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February 27th: Weekly “Top 10″ Electronic Discovery Updates

1.  Production of Metadata and the Importance of the Meet & Confer Process – http://tinyurl.com/c7btbm 2.  Chief Ethics Officer Emerging as Strategic Position – http://tinyurl.com/anch8m 3.  

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Social media: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Blogging, etc. …. the legal workplace transformed

When Twitter gets a full-page analysis in the Financial Times, well … we guess Twitter has truly “arrived”.   As the Financial Times says, there is more to this new internet fashion

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How to Ride the Federal Hiring Wave: finding Federal Government jobs

There is one — and only one — nationwide employer that will continue to annually fill hundreds of thousands of high-paying, secure, dynamic jobs no matter how bad the economy may get.  Who

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The Treasury is hiring contract attorneys for TARP positions

We spoke to our contacts at the Treasury Department regarding positions related to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to implement the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). A number of contract attorneys

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E-discovery: a good overview and some helpful links for contract attorneys

A large number of Posse List members have asked for links that provide an “overview” of  the e-discovery process, with the two most common questions being “what are the methods used

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Using online social networks to handle patent applications

Experts in intellectual property and patents explain in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization how tools, such as online social networking could be

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Madoff Victims’ Lawyers Establish Global Alliance in Madrid

While Bernard Madoff has the able counsel of Ira Sorkin, the savvy Dickstein Shapiro litigator recently profiled in The New York Law Journal, lawyers for many of the disgraced investment manager’s

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February 20th: Weekly “Top 10” Electronic Discovery Updates

It’s The Archer, Not The Arrow – http://tinyurl.com/acplrd ABA Delegates’ Meeting Goes Digital – http://tinyurl.com/c78e3w Survey: 80% of companies are not ready for government

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Why, In An Economic Downturn, Is the DC Bar Trying to Kill One Tool That Can Help Lawyers Find Clients and Jobs?

The legal profession is on the skids like never before — though you’d scarcely realize it from visiting a bar association website.  As law firms shed attorneys at an unprecedented rate —

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BigLaw continues to bleed, law schools in trouble, news on the stimulus package and the NAFLP has a Web 2.0 teleclass for you

A mixed collection of articles of interest: Brutal Week May Not Be the End of Law Firm Layoffs By the close of business on Friday the 13th, more than 1,100 lawyers and staff in the U.S. had been fired

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