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For your calendars: key e-discovery and related events for the remainder of 2010

  The remainder of 2010 has a significant number of key electronic discovery related conferences, events, seminars and tradeshows.   We thought having a calendar of events would help in your planning. 

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From the Georgetown Law Center: “Law Firm Evolution-Brave New World or Business as Usual?” – our review of the conference

Our coverage of “Law Firm Evolution:  Brave New World or Business As Usual?”, a conference held March 21-23, 2010 by the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.  For all our posts

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The Valukas Report on the Lehman Brothers collapse: the e-discovery aspects

Updated March 20, 2010 from our original March 13, 2010 post Last week saw the release of the 2,200-page report by Anton Valukas on the Lehman Brothers collapse.  Valukas was appointed examiner by the

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Plaintiffs Lawyers Jockey for Venue in Massive Toyota Litigation

There is a good article in today’s National Law Journal about the positioning going on by plaintiffs lawyers in the mounting litigation arising from the “sudden unintended acceleration”  problems

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Contract attorneys, “status” and a paradigm shift in their favor … with some observations by Gabe Acevedo

We all know about the paradigm shift in the legal industry.  It has been well chronicled by Richard Susskind,  Jordon Furlong, Ron Friedmann and many others.  The legal industry melt down, the

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Adecco (parent of Ajilon and Special Counsel) says “temping trends” support recovery

The prospects for an accelerating global economic recovery were supported on Wednesday as Adecco, Swiss-based and the world’s largest temporary staffing group, said employment trends had been improving

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Toyota: withheld records, class actions, document reviews, and more

  As we reported yesterday (along with 8 gazillion other media reports) ABC News had reported a few weeks ago that a former Toyota product liability lawyer had accused Toyota of hiding information in

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DOJ Unit That Prosecutes FCPA to Bulk Up “Substantially”

  As reported today in Corporate Counsel magazine, anti-corruption enforcement is bulking up (click here for article).    Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section’s criminal division,

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Contract attorney e-discovery primer: just what is ESI, information and digital data?

As more and more attorneys, law firms, corporations and vendors join the Posse List and exisiting Posse List members move into the nuts and bolts of the tech side of e-discovery, we thought we’d

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LegalTech, Day 2: Facebook, cloud computing, and more jobs a coming

Facebook Deputy General Counsel Mark Howitson was yesterday’s keynote speaker and he said Facebook is “looking for a fight”.  He said that almost every day, law enforcement officials and civil

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