While the ratio of EDD vendors at the show is still extremely high, much of the talk surrounding the show revolves around Twitter and its uses and implications for lawyers.  The Monday afternoon panel, “What Is Twitter and How Can I Use It?,” covered the most practical issues raised by a room full of lawyers: [...]

Back in November 2008 we commented on the settlement negotiations around Carlson v. Xerox case (click here).   The noteworthy item for contract attorneys was the issue “can you pay a contract attorney $35/$40 an hour and bill them out at $500?”  The court was to have the final say.  The case has now been settled, approved by [...]

As contract attorneys find e-discovery becoming more sophisticated (and more complex) we find we are fielding more and more questions about it.  We usually refer our members to the best sources we know: Gabes Guide (click here) and Ralph Losey’s e-Discovery Team (click here) but we’d like to highlight today’s issue of Corporate Counselor which has [...]

Several years ago a number of firms (Covington and Crowell are only two examples) started to change the way they used staffing agencies for projects.  They took the temporary attorneys onto their payroll for the duration of the project.  They did not pay the agencies “the bump” so to speak:  $55 an hour to the agency, [...]

We try to provide news stories that are related to the contract attorney industry as much as we can: a trend in the industry, current litigation/projects, or a “primer” on an area of law, for example. We know the market is weak for work right now and we hope that our prognostications (along with other [...]

Exelon’s offer for NRG is a textbook example of a hostile bid, and The Deal Professor looks at how this battle is likely to be fought.  Although it has not reached the second request stage, we thought it would be of interest to our readers. For the full story click here.

From: The National Law Journal, 2 December 2008 The FDIC has announced that, effective immediately, client funds deposited in Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts — regardless of amount — are eligible for full deposit insurance coverage under the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program through Dec. 31, 2009. The ABA, law firms and individual lawyers had mounted [...]

The National Law Journal: December 1, 2008 Law schools and placement professionals frequently tout the versatility of a law degree as a path to alternative careers. But even in good economic times, the advantage of a J.D. in landing a job in another field may well be overblown. “Going to law school gives you a [...]

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? As much as $100 per hour? $200 per hour? More?  The issue recently came up in a class-action settlement involving a $750 million [...]

For an excellent primer on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act from the Pennsylvania Litigation Blog  click here.