Document Review
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Boutique Law Firms, Contract Attorneys, Small Law Firms, Technology, Williams & Connolly
Could Hardinger & Tanenholz Represent the Future of E-Discovery in Biglaw?
Earlier this week, I had the chance to sit down with David Tanenholz, one of the co-founders and partners at Hardinger & Tanenholz LLP (H&T), which is one of the few firms — if not the first — to promote itself solely as “discovery counsel.” And with their experience as Biglaw alumni, the two founders […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Technology
The Rundown: This Week in Legal Technology – 11.19.10
This week — in between tweeting some really funny stuff (such as how I want to blow up airports — it was so funny!), buying up every last can of Four Loko that I could get my hands on, and forwarding Skadden employee evaluations to all of my friends — I spent the rest of […] - Sponsored
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Conferences / Symposia, Contract Attorneys, Technology
The Rundown: This Week in Legal Technology – 11.06.10
What a wild week in Washington! In the aftermath of hundreds of thousands of people rallying for sanity, the Republicans trounced the Democrats in the House. As for me, when I wasn’t cleaning the millions of dollars I had stuffed in my closet to hide from the IRS or arguing with my therapist about how […]
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Document Review, Technology
The Rundown: This Week in Legal Technology – 10.28.10
This week, after boring myself to death listening to Lillian McEwen discuss Clarence Thomas’s “activities” on Larry King, I knocked back a couple cans of Four Loko to ease the pain and got right to work on this week’s Rundown. Lots of free stuff available after the jump, including a free e-book on legal productivity, […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Technology
The Rundown: This Week in Legal Technology - 10.01.10
Welcome to the latest installment of The Rundown, a review of recent developments in the world of legal technology. Let’s plunge right in. * Happy Birthday to Clio, a legal technology company that helps to streamline law offices. Clio is officially two years old, which is like twenty years in Biglaw. * I pick up […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Technology
The Rundown: The Week in Legal Technology - 9.16.10
The world of legal technology was quite busy this week. After culling through countless articles, press releases, and blog posts, I selected the stellar few, the finest gems, and most importantly, the ones I like, to share with the Above The Law faithful. I do it so you don’t have to. With that said, here […] -
Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Technology
Legal Technology Company Takes New Approach to Hiring Contract Attorneys
Fear not, unemployed attorneys of New York City! The recession is over! Work has arrived! No more breadlines for you, Roxana! A couple days ago, a colleague forwarded the following email to me. Names have either been changed or redacted to protect the not-so innocent. To: [Redacted] Subject: Document Review Project – Immediate Need We […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Gay, Lesbians, Technology
Electronic Discovery: An Overview
Just because it’s Saturday doesn’t mean you can escape document review — or at least talking about document review. A liveblog of the Lavender Law panel on e-discovery, after the jump. - Sponsored
Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50… -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: A Look Inside the Life of a Kirkland & Ellis Contract Attorney
We call it Skaddenfreude: taking pleasure in the misfortune of others who work at large law firms. Today’s tale of Skaddenfreude involves a contract attorney working a project in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis. Let’s kick it off with a picture…. -
Alston & Bird, Document Review, Email Scandals, Technology
Dude, You're Getting A Dell... Runaround?
Discovery disputes, like a certain other thing, happen. But it’s not often that these happenings make the pages of the New York Times. An article on the front page of the business section reports: Dell has been accused of withholding evidence, including e-mails among its top executives, in a lawsuit over faulty computers it sold […] -
Contract Attorneys, Document Review, India, Outsourcing, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Could Technology Turn The Tide Against Legal Outsourcing Overseas?
“Believe me, kiddos, this is bad news for all of us.” As many websites and blogs (including ATL) mentioned last week, The New York Times published an article by Heather Timmons entitled “Outsourcing to India Draws Western Lawyers.” The quote above was from the blog Shilling Me Softly giving its take on the article. As […] -
Biglaw, Document Review, India, Job Searches, Outsourcing
Outsourcing: Here Come the Expats
Well, it was only a matter of time before the lawyers started to go where the work is. And, if you’ve been paying attention, you know that the work is in India. Western-trained lawyers are heading to India, to manage the country’s burgeoning legal outsourcing resources. From the New York Times (gavel bang: WSJ Law […] -
Contract Attorneys, Document Review
First, They Came For The Key Fobs, And We Said Nothing: Three Stories From Ill-Fated Contract Attorneys
“Hey Mike, we’re having issues with your key fob. We need to reconfigure it.” That may seem like a pretty random quote with which to begin a blog post, but trust me, it will soon make sense. There has been a lot of chatter recently about contract attorneys and Biglaw. Some are finding themselves getting […]
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work.
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
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Contract Attorneys, Document Review, In-House Counsel
The Rise of the Contract Attorney
The recession has forced Biglaw firms to lay off some of the best and the brightest in the legal field. Many of these Biglaw refugees have wound up seeking out contract work (despite the long-term risks), and that means the pool of contract attorneys is mighty pretty right now. In-house legal departments have noticed and […] -
Document Review, No Offers, Start Dates
McDermott Will & Emery Converts Three Offers to Discovery Attorneys
In a couple of months, the class of 2012 will embark on its quest to find an elusive Biglaw summer associate gig. But let’s not forget that many in the class of 2009 are still sitting on the sidelines, waiting to start. Most of McDermott Will & Emery’s 2009 class has started already. But last […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Pepper Hamilton
All Play and No Work Made Lance a Disbarred Boy
Lance David Lewis had one of the best jobs in the world. He was getting paid a couple grand a week, and he didn’t have to do any work for it. Too bad it wasn’t legit. Early last month, the former Pennsylvania lawyer was finally disbarred with consent (meaning that he can’t defend the charges against him). […] -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys
So Just How Much Does It Suck To Be a Temp Attorney?
That’s the question that Arin Greenwood — who previously brought us this great article, as you may recall — tackles in a long but interesting piece for the Washington City Paper, entitled Attorney at Blah. Greenwood writes: For more and more law school graduates, this is the legal life: On a given day, they may […]