The 32nd annual educational conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) starts today, August 23rd.   This year it is at the Gaylord National just outside Washington, DC in National Harbor, Maryland. It is considered one of the premier events for ILTA members and decision-makers to come together to share their experiences as technology leaders to talk about how they [...]

Orrick Herrington dumped lockstep associate promotion on Wednesday and began assigning associates to one of three tiers within its partner track.  The Orrick move comes as all BigLaw firms face immense client pressure to control costs. This has also led Orrick and other firms to add significant numbers of staff attorneys to do more routine [...]

A hat tip to the Posse List membership, with special note to CF who writes:  “This is in response to your request for the CLE program What Lawyers Need to Know About Suicide During a Recession: Prevention, Identity and Law Firm Responsibility to be made free.  The recovery series can be accessed by clicking here. [...]

When Twitter gets a full-page analysis in the Financial Times, well … we guess Twitter has truly ”arrived”.   As the Financial Times says, there is more to this new internet fashion than meets the eye:  “For in its deceptively simple way, Twitter has stumbled on a formula that a whole generation of recent web start-ups has been [...]

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 attorney market there is a little gloating and perhaps a little schadenfreude.  Especially in the switch by AmLaw 200 advisers who first [...]

See:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138583 In answer to your flood of mails, we assume the FBI will hire contract attorneys for this work which they have done in the past. However, the FBI has changed it staffing procedures and now goes via the FBO route for contracting (for reference see here http://tinyurl.com/d86l4w and here http://tinyurl.com/ae3nw2) and not directly [...]