More Tech-Savvy Lawyers are Incorporating Social Media in Conducting their Business

10/22/2010 Twitter has ceased to become a mode of communication and networking enjoyed by teens, students, and young professionals alone. It has also become one of the best venues for dissipating and acquiring information among in-house counsels and other legal advisers. According to Melanie Hatton, Latitude Digital Marketing’s legal department head, she used Twitter to […]

Stalwarts in Legal Research Industry are Joining Bloomberg Law

10/21/2010 New York – Two stalwarts in the legal research industry joined Bloomberg Law, a real time legal research system. Lou Andreozzi shall be the Chairman of Bloomberg Law, while Larry D. Thompson, PhD, shall be the chief operating officer. They will play significant roles in further expanding the potentials of Bloomberg Law. Looking at […]

Corporations are Strengthening Their Law Departments

10/21/2010 According to the 2010 Chief Legal Officer Survey conducted by legal industry consultant Altman Weil based in Newton Square, corporations are now strengthening their law departments as evidenced by increased internal budgets and hiring more paralegals and lawyers for the said departments. They are also minimizing giving recourse to outside counsel. Out of the […]

Venture for a Legal P2P Fails

10/19/2010 An attempt to make music file sharing as legal has stumbled. Choruss, the project’s name, has failed to successfully legalize music file sharing in colleges and homes. As its founder, Jim Griffin, puts it, “I blew it.” Choruss had its humble beginnings as a project in Warner Music. The project would make file sharing […]

A Prominent Litigation Consulting Firm Launches Office in Southern California

10/19/2010 Prolumina, a well-known litigation consulting firm, which has its headquarters at Seattle, has launched a new office at Southern California. The firm has been growing considerably, and with their recent launching, they will be able to cater to more entities and offer various litigation consulting services. These include Trial Graphics, Trial Technology, Litigation Strategy, […]

eLitigation Solutions Investing on Technology to Meet Company’s Growth

10/19/2010 San Francisco – eLitigation Solutions, a prominent company that focuses on providing electronic discovery solutions to the legal industry, made investments on increasing their technological capabilities due to a promising growth in the first quarters of 2010. One of the significant moves of the company is moving into an SAS-70 Type II data center […]

Mayer Brown’s Chairman: Focus is Integration and Not New Mergers

10/19/2010 Chicago-based law firm, Mayer Brown LLP, will be focusing on integration and not on merging with other law firms. For the past three years, the firm has been expanding operations in foreign countries like Brazil and Hong Kong. According to Herbert Krueger, Jr., their immediate focus is “to build up what we have in […]

Accused for the Death of Mentally-Handicapped Woman Wanted Death Penalty Nixed

10/18/2010 Pennsylvania – 24-year old Ricky Smyrnes, one of those charged for the torture and murder of 30-year old Jennifer Daugherty, said that the prosecutors on the case will not be able to seek death penalty because his mental capacity is that of a 3rd-grader. His lawyers also asked for the charges to be dismissed […]

All 50 States to Investigate Robo-Signing on Foreclosures

10/18/2010 Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, and other attorneys general from every state in the U.S. will be investigating the fraudulent foreclosure filings done by various lending institutions. Linda Cook, one of those who have battled lenders, said that foreclosure documents can really be laden with errors. Cook said that they were all happy. She […]

Hayley and Diego’s Law – Already Effective

10/18/2010 New York – Hayley and Diego’s Law is already effective. District attorney all throughout New York can now charge motorists for “careless driving” whenever they injure pedestrians and cyclists because of negligence or carelessness. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, in 2008, about 344 pedestrians and cyclists were killed in New York, which […]