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To repeat … there is no, NO, oversupply of lawyers. Or so says the Dean of Case Western Law School

9 January 2013 — Ummm … then why is Case Western’s Employment Score as tabulated by Law School Transparency only 46.3% with an Under-Employment Score of 37.8%? Case Western Dean Lawrence

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Why the market for tech transactions lawyers is heating up

  29 October 2012 — For those of you on our job lists, especially those of you on our tech-specific and IP job lists, you have seen the surge in postings for tech transactions lawyers. These

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D.C. Bar Calls Out E-Discovery Vendors in the District

10 July 2012 – The District of Columbia Bar Ethics Committee this month issued Opinion 362 stating that e-discovery vendors cannot practice law in the District and be partially owned by non-lawyers.  The

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With the Catalyst Secure investment and the Clearwell hire, VC firms continue to make moves into EDD

11 April 2012 – As information technology and information management and the EDD business model have advanced at an expotential rate these past two years, we have changed our focus a bit on how

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As expected, ABA surrenders to law schools on graduate jobs data reporting

5 December 2011 — It was a lovely press release:       “The  is fully committed to clarity and accuracy of law   school placement data.  As a result of these changes, future law

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The ABA sounds off on foreign-trained attorneys

24 May 2011 — Two items of note involving the ABA today in the legal media clippings: ABA Proposes Big Changes for LL.M.s Sitting for the bar exam may soon be trickier for the thousands of foreign-trained

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A structural shift: temps as a permanent solution

9 December 2010 — As the U.S. economy shows a slight pick up in activity, companies have started to hire temporary workers.  But with a difference.  After the trials and tribulations of being

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A lawyer must be a technologist, especially in the e-discovery industry

19 September 2010 — As we have stated numerous times in our ediscovery/data management “thought leaders” series (click here)  we face a tsunami of data.  For a good discussion of how this

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Law Firms Look To “In-Sourcing” To Slash Costs

In an effort to cut expenses, WilmerHale has decided to “in-source” its business operations to Dayton, Ohio.  But other law firms could also benefit from relocating support staff and even

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Law Students Push for Transparency, More Info Re: Law School Employment Stats

Two Vanderbilt law students have created a new website where they hope to publish better job and salary information for all ABA-accredited law schools.  Students Patrick Lynch and Kyle McEntee say law

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