Document Review
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Contract Attorneys, Document Review
The Top 4 Lies Of Document Review
Document review supervisors and the incredible lies they tell. -
Contract Attorneys, Craigslist, Document Review
Document Reviewer Gets Angry At Staffing Agency -- Hilarity Ensues
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Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review
The Not-So-Surprising Reason Associates Treat Contract Attorneys Poorly
Biglaw associates have less experience and sometimes less impressive educational credentials than the contractors on a case and they still feel pressured to treat the contractors like morons.
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Benchslaps, Document Review, Federal Government, Federal Judges
Benchslap Of The Day: Just. Produce. The Documents!
Is this benchslap of the federal government unjustified? -
Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Holidays and Seasons, Romance and Dating, Sex
Finding Love In A Hopeless Place: Document Review
Who knew document review could be such a hotbed of intrigue? -
Conferences / Symposia, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Technology
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Doc Review
No job is perfect, but here is how to make the best out of a crappy job. -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Email Scandals
Document Review Attorney Was Fired. What Happens Next Will Amaze You.
Firm-wide emails railing against the associate who got you fired are infinitely entertaining. -
Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Biglaw, Partner Issues
From Across the Desk: See Talent. Kill It.
Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith Esq. explores three habits of highly effective demotivators -- recognize anyone you know? - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Blank Rome, Contract Attorneys, Crime, Deaths, Document Review, Federal Judges, Gay Marriage, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Romance and Dating, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, State Judges, Supreme Court, Texas, Violence, You Go Girl
Morning Docket: 12.30.13
* Exciting news: Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be leading the countdown on the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square. She’ll be the first SCOTUS justice to perform the task. You go girl! [New York Times]
* Blank Rome and Nixon Peabody are reportedly in merger talks, but one firm’s managing partner says he “talk[s] to firms all the time,” it’s no big deal. No word on what guys from his high school do. [Reuters]
* Sorry, Quinn Emanuel, but this limited discovery thing is going to happen. Judge Ronnie Abrams recently slapped down the firm’s attempt to appeal her MTD denial in this contract attorney’s suit. [Am Law Daily]
* A state court judge from Texas stands accused of strangling his girlfriend over the balcony of his apartment and threatening to “f**king kill [her].” Romance in Texas has certainly got some of that je ne sais quoi. [Dallas Morning News]
* A legal soap opera? An ex-prosecutor whose relationship with a judge landed her lover in hot water was found dead in her home hours after a judicial misconduct ruling came down. R.I.P. [Reno Gazette-Journal]
* Take a look back at the legal profession’s year that was: from the highest of highs in gay marriages to the lowest of lows in law school enrollment, 2013 was a year for the record books. [National Law Journal]
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Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Gender, Labor / Employment, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Murder, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Paul Clement, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 12.12.13
* “This should be a red flag for everyone in legal education and the law firm world.” According to NALP, the percentage of women associates has dropped for the fourth consecutive year. That’s just lovely. [National Law Journal]
* Next summer, the co-CEOs of Hogan Lovells from legacy firms Hogan & Hartson and Lovells will make way for a single CEO structure. If approved by vote, Stephen Immelt will be in charge. Congratulations! [Am Law Daily]
* And the peasants rejoiced, for one of the FLSA overtime suits filed by a document review attorney has survived a motion to dismiss. Quinn Emanuel must have been genuinely shocked by this judge’s ruling. [Am Law Daily]
* “One thing we understand is law and economics.” Yet another law school finally, finally gets it. George Mason University School of Law has agreed to freeze its tuition — for the time being. We may have more on this development later today. [InTheCapital]
* George Huguely V, the UVA LAX bro convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, has got one hell of a lawyer. Paul Clement is arguing his client’s right to counsel was violated at trial. [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
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BuckleySandler, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Pro Se Litigants, Staff Attorneys / Discovery Attorneys
Which Law Firm Is Getting Sued By A Contract Attorney Now?
A contract attorney sues a law firm, alleging everyone was out to get him. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Banking Law, Biglaw, China, Contract Attorneys, Crime, Document Review, Job Searches, Law Schools, Lawyerly Lairs, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Public Interest, Real Estate, Sex Scandals, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 12.10.13
* Stan Stallworth, the Sidley partner accused of sexual assault, has hired a prominent criminal defense attorney to represent him in the case while the firm stands by its man. [Am Law Daily]
* Wall Street regulators are considering approval of a formidable version of the Volcker Rule that would ban banks from proprietary trading. Voting occurs later today. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Skadden Arps has asked a judge to toss an FLSA lawsuit filed against the firm by one of its document reviewers. Aww, silly contract attorney — there’s no way you’re getting overtime pay. [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* Weil Gotshal is still leaking like a sieve. This time, Bruce Colbath, a partner from the firm’s New York office, defected to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation practice group at Sheppard Mullin. [Market Wired]
* Lawyerly Lairs, China Edition: Raymond Li, chair of the Greater China practice at Paul Hastings, just purchased a townhouse for about $95 million. He paid for it in straight cash, homie. [Wall Street Journal]
* They’re extremely tardy to the party, but if the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar gets its way, law schools will be subject to random audits of their employment stats. [ABA Journal]
* It’s a tough job that “can really beat you down,” but an organization called Gideon’s Promise just made it a whole lot easier for law students to secure jobs as public defenders in the South. [National Law Journal]
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Contract Attorneys, Document Review
7 Tips For New Contract Attorneys
If you find yourself about to take the plunge as a contract attorney, this is a helpful guide. If you're already a contract attorney, go ahead and read this and if you never knew any of these tips, then you're the one screwing up the job for everyone else, and this is your chance to set things right. -
Cheapness, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Technology
7 Signs You've Been Doing Document Review Too Long
If you're interested in the life of a contract attorney, this sums up the psychological toll the job takes. -
Contract Attorneys, Job Searches, Law Schools
This Law School Is Finally Being Honest About Job Prospects
Which law school has created a matchmaking service to place recent grads in contract attorney jobs? -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Document Review, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, LSAT, Magic Circle, Morning Docket, Sex, Sex Scandals, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Morning Docket: 11.01.13
* The Magic Circle isn’t very magical across the pond in New York City. Four out of five firms from the U.K. — Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters — have yet to pull rabbits out of their
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Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Labor / Employment, Quote of the Day
Document Review Is Apparently Only For The Most Superior Of Legal Minds, Says Quinn Emanuel
Do contract attorneys have legal expertise or are they mindless document monkeys? You be the judge. -
Biglaw, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, In-House Counsel
The Brave New World of Electronic Discovery
Now that I am in-house, I would have a conniption fit if a firm tried to staff a slew of expensive associates on what is essentially monkey work. -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Craigslist, Depositions, Document Review
5 Threats Contract Attorneys Pose For Biglaw Associates
Contract attorneys are doing more than just doc review these days, and it's starting to encroach on traditional associate work.