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Economic Pressure May Force Permanent Shift in Corporate Legal Costs, and solo practitioners stand to gain

Confronted with orders to control legal costs and rein in expenses, general counsel throughout California are now taking dramatic steps that were virtually unheard of only a few years ago. Salaries are

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San Francisco’s Legal Business Doing Better Than Most Cities’

San Francisco’s legal business is holding up against the recession a lot better than other major cities’, according to first-quarter data collected from about 100 large firms by Hildebrandt

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Webinar tomorrow (April 16th): Introduction to the Hart-Scott-Rodino process: webinar with special offer for Posse List members

We were able to negotiate a 50% discount so the cost will be $100.   To register for the webinar tomorrow (April 16th) Hart-Scott-Rodino Compliance Issues Facing Business Entities go to www.lawcatalog.com/april16. 

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One BigLaw firm says “we get it” : marking the death of BigLaw as we knew it

As has been reported, there were layoffs this week at Womble Carlyle.   But that was not the big news.  The big news was Womble decided to address the general retrenchment of the legal market

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Bankruptcy-related M&A has “only just begun”

Bankruptcy-related mergers and acquisitions have hit their highest level globally since August 2004, and are set to keep rising as more companies are forced into distressed sales, according to Thomson

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ESI Bytes: a web site that provides free resources on electronic discovery

    ESI Bytes is a web site (click here) that provides free resources on electronic discovery and where you can information from the top experts in electronic discovery: Judge Scheindlin,  Judge Facciola, Craig

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April 8th: Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles

 This week’s “”Top 10” electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies: 1.  Can Lawyers Use Clients’ E-Discoveries? http://tinyurl.com/ck28dz  2.  Court Declines

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Follow-up to ABA TechShow: Susskind’s words seem to ring true — BigBusiness is dumping BigLaw

We covered Richard Susskind’s speech at the ABA TechShow (click here) and we had previously covered his thoughts in our “Changing Legal Landscape” series (click here). Today’s

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ABATECHSHOW Day 2: More interesting seminars, and a review of some vendors

. On Day 2 we tried to cover a wide range of seminars, and complete our review of the vendors.  We also networked with a number of our Chicago law firm contacts regarding the Chicago market for contract

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ABATECHSHOW Day 1: Susskind wows the crowd … again

Keynote speaker Richard Susskind “wowed the crowd” and he was usual best.  We saw him last year in London shortly after his book The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services was

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