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
Continue readingBankruptcy-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
Continue readingESI 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
Continue readingThis week’s “”Top 10” electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies: 1. Can Lawyers Use Clients’ E-Discoveries? http://tinyurl.com/ck28dz 2. Court Declines
Continue readingWe 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
Continue reading. 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
Continue readingKeynote 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
Continue readingThe paradigm-shift Almost 7,000 lawyers have been laid off in the first two months of this year. And all are not yet accounted for. In today’s New York Times Adam Cohn dissects the paradigm-shifting
Continue readingThe Posse List team has descended upon Chicago for the annual ABA TECHSHOW. For us it’s an opportunity for us to meet and network with other lawyers, law firms, e-discovery companies,
Continue readingThis week’s “Top 10″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies: The 20 Most Influential General Counsel – http://tinyurl.com/cygrfq Social Networking and its Effects on
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