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

"As a lawyer or client, if you prefer a fence at the top of a cliff to an ambulance at the bottom, this insightful book is essential reading."--Professor Richard Susskind, author of Tomorrow's Lawyers. "An enormous accomplishment."--Thomas D. Barton, Louis and Hermoine Brown...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Brestoff, Nelson E. (Author), Inmon, William H. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Business Expert Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Business law collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • 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 ETLChapter 10: Processing Early Warning Litigation Data
  • Chapter 11: Textual Disambiguationâ€?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 IV: Implementation
  • Chapter 18: The System to Prevent Litigation: Who Should Manage It, and Why
  • Chapter 19: The No Privacy PoliciesChapter 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 Donâ€?t Be Evil
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Ad page
  • Backcover