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, [...]

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 to dramatically alter the discovery process.  Nobody has beat this drum more loudly than Ralph Losey, a reigning e-discovery guru (click here). But if you [...]

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.   These still constitute the largest part of our membership base.   We add 25-30 new such members every week.  But in percentage terms our [...]

Not to be outdone by Clearwell Systems, Fios, Craig Ball, Recommind and everybody else making e-discovery predictions/trends-to-watch in 2011, The Posse List presents its 10.5 e-discovery (and other) predictions for 2011.  1.  E-discovery vendors abandon the idea of end to end e-discovery and return to concept of “one trick pony” (“We can scan that for [...]

19 September 2010 — As we have stated numerous times in our ediscovery/data management “thought leaders” series (click here)  we face a tsunami of data.  For a good discussion of how this all evolved read our interview with the “Master Sensai E-Discovery Gurus” Ralph Losey and Jason R. Baron (click here)  and see their brilliant presentation Did [...]

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 [...]

22 June 2010 —  Some interesting stuff from the recently published Altman Weil survey of leaders of law firms with more than 50 lawyers.  Forty-four percent of the firms laid off associates last year, 53 percent reduced or discontinued hiring first-year associates, and 64 percent shrunk their summer associate programs.  This year, 10 percent of the [...]

4 May 2010 —  Very often Posse List members get so caught up in the nuts & bolts of e-discovery they don’t get an overall perspective of the trends of e-discovery and litigation.  How important is e-discovery to the litigation process?  Is extensive e-discovery threatened just to lead to settlement in order to avoid discovery [...]

Nearly 200 lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. will be consolidated in the Central District of California, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced on Friday. The panel appeared to have been swayed by two arguments that Toyota’s lead counsel maintained during a hearing last month in San Diego: 1.   Toyota’s U.S. headquarters is [...]

  The remainder of 2010 has a significant number of key electronic discovery related conferences, events, seminars and tradeshows.   We thought having a calendar of events would help in your planning.  For a link click here. The list was compiled by E-Discovery Sensei Master Rob Robinson of Applied Discovery  and published on his new  electronic discovery resource site [...]