bgmasters

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by bgmasters 12y ago
I can confirm the book will be released on Sept. 16 :)
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by bgmasters 14y ago
One thing to note is that the CA statute of frauds renders certain kinds of oral contracts invalid, unless there is some memorandum of the oral contract is in writing. One such contract, as outlined in CA Civil Code Section 1624(a)(7) is: &
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by bgmasters 14y ago
If you're ever in the Bay Area, come have lunch with us at http://judicata.com :)
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by bgmasters 14y ago
> It's not "rent seeking" to build a value-added service on top of publicly available information, or even to charge for making obscure publicly available information more easily available. I'm inclined to agree. But perhaps "rent seek
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by bgmasters 14y ago
> That is why in the discussions with his counsel about a resolution of the case this office sought an appropriate sentence that matched the alleged conduct – a sentence that we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low secur
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by bgmasters 14y ago
What you just identified is precisely what Peter is criticizing here. The whole point is that maybe technology can make this fiction less fictitious. You may think that the law is necessarily more like politics, and that there's little ro
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by bgmasters 14y ago
All of this can be called "legal services." But the extremes, you two are essentially talking about different markets. Corporate clients will continue to hire the best lawyers and pay high fees when and because the company is on the line. M
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Pass the CA Bar Exam in 100 Hours(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
1 points by bgmasters 14y ago|0 comments
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by bgmasters 14y ago
Amicus Labs - San Francisco We’re building software that will radically change how lawyers approach, analyze, and engage with the law. We're looking to add a designer to our small team of legal-minded engineers (Stanford, Berkeley, Google)
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by bgmasters 14y ago
Amicus Labs - Designing for Law - San Francisco We’re building software that will radically change how lawyers approach, analyze, and engage with the law. We use advanced case law parsing and tech-enabled human review to construct a detaile
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Peter Thiel on "Founder as Victim, Founder as God"(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
127 points by bgmasters 14y ago|43 comments
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by bgmasters 14y ago
How do you know if it's true? Think through it yourself. Don't look for a hook that's going to make you feel better about accepting something as gospel.
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by bgmasters 14y ago
My pleasure! We're figuring out what to do in terms of wrapping them up in an ebook.