Book description
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 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. Any business adopting the teachings of this pioneering, game-changing book will have a competitive advantage.
Table of contents
- Frontcover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Abstract
- Content
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: How to Solve a Mystery
- Chapter 2: Orientation
- Part II: Proof of Value
- Chapter 3: How Litigious Are We?
- Chapter 4: Preserving Assets
- Chapter 5: Protecting Leadership and Other Intangibles
- Chapter 6: Introducing the Litigation 100
- Chapter 7: Litigation Cost as a Percentage of Profits and Losses
- Part III: Preventive Law
- Chapter 8: What Is Preventive Law?
- Chapter 9: An Early Warning System to Prevent Litigation?
- Part IV: Big Data and Textual ETL
- Chapter 10: Processing Early Warning Litigation Data
- Chapter 11: Textual Disambiguation—Integrating Text into a Database
- Chapter 12: Visualization
- Chapter 13: Two Examples of Document Types
- Chapter 14: Summary: Textual ETL from an Architectural Perspective
- Chapter 15: An Ophthalmology Analogy
- Part V: Proof of Concept
- Chapter 16: Finding the Signal
- Chapter 17: The Enron E-mails
- Part VI: Implementation
- Chapter 18: The System to Prevent Litigation: Who Should Manage It, and Why
- Chapter 19: The No Privacy Policies
- Chapter 20: How to Configure the System
- Chapter 21: A Product Liability Example
- Chapter 22: Employment Discrimination
- Chapter 23: The Government Provides an Example
- Chapter 24: To Know or Not to Know
- Chapter 25: Our Corollary to Don’t Be Evil
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Ad page
- Backcover
Product information
- Title: Preventing Litigation
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2015
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781631573163
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