The legal industry has radically changed due to new electronic discovery requirements and costs, regulatory mandates, changing technology, growth of large complex projects, outsourcing alternatives and globalization. To succeed in today’s legal environment, law firms and corporate counsel must be able to effectively integrate technology resources, outsourcing solutions and project management techniques with the [...]

  As last week’s sessions at ACC Boston (click here) certainly stressed — stress being the operative word — in-house legal departments have been forced to cut their budgets just like their “sisters”, the law firms.   But with a greatly increased workload.  And it is due not just to the increase in litigation/investigations but because of [...]

The recap of the first four of the six formal presentations we covered you can find by clicking here. In this Part 2 we cover:  the personal liabilty of a general counsel; DOJ/SEC enforcement efforts in 2009 1.  Don’t Prosecute the General Counsel The panel consisted of Peter Anderson (partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan), Kirk Forrest (Vice President, General Counsel & [...]

As we have said in several of our posts about last week’s ACC meeting, there was a lot to cover.  There was a cornucopia of information:  excellent panels on intellectual property, doing business in China, handling bankruptcy litigation, real estate practices, creating an in-house law department, pro bono opportunities for in-house counsel, HR and employment [...]

Ari Kaplan is giving a free 30-minute webinar this Thursday (October 29th) from1-1:30pm ET. We have profiled Ari before (click here) because of his book The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (click here) which is a treasure house of ideas. This Thursday’s program is sponsored by SmartClaimsPro.  Ari [...]

We are still in Boston (we had some post-ACC interviews to do today) and we have about 6 detailed posts to complete on ACC but we thought we’d post our initial reflections of the conference.” First, a million thanks to Kim Howard, Marthea Davis and Robin Scullin of ACC for all they did to assist us [...]

  With two major conferences back-to-back, The Masters Conference (click here) and the ACC Annual Meeting (click here) we have been a bit pressed for time to write up our thoughts on both plus all the interviews we conducted at each. We agree with Brett Burney’s observation:  vendors at the Masters Conference seemed to emphasize a general [...]

With the integration of the Sedona Canada Principles into the rules governing discovery, courts are becoming more willing to order parties to produce their hard drives and laptops. As email and social networking Web sites continue to replace verbal communication, electronic discovery can unearth significant paper trails. For the full posts from the Canadian Underwriter [...]

  Relativity is a web-based document review and management software used by corporations and law firms during the discovery phase of litigation.  Many Posse List members have used it. It is highly popular because you can manage  documents from initial review all the way to production. If you want to learn how to use it, or just brush up, link [...]

  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to add evaluation of a law firm’s flextime policies to its list of criteria for evaluating outside firms, according to a panelist at the ACC annual meeting in Boston. Joseph West, associate general counsel at Wal-Mart, said the company plans to add flextime policies to its current list of law firm measures: [...]