The Legal Intelligencer
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A recent hot topic, and the subject of many articles, has been law firms and corporations deciding whether to insource, outsource or create a hybrid model for handling discovery services.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
This is the first in a series of articles where I plan to address post-traumatic arthritis and iatrogenic conditions.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
As exonerations become more commonplace and organizations whose sole purpose is to collaterally attack wrongful convictions proliferate, there continues to be a mechanism in the law in most states that permits an individual who claims innocence to nevertheless plead guilty and go to prison.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
I am a lawyer who does a lot of court-appointed work and it is a substantial part of my law practice. I see there may be cuts in federal court-appointed payments and/or delays because of budgetary issues based on what is known as the sequester statute.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
In Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe, affirmed, 2012 U.S.Dist. LEXIS 58742 (2012), a much-written-about opinion, Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck, a jurist highly regarded for his knowledge of e-discovery, held that a party could be compelled to use predictive coding, over objections as to its reliability, to review electronically stored information for discovery production.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The utilization of electronic health records (EHR) by medical practitioners has been a policy push by the federal government for a number of years.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Is "sustainability" material to the reasonable investor? Under the securities laws, publicly traded companies are required to disclose to their shareholders and the investing public "material" information about their company.
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
In two separate but similar Right-to-Know Law cases, a split en banc Commonwealth Court ruled that middle names and home addresses are public record, but government-issued cellphone numbers and email addresses are not.
Law Technology News
Monday, May 6, 2013
Law offices of all types and sizes face pressure to acquire "the next big thing" in the never-ending quest to become more productive and competitive. Due diligence can make the difference between wasting money on new technology and investing in new productivity.
The Legal Intelligencer
Monday, May 6, 2013
Compliance with antitrust laws was never a pressing issue for private equity firms. Antitrust compliance briefly came to the forefront of the industry in 2007, when the U.S. Department of Justice briefly investigated the industry and a series of private lawsuits were filed against private equity firms.