New positions for general counsel within law firms due to Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Interesting unintended consequence, hmm?! "Dan Carroll receives nearly a dozen phone calls and e-mails every week from one of his biggest clients. Raising complicated questions about everything from liability matters to ethics issues, the client can be demanding. Fortunately, however, Carroll is highly...
Alexander H. Lubarsky, LL.M., Esq., is a practicing litigator & legal technology enthusiast. In 2003, Alex was elected to the California State Bar Law Technology Executive Committee. He is a certified trainer/consultant in the four major litigation support applications: Introspect, Summation, Concordance, & CaseMap. Alex has taught litigation support courses to students at various law...
Woo-hoo! "Janie Ramon trounced Diana Bejarano Salgado to lock up the Democratic Party nomination for Val Verde County Clerk, and incumbent Rogelio 'Roy' Musquiz buried Ricardo Padilla in a landslide of votes for the Democratic Party nod for another term as Val Verde County Commissioner Precinct 2. "According to the election roundup released by Cardenas Tuesday night, Ramon, a legal...
Really, this news is too much! "The latest version of the Bagle mass mailer worm attempts to threaten potential victims by posing as a lawsuit against the recipient. "The body text of infected messages vary, but all claim to refer to supposedly pending legal action against the recipient. Examples include emails that claims the recipient's firm sent an unsolicited commercial fax...
For those involved in SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley, & representing public corporations, this is a very interesting article from the Legal Times.... "The aggressive expansion of white-collar prosecutions to areas regulated by civil enforcement agencies sometimes leads to unintended results -- including significant defeats -- for prosecutors. "In two recent cases trial courts ruled that the...
Helpful news shared by The Virtual Chase: "Thomson West plans to release updates to Westlaw.com that improve navigation and make it easier to find the services or information you want. "Enhancements include an "add/remove tabs" feature for adding or removing collections of resources that focus on the information you access frequently, a task-based site map with a clean,...
Very important article about paralegal regulation & how some firms might be taking advantage of certification to market services to their clients: "Since last summer, paralegals in North Carolina have been able to apply for certification as a North Carolina Certified Paralegal, or NCCP. The designation means they have met the standards set by the state for the minimum knowledge...
See the 2006 LegalTech Survey conducted at New York's LegalTech by LegalVoice. The survey includes these highlights: * 67 percent of law firms and corporate legal departments will have larger technology budgets in 2006 than they did in 2005. * 16 percent said budgets would remain the same. * 4 percent reported a decrease in their technology budget, while 13 percent were uncertain. You can find...
Yes, this whitepaper is from a vendor, CaseSoft, but the "best practices" outlined sure sound smart to me! For example: "Want to filter your chronology down to just those facts about a particular witness, organization or document? Even if you’re using a database program to develop your chronology, you’ve got a big problem if the same thing is referenced by different names. You...
Gosh, I hate when that happens!! Read the article for all the gory details: "Consider, for example, the high-profile, widely reported problems recently suffered by industry leaders Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo at annual trade shows. Last year, Bill Gates endured multiple crashes of his own products, and even suffered his own blue screen of death during his keynote address at the Consumer...