The Valley Current®️: The Growth of Trade Secret Law in Parallel with the Growth of Silicon Valley
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Release Date: 06/29/2020
The Valley Current®: Climate in the Chance Age
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Powerful computer programs are accurately simulating the uncertainty of climate change. These models underlie the growing business of climate risk, which in turn supports mitigation planning and the insurance industry. But climate risk models are usually large monolithic systems, which although internally consistent, cannot export statistically coherent representations of the underlying uncertainties. Because of this, the outputs are often single average risk scores resulting in the Flaw of Averages, a family of well documented mathematical errors. We propose open standards for conveying the...
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The Valley Current®: Climate Change in 9 Minutes
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Climate change is a universal crisis, but the way we assess everything related to this crisis is problematic in itself. By definition, Risk = Likelihood x Impact (or Probability x Liability) which seems to be a straightforward way to measure whether or not you would need something like fire insurance for your home. Today host Jack Russo and Professor Sam Savage discuss why this method of risk assessment is actually horribly flawed in this nutshell version about climate risk. Click here to learn more about probability and climate risk:
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The Valley Current®: Can AI-Based LegalTech Eventually Replace Mediators?
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With rapidly increasing use of advanced A.I. technology in the legal industry, it seems that professionals using more and more advanced technology have a poorer and poorer understanding of it than ever before. What lawyers need now is an expert like Joseph Panetta, who already knows which roles LegalTech and AI are adequately replacing and which are not. With deep experience and expertise in use of technology in marketing, advertising and public relations and most recently for a LegalTech firm, Mr. Panetta is now able to discern where A.I. can help mediators and where it cannot....
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The Valley Current®: Tale of Two Cases in NYC: Federal v. State Fraud Cases
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“It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” This second, lesser-known line from A Tale of Two Cities has never felt more applicable when you read about the two most notable cases currently going on in New York City. Sam Bankman-Fried and Donald Trump are the most recent individuals to go on trial for fraud and though the cases are vastly different, there are a few parallels we can draw to show how they both ended up in court. Both men grew up being idolized by their parents and exuded an I’m the winner/better than you attitude throughout their career; and while they may...
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The Valley Current®: Will Real Estate Brokerage Industry Survive Antitrust Litigation?
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Have home owners been getting taken advantage of on commissions on sales of their home? The Missouri federal jury in Kansas City says “yes, you have” to sellers in the class a action case covering some 260,000 sales in the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois and finding liability of nearly $2 billion which could be trebled to $6 billion. Even though sellers signed agreements for paying the commissions on those sales, they’ve been losing to their agents who have been fixing (and inflating) commissions by collective agreements protecting buyer agents who often do little work to...
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The Valley Current®: Will billionaires see a wealth tax next?
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There’s a new tax form on the market and it’s looking for a piece of your side hustle. The new 1099-K tax form targets independent contractors who are underreporting on small transactions. Sales resulting in $600+ on online marketplaces, digital wallets, crowdfunding platforms & more now means there is one more form to deal with when navigating an already complex tax code. Between the increasing focus on undercompliance and a lower minimum reporting threshold, it certainly feels like the government is cracking down on the lowest rungs of society and allowing the uppermost echelons of...
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The Valley Current®: What the Segmented World Means for Our Future
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Look around the world and everywhere you go, you will find pockets of innovation and wealth mixed in with areas of poverty and conflict. Though this is by far not a new phenomenon, our awareness of global tensions and the deluge of opinions can make it difficult for individuals to get a clear, non-political view of what is going on. Over at , David Nash leverages his decades of living in different countries and managing major corporations to help the rest of us make sense of the current events that are shaping the future. Listen in as host Jack Russo asks David Nash about the importance of...
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The Valley Current®: Three Challenges China Now Faces – Part 2
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For decades China imposed a 1 child policy among their families to curb their rapidly growing population. Some 30 years later, China has painted itself into a corner and the ramifications of reducing the birth rate for an entire generation is starting to take its toll on the economy. Like so many other countries, China’s workforce is aging and there are few bodies to replace them. In 2015, China retracted the policy and began encouraging millennials to have more babies…. Only they aren’t. Female empowerment in the workforce has led to a late start to family planning and urbanization...
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The Valley Current®: Three Challenges China Now Faces – Part 1
THE VALLEY CURRENT®️ COMPUTERLAW GROUP LLP
For decades China imposed a 1 child policy among their families to curb their rapidly growing population. Some 30 years later, China has painted itself into a corner and the ramifications of reducing the birth rate for an entire generation is starting to take its toll on the economy. Like so many other countries, China’s workforce is aging and there are few bodies to replace them. In 2015, China retracted the policy and began encouraging millennials to have more babies…. Only they aren’t. Female empowerment in the workforce has led to a late start to family planning and urbanization...
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The Valley Current®: What Can Childrens Books Teach Us About Leadership?
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Storytime is one of the most influential times for children. Childrens' books are loaded with quotes and themes designed to encourage children to become the best people they can be. Over at , Tom Casey and other senior executives spend most of their time teaching people to become more effective leaders and guiding them on how to invest in the development of their employees with the intention of promoting the overall success of the company. Reading children’s books to each other has become Discussion Partners go-to way to figure out what they would have learned about leadership if they had...
info_outlineThe law around trade secrets is a complex set of tort, contract and even fiduciary principles that can create a minefield of civil and even criminal liabilities for individuals, teams and organizations; when you need help navigating this area, you want someone who is both incredibly adept and experienced. Fortunately, today's guest, James Pooley, wrote the book and he is the guru of trade secrets whose mission in life is to elevate trade secrets to the same level of respect as other forms of intellectual property. Listen in as Jack and James Pooley discuss the growth of trade secret law as Silicon Valley itself has grown.