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E-Discovery: Defining Documents -- Bye Bye Bates
One of the most challenging problems facing litigators is how to work with the
massive volume of digital documents produced during discovery. In the past, each
piece of paper was stamped with a "Bates" number -- to help manage exhibits. But
with digital files, no "pages" and no "Bates" number! Now files may be anything
from Excel spread sheets to Word files, to e-mail, to iPod downloads! What to
do? Listen as Monica Bay,
editor-in-chief of Law Technology News talks with
Tom O'Connor, director of the Legal Electronic Document
Institute (and a long-time member of Law Technology News' editorial
advisory board) who says it's time to rethink how we process and review files.
Hear about a simple step that controls costs, improves accuracy and could
dramatically change the face of e-discovery. O'Connor also discusses this
month's
Louisiana Bar Solo and Small Firm Technology Conference in New Orleans
-- designed to help practitioners affected by Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath. Both O'Connor and LTN's Monica Bay speak at the two-day event.
The results of the AM Law 100
are in and total revenues for the Am Law 100 firms have reached $64.5 billion! Law.com blogger and host,
Bob Ambrogi
talks to the experts about the AM Law 100. Bob welcomes Aric Press,
Editor-in-Chief of The American
Lawyer Magazine and Bruce
MacEwen, a lawyer and consultant to law firms on strategic and economic
issues and blogger for “Adam Smith, Esq.”
On this edition of
Lawyer2Lawyer, we will look at the AM Law 100, what goes into the
research, discuss the final results, go back ten years to see how firms Revenue
Per Lawyer has changed and look ahead to what the future looks like for law
firms.
The legal publishing market is a nearly $5 billion business. However, some have
taken case law into the public domain, calling it free case law, which allows
attorneys, legal scholars, and the general public to have public access to
decisions for State & Federal Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Law.com bloggers and
co-hosts, J.
Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi,
discuss this hot topic with the experts:
Professor Thomas F. Bruce, Director of the Legal Information
Institute at Cornell University Law School, Carl Malamud,
founder of
Public.Resource.org and
Andy Martens, Senior Vice President of New Product Development,
from Thomson West.
Bob, Craig and guests will explore the controversy over whose public records are
they?
Knowledge is definitely power and the financial services industry needs to
better educate consumers on the benefits and attributes of structured settlement
products.
Ringler Radio host,
Larry Cohen, welcomes special guest, Bobby Steele, President of
AIG American General Structured Settlements, as they look at the results
of a
new consumer survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by Esearch.com and sponsored
by AIG American General Structured Settlements, focused on structured
settlements vs. lump sum settlements. Larry and Bobby discuss the results of the
survey, the Grillo v. Pettiete case and the need to better educate
Americans on structured settlements.
The raid of a polygamist compound in West Texas has raised some important issues
of rights of children, women and family as well as religion. Host and Law.com blogger, Bob Ambrogi
turns to the experts,
Attorney Betsy Branch, from the firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley,
Nelson & Downing, LLP and lawyer and social critic,
Wendy Kaminer, blogger on civil liberties at thefreeforall.net,
to discuss the aftermath of the raid of the FLDS compound. Bob, Betsy and Wendy
will explore DNA testing, civil liberties, the question of child abuse vs.
religion, a sect’s legal rights and the fate of the children.
The Federal Shield Law is pending in Congress. Meanwhile, reporters have
come under fire for protecting the privacy of their sources resulting in jail
time and high fines. Join
Law.com bloggers and co-hosts J.
Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi
as they explore the shield law with the experts: Lucy Dalglish,
Executive Director of the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Geoffrey
R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of
Chicago Law School and Attorney Joel
Kurtzberg, partner at the firm, Cahill Gordon &
Reindel LLP. They will discuss the federal shield law pending in
Congress, high profile cases involving reporters, states’ efforts to enact their
own shield laws, punishment given to those who protect their sources and the
rights of journalists.
Vaccinations have been the first line of defense against illness for children.
Now questions are being raised about complications resulting from vaccinations
and a possible connection to autism. In fact, hundreds of lawsuits have been
filed under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Join
Ringler Radio host,
Larry Cohen and co-host
Dennis English from Ringler Associates
with special guests and experts: Advocate Mary Tocco, and Attorney Kevin
Conway, from the firm, Conway, Homer &
Chin-Caplan, P.C. in Boston, sharing their experiences and expertise as
they examine the current state of vaccine litigation, its evolution and history,
including a prominent real-life case, and the importance of education, research,
the personal rights of parents and what’s ahead.
With global warming and environmental issues plaguing the world, the legal
community is doing its part by taking charge and partaking in individual tasks
within their firms to save the environment. Join Law.com blogger and
co-host, Bob
Ambrogi as he talks “Green Firms” with the experts:
Attorney Carolyn S. Kaplan, Chief Sustainability Officer from Nixon Peabody
LLP and Attorney Daniel
Eisenberg, Associate at Beveridge & Diamond, PC
and the Public Service Vice Chair for the ABA Section on
Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) Air Quality Committee. In this
show, we will talk about the emergence of green firms worldwide, how firms can
get involved, what going green can do for your firm and what employees within a
firm need to do on a daily basis in order to stay green.
The sub-prime mortgage mess, foreclosures and housing downturn. The real estate
world is stagnant and the U-S is now involved in a huge housing crisis leading
many to take advantage and prey on vulnerable homeowners and Mortgage fraud
is one product of the fall of the housing market. Join Law.com bloggers and
co-hosts, J.
Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi,
as they turn to the experts, real estate insider, Richard Hagar and
Attorney Melissa Huelsman, to discuss the ins and out of the real estate
crisis and mortage fraud. They will highlight the Operation Homewrecker
case, the rise in mortgage fraud and how to protect yourself from mortgage fraud
and rise above the present real estate crisis.
