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Ipro Suite Helps Houston Firm Increase Efficiency
Schiffer Odom Hicks & Johnson PLLC (SOHJ) is a commercial litigation and arbitration boutique with national and international reach. Our primary focus is to provide top-quality counsel to clients through our consultative approach to litigation and adoption of innovative technology.
As a litigator focused on commercial disputes and tort claims, one of our founding partners, Andy Hicks, always believed that technology implemented properly would help the firm deliver unparalleled responsiveness without the overhead of larger firms. Despite our firm's technological savvy, the burden of growing discovery volumes was challenging to manage. We had adopted litigation document review and transcript software years earlier; however, with growing datasets, the limitations of that software became glaringly evident. We were experiencing performance and workflow issues on all cases with over 150,000 documents, forcing us to send the larger cases to outside vendors, adding time and cost to every case. As a result, Andy and I set out to optimize the firm's litigation technology.
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.
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.
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.