Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service.   Some history from the website USMemorialDay.org: “Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and was first observed on 30 May [...]

  3 May 2010 — United Air Lines and Continental Airlines announced their merger today.  It will create the world’s largest airline by traffic.  Delta Air Lines would be unseated as the world’s largest airline.  And depending on who you listen to the deal will have little trouble securing approval from the DOJ — or take [...]

In an effort to cut expenses, WilmerHale has decided to “in-source” its business operations to Dayton, Ohio.  But other law firms could also benefit from relocating support staff and even attorneys to less costly locales beyond the urban hubs according to an article in yesterday’s Law360.   The WilmerHale facilities, which are slotted to open in September, [...]

There has been an interesting conversation going on about the recommended path for an experienced e-discovery attorney to transition from law practice into a more technical litigation support or e-discovery consultant/project manager role.  It has been a discussion thread on the e-LEGAL group on LinkedIn and Paul Easton has a post about it this past [...]

Two Vanderbilt law students have created a new website where they hope to publish better job and salary information for all ABA-accredited law schools.  Students Patrick Lynch and Kyle McEntee say law schools hide their employment data in aggregate form.  The two students have created a website called Law School Transparency where they hope to [...]

Building on 14 years of success with its Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Georgetown Law inaugurated ”Corporate Counsel Institute – Europe” yesterday in London. Planned by a special advisory board of in-house and outside counsel, the new program was designed to give in-house lawyers and private practitioners practical tips and up-to-the-minute developments affecting the representation of companies throughout Europe. The [...]

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 [...]