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The competing offers for NYSE Euronext: the principal law firms

8 April 2011 — We have received a mountain of emails asking about the competing NYSE Euronext deals so we thought we’d provide a summary. Deutsche Boerse made the first offer.  Under that

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The proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom: initial thoughts

Reported by:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. (with special thanks to Johann Jurgens who is a telecom analyst for a hedge fund and is an advisor to The Posse List on the telecom industry)  21 March 2011

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NEW POST: Thoughts on that NY Times article on e-discovery – “It’s the technology, and it’s a game changer”

  7 March 2011 — In case you missed it over the weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software” which discussed the “new

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LEGALTECH NY 2011: optimism, war crimes + e-discovery, IBM, on-line e-discovery education, predictive coding … and “real” information management

Reported by Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. and Eric Fell, Esq. 18 February 2011 — It’s been two weeks since LegalTech New York and it’s taken that long to digest most of the information we collected.

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Relieving student loan debt: the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

26 January 2011 –  We have posted a number of stories on the student debt issue which you can read by clicking here.   Bill McDonald who writes the L4L blog has also been running a series titled

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COMING IN 2011 FROM THE POSSE LIST: e-discovery law training via Ralph Losey

5 January 2011  – Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools.  No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done

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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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December 4th: ABA votes on accreditation of law schools outside the U.S.

30 November 2010 —  As we previously reported (but which we reluctantly have not continually followed) over the summer an ABA committee recommended that the ABA consider the accreditation of

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Which law schools produce the most employable lawyers?

  Vault Career Services has launched its “2011 Vault Law School Ranking Survey”.  The purpose of this survey is simple:  to determine which law schools produce the most employable lawyers. 

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A 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

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