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E-Discovery Evolved: The Future of kCura's Relativity and E-Discovery Product Integrations

kCura's Relativity has grown into the main platform for e-discovery. Where has its evolution placed it amid the marketplace?
28 minute read

Texas Lawyer

One Lawyer's Work to Rebuild a Practice After Surviving Cancer

A few months after he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009, Houston construction lawyer Thomas Barber decided to wind down his practice at Coats Rose. Six years later, after his cancer went into remission, the newly married Barber joined a new firm and has spent the last year embarking on the demanding task of rebuilding his practice.
21 minute read

Legaltech News

As AI Portends the Death of the Billable Hour, Law Firms Face New Reality

In this week's AI Round up, LTN explores how AI-empowered in-house counsel are changing firms' business dynamics, and how firms can adapt to a new market.
18 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Attorney-Client Relationship and the Attorney Who Represents the Boss: Part II

The key feature of the attorney-client relationship is the reliance the client places upon the skill and expertise of the attorney. This feature does not exist when an attorney represents himself, or when he asks a subordinate attorney to do something without relying on the ­subordinate's superior knowledge or expertise in a particular area of the law. The independence of the attorney from the client is the hallmark of the relationship and is the lynchpin of the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Kay v. Ehrler that in order for there to be an attorney-client relationship there must be a principal (client) and an agent (attorney).
14 minute read

The American Lawyer

Squire Patton Boggs Helps Chappelle Snag $60M Netflix Deal

The Cleveland-based Am Law 100 firm is advising Ohio native Dave Chappelle on his comeback tour, one that after a Saturday Night Live appearance this month has snagged the comedian a $60 million deal with Netflix Inc. for three standup specials.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Orders Review of Katten Documents in Shkreli Case

A Brooklyn federal judge on Tuesday ordered Cooley attorneys to quickly identify documents that might be turned over to Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical executive charged in a fraud scheme.
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

Off the Grid: Big Firms and Their Far-Flung Offices

Whether it's Myanmar, Mongolia or Wyoming, global clients in remote locations make for unique outposts for some Am Law 200 and Global 100 firms.
42 minute read

Legaltech News

Five Reasons a One-Stop E-Discovery Shop is a Win for Clients

Perkins Coie's Geof Vance argues that a one-stop shop can provide cost savings, better work product and more.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Debevoise Takes Pro Bono Role on Big Apple Circus Bankruptcy

After nearly four decades in operation, The Big Apple Circus Ltd. filed for bankruptcy Sunday, with Debevoise & Plimpton serving as lead counsel to the Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit on its Chapter 11 case.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Law Firms That Could Be Big Winners in a Sessions DOJ

With the Trump transition team's selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, several Washington law firms — especially those with conservative leaning white-collar lawyers and lobbyists — could benefit from ties to the Alabama Republican.
52 minute read

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