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Lazy Sunday Links 8.22.10
From e-Discovery Team: Ralph Losey, Mary Mack, and Bret Anders in “America’s got E-Discovery Talent” – Part 3. Great post from the blog “But I Did Everything Right!” on the ABA’s efforts in regard to law school tenure. IQPC is having their 10th e-Discovery event in December. Which messages from your Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare/fill in your own [...]
Litigation Hits Fantasy Sports Too
Ed. Note: This guest post is contributed by Sandra McAubre, she writes on the topic of sports management degree programs . She welcomes your comments at her email id: sandra1.mcaubre@gmail.com. It’s no secret that litigation is rife in the US of A – we sue each other for even the most trivial of issues. That’s [...]
Three Cheers to Peter Rabinov!
Rabinov, an attorney based in Los Angeles, has written a good summary on managing contract (review) attorneys. The article came out earlier today on Law Technology News. Here’s a sample: Treat contract professionals with respect: Don’t treat your contract lawyers like second-class citizens; if you do, you will pay a steep price. If you’ve hired [...]
Irish e-Discovery Rules Evolving
From Sharon Daly of the Irish law firm, Matheson Ormsby Prentice: [Note: Registration required to view entire article] The process of discovery has entirely changed in the last ten years, in an era where electronic documents are now the norm. In addition, the ease with which such documentation can be shared with others irrespective of [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 7.25.10
Scott Zebrak of the RIAA offers his perspective on Viacom v. YouTube. I guess the Pentagon no longer thinks social media is such a waste of time. “We have a tremendous group of contract attorneys who are extremely vigilant (careful) in spending the city’s money.” Now there is a statement you don’t hear every day [...]
In a Reversal, Goldman Sachs Settles
That was fast. From WaPo: Stocks had a late-day turnaround and closed mixed Thursday as traders awaited news that Goldman Sachs settled the government’s civil fraud charges. As word spread that the Securities and Exchange Commission had scheduled a late-afternoon announcement, investors began buying on the belief that the government and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. [...]
FTC and DoJ mulling who gets to dig into Google’s ITA buyout
From ARS Technica: Surprise, surprise! Google’s purchase of travel services company ITA is almost certain to come under scrutiny by the government, as soon as the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice can decide which body gets to do the dirty work. According to an insider speaking to the New York Times, [...]
Are Contract Attorneys Making A Comeback?
Here’s an interesting article on the rise of contract attorneys from Gina Passarella of the Legal Intelligencer. I find it a little funny how one consultant in the states there has been a “huge upswing” in the contract attorney market. I wonder why that is (sarcasm)? In an era when cost predictability reigns supreme, corporate [...]
e-Discovery for the majority
From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: I always liked John Stuart Mill’s utilitarian views on justice to provide the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, within reason. I propose Utilitarian e-Discovery. All the vendors in the litigation support profession produce many fine products and solutions for large scale e-Discovery services. I have a challenge [...]
Um, Gabe, Where Have You Been?
I have been in HELL! Utter Hell! No seriously, I am have been working on other endeavors, but I promise to pick this blog back up. Anyway, here is my latest post on Above The Law about the Posse List. For other ATL posts by me, click here.
From One Cartoon to Another
Love this Quixotic privacy rights campaign cartoon from Monique Altheim of eDiscovery Map.
Case in Point 5.31.10
Sorry I haven’t been updating this blog recently. I had a few other things I have been working on. I will be back in fulll force tomorrow. Here is the “Case in Point” for this week from the good folks over at CaseCentral.
DoJ making preliminary inquiries into Apple’s music endeavors
Apparently the DOJ wants to make sure that you can get your Justin Bieber fix somewhere other than iTunes on New Music Tuesday. Not too much detail out there on this one, but we’re keeping our collective ear to the ground. There has to be more to this than just exclusivity in debuting new songs, [...]
Manual collections under fire
This is pretty disturbing to me. It has the potential to cause serious problems for small and medium sized businesses who can’t afford (and frankly don’t even need) the latest and greatest collection software/hardware. From e-Discovery 2.0: Jason Baron was a keynote speaker at a recent electronic discovery summit and he mentioned an electronic data [...]
Who in the what now?
Will any one of you admit to owning/having played this game? It strikes me as so odd that it seems impossible that it could be successful. To the litigation cave! From Gizmodo: The Phoenix Wright franchise deserves a lot of credit for sticking to one of the least appealing-sounding concepts in game history. So anyway, here [...]
Lazy Sunday Links, 5.23.10
ABA’s 4thAnnual National Institute on E-Discovery is coming up in 4 days. Here is a good post from Francois Senecal of Ledjit entitled “Dragging one’s feet on e-discovery: Walking on a thin line.” MySpace and Facebook may be in danger of losing a few “friends.” Speaking of social media, the Fed Judiciary is now on [...]
Shut The F Up Matt Lauer
Don’t get me wrong, I like Matt Lauer. I think he does a great job on the Today Show. However, I woke up this morning in cold sweats with Matt Lauer speculating over whether the market was heading into a “double dip” recession. I just finished writing on Above The Law about how we were [...]
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Happy Friday. From The Onion: While millions of young, tech-savvy professionals already use services like Facebook and Twitter to keep in constant touch with friends, a new social networking platform called Foursquare has recently taken the oh, fucking hell, can’t some other desperate news outlet cover this crap instead?” Foursquare is [...]
Lawyers Should Be Weary of Spacebooking on MyFace
Here’s a good article entitled “Where Were You During the Social Media Boom?” by Greg Spizer in The Legal Intelligencer. Statistics show that social media are booming. Facebook’s website indicates that it has 400 million active users; MySpace’s online press report from earlier this year says it has 100 million active users (this number has [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 5.16.10
On the legal process outsourcing front, Integreon signs a record deal with CMS Cameron McKenna, and Pangea3 opens up an office in London. Wendy Akbar blogs about Wisconsin. What happens when you mix oil and water? How about a pile of lawsuits and e-discovery issues. The EDRM turns six. kCura officially loves iDiscover Global. Lastly, [...]
Cooperation about cooperation breeds cooperation
From Law.com: The results of the first phase of a closely watched federal court pilot program on electronic discovery show that having a set of fair-play rules at the outset of a case helps quell pretrial brawls between parties. The goal of the program, launched in May 2009 and spearheaded by James Holderman, chief judge of the [...]
Best Practices for Compliance with Rule 26(f) Meet & Confer Requirements
Upcoming webinar on 5/19, info at Bow Tie Law’s Blog – The Court finds the parties could have avoided the expenses of this Motion by conferring appropriately early in the case about ESI. United States Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. LaSalle Bank Nat’l Ass’n, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70514 (S.D. Ohio [...]
e-Discovery News You Can Use
Three articles have come out this week that I really like. The first was posted yesterday from Zuzana Ikels, partner at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, entitled When E-Discovery Is Used as a Weapon. It’s about the dangers in using e-discovery tactics in order to find ways to break attorney-client privilege with your opponent. Ikels [...]
Featured e-Discovery Blog: The Electronic Discovery Blog
Clever name, right? Actually, Larry Wescott, tech lawyer and Sedona Conference member, is one of the pioneer bloggers of the e-discovery industry. His blog, in fact, made it into the the ABA’s first Top 100 Blawg list. Larry posts roughly once a week on relevant e-discovery matters. An example of his last post is after [...]