Day 2 had some interesting events and some interesting technologies on the exhibitor floor so herein our run down. The Greening Your Career networking breakfast Day 2 kicked off with a breakfast hosted by Monica Bay (editor of Law Technology News) and featured a panel of experts in an upbeat discussion for members of the legal [...]

As we reported in May in Part 1 of our Trends series (click here),  law firms and legal process outsourcing to India still has a long way to go, and law firms still appear unconvinced.  And this is despite the Rio Tinto/CPA Legal tie-up (for insightful analysis on this subject from Rees Morrison click here and Jordon Furlong click [...]

Our “Posse List moment” At the panel entitled “Document Review: Establishing the Team & Utilizing the Technology” Browning Marean, senior counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego office and a member of the DLA Piper Litigation group and co-chair of the Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group (click here) gave us a nice shout out during the [...]

As we have reported in several posts these last few months, early case assessment (ECA) is the key technology to reducing the cost of e-discovery.  There have been multiple vendors in this space with Clearwell Systems the leader (click here). Most new ECA platforms have been standalone applications that required users to import and export [...]

LegalTech West started today in Los Angeles and Steve Harmon, director of legal services at Cisco Systems, discussed the processes and technologies developed by Cisco to support its in-house legal department and outside counsel.  His speech, titled “Maintaining Efficiency, Controls and Quality through Automation”, was all about leveraging technology. “In this challenging economic environment, it’s more [...]

  LegalTech West starts this Wednesday in Los Angeles (click here) and  we will have full coverage.  The Posse List recently hired a Chief Technology Officer who will be covering the event with other Posse List staff and they will be attending a number of the seminars and also trolling the exhibitor center.  We have arranged interviews with a large [...]

In Part 1 of our Trends series (click here) we provided some brief observations on trends we see in the contract attorney market and e-discovery market based on our conversations and meetings over the last few weeks.   In Part 2 (click here) we concentrated on going solo/freelancing,  and building a website/blog.  Here in Part 3 we will discuss raising your [...]

This week’s “”Top 10″ (ok, this week there are 15 but we had to squeeze in 15 because they’re all pretty good) electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies.  All seemed relevant to our (ever diverse) membership base:    Back Off Metadata Ethics Complaint, Judge Tells Lawyer Suing Sexploits Blogger – http://tinyurl.com/mpa6du  Digital Britain Report- vision for [...]

  If you want to get up to speed on corportate bankruptcy-related issues, check out Basic Bankruptcy Issues: A Primer for In-House Counsel, which was written by Carmen Lonstein, Esq. of Baker & McKenize.   This primer is intended to provide guidance on basic business bankruptcy issues to in-house counsel with a limited background in bankruptcy matters and [...]

A continuation ina series of articles on the Regulation of Credit Default Swaps which describe how regulators in the United States and Canada were addressing the issues of systemic risk and the instability of the financial system attributed to credit default swaps in the aftermath of the financial credit crisis that started in the summer of 2007. [...]