Lawyers and law firms face both opportunities and risks when using the multitude of social media tools now available. On April 4, 2011, the Practice Management Service Committee in cosponsorship with the Law Practice Management section are presenting a free program that will explore the issues faced by the legal community when using such social [...]

On Thursday, March 3, from 1-5pm, the University of Richmond Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT) will host a symposium, “Electronic Discovery in a World of Cloud Computing, Data Hoarding, and Social Networking,” in the law school’s moot court room. Approved for 3.5 CLE credits, the symposium is free and open to the public. Held [...]

20 September 2010 — There are (at last count) 23,781 e-discovery conferences booked for the remainder of 2010.  Ok, an exaggeration.  But there are a lot.  And many are redundant, repetitive and  of little value.  Not so the Intermountain eDiscovery Conference sponsored by Orange Legal Technologies (for full details on the conference click here).   The event [...]

Virtual LegalTech is on September 23rd and one of the webinars is on social media and e-discovery. The cross roads of social media and e-discovery are the new lawyer nightmare.  Posse List members across the whole e-discovery vortex –– the data collector vendors, the forensic experts, the contract attorneys, etc. —   are dealing with it.  [...]

Tomorrow, August 31st, Digital Reef is hosting a webinar on the best practices for social media and eDiscovery.  Legal counsel from CISCO Systems  and Mayer Brown will be joined by Landmark Ventures’ Chief Information Security Officer to have an interactive discussion on the growing risks enterprises face as they increasingly integrate social media into their [...]

There is a very good free webinar coming up on FRCP 26(f).  We know the sponsor and we have heard the participants on other programs.  As many Posse List members have moved into the planning phases of conference preparedness and best practices we think it is very much worth your attention.  You will hear from [...]

Ari Kaplan is offering a free bonus webinar in his series “30-Minute Thursdays” at 2pm EDT.   His series is a paid subscription-based series, but this program is a free bonus edition.  He always has great info (for our other posts on Ari click here). This program will give attendees tips on: *  How to Write [...]

Titled “Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education,” Harvard Law School and New York Law School kicked off a conference yesterday which will be a yearlong “contest of ideas” to bridge the gap between the high cost of a law school education and the tightening job market, and to give students the skills [...]

We receive on average 300+ emails a week from Posse List members.   About 200 of them are from our contract attorney members.  The questions we receive from you range from “where is the best city to be for constant doc review work” to “I am moving to [fill in city/state] and want to know if [...]

  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 [...]