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Connecticut Bill Would Regulate Offshoring Document Review
19 January 2011 – A Connecticut state legislator is concerned that the outsourcing of legal work has taken jobs away from recent law school grads and introduced a bill to address the “doc
Continue readingA compendium of document review/contract attorney articles from last week
There were a number of articles on document review and contract attorneys last week. The discuss the challenges faced by contract atorneys and legal support professionals, how to recruit for and manage
Continue readingContract lawyer sues NYC law firm for not paying overtime
A contract lawyer is suing Labaton Sucharow alleging that the law firm violated federal labor laws by not paying time-and-a-half for overtime. The contract lawyer, Moshe Koplowitz, said that Labaton
Continue readingIn-house law departments (and law firms) rely more on project attorneys/contract attorneys
6 July 2010 — There is an interesting article in today’s The Legal Intelligencer about the increasing use of using “project attorneys” and “contract attorneys” to handle an increased
Continue readingLaw Firms Express “Growing Enthusiasm” for Contract Lawyers
22 June 2010 — Some interesting stuff from the recently published Altman Weil survey of leaders of law firms with more than 50 lawyers. Forty-four percent of the firms laid off associates last
Continue readingDo we smell doc review projects a-comin’ … or perhaps it’s just the stench of petroleum?
Oil, oil, oil, oil …. As has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, Lawyer Weekly and various other sources, companies that potentially face civil or criminal liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil
Continue readingUniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer to Reality
It could mark one of the biggest changes for lawyers joining the profession since the first U.S. bar examination was given in Delaware in 1763 — a single bar exam aimed at standardizing attorney
Continue readingStaff attorney lay-offs continue, impacting contract attorneys
One refuge for many contract attorneys has been direct employment as a staff attorney at a number of firms that adopted the “staff attorney” model for document review and temporary work. But as Above
Continue readingILTA, trend lines in the e-discovery market, FCPA, foreign language, document review, yadda yadda yadda: the “takeaways” for contract attorneys
The summer and Labor Day holidays are over, and so we are off. The ILTA conference (our coverage is here) held two weeks ago was an eye-opener on new trend lines, jobs for contract attorneys,
Continue readingCadwalader’s new manpower model: contract attorneys
In July 2009, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft put 34 associates on an involuntary sabbatical. Now, as reported by Above the Law (click here) the firm is offering to hire them back as contract attorneys,
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