Ranking lawyers using a social network induced by legal cases

Legal Complexity and Lawyers’ Benefit from Litigation

This paper examines the interest of lawyers as a group in the level of legal complexity, assuming that lawyers prefer the level of legal complexity that maximizes their total income. I focus on aspects of the law that are the same across all cases in a particular legal field, such as the rule determining whether the defendant is liable or guilty, the rules of procedure, and the scope of damages...

Messages Ranking in Social Network

Nowadays, people engage more and more in social networks, such as Twitter, FaceBook, and Orkut, etc. In these social network sites, users create relationship with familiar or unfamiliar persons and share short messages between each other. One arising problem for these social networks is information is real-time and updates so quickly that users often feel lost in such huge information flow and ...

Ranking Entities on the Web using Social Network Mining and Ranking Learning

Social networks have garnered much attention recently. Several studies have been undertaken to extract social networks among people, companies, and so on automatically from the web. For use in social sciences, social networks enable analyses of the performance and valuation of companies. This paper describes an attempt to learn ranking of entities from a social network that has been mined from ...

Lawyers, Legislation and Social Welfare

Efficiency considerations have played an increasing role in the development of legal doctrine over the last decades. Our paper investigates the consequences of the efficiency doctrine for the long run allocation of human resources between the legal profession and other professional activities. It is argued that a short run pursuit of the efficient scope of legislation may create an inefficient ...

"Lawyers for Lawyers": The Emerging Role of Law Firm Legal Counsel