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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812777403321

Autore

Brestoff Nelson E.

Titolo

Preventing litigation : an early warning system to get big value out of big data / / Nelson E. Brestoff and William H. Inmon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-63157-316-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Business law collection, , 2333-6730

Disciplina

347.420504

Soggetti

Preventive law

Commercial law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Introduction -- 1. How to solve a mystery -- 2. Orientation -- Part II. Proof of value -- 3. How litigious are we? -- 4. Preserving assets -- 5. Protecting leadership and other intangibles -- 6. Introducing the litigation 100 -- 7. Litigation cost as a percentage of profits and losses -- Part III. Preventive law -- 8. What is preventive law? -- 9. An early warning system to prevent litigation? -- Part IV. Big data and textual ETL -- 10. Processing early warning litigation data -- 11. Textual disambiguation, integrating text into a database -- 12. Visualization -- 13. Two examples of document types -- 14. Summary: textual ETL from an architectural perspective -- 15. An ophthalmology analogy -- Part V. Proof of concept -- 16. Finding the signal -- 17. The Enron e-mails -- Part VI. Implementation -- 18. The system to prevent litigation: who should manage it, and why -- 19. The no privacy policies -- 20. How to configure the system -- 21. A product liability example -- 22. Employment discrimination -- 23. The government provides an example -- 24. To know or not to know -- 25. Our corollary to don't be evil -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The legal profession must change. Today, attorneys don't think of ways to do less litigation. When the damage is done, they examine the wreck at the bottom of the cliff and offer to represent one side or the other. Preventing Litigation, for the first time, explains how to build an early warning system to identify the risk of litigation before the damage is



done, and proves that there is big value in less litigation. This book puts everyone where they should be: at the top of the cliff. The authors are subject matter experts, one in litigation, the other in computer science, and each coauthor has more than four decades of training and experience in their respective fields. Together, they present a way forward to a transformative revolution for the slow-moving world of law for the benefit of the fast-paced environment of the business world.