3 May 2010 — United Air Lines and Continental Airlines announced their merger today.  It will create the world’s largest airline by traffic.  Delta Air Lines would be unseated as the world’s largest airline.  And depending on who you listen to the deal will have little trouble securing approval from the DOJ — or take [...]

We receive on average 300+ emails a week from Posse List members.   About 200 of them are from our contract attorney members.  The questions we receive from you range from “where is the best city to be for constant doc review work” to “I am moving to [fill in city/state] and want to know if [...]

  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 [...]

Part of our coverage of “Law Firm Evolution:  Brave New World or Business As Usual?”, a conference held March 21-23, 2010 by the Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.  For all our posts on the conference click here.  Reported by: Gregory P Bufithis, Esq.    Founder, ThePosseList.com/ProjectCounsel.com The panel “Business Models: Strategy and Governance” consisted of  [...]

We all know about the paradigm shift in the legal industry.  It has been well chronicled by Richard Susskind,  Jordon Furlong, Ron Friedmann and many others.  The legal industry melt down, the deep and rapid technological advances (of the disruptive kind), our relentless connectivity and burgeoning electronic legal marketplace — all have led to major threats to various aspects [...]

We have had numerous posts on our site concerning raising your profile, “branding” yourself,  marketing yourself, and doing that through writing.  As we have said, despite the universal concern over the current economic climate, Posse List members have found creative ways to serve their constituencies and to raise their profiles.   Technology (Web 2.0) has been the catalyst for this [...]

In our series “Data! Data! Data!” – Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”  we have been interviewing thought leaders in the ESI management and e-discovery universe who can help us navigate through “the perfect storm”:  ever increasing data volumes; more litigation and government inquiries, and skyrocketing e-discovery costs.  That series will continue next week for several [...]

  Reported by The Posse List LegalTech team:  Gregory Bufithis, Christian Aust, Scott Madsen, Alexis Gambetta Being a native New Yorker now living in Europe, it is always a joy to return to the amazing buzz, the kinetic energy that is New York City.  The seeming cacophony of sounds and actions actually belies one overriding [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series click here.                            Jason R. Baron and Ralph Losey do not need any introduction for those of us in the e-discovery “trade” but for our new readers a quick summary:  Jason has [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  click here. Tim Williams is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Index Engines.  He founded CrosStor Software, and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. CrosStor was a pioneer in [...]