For the legal technology world, a “maybe” question becomes an “urgent” question: how to do you evaluate remote eDiscovery services?
Katrina Conti Head of Operations The Posse List 27 March 2020 (Paris, France) – Within the last couple of weeks, the coronavirus has spawned a deluge: multiple press releases (by competing
Continue readingGetting beyond U.S. student debt
2 March 2020 (Washington, DC) – “The nature of work has changed,” Quartz’s Michael J. Coren writes. “Education, for the most part, has not.” In last week’s “field
Continue readingA new trend: language interpreting and translation companies are being acquired by companies outside the language industry
Alexandra Dumont Media Operations The Posse List 31 January 2020 (Paris, France) – As I have noted before, we attend numerous language industry conferences and trade shows such as Elia, Gala
Continue readingNifty finance or indentured servitude? Taking slices of graduates’ future income
Yield-starved investors are taking slices of graduates’ future income Cassandra Este Media Coordinator The Posse List 13 November 2019 (Washington, DC) – Combine a crisis in college affordability
Continue readingThe language industry, at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Unbabel stuns with $60 million dollar cash infusion. Looks like neural machine translation (“human-in-the-loop”) works [Part 2 of our 3 reports, with video]
Alexandra Dumont Head of Operations The Posse List 3 October 2019 (Paris, France) – SlatorCon events are our favorite events for covering the language industry. We attend both the U.S.
Continue readingThe language industry, at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Transperfect’s success, collecting language data for AI, and the latest advances in neural machine translation [Part 1 of 3 reports, with video]
Alexandra Dumont Head of Operations The Posse List 30 September 2019 (Paris, France) – SlatorCon events are our favorite events for covering the language industry. We attend both the
Continue readingThe Posse List listservs: some metrics
By: Catarina Conti Media Operations The Project Counsel Group 13 May 2019 (Brussels, Belgium) – The Project Counsel Group hit a milestone over the weekend: 120,000+ subscribers. That’s
Continue readingTrump proposes to end U.S. student loan forgiveness program
12 March 2019 (Washington, DC) – As we wrote at the end of 2018, U.S student loan burden had swelled past $1.5tn despite actual lending volumes falling for more than half a decade, as struggling
Continue readingThe U.S. Freedom of Information Act has morphed into a potent weapon for corporations
Alex Hania Manager The Posse List 6 November 2018 (Washington, DC) – When the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was enacted in 1966, it was envisioned as a tool for journalists to facilitate
Continue readingU.S. antitrust chief promises faster reviews of U.S. mergers, potentially cutting e-discovery review time in half
By: Chloe Demos Social Media Manager 26 September 2018 (Washington, DC) — The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust enforcer, at an antitrust conference in D.C. yesterday, has vowed to
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