Tag Archives for " DLA Piper "

Law firms’ excessive fees, Part II: “DLA Piper Is Not Alone: Why Law Firms Overbill”

  28 March 2013–  Coming hot and heavy after the New York Times piece (click here) on the lawsuit involving DLA Piper and law firm over billing  (“churn that bill, baby!”) comes —

Continue reading

The DLA Piper law suit offers a peek at the practice of inflating a legal bill

  26 March 2013– Ah, The Law Factory.  A few weeks ago we had a U.S. District Court ordering a law firm to hand over information about contract attorneys it employed with respect to a lawsuit

Continue reading

From LegalTech NY 2010: Taking Compliance and E-discovery to the Cloud

This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010.  For our other posts click here. Reported by:  Scott Madsen, Esq. / The Posse List Editorial Staff Deborah Baron (Vice

Continue reading

FROM LEGALTECH NY 2010: International e-discovery — the legal complexities of collecting, culling and reviewing data from multiple countries

This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010.  For our other posts click here. Reporter:  Christian Aust Trilantic is a leading U.K.-based legal support provider that

Continue reading

An interview with Jason R. Baron and Ralph Losey: putting the “tsunami of e-data” in perspective

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.                           

Continue reading

Review of LexisNexis e-Discovery & Digital Forensics Conference held in Hong Kong this summer

In July 2009, LexisNexis sponsored the first conference ever held in Hong Kong bringing together a panel of leading international experts and prominent local practitioners to share their knowledge

Continue reading

A Closer Look at California’s E-Discovery Law

  On June 29, in the midst of the state’s budget crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly signed into law the Electronic Discovery Act (Assembly Bill 5), which enacts comprehensive electronic

Continue reading

LegalTech West Coast: Notes and observations from Day 1

Our “Posse List moment” At the panel entitled “Document Review: Establishing the Team & Utilizing the Technology” Browning Marean, senior counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego

Continue reading

Trends in the contract attorney market – Part 1, An Overview

We spent the last 3 weeks in Chicago, D.C., LA and NYC.   We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments

Continue reading

Managing e-Discovery — Day 2 of the International Litigation Support Leaders Conference (Part 1)

A Review of Day 2 of the ILSLC (Part 1) As we said in our coverage of Day 1 of the ILSLC (click here) the focus of almost all of the speakers during this conference was:  the fundamental problem

Continue reading