to Washington D.C. to talk to patent attorney Kate Gaudry about using big data to help legal clients. Much of Kate’s data analysis focuses on allowance rates for individual patent examiners (the percentage of patents they approve) and also for the “art units” they work in. We also talk to Kate about how mathematical models like game theory can be used to make decisions about pursuing or abandoning patent applications.

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PDF Attachments

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How to Add an Attachment to a PDF This fast tip demonstrates how to add another file as an attachment to a PDF file. This feature is available in Adobe Acrobat (even the Reader version) and Nuance Power PDF.

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Ep 042: The AALL’s Femi Cadmus on the Changing Face of Law Librarians

LawNext podcast

“We are not your grandfather’s law librarian.” As president of the American Association of Law Libraries, Femi Cadmus makes that point emphatically. Her organization recently completed it first-ever AALL State of the Profession report, an in-depth look at what information professionals do and how they do it. The report’s bottom line is that technology is making the role of the law librarian more diverse and more essential than ever before.

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