It’s getting crowded on the right-side of the EDRM.  Kroll Ontrack has announced it is now providing its clients with document review services.  For the full announcement click here.
 
Kroll Ontrack already provides paper/e-discovery services, computer forensics, ESI consulting, etc.  The announcement of the launch into document review is natural.  As we have indicated over the last two years and most recently [...]

 Without summer associate programs to rely on, law students are turning to alternate ways of gaining practical experience and making connections that could lead to full-time employment.
Many students are doing externships to fill that need. They work, unpaid, for credit under the supervision of faculty and an on-site attorney at a government agency, nonprofit organization [...]

 
 
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 [...]

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There are many reasons for contract attorneys to do pro bono and there are many pro bono opportunities in New York. Clearly there is a [...]

Corporate legal departments are keeping more work in-house these days to reduce costs.   For many, this means more work and fewer people to do it. To that end, many companies are taking advantage of the high quality of talent on the market now by increasing the use of contract attorneys.
While using outside counsel is still a [...]

Merck & Co. agreed to buy rival U.S. drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. for $41.1 billion in cash and stock to get a larger experimental pipeline and products unhindered by imminent patent losses.
Schering-Plough holders will get $23.61 a share, a 34 percent premium to the closing stock price last week, the companies said in a Business Wire [...]

As reported by the Bloomberg and the HuffingtonPost websites last night, the FDIC may manage the so-called “bad bank” that the Obama administration is likely to set up as it tries to break the back of the credit crisis.   The FDIC has been beefing up staff (see our earlier post here).  FDIC Chairman Sheila Blair is pushing to run the [...]

As reported extensively in the media and the countless press releases by federal contracting companies, the Obama administration’s anticipated stimulus package could generate billions in federal contracting opportunities.  The package is likely to provide funds to the General Services Administration, military and other agencies overseeing government buildings to implement green technologies; offer grants to states [...]

From:  Bloomberg, December 22, 2008
Chip companies are turning to armies of patent lawyers to bolster revenue amid the worst market for semiconductors since 2001.
Qimonda AG, LSI Corp and Spansion Inc. are among the chip companies using the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington to try and block imports of rival products or garner patent royalties. The government [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department today announced that Thacher, Proffitt & Wood, LLP will assist the Department with its investments in the Federal Reserve’s Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.  The firm will help the Department with investments in any entities for the purpose of purchasing asset-backed securities from [...]