LDM Global (for more about the company click here) is an international information management/litigation support solutions provider.  It specializes in data recovery, computer forensics, large scale electronic and paper based discovery services and international projects. We had the opportunity to meet Scott Merrick, International Marketing Director of LDM Global, at a “Managing Cross-border Discovery” panel during the International Legal [...]

Preface: If we are to believe the prognosis of many economists, the current recession is on the verge of ending.  The rebounding economy will most likely re-invigorate corporations to push their markets globally. This, in turn, will further push litigation and regulatory enquiries globally.
The best prepared corporations will have a litigation readiness and response plan [...]

 
With two major conferences back-to-back, The Masters Conference (click here) and the ACC Annual Meeting (click here) we have been a bit pressed for time to write up our thoughts on both plus all the interviews we conducted at each.
We agree with Brett Burney’s observation:  vendors at the Masters Conference seemed to emphasize a general lean towards [...]

Last week we attended the IQPC conference ”Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Europe” which was held in Brussels September 30th and October 1st.   For a link to the program click here.  The program is one the most elite and information-packed conference on European information retention and e-disclosure management, with the experts being the “elite of the elite”. 
The event was chaired [...]

             
One of the rock stars of the IQPC conference in Brussels in Brussels last week was Chris Dale, founder of the E-Disclosure Information Project.  He was on 3 panels at the conference and for his delightful description of the 2-day proceedings click here.   It was great to finally meet Chris.  We have emailed and [...]

On August 19, 2009, the French Data Protection Agency (also known as the “CNIL”) released a new opinion (the “Opinion”) on the transfer of personal data from France to a jurisdiction outside of Europe. The Opinion is noteworthy for describing how personal data can be transferred from France to the United States pursuant to U.S. discovery [...]

 
 
The summer and Labor Day holidays are over, and so we are off.
 
The ILTA conference (our coverage is here) held two weeks ago was an eye-opener on new trend lines, jobs for contract attorneys, etc. — especially the amount of Federal government work in the pipeline and the surge in work in Europe.  We’ll have more on ILTA later [...]

There is an expanding need for temporary attorneys across Europe as many European companies and law firms have been adopting the use of temporary workers on a wider basis, as well as many U.S. companies and law firms which have applied the known U.S. model to their European operations.  Much of this is attributable to the use of [...]

We have launched the Asia-Pacific Posse List which will include our Asia job listserv (to get on the Asian-Pacific job list click here) and this page.   Our focus will be the legal markets in Australia, China, Hong Kong,  Japan and Singapore but we will include other Asian locations as they develop.
This page is sponsored by our strategic partner in Asia, CCH [...]

Sedona Conference on Cross-Border eDiscovery & Data Privacy
                 Barcelona, Spain June 2009
The Posse List has been fortunate to be able to cover the Sedona Conference on Cross-Border eDiscovery & Data Privacy which is being held this week in Barcelona, Spain.   As we have reported in the past, U.S.-style litigation and internal investigations and e-discovery are largely alien [...]