If 2010 was a year for staying put, 2011 was the year that law firm partners jumped back into the lateral market with full force. During the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, 2011, 2,454 partners left or joined Am Law 200 firms -- a 22 percent increase over 2010. However, that's no signal that the boom years are back; transactions and litigation both lag [?]
The team of lawyers behind proposed class actions against the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law and New York Law School filed suits Wednesday against 12 law schools around the country, claiming they inflated their graduate employment data. Additional lawsuits will be forthcoming, according to attorney David Anziska. "Our goal is that every few months we wi [?]
With former federal judge and FBI director Louis Freeh and Hughes Hubbard & Reed corporate reorganization co-chair James Giddens set in their roles as trustees for bankrupt MF Global Holdings, several Am Law 100 and international firms are angling to help unwind the defunct derivatives broker. [?]
A federal judge has denied class certification in an antitrust case against Whole Foods Market, striking a blow to the 2008 lawsuit brought by an unhappy customer concerned about rising prices. The case is an offshoot of the FTC's 2007 challenge to Whole Foods' merger with former competitor Wild Oats. [?]
A California judge took after Google's lawyers Tuesday for breaking rules aimed at streamlining patent-marking issues at trial. The judge even threatened to take away a key Google defense: the argument that Oracle didn't mark, or provide notification of, some patents in the suit, a position aimed at limiting exposure for past damages. [?]
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. [?]
Jerone English, director of e-discovery for Intel, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how rank-and-file lawyers can get up to speed on the latest electronic data discovery policies and procedures. [?]
EchoStar failed in its duty to preserve relevant emails leading up to a $2.5 billion contract dispute, an appellate panel has ruled, becoming the first New York state appeal court to apply the standard for spoliation of electronic evidence set forth in 2003 by a New York federal judge in Zubulake. [?]
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