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The Future in Law Firm Technology
When I started in law firm technology in the late 1980s, the key phrase was “data processing.” In fact, that was my title at the law firm: Data Processing Manager. We had a variety of proprietary technology from IBM, Wang and a litigation support company that I can't even remember. The challenge was to provide access to this data regardless of source or location. As technology has evolved and we've gone from proprietary systems to open ones with standard data types, access to data is much easier. In fact, today's challenge is not accessing information, it's deciding what to access and what to do with it. While in the past one needed to be a computer scientist with the right training ' and even that only helped if the data was actually there ' today there is so much information at the fingertips that it is overwhelming.
To date, software providers have solved this problem with dashboards, portals and reports. But these tools only scratch the surface: it's still too hard to know what's important as the decisions on what is tracked qualitative. In order to get truly quantitative, the data, not our preconceived assumptions, has to tell us what's important.
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.
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.
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.
CLE Shouldn't Be the Only Mandatory Training for Attorneys
Each stage of an attorney's career offers opportunities for a curriculum that addresses both the individual's and the firm's need to drive success.
Discovery of Claim Construction and Infringement Analysis May be Compelled Prior to a Markman Hearing
A defendant in a patent infringement suit may, during discovery and prior to a <i>Markman</i> hearing, compel the plaintiff to produce claim charts, claim constructions, and element-by-element infringement analyses.