Mark Diamond

November 01, 2013 | Inside Counsel

The root cause of Washington gridlock? Relational databases

Technology can be terribly impactful, for both good and bad, and should be understood and monitored.

By Mark Diamond

4 minute read

May 15, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Fibs your e-discovery vendor and law firm may tell you—Part 2

E-discovery vendors promise that they will look everywhere for all the relevant documents

By Mark Diamond

10 minute read

May 01, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Fibs your e-discovery vendor and law firm may tell you—Part 1

The e-discovery services market in the U.S. is estimated to exceed $3 billion this year.

By Mark Diamond

9 minute read

April 08, 2013 | Inside Counsel

5 strategies to prevent runaway legal fees when being billed hourly

Casual emails from attorneys at DLA Piper appear to confirm some in-house counsels perception that large, seemingly reputable law firms are inflating their clients legal bills.

By Mark Diamond

31 minute read

April 01, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Cheat Sheet: 8 strangest lawsuits driving the 7 most noteworthy in-house career moves

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), never the most popular of federal agencies, is now facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit for an incident involving a jar of gourmet peanut butter.

By Mark Diamond

8 minute read

March 20, 2013 | Inside Counsel

A records management checklist for mergers and acquisitions

Many companies have stepped up their merger and acquisition activity, but an area often an overlooked by M&A teams is records management.

By Mark Diamond

10 minute read

March 04, 2013 | Inside Counsel

6 guidelines for restarting corporate records programs

Restarting your records program? As the economy begins to improve, many companies are either revamping or in some cases restarting their corporate records programs.

By Mark Diamond

4 minute read

February 19, 2013 | Inside Counsel

What is Big Data and why should in-house counsel care?

The technology community is all abuzz about this years new, new thing: Big Data.

By Mark Diamond

5 minute read

January 18, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Records management might be a career dead-end, but information governance is not

Lets be frank: most in-house counsel do not want to own records management.

By Mark Diamond

4 minute read