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.   New E-Discovery Tome a Bit of a ‘Mishmash’ – http://tinyurl.com/bqdt76 4.  Information Must Be Destroyed – http://tinyurl.com/dhhtsk 5.  Privacy Issues Raised By Cross-Border E-Discovery – http://tinyurl.com/cjdtb8 6.  So Maybe [...]

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 than meets the eye:  “For in its deceptively simple way, Twitter has stumbled on a formula that a whole generation of recent web start-ups has been [...]

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 is this employer? The federal government, which will annually hire more than 200,000 new employees throughout the U.S. — including tens of [...]

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 have applied and been accepted. If you sent resumes based on our first posting a few months ago, they have been “rolled over” but [...]

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 in e-discovery?“  and “where do we start?”  As more and more Posse List members are employed on the ESI processing side and less on the document review side, we’ve been expanding [...]

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 used to eradicate the enormous backlog of patent applications in the US. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace allow visitors to create networks of [...]

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 alleged victims are in the process of organizing an international network to coordinate future legal actions. On Feb. 17, the first such meeting of [...]

  Even with contract attorneys providing law firms the opportunity to cut their bills/its costs with respect to e-discovery, the expenditures can still be prohibitive, particularly in high-cost regions like D.C. and New York where the cost to house document reviewers on a contract basis is higher than elsewhere in the U.S.   As we have reported [...]

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 or regulatory investigations – http://tinyurl.com/ag64nh Oops! You mistakenly gave a privileged memo to the IRS or SEC: Is privilege lost for that memo? What do you do? http://tinyurl.com/c5r2ux The Vexing Problem [...]

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 — 4376 layoffs since January 1, 2008, 2614 in  calendar year 2009, and 700 on a single Black Thursday, one would think that the [...]