This week’s “”Top 10″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies:  Keyword searching for e-disclosure documents is not like using Google – http://tinyurl.com/d4ceyf E-Discovery on the Cheap – http://tinyurl.com/dks95g Twitter and e-Discovery by Debra Logan/Gartner – http://digg.com/u11xWQ E-Discovery Update: E-Discovery in the $50,000 Case – http://tinyurl.com/cg2mof Updated: State Rules of Civil Procedure for eDiscovery including color-coded map. [...]

And so, with Chrysler’s 24-page Chapter 11 filing in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan, another large document review (reviews??) loom in the future. Along with Jones Day, New York bankruptcy boutique Togut, Segal & Segal is also advising the automaker.  But lips are kind of sealed.  At Jones Day, partners Corinne Ball and David Heiman [...]

                           Posse List members have been emailing us to tell us that Clutch Legal has been sending out the following email: Regarding Twitter, we decided it was time to help more people help themselves to get staffed.  We think just about every recruiter appreciates the same information we are requesting, to perhaps to help some folks change the way they [...]

  Midsize law firms in the Midwest, outside the biggest cities, are hiring lawyers, opening offices and bringing on new associates this fall as they fare better than many larger urban rivals in the face of the recession. Law firm leaders at the firms, with between 100 and 450 lawyers, say their better fortunes are [...]

                          There is an excellent seminar coming up that will address many of the issues raised by Posse List members in their recent emails to us: Pinkslips, Detours & OnRamps — Restart, Recharge or Reinvent Your Legal Career On Your Own Terms Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Busboys & Poets 1025 K [...]

The market for mergers and acquisitions sprang back to life yesterday when 10 deals totalling more than $27bn were announced, with over half of their total value paid in cash.  After months of deal inactivity, Oracle agreed to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn; GlaxoSmithKline paid $3.6bn for Stiefel Laboratories ; and PepsiCo offered $6bn in [...]

Many Posse List members who want to go solo or freelance have asked us about bankruptcy practice.  There are a good many of you who have worked on some of the major bankruptcy document reviews in the past few years (Federal-Mogul, United Airlines, Calpine, Enron, tec.) and will be well-prepared for the bankruptcy document reviews [...]

Free Webinar:  Blogs and Twitter for Lawyers: How Social Media Can Help Grow Your Practice Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Space is limited.  Reserve your Webinar seat now.  See link below. Description:  Where else can you go and discuss how blogging can help you grow your law practice? [...]

                           As the media reported this morning, Oracle Corp. will buy Sun Microsystems Inc. in a cash deal the company valued at $7.4 billion after IBM abandoned its bid to buy the networking equipment maker.  Full story here. The IBM talks may have been derailed by antitrust issues since the two companies overlap in several areas. In tape-based [...]

Paul Weiss has published a reference guide to the principal regulatory programs and initiatives that have been announced to date. The guide summarizes the U.S. Treasury programs implemented under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the administration’s Financial Stability Plan and other key programs implemented by the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. [...]