Join host and Attorney
Alan S. Pierce at the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance
Section (TIPS) conference in Chicago recently for a candid discussion of
the AMA Guides to Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 6th Edition in this
Workers Comp Matters. Join Alan with special guests, Dr. Christopher
Brigham, board certified in Occupational Medicine, President of Brigham and Associates
and Senior Contributing Editor to AMA Guides effective now in 2008 and Attorney
Todd McFarren, partner at Rucka, O'Boyle, Lombardo
and McKenna and past president of the Work Injury Law and Advocacy Group
(WILG). What's the importance of the Guides in workers comp cases as a standard
to define the impact of an injury or illness? And hear the recent criticism from
some lawyers in the plaintiff bar across the U.S. Hear the issues and answers!
The future of Workers Compensation laws are changing. Trends show the laws are
being reformed making it more difficult for employees and easier for big
corporations when it comes to Workers Comp. Is there a trend to federalize the
laws? The questions are raised during Attorney Alan S. Pierce'sWorkers Comp Matters program discussed before an audience at the
recent ABA Tort Trial &
Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) conference in Chicago. Listen as
expert guests,
Professor Ed Welch, School of Labor & Industrial Relations at Michigan
State University and
Professor John F. Burton, Jr., School of Management & Labor Relations at
Rutgers University join Alan in this peek at the future and where we go from
here in Workers Comp legal issues. Special thanks to TIPS Chair & Attorney
Len Nason for inviting LegalTalkNetwork to the conference.
Join Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, as she interviews
Donna
Payne, author of LTN’s new “Test Drive” column about mobile tools. Payne,
president of Seattle’s Payne Consulting Company, and a former LTN board member,
discusses several devices that make practice (and life) easier for mobile
practitioners, including GPS devices, ultra-small video recorders, and new “book
readers” that help users stay informed while traveling. It’s a lively discussion
full of useful info for legal road warriors.
As the landscape of employment has dramatically changed, so have the issues
regarding employment lawsuits. Ringler Radio host,
Larry Cohen, alongside co-host,
Tony Robinson, from Ringler’s Seattle office, welcome special guest,
Attorney Sheryl Willert, managing director at the firm of, Williams Kastner,
to give us her insight into the world of Employment Law. Larry, Tony and
Attorney Willert will minimize this big topic by highlighting the importance of
the Employment Handbook, the non-compete clause, specific employment litigation
and discrimination claims.
What are the implications of a blogger writing about someone anonymously? Last
month, the burning question on everyone’s mind in the patent world was finally
answered when the identity of the author of the anonymous, Patent Troll Tracker Blog, was revealed as
Rick Frenkel, an IP Director and in-house patent attorney
at Cisco Systems. Law.com blogger and co-host,
J. Craig Williams, gets two
different perspectives from the experts. In the first segment, Craig welcomes
Attorney Raymond Niro Sr., the attorney who was once a target of Frenkel’s blog.
In our second segment, Craig speaks with the popular patent blogger, Dennis
Crouch from Patently-O, to get his perspective on the Troll Tracker and the
dangers of blogging anonymously.
In this edition of
The ESI Report, host Michele Lange, Attorney and Director of
Legal Technologies at
Kroll Ontrack, jumpstarts the Buzz with Karen Andersen, a
technical consultant in Kroll
Ontrack’s ESI Consulting Group, as they discuss common IT issues facing
in-house counsel. In the Bits & Bytes segment, Kelly Kubacki, Kroll
Ontrack’s Legal Correspondent, takes a look at the discovery order issued in
Diabetes Centers of America, Inc. v. Healthpia America, Inc. Want
to know what goes on in a day in the life of a corporate electronic discovery
counsel? On the Spotlight, Allison Brecher, senior litigation counsel and
e-discovery coordinator, for
Marsh & McLennan Companies, focuses on a corporation’s e-discovery legal
team.
Considered a hero to many in the legal community for fighting for the little
guy, Eliot Spitzer, the now former Governor of NY, became tangled up in a
prostitution ring that led him to resign from office. Law.com bloggers and
co-hosts J.
Craig Williams and Robert Ambrogi
turn to the experts, David
Frank from Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly, Attorney Harvey
Silverglate, criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and Dan
Slater, lead writer for The Wall Street Journal's
Law Blog, to discuss the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer. Bob and Craig
will discuss this scandal, take a look at Spitzer’s work as Attorney General,
explore the potential criminal charges that he faces and get reaction from the
legal community.
Personal Injury Victims as a Unique Investor Class Pt III
How can the issues that arise in behavioral finance specifically and profoundly
affect personal injury victims as members of that unique investor class? Join
Ringler Radio host
Larry Cohen and co-host,
William D. Wakelee from the Ringler office in Philadelphia, as they come
full circle in part three of this tremendous series on the unique investor
class. Ringler Radio welcomes returning guest,
Dr. Christopher Coyne, from St. Joseph’s University,
who will re-cap by exploring the three concepts within the investment
decision-making process, how people behave even after they’ve decided to take a
guaranteed tax-free structured settlement and how unique investors simply can’t
afford risk.
The work of a paralegal is never done. Although paralegals cannot offer legal
advice to clients like attorneys, they are considered the backbone of the law
practice. Join Law.com
bloggers and co-hosts, J.
Craig Williams and Robert Ambrogi
as they explore the important role of a paralegal. Lawyer2Lawyer welcomes
Tita A. Brewster, Current President of the National Association of Legal
Assistants (NALA) and Chere
Estrin, CEO of Estrin LegalEd,
to discuss a paralegal’s importance to a firm, the hurdles paralegals face, the
Richlin Security Service Co v. Chertoff case and the growth of this legal
profession.
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