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Contract attorney work goes back to the farm: the fall-off in D.C. document review work

  By: Alexis Chrystos Manager, The Posse List (a division of The Project Counsel Group)         We have received a fair amount of questions on the fall off of D.C. based document review so

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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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Law Firm Views of Legal Outsourcing — A Survey and Report

As we reported in May in Part 1 of our Trends series (click here),  law firms and legal process outsourcing to India still has a long way to go, and law firms still appear unconvinced.  And this is

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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

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The contract attorney market: status, trends and outlook-Part 1

The paradigm-shift Almost 7,000 lawyers have been laid off in the first two months of this year.  And all are not yet accounted for.  In today’s New York Times Adam Cohn dissects the paradigm-shifting

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March 26th (Morning brief): the greatest client memo … ever, lawyers continue to screw up e-discovery, and the job market in India stinks

  The greatest client memo … ever The Am Law Daily encourages you to go to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s client memo Web page right now to see if the single most bizarre memo we’ve

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Contract attorneys and the changing legal landscape

Last night’s and this morning’s lead story in the legal media:  800 law firm jobs lost in one day.  And there will be more firings to come (click here for a sample).    For the contract

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