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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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February 12th: The Weekly “Top 10” E-Discovery Updates

1.        Conceptual Search in Electronic Discovery – By Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D   http://tinyurl.com/amgl8n 2.        Email and History in the Making   http://tinyurl.com/akxkld 3.       

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The FBI fraud investigations

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

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Live Nation and Ticketmaster in merger, but antitrust nightmare ….

… which could be good for contracts attorneys if it ever gets to a review. Regulatory experts and antitrust attorneys reviewing the merger say it could be delayed by an antitrust review because of

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Webinars on e-discovery, a seminar on Adobe … and articles on stuff

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:

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LegalTech: Trends affecting contract attorneys … and oh yeah, India (again)

We had 6 Posse List members covering LegalTech New York this year, trawling the vendor booths and attending several of the seminars/panels.   It was the usual mass of vendors and attendees crammed into

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It’s official: Twitter has de-throned “electronic discovery” as the most buzzworthy term at LegalTech

While the ratio of EDD vendors at the show is still extremely high, much of the talk surrounding the show revolves around Twitter and its uses and implications for lawyers.  The Monday afternoon panel,

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E-Discovery Gets Funkier at LegalTech (a review of some vendors)

We cruised the exhibit hall at LegalTech and found some interesting products out there and spoken to a number of vendors and attendees.  We’ll be adding more reviews later this week. During this

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TARP Creates Staffing Headaches for Treasury

The Government Accountability Office has released its latest progress report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Treasury Department’s new Office of Financial Stability (OFS).   It’s

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Legal Tech, India, technology and contract attorneys

If you are in NYC or can get there this week, we urge all to attend.  And we don’t mean the $1,000+ conference part.  We mean the exhibit hall where you can see the vendors: ESI companies, staffing

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