U.S. District Court Judge Mary McLaughlin recently deemed a Delaware state rule unconstitutional, much to the chagrin of the Chancery Court and the slew of corporations that call Delaware home. Three years ago an arbitration program was instated in order to allow Chancery judges to privately mediate commercial litigation, therefore lessening the costs and time [...]
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By necessity, lawyers are deeply rooted in precedent and tradition — living and breathing case law in their working lives. This mindset is extraordinarily useful for navigating our legal system and making effective, evidence-based arguments, but it can also hinder law firms’ ability to adapt to changes in the legal world that have great potential [...] Law firms often don’t utilize their non-attorney staff to their fullest extent, according to a recently released survey by ALM Legal Intelligence. However, some firms have become increasingly open to pursuing non-traditional means of tapping into the skills and knowledge of their support staff. From finance and accounting, to marketing, to IT; non-attorney staff have begun [...] GlaxoSmithKline has made enormous strides towards revamping the way that they pay for outside legal services by implementing value-based billing wherever possible. When Dan Troy was hired as GC in 2008, he immediately began to push for an alternative to hourly billing. Collaboration with key members from GSK’s finance, procurement, and IT departments yielded a [...] Knowledge management, otherwise known simply as KM, has been a hot topic in e-discovery circles as of late. While the discipline is approximately 20 years old, it has only recently been catching on in the legal technology industry. Previously, it has been well known in business, management, and information sciences. Since the practice of law [...] Back in March, the Bllawg covered the latest revision of Delaware’s Default Standard for Discovery, which was current as of December 8th, 2011. On the same date, the court released the Default Standard for Access to Source Code, which has received considerably less press. However, as several high profile patent cases have recently been in [...] |
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