Posts Tagged ‘ ACC: General articles ’

From Georgetown Law: a video interview with Susan Hackett, General Counsel of the ACC

Mar 27th, 2010 | By | Category: Georgetown Law Center: The "Law Firm Evolution" conference

Part of 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/ProjectCounsel.com The dramatic steps that law firms have taken as [...]



From the Georgetown Law Center: “Law Firm Evolution-Brave New World or Business as Usual?” – our review of the conference

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Georgetown Law Center: The "Law Firm Evolution" conference, Top Story

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 [...]



ACC Boston: notes on some of the substantive presentations (Part 1)

Oct 28th, 2009 | By | Category: ACC Annual Meeting Boston 2009

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 [...]



Initial reflections on ACC Boston: “brute force e-discovery”, budget cuts, a plethora of technology … and outside counsel

Oct 26th, 2009 | By | Category: ACC Annual Meeting Boston 2009, Electronic Discovery

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 [...]



The Masters Conference wrap-up

Oct 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Crossborder discovery: international aspects of ESI production, Electronic Discovery, Masters Conference 2009, Top Story, Uncategorized

  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 [...]



At ACC annual meeting, counsel discuss criteria for evaluating law firms

Oct 21st, 2009 | By | Category: ACC Annual Meeting Boston 2009

  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: [...]



From ACC Boston: “”we’re going to evaluate law firms” and “controlling outside legal spend top concern”

Oct 20th, 2009 | By | Category: ACC Annual Meeting Boston 2009

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 [...]



ACC’S 2009 Annual Meeting Kicks Off in Boston

Oct 19th, 2009 | By | Category: ACC Annual Meeting Boston 2009

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 [...]



ILTA, trend lines in the e-discovery market, FCPA, foreign language, document review, yadda yadda yadda: the “takeaways” for contract attorneys

Sep 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Contract Attorney Market: Trends, Crossborder discovery: international aspects of ESI production, Electronic Discovery, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, ILTA 2009, Jobs Related

    The summer and Labor Day holidays are over, and so we are off.   The ILTA conference (our coverage is here) held two weeks ago was an eye-opener on new trend lines, jobs for contract attorneys, etc. — especially the amount of Federal government work in the pipeline and the surge in work in Europe.  We’ll have [...]



How to manage large document reviews … and litigation holds: the ACC Docket provides the answers

May 15th, 2009 | By | Category: ACC: General articles, Top Story

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 [...]