Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

How Legal Services Can Maintain Profitability in a Shifting Landscape Image

How Legal Services Can Maintain Profitability in a Shifting Landscape

Scott Paster

Since the 2008 economic downturn, the U.S. legal market has undergone a permanent restructuring. With huge firms collapsing due to crippling debt, we see that legal services firms are no longer untouchable. The legal environment has become increasingly challenging as competition has increased, demand for legal services has remained flat, and firms are being forced to adopt more efficient, cost-effective and strategic business models.

Features

How Metadata Changed the Outcome of a Complex Employment Case Image

How Metadata Changed the Outcome of a Complex Employment Case

Victor Vital

By definition, metadata is data about data. For computer files, it includes metadata fields that are hidden to typical users. This information can be valuable for a court case, and it goes beyond standard electronic discovery data collection: it must be gathered and analyzed by a digital forensics specialist.

Features

Practical Pathways for the Next Generation of e-Discovery Professionals Image

Practical Pathways for the Next Generation of e-Discovery Professionals

Bowe Kurowski

The e-discovery industry has come a long way in a short period of time. Fifteen years ago, the career path of an aspiring legal technology professional was quite uncertain. However, over time, clearer career trajectories have begun to emerge based on the career choices of pioneer ' and now veteran ' e-discovery professionals. Analyzing the divergent hiring strategies of service providers and law firms helps reveal those career trajectories.

Features

<i>Online Extra:</i> Hulu Loses Bid to Short Circuit Privacy Case Image

<i>Online Extra:</i> Hulu Loses Bid to Short Circuit Privacy Case

Scott Graham

U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled Hulu's alleged disclosure of users' viewing selections is enough to sustain claims under the Video Privacy Protection Act.

Features

Are States Taking the Lead to Enforce Digital Privacy Laws? Image

Are States Taking the Lead to Enforce Digital Privacy Laws?

Bradley S. Shear

Recently, 37 states and the District of Columbia reached a $17 million dollar settlement with Google over its intentional circumvention of Internet users' privacy settings. The case stemmed from 'Google's bypassing of privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser to use cookies to track users and show them advertisements in 2011 and 2012. In total, Google has paid approximately $40 million dollars to federal and state regulators for intentionally harming the personal privacy rights of Internet users.

Columns & Departments

IP News Image

IP News

Howard J. Shire & Wyatt Delfino

Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Customer's Third-Party-Beneficiary Claim under First-to-File<br>Supreme Court Applies Atlantic Marine Standard to Forum Dispute in Patent Case<br>Claimed Inventions Falling within Prior Art Ranges Require Secondary Considerations to Show Nonobviousness

Features

Understanding Your Firm's Culture Image

Understanding Your Firm's Culture

Steve Armstrong & Tim Leishman

A systematic approach to successfully managing cultural change as a firm pursues its strategic goals.

Features

Brace for Rising Rents Image

Brace for Rising Rents

Elizabeth Cooper & Tom Doughty

Jones Lang LaSalle's annual Law Firm Perspective reveals that the days of tenants having the upper hand in lease negotiations are on the way out.

Columns & Departments

At the Intersection: A Practical Slant on LPM Implementation Image

At the Intersection: A Practical Slant on LPM Implementation

Katie Crosby Lehmann

Some practical lessons for creating, launching and institutionalizing this practical case management approach across the firm.

Features

Partner Compensation Image

Partner Compensation

Steven A. Davis

Objective financial factors are easy to measure ' but they should not be the only considerations in determining partner compensation.

Need Help?

  1. Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
  2. Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.

MOST POPULAR STORIES

  • Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel
    'Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel is a continuation of the discussion of client expectations and the disconnect that often occurs. And although the outside attorneys should be pursuing how inside-counsel actually think, inside counsel should make an effort to impart this information without waiting to be asked.
    Read More ›
  • Holders of Unredeemed Gift Cards Denied Bankpruptcy Priority
    For some time now, the brick and mortar side of the retail industry has been in financial distress. In 2015 and 2016 alone, brand-name ­companies such as Sports Authority, RadioShack, Aéropostale, American Apparel, Eastern Mountain Sports and City Sports sought bankruptcy protection. A common question in these cases is how to treat holders of unredeemed gift cards. Are they near the back of the line with other general unsecured creditors, or are they entitled to “priority” payment status under the Bankruptcy Code?
    Read More ›