Throughout our coverage of the Georgetown University Law Center’s conference on “Law firm evolution” (click here), the hot topic of conversation was the recent development of entrepreneurial law firms.  As discussed by Richard Susskind in his book ‘The End of Lawyers?’ and our interview with him during the conference (click here), innovation is the driving [...]

When Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer was recently asked to comment on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 2009, he minced no words: “One can say without exaggeration that this past year was probably the most dynamic single year in the more than 30 years since the FCPA was enacted.”  He’s not kidding. [...]

  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 [...]

  As we have commented on in numerous posts (click here), enforcement activity under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act continues to increase.  We have reported on how federal prosecutors are utilizing other statutes to attack corrupt business payments that may not fall under the ambit of the FCPA. Moreover, the number of government entities looking [...]

Since so many Posse List members (contract attorneys, law firms, computer forensics specialists, etc.) are working on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters we thought the most recent bi-annual Shearman & Sterling FCPA report would be of interest.   The report provides current and comprehensive information on U.S. foreign bribery proceedings including criminal prosecutions, DOJ foreign bribery civil [...]

As we have said in several of our posts about last week’s ACC meeting, there was a lot to cover.  There was a cornucopia of information:  excellent panels on intellectual property, doing business in China, handling bankruptcy litigation, real estate practices, creating an in-house law department, pro bono opportunities for in-house counsel, HR and employment [...]

  Ok, maybe Gordon Gekko did not say that but he could have.  Anyway, we used it because the Wall Street sequel hits the streets soon (click here) and several Posse List members working on an entertainment project in LA got a special invite and saw some clips/rushes and loved it.  As we have reported, FCPA [...]

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 where we have contacts, plus a few Federal government contacts. What follows are some brief observations on trends we see in [...]

ILSLC (Part 2:  wrap-up) We want to finish our review of last week’s International Legal Support Leaders Conference (ILSLC) with a focus on U.S. foreign language document reviews and document reviews outside the U.S. (for our others posts on the ILSLC click here). As we have indicated in previous posts the last few months, foreign language [...]

Upcoming webinars, and a seminar for those of you in D.C.: WEBINAR: Socha-Gelbmann Update: LegalTech New York, EDRM & e-Discovery Trends Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST (Duration: 1 hour) Link:  http://tinyurl.com/bg2xqt WEBINAR:  Best Practices Webinar: Kazeon hosts eDiscovery Panel Discussion with United States District Judge James M. Rosenbaum and Magistrate  Judge [...]