Document Review
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Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Layoffs, Notes from the Breadline
Notes from the Breadline: Comes A Time (Part II)
Ed. note: Welcome to the latest installment of “Notes from the Breadline,” a column by a laid-off lawyer in New York. Prior columns are collected here. You can reach Roxana St. Thomas by email (at roxanastthomas@gmail.com), follow her on Twitter, or find her on Facebook. This column is a continuation of last week’s column, which […] -
Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Job Searches, Outsourcing
Contract Attorneys: Good Work If You Have No Other Option
Back in the golden days of Biglaw (in the before times, in the long, long ago), associates were fired all the time. Getting laid off for poor performance or low hours is nothing new. Of course, back when we had a functional American economy, getting fired was a temporary bump in the road. You could […] - Sponsored
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Contract Attorneys, Document Review
Work Slowdown at Sullivan & Cromwell?
While the world waits for S&C’s bonus memo, here’s some interesting news from a person with a ground-level view at Sullivan & Cromwell: a contract attorney. The blog Temporary Attorney has a post up about how the other half is living at S&C. An excerpt: The economy is bad, so that means that down here […]
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Attorney Misconduct, Benchslaps, Document Review, Lawyer of the Day, Legal Ethics, Qualcomm, Screw-Ups
Lawyers of the Day: An Embarrassment of Riches
Or a richness of embarrassment. Today we’re going to name not one, but seven Lawyers of the Day. Our first Lawyer of the Day is Mark Mersel (formerly of Morrison & Foerster, now at Bryan Cave). In case you missed the shout-out in Morning Docket, here’s a bit more, from the WSJ Law Blog: It’s […] -
Associate Salaries, Contract Attorneys, Document Review
McDermott to Create "Second Tier" of Associates
McDermott, Will & Emery has come up with a more creative way to deal with soaring associate salaries. The firm has announced that it will be creating a “second tier” of associates to deal solely with low-level tasks like, e.g., document review. As Cal Law points out, hiring cheaper lawyers to do this type of […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Document Review, Email Scandals, Heller Ehrman, Lawyer of the Day, Layoffs, Legal Ethics, Qualcomm, Screw-Ups
Lawyers of the Day: The Qualcomm Gang of 19
Tomorrow is a very big day for almost 20 California lawyers. From Blogonaut: A federal district court has ordered 14 California lawyers to explain why they should not be sanctioned for their “exceptional misconduct” on behalf of Qualcomm in a lawsuit that the San Diego wireless company lost. All of the lawyers subject to the […] -
Antitrust, Department of Justice, Document Review, Federal Government, FTC, Screw-Ups
Help Wanted: Can You Do A Competent Document Production?
If so, then Uncle Sam wants you. The feds need your valuable skills — badly. First the Department of Justice produces original documents, instead of copy sets, to Congress. And now, the AP reports on a screw-up by the FTC: Lawyers for the FTC electronically filed documents as part of [its] court case [challenging the […] -
Alberto Gonzales, Chuck Schumer, Department of Justice, Document Review, House Judiciary Committee, Politics, Screw-Ups, Senate Judiciary Committee
Earth to DOJ: Document Production Isn't That Hard
We’ve been doing a lot of Biglaw coverage lately. But since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is being raked over the coals as we type, in an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, let’s take a timely detour into the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ isn’t looking terribly competent right now. And this latest story […] - Sponsored
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Blogging, Breasts, Celebrities, Copyright, Document Review, Intellectual Property, Jennifer Aniston, Movies, Pictures
Are Jennifer Aniston's Breasts in Your Privilege Log?
More legal troubles for controversial celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavandeira. The latest lawsuit against him, filed by Universal City Studios, asserts copyright infringement, arising out of Lavandeira’s publication of a topless photograph of Jennifer Aniston (taken from allegedly stolen footage from “The Break-Up”). The complaint is fairly straightforward. The most amusing part […] -
Boring Stuff, Document Review, Due Diligence, India, Magic Circle, Outsourcing
In the Future, All Document Review Will Be Done By Dell Customer Support Reps
Not sure how we feel about this development: For years, outsourcing has been a dirty word inside the world of white-shoe law firms…. A number of large law firms, though, are starting to tiptoe onto far-flung shores. The latest is Clifford Chance, one of the largest law firms in the world with 29 offices in […]
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