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Archive Monthly Archives: January 2009

E-Discovery and Digital Information Management: A Glossary

The best e-discovery/digital information management glossary is provided by the Sedona Conference which you can access by clicking here.

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FCPA … the beat goes on

As we mentioned in our “Trends” posting last month, FCPA cases were at a high in 2008 and will continue upward in 2009.  Contract attorneys in DC, NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. have seen 2009 open

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India has fraud, too: Indian Outsourcing Chief Admits Huge Accounting Fraud

Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder

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Legal market in North Carolina continues to grow

This will be the first in what we plan to be a series of briefs on legal markets throughout the country but those markets viewed from the perspective of contract attorneys.     As we discussed in our

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Cravath’s Presiding Partner Says “Time to Kill the Billable Hour”

As we have reported in various articles on our web site, we have seen a changing legal landscape this past year.  One of the major discussion points has been on law firm billing practices and the

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E-Discovery Primer: Finding Your Way Through Discovery by Data Mapping

As contract attorneys find e-discovery becoming more sophisticated (and more complex) we find we are fielding more and more questions about it.  We usually refer our members to the best sources we know:

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Banks May Lose $51 Million in Heller Bankruptcy Dispute

From: The Recorder, January 6, 2009 A “clerical error” could cost Bank of America and Citibank $51 million if Heller Ehrman has its way in bankruptcy court. Bank of America, acting for itself

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IP Marketplace Still Sizzles

From: The Recorder, January 5, 2009 Big tech companies haven’t stopped patenting their inventions, but more than ever they’re also buying others’ patents as a weapon in intellectual property

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Bankruptcy the name of the game in 2009

Bankruptcy litigation news seems to dominate the legal media in the early days of 2009.  The Madoff case involves clawback issues, false trades, etc.  For some good background stories click here, and

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