Mon.Jan 29, 2024

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10 Hacks for Beating Procrastination

Attorney at Work

Ninety-five percent of us procrastinate. That's what professor Piers Steel reported in his book "The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done." So, the question isn't whether we procrastinate. The question is how negatively does it impact our lives? Here are some ideas for reducing the impact of procrastination in your life, assuming you are among the 95 percent.

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Richard Prince Effectively Settles, Dodging Post-Warhol Fair Use Ruling

IP Watchdog

On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art. The two nearly identical final judgments were entered in favor of the photographer plaintiffs’ claims that Prince and the exhibiting galleries willfully infringed on their photographs, and the court dismissed all t

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When You're a Hammer, Everything is a Nail; When You're an Ethics Nerd Everything Is A Material Limitation Conflict

Ethicking

Hi, folks, It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? Sorry to say, it’s going to be awhile yet, as things are busy here. In the meantime, my January column for the Wisconsin Lawyer is out; this time, I discuss all those little conflicts life deals.

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The March-In Drug Price Control Narrative Crumbles While Its Damage to American Innovation Grows

IP Watchdog

It was little more than a month ago when the Biden Administration unleashed its draft guidelines for applying the march-in provisions of the Bayh-Dole Act. For more than 43 years, the law was implemented as written. Every Administration—including the Biden Administration—rejected repeated attempts to misuse the law so the government could license copiers when critics felt that a product based on a federally-funded invention was too expensive.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an