Archive for 2017

By: Veronica Canton, Microsoft/HNBA IPLI Scholar, and AAUW Fellow. Imagine your commute to work.  You drive every day.  Your commute started getting longer and longer.  The commute is eating into your free time.  What happens?  Technology gives you a solution: an application that allows users to share real-time traffic information.  This information allows users to […]

By: Veronica Canton Microsoft/HNBA IPLI Scholar & AAUW Fellow I worked as an IP litigation assistant before I started law school. One of the partners at my firm told me “Don’t skim through cases. Read the whole case.” That is one piece of advice I took to heart. Reading the whole case has taught me […]

By: Veronica Canton Microsoft/HNBA IPLI Scholar & AAUW Fellow I want you to think back to your life as a law school student.  Don’t cringe.  For some of you, it was a painful experience.  For others, it was a time of intellectual challenge and growth.  Do you remember asking other classmates for specifics about a […]

Each year HHS handles hundreds of millions of Medicare and Medicaid claims valued at over a trillion dollars. Due to the high volume of claims, statistical sampling provides a critical tool to ensure effective oversight of these expenditures. Sampling is used by the providers in their own efforts to monitor their performance and by the [...]