Survei Menunjukkan Inggris, Perusahaan Internasional Harapkan Merger Lebih

One in three law firm managers expects to be involved in a merger or acquisition during the next year, according to joint research published by accountancy firm BDO and legal consultancy Jomati.

Survei, which canvassed the opinions of management at 55 Inggris. and international firms, reveals that two-thirds of law firms have been involved in some form of merger or acquisition talks during the past 12 bulan, dengan 82 percent of those questioned stating that consolidation will be the greatest force for change in the legal sector in the coming years.

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Mengejutkan? Pengacara Temp Harus Tinjauan 80 Dokumen Per Jam

Temporary attorneys doing document review for an unnamed firm were sent the following email on Monday:

Please pick up the pace. They are expecting you to do about 80 docs an hour and all of you are less than half that. Changes will be made soon if this does not change asap.

via Temporary Attorney

Some commenters to the post found it unsurprisingi cant believe people are doing less than 80 docs per hour on a doc reviewand some such a review impossible.

Legal Blog Watch (hat tip to the ABA Journal) noted the issues with requiring such a review:

The demand for the review of “80 docs an hourhighlights the extent to which document review has now been commoditized in the legal world. Despite being a supposedly important part of the discovery and investigative process in legal proceedings, and despite the sometimes dire consequences if the role is not performed correctly, some clients and law firms continue to prioritize speed and cost-savings above all else.

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Microsoft criticises privacy in Chrome 3.0 – ZDNet.co.uk

The latest version of Google’s Chrome browser presents a privacy risk through its search-term tracking, a Microsoft security executive has said.

Microsoft general manager Amy Barzdukas, who heads up Internet Explorer and consumer security for the software company, said on Wednesday that Chrome 3.0 sends packets of information to Google every time a character is typed into its search box.

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Perusahaan Inggris tetap enggan untuk e-penemuan

More UK IT departments are implementing policies to manage electronically stored information (ESI) and e-discovery to help stave off potential litigation issues.

But many still see little point in spending money preparing for legal requirements that may never affect them. And they are hampered from implementing suitable policies by the large volume of information that needs to be stored, and a lack of time and manpower to perform the necessary maintenance of data archives over long periods.

melalui Perusahaan Inggris tetap enggan untuk e-penemuan – 21 Oktober 2009 – Komputasi.

Revised FTC Guidelines: Blogger Beware

Regular readers of blogs and other Internet-based newsletters know it is not unusual to see product reviews in these publications. While sometimes the reviews appear to be careful, impartial journalism, at other times the writer seems just a wee bit too enthusiastic about the posts subject matter.

There are good reasons to question just how impartial the authors of these reviews might be. Advertisers oftencompwriters with free products or other benefits in the hopes of receiving favorable reviews, though it does not have to go that far. A Web site or blog that depends on click-through traffic for revenue may be so hungry for copy that its authors simply cut and paste blurbs received from a products public relations department, without ever receiving or using the product that is the subject of the post.

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Kasus Spionase Ekonomi Langka Diisi Dengan quirks

Di antara alasan untuk memeriksa percobaan spionase ekonomi yang langka menendang off minggu ini di San Jose, California: tuduhan tentang upaya China untuk menembus Silicon Valley; prospek kedua terdakwa mengambil stand; istri dari salah satu terdakwa bersaksi bagi pemerintah; dan prosedur untuk penanganan saksi yang hampir tidak pernah digunakan dalam kasus pidana.

Pemilihan juri dimulai Selasa dalam penuntutan Lan Lee dan Yuefei Ge, dua mantan insinyur untuk NetLogic Microsystems Inc. yang dibebankan dalam 2006 dengan pencurian rahasia dagang. Jaksa federal kemudian menabrak dakwaan untuk memasukkan spionase ekonomi, mengatakan terdakwa mencoba untuk mengkomersilkan data komputer chip yang dicuri dengan dana ventura dari pemerintah Cina.

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Interesting Social Media News Service: Thoora

Thoora is a new and unique service that helps people discover the news attracting the most attention within social and traditional media. In real-time, Thoora identifies the most interesting stories by exploring the entire blogosphere, Twitter and nearly 5,000 traditional media sources to determine the stories attracting the most blog posts, komentar, tweet, and news coverage.

Thoora’s approach to collecting and displaying the most interesting stories is based on what’s implicitly happening within social and traditional mediablog posts, komentar, Twitter updates and news articlesrather than voting or link analysis. We take into account millions of voices rather than relying on a small group of editors or A-List bloggers to determine the most important stories.

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Update: First Impressions on Security in Google Wave

Nearly two years ago, many technology sites brimmed with hype over a new Google technology called OpenSocial. Bloggers questioned if OpenSocial would spell the end of Facebook. Amid all the discussion, I felt that many people were ignoring several serious issues regarding how OpenSocial would handle user data, pribadi, and security. A few people brought up questions on this topic, but until an actual implementation hit the market, no one seemed completely sure how OpenSocial would work in practice.

melalui First Impressions on Security in Google Wave | Social Hacking.

Law Firms Look at Process Management

What do lawyers and general contractors have in common? Nothing yet.

But the idea that the legal profession could look to the processes used by general contractors in completing a job was one raised at an Association of Corporate Counsel Value Challenge meeting in Philadelphia this summer.

Project and process managementin essence the antithesis of the billable-hour modelis a concept being eyed by law firms as they try to ensure they can deliver the efficiency required to make good on their alternative fee arrangements.

melalui Hukum Teknologi – Law Firms Look at Process Management .