Biglaw, Document Review, Email Scandals, Goldman Sachs, Screw-Ups, Technology

Which Biglaw Firm Accidentally Released Embarrassing, Unredacted Documents About Goldman Sachs?

A Biglaw firm accidentally released an unredacted version of documents it had previously spent lots of time and money intentionally trying to keep sealed. Oops!

Document Review, Email Scandals, Media and Journalism

Judge’s Turn To Hate On News Of The World

It might have seemed impossible, but things have gotten worse for those involved in the News of the World phone hacking scandal. In addition to all the other evidence against the now defunct newspaper, which was run by James Murdoch, the son of everyone’s favorite terrifying Australian media baron, new email evidence — that investigators […]

Crime, Divorce Train Wrecks, Document Review, iPhone, Technology

This Might Be the Most Tumultuous Divorce of All Time

For a long time, I have been a staunch advocate of putting passwords on all electronic devices — laptops, phones, tablets, etc. There’s no reason to leave your private life or sensitive business data accessible to any schmo who might have access to your phone, just because you’re too lazy to spend three seconds typing […]

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….

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?