15 November 2011 – As we have written before (our most recent post is here) the most common complaints from the contract attorney world is that the work is mind-numbing and monotonous, affording none of the intellectual stimulation that a lawyer should expect.  There is often little or no quality control.  What supervision reviewers get [...]

The Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) certification program for Catalyst CR which we announced yesterday (see details immediately below) has added an additional session:                         OCT 6: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm You can sign up for this additional session by clicking here.  The first 3 sessions we announced yesterday filled in 2 hours so [...]

  There are a large number of law students who are members of The Posse List, as well non-law students who follow our articles and have written to us about attending law school. So we thought we’d post an item from The Adjunct Law Prof Blog which has linked to a post by Hannah Watson of Onlinecourses.org [...]

The practice of law firms marking up the cost of contract lawyers has been around for ages.  See some of our previous posts about the subject:  a great analysis by Carolyn Elefant by clicking here and further analysis by clicking here.  This week there was an article rocketing around the internet which was written by Cardozo Law Professor [...]

Many Posse List members who want to go solo or freelance have asked us about bankruptcy practice.  There are a good many of you who have worked on some of the major bankruptcy document reviews in the past few years (Federal-Mogul, United Airlines, Calpine, Enron, tec.) and will be well-prepared for the bankruptcy document reviews [...]

When Twitter gets a full-page analysis in the Financial Times, well … we guess Twitter has truly ”arrived”.   As the Financial Times says, there is more to this new internet fashion than meets the eye:  “For in its deceptively simple way, Twitter has stumbled on a formula that a whole generation of recent web start-ups has been [...]

There is one — and only one — nationwide employer that will continue to annually fill hundreds of thousands of high-paying, secure, dynamic jobs no matter how bad the economy may get.  Who is this employer? The federal government, which will annually hire more than 200,000 new employees throughout the U.S. — including tens of [...]

Last night’s and this morning’s lead story in the legal media:  800 law firm jobs lost in one day.  And there will be more firings to come (click here for a sample).    For the contract attorney market there is a little gloating and perhaps a little schadenfreude.  Especially in the switch by AmLaw 200 advisers who first [...]

See:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138583 In answer to your flood of mails, we assume the FBI will hire contract attorneys for this work which they have done in the past. However, the FBI has changed it staffing procedures and now goes via the FBO route for contracting (for reference see here http://tinyurl.com/d86l4w and here http://tinyurl.com/ae3nw2) and not directly [...]

Upcoming webinars, and a seminar for those of you in D.C.: WEBINAR: Socha-Gelbmann Update: LegalTech New York, EDRM & e-Discovery Trends Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST (Duration: 1 hour) Link:  http://tinyurl.com/bg2xqt WEBINAR:  Best Practices Webinar: Kazeon hosts eDiscovery Panel Discussion with United States District Judge James M. Rosenbaum and Magistrate  Judge [...]