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<title><![CDATA[NearPoint Archives E-Mail for E-Discovery]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:56:56 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The battle for e-discovery continues to march to the left side of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model as today's companies gird themselves with products and services that manage ESI before a lawsuit is considered or filed. Consultant Brett Burney goes "left" with Mimosa NearPoint.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feds Drop Money-Laundering Case Against Miami Attorney]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When federal prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday in its money-laundering case against prominent Miami attorney Ben Kuehne and two co-defendants, the Justice Department left in its tracks a string of courtroom failures. Kuehne said his case leaves a legacy that will protect his colleagues. "There is no doubt my case is the most telling reaffirmation of the vital importance of the Sixth Amend<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Creditors Committee Raises Stakes  in Lehman-Barclays Dispute]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The creditors committee in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy fired a shot Tuesday in a dispute over whether Barclays received an improper "windfall" in its purchase of Lehman's North American assets and liabilities last September. The dispute has resulted in several motions for discovery and at least three suits. Now, the creditors committee has filed a motion under the terms of the Hague Convention<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Merck Knocks Out Second Fosamax Test Case Before Trial]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wyeth and its new parent Pfizer are probably wishing they had more to be thankful for this week, after being hit with jury awards totaling more than $100 million over hormone drugs. But what started out as a tough week for Big Pharma got a little better late Monday, when Manhattan federal Judge John Keenan dismissed the second of three bellwether cases facing Merck over its osteoporosis drug Fosa<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Court Dismisses Claims That Warner Music CEO Owed Former Simon & Schuster Exec for Role  in Music Deal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Warner Music Group mogul Edgar M. Bronfman Jr. is not obligated to pay former Simon & Schuster CEO Richard E. Snyder more than $100 million for work Snyder insists he did to facilitate Warner Music's purchase by Bronfman's investment group, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The ruling extinguished Snyder's final two claims of his entitlement to significant compensation for his role in w<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sutherland to Jettison Lockstep Associate Pay]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sutherland will shift from lockstep associate compensation to a performance-based system in January. The firm's roughly 175 associates will be grouped into three tiers, with advancement and pay increases pegged to their mastery of various skills. "The driving force in the change is to be able to communicate to the client that an associate has a certain level of skills, and that's what you're payi<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EDD Tale:  Caught in the Middle]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When an e-discovery provider was assigned the job of looking for e-mail evidence in a recent business dispute, it seemed like just another job until the company found itself on the receiving end of a motion for contempt for reporting that 70,000 files had been deleted from a computer.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[General  Counsel Panelists Say They Like Firms That Take the Initiative]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A panel of general counsel and senior in-house lawyers at a conference last week revealed that cost isn't always their top criteria when picking outside lawyers. They also want outside lawyers to take the initiative in building a relationship. Julia Coyne, Nike's assistant GC, recalled a law firm that did a pitch even after learning that the work it wanted was farmed out elsewhere. The firm later<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do Defendants Get Enough Warning About a Guilty Plea's Consequences?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two very different cases, the Jose Padilla case and the "balloon boy" case, cast new light on a legal issue that has been simmering for years: when, whether and how defendants should be informed about the collateral consequences of pleading or being found guilty. A model law tackling the issue will go before the American Bar Association for endorsement in February, and then would be put before st<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[$100M Suit Claims Ex-Firm Leader Peddled Phony Investments in Sex Scandal Case]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit that seeks more than $100 million in damages alleges that ousted Florida law firm leader Scott Rothstein solicited investors for an alleged Ponzi scheme by piggybacking on actual lawsuits, including a tawdry case his firm was handling that involved a billionaire accused of engaging in sexual activities with underage girls. The investor lawsuit also contends TD Bank served as the "critic<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guilty Verdict for McKesson Chairman, but GC Acquitted]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The government made the right call. In retrying former McKesson HBOC Chairman Charles McCall, prosecutors decided not to put one-time cooperator and former CEO Albert Bergonzi on the stand. That forced McCall's lawyers to summon Bergonzi instead, and the jury didn't think much of his testimony. The jury convicted McCall on Thursday on four securities fraud counts and one charge of circumventing a<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Coudert Estate Pursues Fees Earned From Former Clients]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The liquidation plan administrator for the Coudert Brothers estate is claiming that Baker & McKenzie breached an agreement with the defunct law firm by failing to hand over a portion of a contingency fee earned from work for former Coudert clients. The claims against Baker & McKenzie, contained in an amended complaint filed in bankruptcy court last week, involve a contingency fee that could be as<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ditching the Billable Hour: 'Everyone Wants to Do It']]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:02 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More companies are paying their outside counsel off the clock, according to the Hildebrandt 2009 Law Department Survey. Just over half of the 231 companies surveyed said they either have started or will start negotiating non-hourly billing arrangements with their outside counsel. The results weren't surprising to Lauren Chung, director of Hildebrandt's law department consulting practice and the s<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Key Ruling in BofA Securities Class Action Gives Plaintiffs Access to Treasure Trove  of Documents]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, in a huge win for shareholders, a New York federal judge took the unusual step of lifting the statutory discovery stay in a securities class action suit against Bank of America. His order will give the plaintiffs access to the mountains of documents that BofA and related defendants have already turned over to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York attorney gene<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo to Pay $1.4 Billion in  Auction-Rate Securities Settlement]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Co. will buy back an estimated $700 million in troubled auction-rate securities from California investors under terms of a settlement announced by Attorney General Jerry Brown on Wednesday. In a separate deal reached with the North American Securities Administrators Association, the San Francisco-based bank has agreed to repurchase nonliquid auction-rate securities totaling approxim<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[House Panel Challenges BofA  on Timing of GC's Firing]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Three Bank of America officials insisted before a congressional panel Tuesday that the firing of the bank's general counsel last December, in the middle of a huge merger and the U.S. financial crisis, was just ordinary corporate "downsizing." But some panel members challenged that characterization, calling the testimony "troubling" and not believable. Tuesday marked the first time BofA executives<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Rewrites Controversial  Books Deal Amid Antitrust Concerns]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google has revised its controversial books settlement and revived the debate over who should decide the fate of orphan works: Google or the government. Changes to the settlement were aimed at addressing concerns that Google had grabbed unfair control of orphan works -- books whose rights holders can't be found -- by including them in a class action settlement with authors and publishers over its <br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fired Bank of America GC Tells His Side  of Story]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In remarks prepared for delivery to Congress today, ex-Bank of America general counsel Tim Mayopoulos covers a range of topics related to the bank's merger with Merrill Lynch, including the controversial Merrill bonus pool and the projections of Merrill's eventual $15.3 billion fourth-quarter loss. Mayopoulos was summoned to appear by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at its <br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reed Smith to Ask Nonequity Partners to Pay Chunk of Salary to Firm]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Reed Smith will ask its roughly 300 nonequity partners to contribute a percentage of their base pay -- likely about 15 percent -- to the firm in order to maintain their partnership status, Gregory Jordan, the firm's chair, has confirmed. Those who choose not to kick in can "opt to be a kind of salaried employee without those attributes of partnership," Jordan says. The move has unnerved a chunk o<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mastering Outlook to Increase Productivity]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Outlook isn't perfect, but there is more to its e-mail and calendar functions than meets the eye. By combining some of Outlook's best undiscovered features with a little ingenuity, lawyers can reduce their stress levels and perhaps add a bit of leisure time to their schedules.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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