As we have said in several of our posts about last week’s ACC meeting, there was a lot to cover.  There was a cornucopia of information:  excellent panels on intellectual property, doing business in China, handling bankruptcy litigation, real estate practices, creating an in-house law department, pro bono opportunities for in-house counsel, HR and employment [...]

We are still in Boston (we had some post-ACC interviews to do today) and we have about 6 detailed posts to complete on ACC but we thought we’d post our initial reflections of the conference.”
First, a million thanks to Kim Howard, Marthea Davis and Robin Scullin of ACC for all they did to assist us at [...]

 
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 the interviews we conducted at each.
We agree with Brett Burney’s observation:  vendors at the Masters Conference seemed to emphasize a general lean towards [...]

 
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to add evaluation of a law firm’s flextime policies to its list of criteria for evaluating outside firms, according to a panelist at the ACC annual meeting in Boston.
Joseph West, associate general counsel at Wal-Mart, said the company plans to add flextime policies to its current list of law firm measures: cost-effectiveness, performance [...]

There have been two major press releases issued by the ACC during its annual meeting here in Boston.  (They were included in our registration packet but there is so much to cover we overlooked them).
The first:  the Association of Corporate Counsel will launch what it calls the ACC Value Index. According to a press release from the [...]

ACC kicked off its Annual Meeting with a Welcome Reception and networking event in the Exhibit Hall last ight.  The Posse List team is here all week to cover the event.  Posse List members will recall the ACC Docket provided us copies of its May 2009 issue on document review (click here) and we starting covering the [...]

The May 2009 issue of the ACC Docket, the magazine of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), is devoted to the subject of litigation: effective management of e-discovery, running large document reviews, litigation holds, managing expenses, etc.    Although written for the in-house counsel audience, the issue is nevertheless a gold mine of information for everyone [...]

Last night’s and this morning’s lead story in the legal media:  800 law firm jobs lost in one day.  And there will be more firings to come (click here for a sample).    For the contract attorney market there is a little gloating and perhaps a little schadenfreude.  Especially in the switch by AmLaw 200 advisers who first [...]