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  • The 2010 Gulf Oil Spill and Questions of Liability

    The Gulf oil spill of 2010 has rapidly generated a proliferation of lawsuits and legislative proposals. This Emerging Issues Analysis discusses the facts and circumstances surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf oil spill and analyzes the legal issues raised and the legislative responses...
  • Go to the Head of The Class!

    Elijah Technologies found software that’s head of the class for electronic discovery processing. As a highly regarded legal technology firm that offers comprehensive computer forensics, electronic discovery and document management services for law firms and corporate law departments, Elijah Technologies...
  • Establishing Value in the Strategic Road Map

    Incorporating Value into the Strategic Planning Process By Steven A. Lauer, Esq. A law department should develop a strategic plan to assure that its view of its role and the view held by its clients coincide. A plan also enables a law department to chart out details of that role, what resources...
  • Litigation Budgeting: Possible or impossible?

    What Good is a Litigation Budget? By Eric E. Bensen and Rebecca K. Myers There is probably no other part of the litigation process where the cold hard reality of hindsight has less in common with the lofty expectations of planning than the much demanded, but universally-dreaded litigation budget...
  • Streamlining Outdated Processes and Reducing Errors-See How!

    Stewart Title Guaranty Company Stewart Title Guaranty Company (STGC) applied CounselLink™ to modernize and manage the process of handling Stewart Legal Services’ growing volume of billings, maintain good relationships with outside counsel, and save the company time and money. Overview...
  • Supreme Court Finds Search Of Employees' Text Messages Was Reasonable

    Mealey's Litigation Report: Cyber Tech & E-Commerce July 2010 Copyright 2010 LexisNexis, Division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright in individual articles as noted therein. Mealey's Litigation Report: Cyber Tech & E-Commerce July 2010 12-5 Mealey's Litig. Rep. Cyber Tech...
  • Surviving a Down Economy and Succeeding: A story of managing litigation costs

    Best Practices in Managing Litigation Costs By John Murphy Obtaining value, sticking to budgets, and controlling escalating litigation costs may mean more today than ever before. According to Lawyers for Civil Justice (in a paper presented at the 2010 Conference on Civil Litigation), Fortune 200...
  • Reeling in Skyrocketing Litigation Costs

    A New Era of Managing Pre-Litigation Costs By Alan Tse When I joined LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. five years ago, the practice of e-discovery was just beginning to percolate. But we could see the writing on the wall: create a comprehensive set of cost management solutions or watch litigation...
  • The "Four Corners" Rule and the Duty to Pay Defense Costs

    The “Four Corners” Rule and the Duty to Pay Defense Costs By John B. Berringer and Jill N. Averett Officers, directors and their corporations routinely are denied the full benefits of the D&O Insurance Policies they purchase at great cost when lawsuits naming them as defendants...
  • Managing the Law Department with a Tighter Budget: How Integrating Legal Research and Litigation Tools Improve Risk Management

    Managing the Law Department with a Tighter Budget: How Integrating Legal Research and Litigation Tools Improve Risk Management By Craig Bennett, LexisNexis Legal chiefs today are more pressed than ever to control legal costs, a task made more daunting because of increased government regulations...
  • John K. Rabiej on the Consequences of Failing to Impose a Timely Litigation Hold

    John K. Rabiej on the Consequences of Failing to Impose a Timely Litigation Hold In Field Day v. County of Suffolk , 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28476 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 25, 2010), the plaintiff alleged that a substantial volume of ESI was destroyed because the defendant had taken no steps to preserve ESI when...
  • The Evolution of Semantic Search on the Web

    2009 will be remembered as the year that knowledge workers began to seriously value semantics. Read why the ability to discover more precise search results is at the heart of a new generation of search technology that is the subject of this white paper. Click here to view the white paper >
  • Best Practices in Litigation Management: Co-Authored by Bill Bertrand and Alan Garten

    Best Practices in Litigation Management: Co-Authored by Bill Bertrand and Alan Garten Regardless of whether you have been in-house for years or you are sitting in your first in-house seat, the word litigation can bring both fear and excitement to even the most experienced lawyers. Bet the company...
  • Finding and Researching Experts and Their Testimony

    Finding and Researching Experts and Their Testimony , Second Edition Co-authored by : Michael Brennan , Miller Canfield David Dilenschneider , LexisNexis Myles Levin , Daubert Tracker Jim Robinson , JurisPro Inc. This white paper explores various online resources that can be used to find experts,...