In an effort to cut expenses, WilmerHale has decided to “in-source” its business operations to Dayton, Ohio.  But other law firms could also benefit from relocating support staff and even attorneys to less costly locales beyond the urban hubs according to an article in yesterday’s Law360.   The WilmerHale facilities, which are slotted to open in September, [...]

  After at least a year in the making and months of uncertainty, landmark health care reform legislation has been signed into law in the U.S.   The new health care law makes sweeping changes to our nation’s health care system. Many provisions will have a significant impact upon employers and their employees. While many of [...]

   Throughout our coverage of the Georgetown University Law Center’s conference on “Law firm evolution” (click here), the hot topic of conversation was the recent development of entrepreneurial law firms.  As discussed by Richard Susskind in his book ‘The End of Lawyers?’ and our interview with him during the conference (click here), innovation is the driving [...]

There has been an interesting conversation going on about the recommended path for an experienced e-discovery attorney to transition from law practice into a more technical litigation support or e-discovery consultant/project manager role.  It has been a discussion thread on the e-LEGAL group on LinkedIn and Paul Easton has a post about it this past [...]

Two Vanderbilt law students have created a new website where they hope to publish better job and salary information for all ABA-accredited law schools.  Students Patrick Lynch and Kyle McEntee say law schools hide their employment data in aggregate form.  The two students have created a website called Law School Transparency where they hope to [...]

  20 April 2010 — Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) imposed earlier this month after finding that Toyota waited four months to report sudden acceleration defects in its vehicles. But in a written statement, Toyota denied that it violated safety regulations: “We agreed to [...]

Building on 14 years of success with its Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Georgetown Law inaugurated ”Corporate Counsel Institute – Europe” yesterday in London. Planned by a special advisory board of in-house and outside counsel, the new program was designed to give in-house lawyers and private practitioners practical tips and up-to-the-minute developments affecting the representation of companies throughout Europe. The [...]

Titled “Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education,” Harvard Law School and New York Law School kicked off a conference yesterday which will be a yearlong “contest of ideas” to bridge the gap between the high cost of a law school education and the tightening job market, and to give students the skills [...]

We receive on average 300+ emails a week from Posse List members.   About 200 of them are from our contract attorney members.  The questions we receive from you range from “where is the best city to be for constant doc review work” to “I am moving to [fill in city/state] and want to know if [...]

Nearly 200 lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. will be consolidated in the Central District of California, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced on Friday. The panel appeared to have been swayed by two arguments that Toyota’s lead counsel maintained during a hearing last month in San Diego: 1.   Toyota’s U.S. headquarters is [...]