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LexisNexis® Expert Research on Demand (IDEX) Complimentary Webinar
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 – 2:00-2:45 PM ET
Finding the right witnesses to help support your case […]
LexisNexis® Expert Research on Demand (IDEX) Complimentary Webinar
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 – 2:00-2:45 PM ET
Finding the right witnesses to help support your case […]
A Complimentary Webinar Presented by LexisNexis®
In today’s technology-driven world, data breaches, cyber fraud, identity theft and a host of related problems, have become an […]
Mark Lanier of the Lanier Law Firm gave the keynote address at the combined luncheon for the 14th Annual National Asbestos Litigation Conference and […]
Over the past few months HB Litigation Conferences has hosted a number of significant conferences on the hottest topics in litigation including Hydraulic Fracturing […]
A Complimentary Webinar Presented by LexisNexis®
The way that privileged information is handled by in-house counsel has its own set of challenges that differs greatly […]
A Complimentary Webinar Presented by LexisNexis®
Dangers and unintended consequences of new and proposed legislation in New York responding to the foreclosure crisis are explored […]
Discovery and depositions in asbestos cases have a unique set of challenges and require different strategies for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. Susan […]
John Imse, Principal at ENVIRON, spoke at the Gas Drilling Operations Conference on Sept. 9 in Philadelphia, sponsored by HB Litigation Conferences. Imse contrasted […]
Air quality and gas migration are the two major environmental issues that new government regulations must address to control the booming hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) […]
John Hanger, Special Counsel to Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot and Former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spoke at the HB […]
John Hanger, Special Counsel to Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot and Former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spoke at the HB […]
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Kenneth S. Kasdan is a plaintiffs’ attorney with Kasdan Simonds Weber & Vaughn in Irvine, Calif., a firm specializing in construction defect litigation. […]
In today's economy, many companies are turning to Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) providers because of their ability to offer fast, efficient legal services at a lower cost. However there are a number of ethical considerations that are unique to LPO companies, including risk of disclosure of confidential information, inadvertent waiver of attorney-client privilege and client consent requirements. However, the primary issue has to do with the unauthorized practice of law, since many of the individuals performing the work at the LPO firm may not be licensed to practice law in the appropriate jurisdiction or may not be lawyers at all.
Before you start working with a Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company, there are a number of steps you need to take. These include: Evaluating the quality and reliability of the company; Investigating the company's background and reputation; Performing reference checks; Asking about the company's hiring and training policies; Vetting the qualifications of the individuals performing the work; and Meeting with core management staff.
When assigning tasks to various levels of attorneys, there are two factors to consider. If you're strictly talking about budgeting, it's actually easier to use an average billing rate for the firm, only because it makes the budgeting simpler. Firms can generally provide that or give you some pretty good guidance. Rather than going through each task and figuring out the hours and then figuring out which attorney performed each task, you can just take the hours times an average rate. That makes life a lot simpler and it's a perfectly valid way of preparing a budget.
An emerging trend in the field of law is the use of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO). A driving force behind this is the ever-increasing volume of data that needs to be looked at in routine litigations and investigations. The cost of managing this data, in many senses, has gotten out of control. A lot of corporate legal departments have had their budgets cut, especially over the last two years. Many corporate legal departments and law firms are struggling to find ways to do as much or more with less and many have turned to LPO providers.
By Mark Greisiger, President, NetDiligence®
Our objective in performing the NetDiligence® Cyber Liability & Data Breach Insurance Claims Study was to present some empirical data […]
2011 has been a significant year for global catastrophes. With earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, tornadoes in Alabama, Missouri and Massachusetts, and flooding in Australia and the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, this has been a major year of catastrophes—and the hurricane and wildfire seasons are still to come.
Some courts, although very few of them, have addressed the issue of email strings in privilege logs, so it’s important to look at the current state of the law on that topic. The trend is that each email string is looked at as [...]
By Robert Wice, Underwriter, Beazley Group
Behavioral marketing is an important part of the social media world because it is how the social media sites […]