From: The Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2008 Here’s a question: After a big class-action settlement, how much should a plaintiffs’ firm be allowed to recover for its use of temporary lawyers?
Continue readingNovember 22, 2008 Purchasing software for electronic discovery is not easy. No, we don’t expect contract attorneys to be buying. But we thought it would be of interest to you anyway, especially
Continue readingNovember 19, 2008 For the 500+ Posse List members who worked on these transactions: InBev completed its $52bn purchase of Anheuser-Busch on Tuesday, making it the world’s largest brewer and marking
Continue readingFrom: New Jersey Law Journal, November 17, 2008 By producing an electronic document in discovery, you may breach the attorney-client privilege, according to an ethics opinion regarding metadata issued
Continue readingFrom: The American Lawyer, November 11, 2008 Circuit City, among the nation’s largest retailers with more than 700 stores in the U.S., hired Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom last month in
Continue readingFrom: NYT DealBook, November 11, 2008 While history might indicate that antitrust hurdles may higher under a Democratic president, this is unlikely to be the case in Barack Obama’s presidency, Andrew
Continue readingSIFMA (the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association) had its “SIFMA Summit” in NYC today on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). One of the presenters was Neel Kashkari,
Continue readingFrom: National Law Journal, November 6, 2008 The U.S. Treasury Department has tapped Hughes Hubbard & Reed and Squire Sanders & Dempsey to help execute the $700 billion bailout package that Congress
Continue readingWe are going to add a section/link to the blog to cover pro bono work/not-for-profit/alternative legal services. We’ll have a special drop-down menu to promote such work across the country with
Continue readingThere are scores of Posse List members across the country who have joined the pro bono effort for voter protection and we salute you. The following is from today’s Legal Times: From: Legal Times,
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