As we reported yesterday (along with 8 gazillion other media reports) ABC News had reported a few weeks ago that a former Toyota product liability lawyer had accused Toyota of hiding information in product liability suits.  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed his documents and found that they showed Toyota hid internal data recording Toyota testing [...]

In our series “Data! Data! Data!” – Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”  we have been interviewing thought leaders in the ESI management and e-discovery universe who can help us navigate through “the perfect storm”:  ever increasing data volumes; more litigation and government inquiries, and skyrocketing e-discovery costs.  That series will continue next week for several [...]

  As reported today in Corporate Counsel magazine, anti-corruption enforcement is bulking up (click here for article).    Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section’s criminal division, said his section “may grow as much as 50 percent in size in the next year or two.”  At the same time, he added, he expects companies to [...]

Topic: Defensible Legal Hold and Early Case Assessment Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:30pm-6:30pm Houston, TX 1 hour CLE Credit, The State Bar of Texas (Optional dinner reception immediately following) Event Contact: Norris Tran  (norrist@autonomy.com)    415-615-1530 Speaker: Jack Halprin, Esq. VP of eDiscovery and Compliance Autonomy  Best practices and technology for eDiscovery are rapidly advancing. What [...]

As more and more attorneys, law firms, corporations and vendors join the Posse List and exisiting Posse List members move into the nuts and bolts of the tech side of e-discovery, we thought we’d update our e-discovery “primer” posts.  In an e-discovery review, the collections process and its attendant considerations are paramount.  But just what, exactly, [...]

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 12:00 – 1:00 pm Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP Fulbright Auditorium 1301 McKinney, Mezzanine Level Houston, TX 77010 Who says learning can’t be fun? Come play along as volunteers from the audience vie for great prizes using their e-discovery savvy in the classic Jeopardy format. Our own “Alex Trebek” (electronic discovery expert [...]

Please join the DC Connections community at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda on Tuesday March 16th from 5:00 to 8:30. Our professionally organized and planned Speed Networking event will allow you to network efficiently with other professionals.  Why stand in a noisy crowed bar and try to network? Why get stuck in conversations that won’t benefit [...]

West LegalEdcenter is offering a webinar (CLE credit available) tomorrow, February 18th, from 1pm to 2pm EDT titled “Dealing with Cross-Border Investigations”.  From the announcement:  Against the backdrop of the recent banking and financial markets crisis, enforcement agencies around the world are increasingly collaborating to investigate allegations of accounting and financial fraud, insider trading, Ponzi [...]

This interview is part of our series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”, thought leaders in e-discovery and ESI management.   For our introduction to the series  click here. The Georgetown University Law Center Department of Academic Conferences and Continuing Legal Education, aka Georgetown Law CLE, are the folks that bring us the [...]

This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010.  For our other posts click here. Reported by:  Gregory Bufithis InsideLegal counted 96 eDiscovery/litigation support vendors present and as they said — and we agree — everybody’s theme was predictable, up-front, and simple to understand pricing.   Makes sense: increased competition in the [...]