Distributed ledger technologies are rising in popularity, mainly for the host of financial applications they potentially enable, through smart contracts. Several implementations of distributed ledgers have been proposed, and different languages for the development of smart contracts have been suggested. A great deal of attention is given to the practice of development, i.e. programming, of smar...

Medical liability coverage has become increasingly expensive and scarce since 2001, especially for obstetrics and other high-risk specialties. Physicians, whose own fees are constrained, see this as a crisis needing tort reform to cap payouts. Plaintiffs' lawyers fight caps; they blame insurance trends and call for stronger regulation of insurers and physicians. Doctors' arguments are somewhat ...

Based on existing literature and empirical research, partly carried out by us in 2004 and 2005, we propose in this paper a preliminary framework that is meant to be used for knowledge management of in particular individual lawyers within a law firm. The underlying idea is to combine in our framework general taxonomies of the three core elements of knowledge management within today’s law firms, ...

A major goal of the Cognitive Infocommunication approach is to develop applications in which human and artificial cognitive systems are made to work more effectively. A critical step in this process is improving our understanding of human-human interaction so that it may be modeled more closely. Our work addresses this task by examining the role of entrainment-the propensity of conversational p...

The purpose of the study was to examine Work-life balance and marital adjustment among lawyers. This assessed relationship between work-life also domains adjustment. looked at differences in lawyers by age gender. Finding effect Balance on Marital Adjustment another goal study. has a major impact balance, according findings, which showed strong association Work interference with personal life (...