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- August 24th
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Recommind’s knowledge management solution is ‘light years ahead’ for Mills & Reeve
UK law firm’s user satisfaction survey indicates Decisiv Search has transformed efficiency levels in just six monthsRecommind, the leader in predictive information management software, today revealed that Mills & Reeve LLP, one of the UK’s leading full-service law firms, regards its Decisiv Search (formerly known as MindServer Search) solution as the driving force behind the firm’s improved knowledge management capabilities, with an internal user satisfaction survey indicating a drastic increase in the level of staff confidence in the firm’s knowledge systems.
posted at 5:40am on Aug 24th
- August 23rd
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Should Biglaw Deferral Programs Become Permanent?
With apologies to Langston Hughes, we have to ask:
What happens to an associate deferred?
Does he dry up, like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore — and then run?
Run, run — away from Biglaw. That seems to be what at least some deferred associates are doing, as reported last week by the New…
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Tags: Biglaw, Deferral Stipend, Deferral Stipends, Deferrals, Deferred Associates, Pro Bono, Public Interest
posted at 10:13am on Aug 23rd
- August 22nd
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Is “Pilfering Millions” an Oxymoron?
By now you may have seen the strange story of Canadian ex-paralegal Shellee Spinks, who has received a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to 16 criminal charges surrounding the theft of $2.6 million from clients. Robert Mongue covered the story at The Empowered Paralegal blog in his recent post, “Attorney Supervision of Paralegals”.
The Law.com headline “Lawyer says he couldn’t have stopped paralegal’s pilfering” makes me scratch my head a little in itself. By definition pilfering means stealthily stealing small amounts. Spinks appears to have helped herself quite openly to staggering amounts of cash.
The fact that Michael Puskas, the lawyer who used her as an independent contractor for real estate transactions, thinks he couldn’t have done anything about this paralegal’s, er, pilfering really makes me scratch my head.
Really?
Puskas says he had an “arms-length” relationship with Spinks from 2002 through 2008, but according to the news article, he admitted borrowing $240,000 from her – which he never paid back. Listen, peeps, we’d have to be pretty tight for me to loan you that amount, even with two or three less zeroes. And I’d be pretty darned curious about your income flow, if you were a paralegal willing and able to loan a couple hundred thousand dollars to me.
The article says, “Puskas says he hopes to put the whole affair behind him.”
I bet.
Spinks’ nefarious actions, including representing herself as a lawyer, stealing from the elderly, and forging a will, could have happened anywhere in the world. But Ontario Superior Court Justice Barry Matheson is right to wonder how it happened and went undetected so long here. I hope the Law Society of Upper Canada directs more than a few pointed questions to Puskas in its investigation of his role in this affair.
I’d love to hear the answers.
Source: Law Times
posted at 5:52pm on Aug 22nd
- August 20th
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Mobile devices and security: Plug the leaks, then encrypt
Encryption of laptops and other mobile storage devices is no longer an option. However, there is a right way (keep job) and wrong way (dust off resume) to implement encryption. Encryption should be a follow-up control to plugging data leaks.
posted at 2:20pm on Aug 20th
- August 19th
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InterLegis Launches Discovery360™ Desktop – StreetInsider.com
Solution Gives Corporate Legal Departments and Law Firms the Ability to Efficiently Process eDiscovery In-House (PRWEB) August 19, 2010 — InterLegis, an innovator of litigation and electronic discovery technologies …
posted at 10:58am on Aug 19th
- August 17th
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Skaddenfreude: A Look Inside the Life of a Kirkland & Ellis Contract Attorney
We call it Skaddenfreude: taking pleasure in the misfortune of others who work at large law firms. Today’s tale of Skaddenfreude involves a contract attorney working a project in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis. Let’s kick it off with a picture:
What is this photo all about? And what light does it shed upon…
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Tags: Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Depressing Things, Document Review, Kirkland & Ellis, Skaddenfreude
posted at 10:04am on Aug 17th
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HERDING CATS
Managing lawyers has often been compared to the challenge of “herding cats” (translation, nearly impossible). But attorney Peter Rabinov, who has spent time in the contract lawyering trenches, offers 10 tips to help firms manage contract lawyers who are reviewing EDD documents. Among the tips: choose wisely when hiring and — at least during initial employment — check their work. And don’t just set them loose and assume they’ll figure everything out: create teams, and provide proper support and equipment, advises Rabinov, a member of the California and Massachusetts Bars.
posted at 9:44am on Aug 17th
- August 11th
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How Fulbright Transformed Its Document Review
As e-discovery practitioners, our goal is to make e-discovery for our clients more manageable and cost effective. We sought to automate and streamline the process through the application of strategic technology and well-developed workflows. Our firm, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, was an early adopter of Recommind’s Axcelerate eDiscovery platform, having implemented the solution internally in early 2008. Fulbright’s deployment of Axcelerate eDiscovery and particularly the firm’s use of predictive coding functionality, combined with concept clustering and data analytics has reduced the time and cost of document review.
THE STORY
In 2007, we recognized the need to acquire new technology to help address our clients’ increasing e-discovery costs, driven by growing volumes of electronic data. One of the first law firms in the country to implement a web-based litigation support system, Fulbright has long hosted large data volumes for the purpose of conducting linear document review, performing complex searches, and preparing electronic document productions. Meanwhile, we recognized the need to leverage advanced technology to more effectively analyze, filter, and strategically organize large document populations, while reducing document review costs.
In a typical e-discovery project, data would routinely be culled and filtered using file types, date ranges and keywords, followed by a linear, eyes-on attorney review. This approach to document review has been a generally accepted practice for years, and works relatively well for many cases. As client data volumes continued to increase in size and complexity, and strategic search methodologies began to emerge and evolve, the opportunity for a new strategy was apparent.
The benefits and necessity of an alternative approach to document review can be easily demonstrated using one recent experience.
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Source: law.com
By: Laurie Weiss and Tom Barceposted at 7:39am on Aug 11th
- August 10th
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Is Your New York Law Firm Outsourcing Legal Work to India?
Where is your legal work really being performed?
[via Are NY Law Firms Outsourcing Legal Work to India? One Admits It, One Denies It - News - ABA Journal.]
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Freehills Partners With Recommind to Upgrade Firm-Wide Access to Information … – PR Inside
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — (Marketwire) — 08/10/10 — Recommind, the leader in search-powered information management solutions for enterprises and law firms, announced today that Top-5 Australian law …
posted at 7:51pm on Aug 10th
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