Yes, we went to Version 2.0 and upped the numbers:  this week starts the “Top 20 … plus more”, a snapshot of this past week’s interesting blog posts, industry news and views on electronic discovery related issues and developments.  Plus upcoming e-discovery webinars/webcasts/seminars.   There is a lot out there.  Provided by Applied Discovery. eDiscovery News Context [...]

  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.  For a link click here. The list was compiled by E-Discovery Sensei Master Rob Robinson of Applied Discovery  and published on his new  electronic discovery resource site [...]

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 on the conference click here. Reported by:   Gregory P Bufithis, Esq.    Founder,  ThePosseList.com and ProjectCounsel.com   Last week we had the opportunity to [...]

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 U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee probing the reasons for Lehman’s failure in September 2008. Note: Examiners in bankruptcy cases are appointed to investigate accusations of [...]

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 in vehicles manufactured by Toyota.  For the full article click here.   As we have reported, Toyota has since announced a plan to fix the problems. In the [...]

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 deep and rapid technological advances (of the disruptive kind), our relentless connectivity and burgeoning electronic legal marketplace — all have led to major threats to various aspects [...]

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 in recent weeks.  Adecco’s legal division includes contract attorney staffing agencies Ajilon Legal and Special Counsel, the latter of which it acquired through its acquisition of the MPS Group last year. [...]

  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 product liability suits.  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed his documents and found that they showed Toyota hid internal data recording Toyota testing [...]

  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, said his section “may grow as much as 50 percent in size in the next year or two.”  At the same time, he added, he expects companies to [...]

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 update our e-discovery “primer” posts.  In an e-discovery review, the collections process and its attendant considerations are paramount.  But just what, exactly, [...]