There is a good article in today’s National Law Journal about the positioning going on by plaintiffs lawyers in the mounting litigation arising from the “sudden unintended acceleration” problems in vehicles manufactured by Toyota. For the full article click here. As we have reported, Toyota has since announced a plan to fix the problems. In the [...]
We all know about the paradigm shift in the legal industry. It has been well chronicled by Richard Susskind, Jordon Furlong, Ron Friedmann and many others. The legal industry melt down, the deep and rapid technological advances (of the disruptive kind), our relentless connectivity and burgeoning electronic legal marketplace — all have led to major threats to various aspects [...]
The prospects for an accelerating global economic recovery were supported on Wednesday as Adecco, Swiss-based and the world’s largest temporary staffing group, said employment trends had been improving in recent weeks. Adecco’s legal division includes contract attorney staffing agencies Ajilon Legal and Special Counsel, the latter of which it acquired through its acquisition of the MPS Group last year.
The [...]
We have had numerous posts on our site concerning raising your profile, “branding” yourself, marketing yourself, and doing that through writing. As we have said, despite the universal concern over the current economic climate, Posse List members have found creative ways to serve their constituencies and to raise their profiles. Technology (Web 2.0) has been the catalyst for this [...]
As we reported yesterday (along with 8 gazillion other media reports) ABC News had reported a few weeks ago that a former Toyota product liability lawyer had accused Toyota of hiding information in product liability suits. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed his documents and found that they showed Toyota hid internal data recording Toyota testing data, [...]
As reported today in Corporate Counsel magazine, anti-corruption enforcement is bulking up (click here for article). Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section’s criminal division, said his section “may grow as much as 50 percent in size in the next year or two.” At the same time, he added, he expects companies to play [...]
This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010. For our other posts click here.
Laura Kibbe (Senior Vice President at Epiq Systems) led a spirited panel titled “Achieving a Cost-Efficient, Defensible Document Review”. Panelists included Vince Neicho (Litigation Support Manager at Allen & Overy) and David Kessler (partner at Drinker [...]
This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”. For our introduction to the series click here.
Adam Cohen, Senior Managing Director at FTI Technology is a nationally recognized expert in electronic discovery and electronic information management policy issues. He is the co-author of two books on electronic [...]
Our team arrived in NYC yesterday for LegalTech New York. It opens today (February 1st) for 3 days. It will be held at The Hilton New York (1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 1-212-586-7000).
The show is presented by ALM Events, a producer of educational and networking events. And most of us know ALM through [...]
This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”. For our introduction to the series click here.
As Posse List members know, especially members of Posse List Asia, e-discovery work in Asia has exploded. We have seen work expand in China, Japan and Korea with the greatest [...]
