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Contracts, Document Review, Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms, Technology, Trials
Prominent Plaintiffs' Attorneys Ordered to Pay Up After Losing Breach of Contract Trial
Last week, more than a dozen high-profile mass torts attorneys lost a San Francisco jury trial against a small technology company. The jury decided the attorneys had illegally breached a document review contract during the high-profile Chinese drywall class-action litigation. Tempers are still running hot, and we've got more from both sides of the dispute…. - Sponsored
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Bad Ideas, Document Review, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Many Corporate Boards Are Pretty Much Waiting to Get Hacked, Report Says
At this point, the lengths companies go to in order to protect data, keep it secure, and prepare for e-discovery is old news. Data breaches — and the news coverage that usually follows — have frightened many companies into at least attempting to ratchet up data security policies. Likewise with retention practices. There have been […]
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Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Patents, Qualcomm, Technology
Dispatch from Amelia Island: When Clients Attack
Adam Bier was still a self-described "baby lawyer" when he was wrongfully sanctioned in the landmark 2008 Qualcomm e-discovery case. The appealed sanctions were finally vacated, more than two years after they were first imposed. Bier shared his story with attendees at the Legal Technology Leadership Summit, joined onstage by U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse and Frank Cialone, who defended several of the outside counsel in Qualcomm. Read on to learn the details of Bier's nightmare experience. Can you imagine yourself in his shoes? -
Biglaw, Document Review, In-House Counsel, Technology
Inside Straight: Why Vendors Win The Document Review Work
Document review, which was historically an important profit center for large law firms, has moved permanently into the hands of third-party vendors. That sea change was not prompted by the recession, and things are not going to return to the old "normal" after the economy recovers. But why? -
Document Review, Malpractice, Screw-Ups, Technology
McDermott Will & Emery Wins E-discovery Blunder of the Week
A wise man once said: “There, but for the grace of God, go I.” I think of this whenever there are claims of attorneys royally screwing up e-discovery. It’s easy to indulge in some schadenfreude and say, “What suckers!” But truthfully, many firms — even the big, prestigious ones — are more vulnerable than they’d […] -
Document Review, Non-Sequiturs, Paul Clement, Summer Associates
Non-Sequiturs: 06.16.11
* “I doubt this is constitutional, but let’s just do it.” Sounds like business as usual down in the Senate as to plans to extend the FBI Director’s term. [Blog of Legal Times] * Are we really still talking about desegregating schools in Arkansas? I can’t even believe that this is a serious proposition. [WSJ […] -
Billable Hours, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Job Searches, Money, Wall Street Journal
How Can a Lawyer 'Settle' for the Only Job He Can Get?
I’ve always wondered what kind of salary contract lawyers make these days. Okay, not really, I kind of already know, because a lot of my friends are contract lawyers. But for those of you who aren’t familiar with the wonderful world of contract lawyering, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting article yesterday, by Vanessa […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Biglaw, Document Review, In-House Counsel, Masturbation, Solo Practitioners
Dancing The Pole
Ed. note: This post is by Will Meyerhofer, a former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney turned psychotherapist. He holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, and he blogs at The People’s Therapist. His new book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy, is available on Amazon (affiliate link). My […] -
Document Review, Intellectual Property, Patents, Technology
Predictive Coding Patented, E-Discovery World Gets Jealous
The normally tepid e-discovery world felt a little extra heat of competition yesterday. Recommind, one of the larger e-discovery vendors, announced Wednesday that it was issued a patent on predictive coding (which Gabe Acevedo, writing in these pages, named the Big Legal Technology Buzzword of 2011). In a nutshell, predictive coding is a relatively new […] -
Biglaw, Document Review, Federal Judges, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Litigators
Inside Straight: Clawback Agreements -- An Oft-Missed Trick
I recently heard a panel of judges speak about e-discovery issues. Their opinions on several subjects varied, but on one subject they agreed unanimously: Clawback provisions under Federal Rule of Evidence 502 are valuable tools in most significant litigation, but they remain rarely used. This piqued my interest, so I asked several in-house litigators (not […] -
Bad Ideas, Benchslaps, Document Review, Federal Judges, Screw-Ups, Technology
D.C. Lawyers Screw Up E-discovery So Badly, It’s 'Literally Unheard Of'
If you read a lot of e-discovery articles — and I know y’all do — you know that judges are quickly losing any patience for attorneys who don’t have their act together during e-discovery (or even regular old discovery). I know that nothing about the process is simple or easy. I know e-discovery is expensive […] -
10th Circuit, Benchslaps, Document Review, Federal Judges, Neil Gorsuch
Biglaw Litigators, Rejoice! A Circuit Court Opinion on a Discovery Dispute
Litigators at large law firms spend an inordinate (and depressing) amount of time on discovery disputes. They bombard poor magistrate judges with motions to compel. They bicker over deposition timing and location. They compile massive privilege logs. They file letter briefs with the court, explaining their entitlement to certain documents that opposing counsel is withholding, […]
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9th Circuit, Document Review, Gender, Labor / Employment, SCOTUS, Technology, Wal-Mart, Women's Issues
Dukes Proving To Be a Hazard to Wal-Mart
In 1995, Betty Dukes took a job at a Wal-Mart near San Francisco, working as a cashier and greeter for $5 an hour. A “greeter” represents the face of the company as consumers walk through the door. Little did Dukes and Wal-Mart know that Dukes would ultimately become a face of Wal-Mart nationally, under much different circumstances. Today, […] -
7th Circuit, Document Review, Federalist Society, Gay, Gay Marriage, Non-Sequiturs, Richard Posner, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
Non-Sequiturs: 03.07.11
* The Supreme Court opens the door, but just a crack, to prisoners seeking access to DNA evidence. [SCOTUSblog] * The legal job market is getting better, right? Right? [Vault] * Hall, J., dissenting — from the grave. [How Appealing] * Harvard Law School is always ready for its close-up: first The Paper Chase, then […] -
Document Review, Technology
The Next Big 'Buzz Words' in Legal Technology
From “concept searching” to “cloud computing,” every year there are new buzz words and catch phrases that enter into the lexicon of legal technology. Of course, when you are dealing with technology of any sort, you should expect to update jargon regularly (such as from 3G to 4G to 5G, whatever that means). 2011 is […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Technology
Fear and Loathing in LegalTech
Daniel de Juan, a sales engineer from Mitratech, summed up perfectly what LegalTech was like for me this year: “Being at LegalTech is almost like being at a casino, in the sense that you lose all track of time.” Two years ago, I found the conference to be pretty intimidating, and that was when the […] -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Job Searches, Law Schools, Outsourcing, Student Loans
Law Graduates: Welcome to Your 'Barely Legal' Future
I know lots of guys fantasize about boinking “barely legal” teenage girls. Not me, I like women: fully formed, adult women. There’s just something unseemly about older men salivating over girls who could have been in high school a year ago. Call me crazy, but it’s just more interesting as an adult to be intimate […] -
Ann Israel, Biglaw, Document Review, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Uh, We Didn't Learn About the 'Real World' at Yale
There are plenty of attorneys in the major city offices who are not putting in enough hours and would love to be doing doc review versus the threat of being asked to look for another job. Wake up to what is happening out there in the real world! — Ann Israel, in her advice column […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
The Rundown: This Week in Legal Technology – 12.09.10
This week, when I wasn’t thinking about how to crack down on lunch thieves and trying to recoup the money I paid former Judge Porteous over the last few years (which put me in a bit of a financial bind, but I’ll be fine because I’m on the short list for a job at Skadden’s […]