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The Rise of the Litigation Support Professional
There has been much discussion recently about the emerging litigation support profession. The profession has evolved over the last 10 years right along with the growth of electronic discovery. Estimates
Continue readingOrrick Herrington, McDermott Will and others beef up staff attorney positions
Orrick Herrington dumped lockstep associate promotion on Wednesday and began assigning associates to one of three tiers within its partner track. The Orrick move comes as all BigLaw firms face immense
Continue readingTrends in the contract attorney market – Part 3: how to raise your profile, “brand” yourself, market yourself, and how to get published
In Part 1 of our Trends series (click here) we provided some brief observations on trends we see in the contract attorney market and e-discovery market based on our conversations and meetings over the
Continue readingTrends in the contract attorney market – Part 2: going solo/freelancing, and building a website/blog
In Part 1 of our Trends series (click here) we provided some brief observations on trends we see in the contract attorney market and e-discovery market based on our conversations and meetings over
Continue readingTrends in the contract attorney market – Part 1, An Overview
We spent the last 3 weeks in Chicago, D.C., LA and NYC. We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments
Continue readingSan Francisco’s Legal Business Doing Better Than Most Cities’
San Francisco’s legal business is holding up against the recession a lot better than other major cities’, according to first-quarter data collected from about 100 large firms by Hildebrandt
Continue readingThe contract attorney market: status, trends and outlook-Part 1
The paradigm-shift Almost 7,000 lawyers have been laid off in the first two months of this year. And all are not yet accounted for. In today’s New York Times Adam Cohn dissects the paradigm-shifting
Continue readingThe ripple effect from law downsizing
Law firms are cutting down on everything from technology and outside marketing assistance to recruiters and consultants, experts say. When not outright eliminating those costs, firms are looking to renegotiate
Continue readingLayoff tracker
For those of you who are following/want to follow the carnage at BigLaw the blogger “Above the Law” has linked up with “Lawschucks” to provide a “layoff tracker”. See
Continue readingBigLaw continues to bleed, law schools in trouble, news on the stimulus package and the NAFLP has a Web 2.0 teleclass for you
A mixed collection of articles of interest: Brutal Week May Not Be the End of Law Firm Layoffs By the close of business on Friday the 13th, more than 1,100 lawyers and staff in the U.S. had been fired
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