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Little Common Ground Regarding Models for E-Discovery Practices
The past year has shown a spike in law firms -- particularly large defense firms -- creating practice areas or task forces dedicated to e-discovery. This new group joins some tried and true practices across Pennsylvania. If one thing is consistent, it's that every firm handles the practice differently, often depending on the size or caseload of the firm.
Firms With New Boston Offices Struggle to Find Laterals
Law firms that have planted roots in Boston over the past several years and expanded mostly through lateral hiring are struggling to expand their ranks in a fiercely competitive field of national and international firms. Hiring lateral partners is taxing, say managing partners, with some firms facing empty offices and others reporting two-year courtships of prospective hires. Firms that aren't based in Boston still face "an uphill climb to become known and established in the market," says one partner.Law firm subsidiary is e-discovery vendor
Amid a flurry of law firms in recent years that have formed an e-discovery practice group, Drinker Biddle & Reath has taken the concept a step further by creating a subsidiary to handle the technical aspect of mining electronic data in litigation.
Plaintiffs Lawyers Hit on New Pharma Angle: State Clients
Hersh & Hersh, which has represented hundreds of Zyprexa users in suits against Eli Lilly, is one of the plaintiffs firms now taking on bigger clients against the pharmaceutical giant: states seeking money for footing the public health costs from the anti-psychotic drug. So far, seven states have filed Medicaid recovery suits against Eli Lilly over the way it promoted Zyprexa. Thanks to the drug�s commercial success, any fine or cost recovery in state-government litigation could be sizable, attorneys say.
Panelists Explore Relationship Between White and Minority Lawyers
When Ramona E. Romero, now general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was a first-year associate at a large law firm in the 1980s, leather skirts were all the rage.Panel Has Low Profile, High Goal
At 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 14, the Thursday before last, journalists across Pennsylvania were plowing through the state Supreme Court�s 100-page opinion in the pay raise litigation � which had been filed just an hour earlier � when a somewhat mysterious e-mail appeared in their inboxes.
Much Ado About Fees, as MF Global Trustees Deliver Reports
Against the backdrop of a rare public meeting on legal fees in big corporate bankruptcies, Hughes Hubbard & Reed corporate reorganization and bankruptcy group chair James Giddens and former FBI Director Louis Freeh of Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan submitted their trustee reports advocating for dueling interests in MF Global's Chapter 11 case.Trending Stories
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- 3Inherent Diminished Value Damages Unavailable to 3rd-Party Claimants, Court Says
- 4Pa. Defense Firm Sued by Client Over Ex-Eagles Player's $43.5M Med Mal Win
- 5Losses Mount at Morris Manning, but Departing Ex-Chair Stays Bullish About His Old Firm's Future
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