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How Haynes and Boone Automated Its e-Discovery Processes
In the late 1980s and 90s, litigation support pioneers began to introduce technological solutions to manual processes, carving a real niche for IT professionals and tech-savvy paralegals. Today, automating legal services, especially litigation, is a complex profession with staggering amounts of electronic data requiring culling, analysis and processing before useable to a case team. Maintaining top-level electronic discovery expertise at a thriving AMLAW 200 firm warrants evolving skill sets and state of the art tools.
As the nature of litigation support evolved, departments developed and expanded to collaborate and consult with case attorneys on enormous and complex document productions. Litigation lifecycle and civil procedure proficiency has broadened the nature of the work and attracted individuals from the attorney ranks. With the myriad of moving parts necessary to complete discovery, various management strategies and mechanisms were applied with conflicting results. Case management was being introduced to the concept of project management.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.