When a corporation involved in a high-profile lawsuit last year wanted to find an incriminating text message that a former employee intentionally deleted from his mobile phone, its legal team did not conduct a nationwide manhunt for the sender’s device or subpoena his wireless carrier. In the modern era of high-tech litigation, the company’s forensic specialists simply used the UFED Touch Ultimate data extraction, decoding and analysis tool from Israel-based Cellebrite Ltd.

Managing deadlines is a critical part of every law practice. Missed deadlines are frequently one of the most common reasons lawyers get sued or their clients file grievances.

Although outsourcing is a bad word among some categories of employees, it allows companies to focus on core competence, build expertise, control expenses, eliminate waste and directly provide value to clients or customers. Ideally, the vendor bears the overhead cost for the outsourced service, and when the need comes to an end, so does the financial relationship.

Announcing The Sixth Annual MLF 50

Criteria for selection in this highly coveted listing.

Leadership in the Law: The Fallacy of Merger Math

If we were to analyze law firm mergers by plotting client satisfaction on one axis and partner satisfaction on the other, the resulting scatter diagram would reflect a surprising few combinations that were deemed satisfactory to all parties.

Anatomy, Diagnostic Testing and Medical Experts: Winning Strategies for Plaintiff’s Direct and Cross-Examination

Thursday, June 6, 2013
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