11 April 2012 – As information technology and information management and the EDD business model have advanced at an expotential rate these past two years, we have changed our focus a bit on how we cover e-discovery events.  We have been spending more time at the big enterprise information management and innovation/technology conferences hosted by Deloitte, The 451 Group , EMC,  and [...]

5 December 2011 – It was a lovely press release:       “The [ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission] is fully committed to clarity and accuracy of law   school placement data.  As a result of these changes, future law students will be better informed about their prospects than ever before.” They even approved a new annual questionnaire intended to gather [...]

24 May 2011 — Two items of note involving the ABA today in the legal media clippings: ABA Proposes Big Changes for LL.M.s Sitting for the bar exam may soon be trickier for the thousands of foreign-trained attorneys who take the test each year.  The New York Court of Appeals in April adopted stricter requirements [...]

9 December 2010 – As the U.S. economy shows a slight pick up in activity, companies have started to hire temporary workers.  But with a difference.  After the trials and tribulations of being forced to lay off people during the recession, many companies do not plan to use temporary workers just for the recovery’s shaky beginnings [...]

19 September 2010 — As we have stated numerous times in our ediscovery/data management “thought leaders” series (click here)  we face a tsunami of data.  For a good discussion of how this all evolved read our interview with the “Master Sensai E-Discovery Gurus” Ralph Losey and Jason R. Baron (click here)  and see their brilliant presentation Did [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

We all know about the paradigm shift in the legal industry.  It has been well chronicled by Richard Susskind,  Jordon Furlong, Ron Friedmann and many others.  The legal industry melt down, the deep and rapid technological advances (of the disruptive kind), our relentless connectivity and burgeoning electronic legal marketplace — all have led to major threats to various aspects [...]

The prospects for an accelerating global economic recovery were supported on Wednesday as Adecco, Swiss-based and the world’s largest temporary staffing group, said employment trends had been improving in recent weeks.  Adecco’s legal division includes contract attorney staffing agencies Ajilon Legal and Special Counsel, the latter of which it acquired through its acquisition of the MPS Group last year. [...]

It could mark one of the biggest changes for lawyers joining the profession since the first U.S. bar examination was given in Delaware in 1763 — a single bar exam aimed at standardizing attorney credentials nationwide. Next year, at least 10 states are expected to switch to the Uniform Bar Exam, and 22 other jurisdictions [...]