The U.S. economy began to rebound in 2011, but that was not enough to convince law firms to ramp up associate hiring. The National Law Journal has ranked the top 50 law schools by the percentage of 2011 juris doctor graduates who took jobs at the nation's largest law firms. The report identifies firm favorites -- the schools where NLJ 250 firms recruite [?]
A federal judge has issued a much-anticipated opinion which he acknowledged "appears to be the first in which a Court has approved of the use of computer-assisted review" in electronic data discovery, but said that the technology "is not a magic, Staples-Easy-Button, solution appropriate for all cases."Visit Law Technology News [?]
The 7th Circuit has ruled that a group of black financial advisers who are suing Merrill Lynch for racial discrimination can proceed with their class action, agreeing with the plaintiffs that the Supreme Court's Wal-Mart ruling could be used to support class certification rather than deny it. [?]
TD Bank, which lost a $67 million jury verdict to one set of investors in Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme, has settled with another group to head off a trial set to start this week. The confidential agreement left a judge wrestling with whether to grant an injunction to stop a trial for the last defendant. [?]
As patent litigation brought by non-practicing entities continues, it's no surprise that big firm castaways are leaping in to get a piece of the action on the plaintiffs side. But representing NPEs carries risks for lawyers who earned their patent pedigrees at defense firms, as a pair of recent decisions shows. [?]
Littler Mendelson's Paul D. Weiner, national e-discovery counsel, and Michael J. McGuire, chief information security officer, speak to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how the firm manages e-discovery, and compare its efforts to other BigLaw models. [?]
Browning Marean, senior counsel at DLA Piper, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about the challenges of fashioning responses to discovery requests that are appropriate -- and proportional -- to a case. [?]
D.C. District Judge John Facciola speaks with LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how e-discovery training is at a crossroads, constrained by limited financial resources at the governmental level. He proposes several solutions to address these challenges, particularly when individuals are unable to meet face to face. [?]
The Boies, Schiller & Flexner founder explains how he prepared for the key cross-examinations in the Proposition 8 case. [?]
Los Angeles attorney Pierce O'Donnell has reached a revised plea deal with federal prosecutors that would require him to serve 60 days in prison but allow him to retain his California Bar license. The deal was the second reached in a campaign finance violations case against the noted trial attorney. [?]
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