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The proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom: initial thoughts

Reported by:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. (with special thanks to Johann Jurgens who is a telecom analyst for a hedge fund and is an advisor to The Posse List on the telecom industry)  21 March 2011

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NEW POST: Thoughts on that NY Times article on e-discovery – “It’s the technology, and it’s a game changer”

  7 March 2011 — In case you missed it over the weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software” which discussed the “new

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Relieving student loan debt: the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

26 January 2011 –  We have posted a number of stories on the student debt issue which you can read by clicking here.   Bill McDonald who writes the L4L blog has also been running a series titled

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Connecticut Bill Would Regulate Offshoring Document Review

19 January 2011 – A Connecticut state legislator is concerned that the outsourcing of legal work has taken jobs away from recent law school grads and introduced a bill to address the “doc

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COMING IN 2011 FROM THE POSSE LIST: e-discovery law training via Ralph Losey

5 January 2011  – Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools.  No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done

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A Happy New Year to All : some closing thoughts

We grew to 26,000+ members in 2010.  When we started The Posse List in 2002 our base was contract attorneys, the lawyers who work on document review and production — the “right side” of the EDRM.  

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A structural shift: temps as a permanent solution

9 December 2010 — As the U.S. economy shows a slight pick up in activity, companies have started to hire temporary workers.  But with a difference.  After the trials and tribulations of being

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December 4th: ABA votes on accreditation of law schools outside the U.S.

30 November 2010 —  As we previously reported (but which we reluctantly have not continually followed) over the summer an ABA committee recommended that the ABA consider the accreditation of

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Which law schools produce the most employable lawyers?

  Vault Career Services has launched its “2011 Vault Law School Ranking Survey”.  The purpose of this survey is simple:  to determine which law schools produce the most employable lawyers. 

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A Case of Supply v. Demand: Law schools are manufacturing more lawyers than America needs

  29 October 2010 — There is an excellent piece in Slate on the issue that demand for lawyers has fallen off a cliff, both due to the short-term crisis of the recession and long-term changes to

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