The competing offers for NYSE Euronext: the principal law firms
8 April 2011 — We have received a mountain of emails asking about the competing NYSE Euronext deals so we thought we’d provide a summary. Deutsche Boerse made the first offer. Under that
Continue readingThe proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom: initial thoughts
Reported by: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. (with special thanks to Johann Jurgens who is a telecom analyst for a hedge fund and is an advisor to The Posse List on the telecom industry) 21 March 2011
Continue readingNEW POST: Thoughts on that NY Times article on e-discovery – “It’s the technology, and it’s a game changer”
7 March 2011 — In case you missed it over the weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software” which discussed the “new
Continue readingApril 4th from the D.C. Bar – “Demystifying Social Media Seminar-What Every Lawyer Should Know”
Lawyers and law firms face both opportunities and risks when using the multitude of social media tools now available. On April 4, 2011, the Practice Management Service Committee in cosponsorship with
Continue readingMarch 3rd in Richmond, VA: Symposium – “Electronic Discovery in a World of Cloud Computing, Data Hoarding, and Social Networking”
On Thursday, March 3, from 1-5pm, the University of Richmond Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT) will host a symposium, “Electronic Discovery in a World of Cloud Computing, Data Hoarding, and Social
Continue readingLEGALTECH NY 2011: optimism, war crimes + e-discovery, IBM, on-line e-discovery education, predictive coding … and “real” information management
Reported by Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. and Eric Fell, Esq. 18 February 2011 — It’s been two weeks since LegalTech New York and it’s taken that long to digest most of the information we collected.
Continue readingRelieving student loan debt: the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
26 January 2011 – We have posted a number of stories on the student debt issue which you can read by clicking here. Bill McDonald who writes the L4L blog has also been running a series titled
Continue readingConnecticut Bill Would Regulate Offshoring Document Review
19 January 2011 – A Connecticut state legislator is concerned that the outsourcing of legal work has taken jobs away from recent law school grads and introduced a bill to address the “doc
Continue readingCOMING IN 2011 FROM THE POSSE LIST: e-discovery law training via Ralph Losey
5 January 2011 – Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools. No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done
Continue readingA Happy New Year to All : some closing thoughts
We grew to 26,000+ members in 2010. When we started The Posse List in 2002 our base was contract attorneys, the lawyers who work on document review and production — the “right side” of the EDRM.
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