Good question asked by The New York Times: "HUNDREDS of feet above Manhattan, the reception area of Proskauer Rose's headquarters boasts all of the muscular, streamlined ornamentation that symbolizes authority and power in a big city law firm — modern art, contemporary furniture, white marble floors, high ceilings and stunning views. The background music floating about this particular...
See the costs of e-discovery as detailed by Accountancy Age: "As innocuous as they may once have seemed, the incriminating nature of emails produced as evidence in US corruption trials has forced executives to rethink the expense of managing delicate electronic documents. "The cost of e-dicovery revealing documents in the run up to a trial may also have chief financial officers...
Lots of documents involved a thorny annexation fight in Beaverton, OR: "Nineteen new city employees began poring over thousands of documents in a high-security room at City Hall on Wednesday morning. "The work is the culmination of more than a year of legal bickering between Nike leaders and city officials over records related to the city's annexation policy and whether city leaders had...
Uh, oh.... Not good news reported by LawCrossing: "LawCrossing, the website with the largest collection of legal jobs in the world, released its monthly statistical report on changes in the demand for attorneys and legal staff across the U.S. The newly released figures, which reflect changes in the number of created jobs from February 15, 2006, to March 15, 2006, point to a significant...
Congrats if you're one of those lucky paralegals with an office! But this article will definitely interest those of you stuck in cubicle-land: "Even the designer of the cubicle thinks they were maybe a bad idea, as millions of 'Dilberts' would agree. "Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so...
Usually don't point to articles like this one from the Scotsman that require payment, but this free blurb was too timely to pass up: "PARALEGALS are often the unsung heroes of the legal profession. They work with lawyers to offer services to clients and are qualified in at least one area of the law. Although paralegals have worked in the law in England and Wales and the US since the 1950s,...
Here's a key point from the article: "Failure to utilize paralegals effectively results in a host of problems for a law firm or a law department -- and for the paralegals themselves. The results of a recent survey (August 2005) by the Committee on Paralegals of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association is consistent with the experience the author has had training and...
According to a recent article, one national major firm is marketing their paralegals as professionals who are more up-to-date & better educated than other firms. They are requiring paralegals to be certified. Estrin LegalEd workshops are specifically designed with paralegal assignments in mind. Just a few include: New e-Discovery Rules The Sarbanes-Oxley Act How to Handle 140 Billion E-Mails...
Big change! "Lee Ann Bellon, who started Atlanta's first legal recruitment service 23 years ago, has a new boss. She has sold her company to Ajilon Professional Services, a subsidiary of staffing giant Adecco. "The sale of Bellon & Associates, for a price Bellon would not disclose, is another milestone in legal recruiting's evolution from a business lawyers once knew little about...
Goodness gracious -- read what's going on in Texas! "'Thanks for the business; now here's a little "Rock Lobster.'" "It's an adventurous dish for any big Texas firm to serve its clients to show its appreciation. But the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker Botts presented that and more at its annual client appreciation party Feb. 25. "Lest anyone be confused, the...