March 26th (Morning brief): the greatest client memo … ever, lawyers continue to screw up e-discovery, and the job market in India stinks
The greatest client memo … ever The Am Law Daily encourages you to go to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s client memo Web page right now to see if the single most bizarre memo we’ve
Continue readingMarch 25th (Morning briefs): a recruiter loses a fee, reducing the costs of privilege reviews, when e-discovery vendors fail, and Simpson Thacher runs the bailout
Appeals Court Rejects Recruiter’s Suit Seeking Fee From Law Firm A legal recruiter cannot collect a fee of nearly $730,000 from Philadelphia-based
Continue readingSkadden Partners Jump on the Start-Up Law Firm Bandwagon: More cracks in the BigLaw biz model?
Two Skadden partners, Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, announced to the firm’s associates that they’re jumping ship to form their own law firm, BuckleySandler. Sandler assured
Continue readingWant to wait out the recession? Hide in law school
The job market for lawyers, hit hard by the recession, seems to reach new lows every day. But that has not done much to discourage the thousands who are lining up to become the next generation of attorneys. In
Continue readingNassau County Seeks Volunteer Lawyers
The Office of the Nassau County Attorney has launched a program where lawyers can volunteer in one of the county’s litigation bureaus. According to Martha Krisel, chief deputy county attorney
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 readingDC Bar Litigation Section opens new E-Discovery Committee
District of Columbia Bar Litigation Section New E-Discovery Committee The Litigation Section is pleased to announce the formation of an E-Discovery Committee open to all Litigation Section Members.
Continue readingSo all these laid-off lawyers are going to … D.C.?
According to an article on today’s law.com site, as laid-off lawyers are scrambling for jobs many are considering other practice areas, other locations, in-house jobs and jobs with smaller firms.
Continue readingMarch 12th: Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles
This week’s “Top 10″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies: 1. Search May Not Mean Search – http://tinyurl.com/akb5fl 2. Considering ESI, Information, and Data? http://tinyurl.com/d8zzyo
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