Good! Paralegals & lawyers need help with the hard work of e-discovery: "The impact of electronic data on modern litigation can hardly be overstated. More than 90 percent of information now is created and stored electronically. "With most day-to-day business records created in electronic form, courts and litigants alike struggle to define e-discovery production requirements. Parties...
The ITV Interview with Eric Frankel , President of Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution: Frankel: "Yes. First, you need to look at all your rights, program-by-program and episode-by-episode, to see if you have the rights to put it on the Internet. "A couple of years ago, I said, 'Gee. One of these days, Internet TV is going to happen, and we should try to be the first guys...
One of our Paralegal SuperConference speakers, James Wilber from Altman Weil, publishes national salary survey. Ouch, NJ is the lowest: "Paralegals in New Jersey earn markedly less than their counterparts in other parts of the country, according to a new survey of paralegal compensation. "If they worked in Newark last year, their average pay was $53,909, including bonus and...
Another welcome move by a firm -- announcing paralegal hires: "Ralph J. DiLeone, managing partner at DiLeone & Associates, P.C., has announced that Dara Lyon Warner has joined the firm as a paralegal. In this position, Warner will be involved with business incorporations and other business related matters, wills and estate administration, manage administrative and financial matters, and...
Firm's press release on winning the case also acknowledges paralegals! Although the firm does not currently post paralegal bios, a site search pulls up several more press releases naming paralegals as part of the team: "On July 11, 2006, the Firm won the dismissal of a consolidated ERISA putative class action filed against American Electric Power. The dismissal of this ERISA action...
Two paralegals & their husbands on a really different path: "Imagine your job is to plan parties, give out prizes to people who attend, chat with guests and entertain them with music. "Welcome to Lightning Rod ProMotions. "Two husband-and-wife teams own the LaGrange-based company. Donna and Ed Silinsky and Cheryl and Ray LeFever host weekly events for car enthusiasts in the...
Database for IP litigation sounds like a smart plan: "When Joshua Walker worked with a team of lawyers in Kigali, Rwanda, to mount a case against the perpetrators of that country's genocide, he built a database of trial evidence under wartime conditions. Targets of his investigation put a $1,000 bounty on him. "Ten years later, the 32-year-old has war zones -- and law school -- behind...
Here's an interesting article about corporate executive witnesses: "These are challenging times for those of us who represent and defend corporations in litigation. The recent criminal convictions of Enron's Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling only confirm what we have known for quite some time -- jurors are skeptical of, and even hostile toward, corporations and corporate executives. "But...
A married couple serves together in Iraq as, yes, paralegals: "The night envelops the two young Army sergeants in darkness as their hearts beat loudly within their chests. Staring at one another through night vision goggles, he whispers, 'Happy anniversary, baby.' With nothing to do but keep silent and wait, she drifts off into past memories that brought her to this point of spending her...
I hate to find news like this: "A former paralegal has been arrested for stealing $3,800 from the New York County Public Administrators office while he was employed by a law firm that serves as counsel to the PA."Derricke Brown, 43, of the Bronx, has been charged with third degree grand larceny, a class D felony. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison."