As contract attorneys find e-discovery becoming more sophisticated (and more complex) we find we are fielding more and more questions about it. We usually refer our members to the best sources we know:
Continue readingFrom: The Recorder, January 6, 2009 A “clerical error” could cost Bank of America and Citibank $51 million if Heller Ehrman has its way in bankruptcy court. Bank of America, acting for itself
Continue readingFrom: The Recorder, January 5, 2009 Big tech companies haven’t stopped patenting their inventions, but more than ever they’re also buying others’ patents as a weapon in intellectual property
Continue readingBankruptcy litigation news seems to dominate the legal media in the early days of 2009. The Madoff case involves clawback issues, false trades, etc. For some good background stories click here, and
Continue readingWe made a pledge to ourselves that we would not end the year in a depressed state of mind. But it has been hard. We have ended the year in what seems to us to be a concatenation of events — a
Continue readingFrom: The American Lawyer The Economic Times of India reports that Clifford Chance is in tie-up talks with Indian firm AZB & Partners — a union that would involve client referrals, consultation,
Continue readingThere has been a spate of blog posts this week concerning the aspects of electronic discovery when U.S. litigation crosses borders into the European Union — an entity with strong privacy laws. The
Continue readingFrom: Bloomberg, December 22, 2008 Chip companies are turning to armies of patent lawyers to bolster revenue amid the worst market for semiconductors since 2001. Qimonda AG, LSI Corp and Spansion Inc. are
Continue readingFrom: Corporate Counsel, December 22, 2008 Martin Shively directs the worldwide IP operations of Microsoft Corp. But he doesn’t commute to the company’s campus in Redmond, Wash., every day.
Continue readingIt seems as if the plaintiffs’ lawyers have kicked it into high gear as the year end approaches. There has been a flood of new securities lawsuit filings so far in December. Posse List members
Continue reading