ABA Ethics Opinion on Outsourcing
The ABA yesterday released Ethics Opinion 08-451 on legal outsourcing. It’s substantively important. And separately, it illustrates, in my opinion, systemic issues with how the ABA conducts important business. The…
Lawyers Letting the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good
Jordan Furlong, editor of the CBA The National and blogger, in his excellent blog post, The rise of good enough, points out that too many lawyers “value the exhaustive pursuit…
Wall Street Journal Article on E-Discovery
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran a long story on e-discovery. It highlights some of the current issues but also, in my opinion, oversimplifies them. Tech Firms Pitch Tools…
Tough Times in BigLaw: More Cutbacks, Bleak Outlook
I wish I had systematically tracked large law firm staff and lawyer reductions. Not to single out particular firms, but I just read a couple more reports of BigLaw cutbacks….
Dorsey & Whitney Offers Fixed Price Document Review
AmLaw 100 law firm Dorsey & Whitney last week announced LegalMine, an integrated e-discovery service at a fixed price per document. LegalMine is “a powerful tool to review huge quantities…
Knowledge Management at 2008 ILTA Annual Conference
The Knowledge Management Peer Group of ILTA is hosting several sessions at the International Legal Technology Association annual meeting next week. Listed below are the KM sessions. Monday, August 25,…
Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis Loses Share to Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw in Large Law Firms
The 2007 large law firm librarian survey is out. Some of the data surprise me. Competitive Advantage (big PDF) in Law Firm Inc. magazine (an American Lawyer, now Incisive Media,…
Litigators Get a Bad Report Card + Ways to Do Better
The The New York Times reported last week (8 Aug 2008) on a study analyzing the cost of not settling law suits. Defense lawyers make bad calls not to settle…
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