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Mass Layoffs at a Top-Flight Law Firm
June 30, 2013
Layoffs are a brutal reality of corporate America. During fallow periods, publicly traded companies, including the big banks, routinely cull their ranks. The country’s largest law firms, by contrast, have historically taken a kinder, gentler approach, rarely firing employees en masse. The news on Monday that Weil, Gotshal & Manges, among the nation’s most prestigious and profitable law firms, was laying off a large number of lawyers and support staff while also reducing the pay of some...
June 30, 2013
Layoffs are a brutal reality of corporate America. During fallow periods, publicly traded companies, including the big banks, routinely cull their ranks. The country’s largest law firms, by contrast, have historically taken a kinder, gentler approach, rarely firing employees en masse. The news on Monday that Weil, Gotshal & Manges, among the nation’s most prestigious and profitable law firms, was laying off a large number of lawyers and support staff while also reducing the pay of some...
Top 5 Reasons Why Law Firms Are Switching Document Management to the Cloud
June 29, 2013
Today more than ever, Law Firms are adopting Disaster Recovery Strategies and implementing plans that will enable their business...
June 29, 2013
Today more than ever, Law Firms are adopting Disaster Recovery Strategies and implementing plans that will enable their business...
ALM Launches iOS Apps for 14 U.S. Legal Publications
June 29, 2013
Legal news company ALM today rolled out a set of apps for iPhones and iPads covering 14 of its national and regional publications. The...
June 29, 2013
Legal news company ALM today rolled out a set of apps for iPhones and iPads covering 14 of its national and regional publications. The...
PACER Survey Shows Rise in User Satisfaction
June 29, 2013
PACER has seen a sharp rise in overall user satisfaction since a comparable survey was conducted in 2009, with 90 percent of users saying they are satisfied or highly satisfied with the internet-based public case information system. That compares with 75 percent satisfaction with the overall user experience in the previous survey. Conversely, only 3 percent of users consider themselves “dissatisfied,” compared with 15 percent four years ago. On a scale of 1 to 5, users also gave a higher average...
June 29, 2013
PACER has seen a sharp rise in overall user satisfaction since a comparable survey was conducted in 2009, with 90 percent of users saying they are satisfied or highly satisfied with the internet-based public case information system. That compares with 75 percent satisfaction with the overall user experience in the previous survey. Conversely, only 3 percent of users consider themselves “dissatisfied,” compared with 15 percent four years ago. On a scale of 1 to 5, users also gave a higher average...
Don’t Be Evil. Google Rejects Glass Apps With Facial Recognition
June 29, 2013
Google won't approve Glassware that use facial recognition at this time | Android Central. Well, I certainly feel better, knowing that, FOR NOW, Google intends to reject apps for Google Glass that can recognize faces. Of course, future Robocops will certainly have sensors that can do this, and we will all have electronic tattoos that make the job easier for the robot masters as we march, single file, to our jobs. The jobs will certainly be those that future humans can do; likely, menial tasks that...
June 29, 2013
Google won't approve Glassware that use facial recognition at this time | Android Central. Well, I certainly feel better, knowing that, FOR NOW, Google intends to reject apps for Google Glass that can recognize faces. Of course, future Robocops will certainly have sensors that can do this, and we will all have electronic tattoos that make the job easier for the robot masters as we march, single file, to our jobs. The jobs will certainly be those that future humans can do; likely, menial tasks that...
Review: Court Directory by Bloomberg BNA
June 29, 2013
Attorneys frequently have to look up contact information for courts, whether it be to call a judge's chambers, send an email...
June 29, 2013
Attorneys frequently have to look up contact information for courts, whether it be to call a judge's chambers, send an email...
Patent Trolls Threaten to Bankrupt Companies and Stifle Innovation
June 28, 2013
Without patent reform, Living Direct might have to file for bankruptcy, said Mark Baker, its general counsel. The online retailer, founded in 2000 now has 60 employees, and faces multiple “patent troll” lawsuits which threaten to drain it of all of its cash, Baker told a seven-person panel Thursday morning meeting on patent reform at HomeAway’s headquarters in downtown Austin. “As soon as we were listed as one of the fastest growing retailers in the country, we became the target...
June 28, 2013
Without patent reform, Living Direct might have to file for bankruptcy, said Mark Baker, its general counsel. The online retailer, founded in 2000 now has 60 employees, and faces multiple “patent troll” lawsuits which threaten to drain it of all of its cash, Baker told a seven-person panel Thursday morning meeting on patent reform at HomeAway’s headquarters in downtown Austin. “As soon as we were listed as one of the fastest growing retailers in the country, we became the target...
Is the Tech Revolution Here Already?
June 28, 2013
Big Data is big news in litigation discovery — and predictive coding has arrived as a best practice to deal with the mountain of data. But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. While Big Data looms large in the litigation arena, it is also appearing in the context of internal law firm data — documents, email, and other data objects, including voice and video — with repositories in one larger firm exceeding 50 million items just for documents and selectively retained email records....
June 28, 2013
Big Data is big news in litigation discovery — and predictive coding has arrived as a best practice to deal with the mountain of data. But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. While Big Data looms large in the litigation arena, it is also appearing in the context of internal law firm data — documents, email, and other data objects, including voice and video — with repositories in one larger firm exceeding 50 million items just for documents and selectively retained email records....
The Case Against Misdirected Regulation of ADR
June 28, 2013
Regulations, no matter how well meaning, inevitably limit and constrain. In sharp contrast, the primary benefits of private dispute resolution include flexibility, creative evolutionary change and customization.This article will serve as a cautionary tale against the unintended negative consequences of misdirected regulation in the ADR field. While ADR may have moved into “mainstream” legal practice, it continues to develop and change in the United States and abroad. We will explore how the ADR profession...
June 28, 2013
Regulations, no matter how well meaning, inevitably limit and constrain. In sharp contrast, the primary benefits of private dispute resolution include flexibility, creative evolutionary change and customization.This article will serve as a cautionary tale against the unintended negative consequences of misdirected regulation in the ADR field. While ADR may have moved into “mainstream” legal practice, it continues to develop and change in the United States and abroad. We will explore how the ADR profession...
12 Ways to Achieve Efficiency and Speed in Arbitration
June 28, 2013
Some lament that arbitration has become too much like litigation—protracted and expensive. This article suggests a dozen ways that corporate counsel can keep domestic arbitration from evolving into its evil twin. 1. A LITTLE PLANNING GOES A LONG WAY All too often an arbitration clause, removed from the critical path of negotiations, merely states that disputes will be arbitrated pursuant to institutional rules vesting the arbitrator with unbridled discretion regarding extent of discovery and schedule....
June 28, 2013
Some lament that arbitration has become too much like litigation—protracted and expensive. This article suggests a dozen ways that corporate counsel can keep domestic arbitration from evolving into its evil twin. 1. A LITTLE PLANNING GOES A LONG WAY All too often an arbitration clause, removed from the critical path of negotiations, merely states that disputes will be arbitrated pursuant to institutional rules vesting the arbitrator with unbridled discretion regarding extent of discovery and schedule....
