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The Biznow breakfast symposium: “use contract attorneys more …”

This past Friday, September 25th, Biznow sponsored a breakfast symposium on the rapidly changing relations between law firms and corporate law departments (click here).   One of our Posse List staff

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Why EMC bought Kazeon, and musings on what’s next for the ECM and e-discovery markets

           The industry buzz about the EMC/Kazeon link-up was chatted about and rumored for some weeks (and the hot topic at the bars at ILTA last week).   Here are a few articles examining

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Trend Report: Reduced Budgets Lead to Growing Reliance on Contract Attorneys

Corporate legal departments are keeping more work in-house these days to reduce costs.   For many, this means more work and fewer people to do it. To that end, many companies are taking advantage of

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JD Supra: use it to get published and market yourself

In our Trends series (click here) on the contract attorney market we have tried to present multiple ways to raise your profile by getting published and thereby marketing yourself.   Despite the

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Credit derivatives probe: new aggressiveness at the DOJ

                 The DOJ confirmed yesterday that its Antitrust Division is investigating possible anti-competitive practices involving credit derivatives.  The statement read:  “The

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The Stunning Impact of E-Discovery on IT — the view from the IT department and how they can assist the lawyers

Most of the blogs/web sites/articles about e-discovery that we read on the web are authored by attorneys.  One of the points made several times by all the judges on the panels at Legal Tech West Coast

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Law Firm Views of Legal Outsourcing — A Survey and Report

As we reported in May in Part 1 of our Trends series (click here),  law firms and legal process outsourcing to India still has a long way to go, and law firms still appear unconvinced.  And this is

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LegalTech West Coast: Notes and observations from Day 1

Our “Posse List moment” At the panel entitled “Document Review: Establishing the Team & Utilizing the Technology” Browning Marean, senior counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego

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We hope you enjoy the Memorial Day Weekend … and remember

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service.  There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen

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How to manage large document reviews … and litigation holds: the ACC Docket provides the answers

The May 2009 issue of the ACC Docket, the magazine of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), is devoted to the subject of litigation: effective management of e-discovery, running large document

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