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Blind ads on Craigs List : should you send in your resume?

    25 October 2013 – In the past two weeks we have been swamped by Posse List members who have asked “should I submit my resume to a Craigs List ad when the employer is unknown?” We

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Is a blended document review rate of $466 per hour … um … excessive?

  23 September 2013 – We have done a fair amount of reporting on the In re Citigroup Inc. Securities Litigation, a shareholder lawsuit against Citigroup which involved a lot of guns and

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18-year low for law grad employment according to NALP [with VIDEO]

  21 June 2013 – Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia interviewed NALP’s Executive Director James Leipold about NALP’s recently released annual report on the job market for law school

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Judge Slams Contract Attorney Charges In Madoff Feeder Fund Case

  14 May 2013 – A federal judge in New York approved a hotly disputed fee for lawyers who negotiated a $217 million settlement with Madoff “feeder funds,” but only after leveling

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Contract lawyer in U.S. claims he is entitled to OT pay due to “extremely routine nature” of the job; seeks class action status

  6 March 2013– A lawyer who performed document review for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan on a contract basis claims in a lawsuit that he is entitled to overtime pay for work in excess

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Firm must divulge information on contract lawyers in Citigroup case; challenge to firm’s “excessive” fees

  5 March 2013 –  Last week the federal judge in In re Citigroup Inc. Securities Litigation, a shareholder lawsuit against Citigroup being heard in the U.S. District Court, Southern District

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D.C. Bar Calls Out E-Discovery Vendors in the District

10 July 2012 – The District of Columbia Bar Ethics Committee this month issued Opinion 362 stating that e-discovery vendors cannot practice law in the District and be partially owned by non-lawyers.  The

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Contract attorneys: an asset never properly utilized

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

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The McDermott e-discovery malpractice case and contract attorneys: The Posse List weighs in

1 August 2011 — Over the weekend we posted an update on the McDermott e-discovery malpractice case involving contract attorneys, vendors and privilege.  The case involves a allegedly botched privilege

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NEW POST: Thoughts on that NY Times article on e-discovery – “It’s the technology, and it’s a game changer”

  7 March 2011 — In case you missed it over the weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software” which discussed the “new

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