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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.
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.
Law Firms are Reducing Redundant Real Estate by Bringing Support Services Back to the Office
A trend analysis of the benefits and challenges of bringing back administrative, word processing and billing services to law offices.
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Risks of “Baseball Arbitration” in Resolving Real Estate Disputes
“Baseball arbitration” refers to the process used in Major League Baseball in which if an eligible player's representative and the club ownership cannot reach a compensation agreement through negotiation, each party enters a final submission and during a formal hearing each side — player and management — presents its case and then the designated panel of arbitrators chooses one of the salary bids with no other result being allowed. This method has become increasingly popular even beyond the sport of baseball.
One Overlooked Element of Executive Safety: Data Privacy
Executives have access to some of the company's most sensitive information, and they're increasingly being targeted by hackers looking to steal company secrets or to perpetrate cybercrimes.