I am on a serious roll with business novels. This time it is the newly-published Simplifying Innovation by Michael A. Dalton. The basic idea behind this book is to apply Theory of Constraints ideas to the process of innovation. Overall, I thought the book did a good job of putting it all together ...

The Development of Structure in the SCOTUS Citation Network The visualization offered above is the largest weakly connected component of the citation network of the United States Supreme Court (1800-1829). Each time slice visualizes the aggregate network as of the year in question. In our paper ent ...

I’ve written a fair bit — in my book, in a couple of articles here and here, and on this blog from time to time — about the extraordinary development of the new science of networks, an amalgam of research in biology, physics, systems engineering, mathematics, sociology, and other disciplines, all fo ...

My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Going Mobile: Your future work platform is on the phone " and it takes a practical look at what is starting to seem like a smartphone revolution. My goal in this column was to provide a simple introduction and primer to what To ...

Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs.  The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings together employers and providers to focus on a limited number ...

Maybe Toyota should take a lesson from Bingham McCutchen: don't try to cut corners when producing a hybrid. Back in October, Bingham announced that it would be adopting a new "merit-lockstep" hybrid approach to associate compensation. The plan came with the stamp of approval from Bingham partners a ...

The White House this week released the report, "Growing America’s Fuel." The report, created by President Obama’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group, "lays out a strategy to advance the development and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels tar ...

Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Sept. 9-12, 2010. The conference theme is Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era. It will feature panels on the “war on terror,” urban revitalization, criminal law, health ca ...

According to a feature article in this month's InsideCounsel one consultant who helps clients structure alternative fee arrangements "estimates that only about 2% of total legal billings currently are being done on alternative basis - but he contends it’s an increasing trend." That c ...

In a development that should be of interest to structured settlement and retirement planning stakeholders, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) have published a request for comments regarding lifetime income options for participa ...