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E-Discovery for Everybody: Craig Ball and the EDna Challenge

As recently highlighted by Sharon Nelson on her excellent blog Ride the Lightening one of the things Craig Ball most enjoys is coming up with a challenging e-discovery hypothetical and then confounding

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A year end snap-shot of the job market for U.S. law grads

Student loan debt is up and job expectations are down according to a year-end, informal snapshot of several sources.  The online ABA Journal is reporting that almost a third of all law students expect

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Weil, Gotshal and Covington & Burling to handle antitrust side of Exxon/XTO Energy deal

Reported by:  Gregory Bufithis and Alex Hania Weil, Gotshal and Covington & Burling will provide antitrust counsel to Exxon, and handle the second request.   Covington has long been Exxon’s

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2010: Litigation Support and eDiscovery Trends

From the December 2009 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel® Bob Tennant is the Chief Executive Officer at Recommind, a position he has held since late 2001.  His thoughts on litigation support

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The Sheppard Mullin / eTERA Consulting Corporate Educational Seminars

             We recently attended the first in a series of CLE corporate briefing seminars jointly sponsored by Sheppard Mullin and eTERA Consulting.  The seminars focus on emerging legal

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ABA Proposes Law Student Loan Relief

11 November 2009 The American Bar Association is lobbying the Obama administration and Congress to extend relief to recent law school graduates who went into debt to finance their legal educations but

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Capital One’s First Annual Seminar on E-Discovery: The Future of Search

10 November 2009 Reporting for the Posse List: Scott Madsen In what portended to be a great day-long seminar on ediscovery search, the opening multimedia presentation by Ralph Losey and Jason R. Baron

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Options for Managing Law School Student Loan Debt

The average law student who graduated from a private university in 2008 borrowed more than $91,500 on the way to earning that degree, and in 2009 the figure was more than $100,000, according to the nonprofit

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The Masters Conference wrap-up

  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

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The Masters Conference: Navigating through Discovery, Risk and Security

The Masters Conference (click here) will be held on October 13th and 14th in Washington, DC.  The Masters conference brings together leading experts and professionals from law firms, corporations and

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