This past Friday, September 25th, Biznow sponsored a breakfast symposium on the rapidly changing relations between law firms and corporate law departments (click here).   One of our Posse List staff members, Scott Madsen, attended and his review follows: At a symposium today in DC (entitled “Hot topics in Law Firm – Law Department Relations”) there were some interesting [...]

  D.C. has regained the top spot in number of document review projects, number of contract employees employed.  We are going to update this report as more info comes in from Posse List members: The big news is that the Microsoft/Yahoo document review is coming to town.  Well, being restarted since the review was started a [...]

Yesterday, Fios put on an excellent webinar titled The Value of Project Management in e-Discovery (for details click here for link).   Fios will make available an audio recording of this webinar (which they do for all of their webinars) so be sure to check the link to the Fios e-Discovery Knowledge Center (see link in [...]

  ProZ.com is sponsoring a Virtual Translation Conference this Wednesday, September 30th 2009.  It is free.  You will be able to network with fellow translators, translation companies and agencies. There are only a few days left to join the over 5,000 translation professionals already registered to attend.  For full details click here:  http://sn.im/s6ljd

Here are a handful of articles that popped up over the weekend and which we think would be of interest to our readers.   As if you don’t have enough to read as you start your Monday morning: * A relook:  “Lock the law school doors” (now with 152 comments)  http://sn.im/s6ads * How to Budget for Ediscovery [...]

Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT CT Summation will host a one-hour Webinar on best practices for eDiscovery and IT associated with cloud computing, Web 2.0 and international eDiscovery. The Webinar is the second in a series hosted by Allison L. Brecher and Shawnna Childress, authors of the book “eDiscovery Plain and Simple: [...]

The Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) certification program for Catalyst CR which we announced yesterday (see details immediately below) has added an additional session:                         OCT 6: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm You can sign up for this additional session by clicking here.  The first 3 sessions we announced yesterday filled in 2 hours so [...]

  As we have indicated in numerous posts, employers (law firms, corporations, agencies, e-discovery vendors) have increasingly requested contract attorneys to have experience with specific software for document review projects.  This is due to: 1. a shakeout of the EDD market forced by the level of competition among the software providers 2. which has led [...]

In D.C. this Friday, September 25th, Biznow is sponsoring a breakfast symposium on the rapidly changing relations between law firms and corporate law departments. Joining the discussion will be the heads of three top US law firms: Eric Friedman of Skadden, Bruce McLean of Akin Gump, and Tom Yannucci of Kirkland & Ellis.  Topics will include: [...]

                                        23 September 2009 The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that they will explore updating their horizontal merger guidelines, the first such change in 17 years. Christine Varney, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, said the government would hold a series of public workshops to [...]