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Go Deep for E-Discovery Solutions

Legal Tech Newsletter
May 9, 2008

Failures to preserve and produce electronically stored information occur when organizations rely on error-prone, manual electronic discovery processes. Clearly, a deeper understanding of how to evaluate e-discovery technology solutions is sorely needed. DLA Piper partner Browning Marean examines the most important criteria for evaluating e-discovery solutions that will maximize cost savings, reduce risk, improve business efficiencies and adhere to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for you or your clients.

Ex-Prosecutor to Hunt Software Pirates for Adobe

The Recorder
May 9, 2008

Ross NadelRoss Nadel, the former criminal chief of the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office who founded and led the highly regarded Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit before joining Cooley Godward Kronish, has gone to Adobe Systems to be senior legal counsel of worldwide anti-piracy. He said he liked Cooley, but the gig at Adobe, with its distinct mix of enforcement and cybercrime, was too appealing. Most big software companies have at least some in-house lawyers working to track down software pirates.

 
 

More Non-Equity Partners = Lower PPP

When The American Lawyer released its Am Law 100 report last week, many noticed a correlation between increased PPP (profits per partner) on the one hand and the decline in the number of equity partners and growth in the category of non-equity partners on the other. This correlation might lead some to assume that law firms with a higher percentage of non-equity partners will have larger PPP's, because there are fewer partners taking a piece of the profit pie. But as Bruce MacEwen convincingly argues, the truth is that firms with a larger percentage of non-equity partners have lower PPPs overall.

--Legal Blog Watch

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