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 — Late yesterday AT&T and Deutsche Telekom announced an agreement for the sale of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and [...]

Reported by Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. and Eric Fell, Esq. 18 February 2011 — It’s been two weeks since LegalTech New York and it’s taken that long to digest most of the information we collected. We stayed an extra week after LegalTech for follow-up with interviews and product demonstrations. As always, LegalTech can cause info-saturation (see, [...]

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 review” situation.  Under her proposal “unlicensed” offshore workers who engage in the drafting, reviewing or analyzing of legal documents for clients in [...]

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 forced to lay off people during the recession, many companies do not plan to use temporary workers just for the recovery’s shaky beginnings [...]

  From the SEC: Tuesday, September 28, 2010: “An Evening with the SEC” You are cordially invited to attend a panel discussion and networking event at the Securities & Exchange Commission. This is an opportunity for you to hear from SEC attorneys, economists, accountants, and examiners about their experiences working at the SEC.  You will [...]

27 August 2010 — The Posse List team was in Las Vegas this week at the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference, led by our Chief Technology Officer Scott Madsen.   It is a four and a half day event with a packed agenda and we find it to be the best event of the year (and each [...]

There were a number of articles on document review and contract attorneys last week.  The discuss the challenges faced by contract atorneys and legal support professionals, how to recruit for and manage document reviews, setting up workflows, etc.   Here are the links:  Challenges for Corporate eDiscovery/Litigation Support Professionals – http://bit.ly/bQR6TP Climbing Back – Socha and [...]

A contract lawyer is suing Labaton Sucharow alleging that the law firm violated federal labor laws by not paying time-and-a-half for overtime.  The contract lawyer, Moshe Koplowitz, said that Labaton Sucharow did not pay him at a higher rate when he worked more than 40 hours in a week.  Koplowitz has been doing contract work for a number of [...]

  According to an article in today’s law.com, the key defendants in the BP oil spill litigation, key defendants have lined up three prominent Florida law firms to defend against spill cases in Florida.  Akerman Senterfitt (Florida’s largest law firm) snagged BP and will handle all its Florida civil litigation. Cameron International (the manufacturer of [...]

Oil, oil, oil, oil …. As has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, Lawyer Weekly and various other sources, companies that potentially face civil or criminal liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have hired a large cast of outside legal help, including former high-level government attorneys and a top product-liability lawyer.  BP [...]