Reported by Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. and Eric Fell, Esq. 18 February 2011 — It’s been two weeks since LegalTech New York and it’s taken that long to digest most of the information we collected. We stayed an extra week after LegalTech for follow-up with interviews and product demonstrations. As always, LegalTech can cause info-saturation (see, [...]

26 January 2011 -  We have posted a number of stories on the student debt issue which you can read by clicking here.   Bill McDonald who writes the L4L blog has also been running a series titled “A Student Loan Repayment Toolbox” which you can access by clicking here. One of the programs he features and which [...]

5 January 2011  - Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools.  No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done to dramatically alter the discovery process.  Nobody has beat this drum more loudly than Ralph Losey, a reigning e-discovery guru (click here). But if you [...]

9 December 2010 – As the U.S. economy shows a slight pick up in activity, companies have started to hire temporary workers.  But with a difference.  After the trials and tribulations of being forced to lay off people during the recession, many companies do not plan to use temporary workers just for the recovery’s shaky beginnings [...]

30 November 2010 –  As we previously reported (but which we reluctantly have not continually followed) over the summer an ABA committee recommended that the ABA consider the accreditation of law schools outside U.S. borders.  Must be an issue because there are just not enough lawyers and too many legal jobs unfilled, right? The ABA had solicited comments (the [...]

  Vault Career Services has launched its ”2011 Vault Law School Ranking Survey”.  The purpose of this survey is simple:  to determine which law schools produce the most employable lawyers.  It is aimed at law firm recruiters and asks them to rank law schools under a multitude of criteria.  You can access the survey by clicking here.  [...]

There were a number of articles on document review and contract attorneys last week.  The discuss the challenges faced by contract atorneys and legal support professionals, how to recruit for and manage document reviews, setting up workflows, etc.   Here are the links:  Challenges for Corporate eDiscovery/Litigation Support Professionals – http://bit.ly/bQR6TP Climbing Back – Socha and [...]

6 July 2010 —  There is an interesting article in today’s The Legal Intelligencer about the increasing use of using “project attorneys” and “contract attorneys” to handle an increased workload on shrinking budgets.  Bringing on specialized, experienced attorneys for six months to a year to handle one set project in their area of expertise has become [...]

25 June 2010 —  Social Media Governance.  A new term creeps across the e-discovery and compliance landscape, seeking to join the pantheon of other irritating phrases like “governance, risk and compliance”, “legal project management” and “early case assessment”.  It seems that “everybody” is doing it.  But although social media is a boon to corporations as a [...]

  According to an article in today’s law.com, the key defendants in the BP oil spill litigation, key defendants have lined up three prominent Florida law firms to defend against spill cases in Florida.  Akerman Senterfitt (Florida’s largest law firm) snagged BP and will handle all its Florida civil litigation. Cameron International (the manufacturer of [...]