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IE Discovery Invests in Discovery Workflow Provider eDirect Impact Saturday, September 4th, 2010
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwire – August 10, 2010) – IE Discovery, a leading provider of comprehensive Discovery Management solutions to the legal community, announced today it has acquired a majority interest in eDirect Impact. The investment will provide eDirect Impact with additional funding for development of its market-leading discovery workflow management technology, eManage. In addition to its equity stake, IE Discovery has an exclusive license to deploy eManage workflow management technology in the corporate and government markets
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IE Discovery Invests in Discovery Workflow Provider eDirect Impact
One resource we here in Information Central go to again and again on Realtor.org is the biannual Legal Scan, but not very many REALTORS® know what it is or how to find it.
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InfoCentral Video Update: NAR’s Legal Scan
NEW YORK, July 6 /PRNewswire/ — Investcorp , a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, announced today that it has acquired Veritext Holding Company, a leading national provider of deposition and litigation support services to law firms, Fortune 500 corporations, and regulatory agencies in the United States.
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Veritext Acquired by Investcorp
www.thenewlegalnormal.wordpress.com A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings. This blog is intended to provide observations on buying and selling legal servcies and to be a bellwether on this topic.
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Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) June 15, 2010 — Precise, Inc. ( www.precise-law.com ), a trusted provider of electronic discovery solutions and trial support services, today announced the completion of an agreement whereby it has acquired LitSoft LLC , a provider of eDiscovery software as a service (SaaS) founded in 2006 in Annandale, VA. The purchase of LitSoft is a strategic addition to Precise’s rapidly expanding suite of eDiscovery solutions
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Precise, Inc. Acquires eDiscovery Software Provider LitSoft LLC
The rogue trader who cost Société Générale almost €5 billion was dismissed as an historical footnote today by executives seeking to draw a line under France’s biggest financial scandal.
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SocGen writes off Kerviel as a footnote in history
Witnesses in the Chelsea Barracks case “concocted an untrue story” to cover up the involvement of the Prince of Wales and the Emir of Qatar in the cancellation of an £81 million modernist housing project, the High Court was told yesterday.
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Witnesses ‘lied to hide Prince’s involvement,’ court told
Goldman Sachs Industry Trends, Legal Environment and FIU Opportunities
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LINDON, Utah and NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ — AccessData Corporation and CT Summation today announce they’ve signed an agreement to join forces and merge into a single company, AccessData Group, LLC. The new company will deliver an end-to-end eDiscovery software solution capable of addressing all phases of the litigation workflow
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AccessData Corporation and CT Summation Announce Merger
Amjad Malik, a solicitor-advocate at the Rochdale firm Amjad Malik Solicitors, acted pro bono for three Pakistani students in a deportation appeal hearing at a Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London and won the appeal against deportation in the case of Shoaib Khan.
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Lawyer of the Week: Amjad Malik
Israel forcibly boarded and diverted six foreign flag vessels on the high seas bound for Gaza. Was it entitled to proclaim a blockade, to use force to implement it and if so, was the level of force appropriate
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Gaza-Israel conflict needs balance and a sense of proportion
It was years in the making and the centrepiece of Labour’s radical shake-up of legal services but the highly touted “Tesco law” phenomenon could be heading for the long grass, kicked there by less enthusiastic ministers in the new coalition Government.
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Is ‘Tesco law’ heading for the long grass?
It must be the toughest judicial brief going: tasked with overseeing sentencing in England and Wales, when prisons are full to bursting and there is no money to build any more. But Lord Justice Leveson is firm about one thing: “I have not considered this as a brief to produce guidelines that are going to reduce the prison population.”
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Sentencing Council: judges told that justice is safe from ‘tramline’ sentencing
A former stockbroker fined a record £2.8 million for market abuse yesterday described the penalty as “absurd” and said that the Financial Services Authority was using him so that it could look tough on economic crime.
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‘Dishonest cheat’ handed record £2.8m penalty by FSA
An almost audible sigh of relief swept through the corridors of banking and regulation departments in City law firms when the new Government jettisoned proposals to scrap the Financial Services Authority (FSA), one of the totems of the new Labour years and a personal creation of Gordon Brown.
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City firms welcome survival of the Financial Services Authority
Simon Campbell, a partner at First Defence, a Bedfordshire firm, acted for Ellis Drummond, 18, who faced an antisocial behaviour order that banned him from wearing in public low-slung trousers and any clothing with the hood up. The judge ruled that these conditions breached the Human Rights Act 2000 and were removed.
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Lawyer of the Week: Simon Campbell
Time is starting to run out on the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT). This well-established system enabling foreign (which in this case means non-England and Wales) lawyers to qualify as English solicitors will be phased out from the autumn to be replaced by a Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme.
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Test changes for lawyers who qualify outside England and Wales
Peter Crisp has described it as a blip. The over-recruitment by BBP law school last autumn of 54 Bar Vocational Course (BVC) applicants led to student dismay, an inquiry by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and accusations that profit motives were put before student interests.
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BPP law school: ‘We won’t let recruitment fiasco happen again’
A former hedge fund trader pleaded guilty to insider dealing yesterday in a landmark deal under which he may testify against his suspected co-conspirators, if they are charged, in the hope of receiving a lighter sentence.
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Former trader Anjam Ahmad pleads guilty to insider dealing in FSA case
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Advanced Discovery Services and American Data Services announced today that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The combined company is well positioned to address the specific needs of today’s law firms and corporate legal departments with regards to regulatory, investigatory and legal matters.
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Advanced Discovery Services and American Data Services Merge
Speakers: Bill Deckelman, Corporate Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, CSC Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Cisco Systems Aric Press, Editor-in-Chief, American Lawyer Magazine Moderator: Paul Lippe, CEO, Legal OnRamp Silicon Valleys innovations continue to transform high-tech and related industries, such as how the Web has reshaped the music and newspaper businesses. But even as dramatic shifts are occurring elsewhere, an industry that has seemed immune to change is the legal business.
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Innovation & Change, a "New Normal" for the Legal Industry?
Jeffrey Morgan, principal at Moiré Marketing Partners, moderated an interactive panel discussion on law firm budgeting trends at the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) National Conference in Denver, CO on March 12, 2010. The panel included industry experts Kim Perret, Hunton & Williams LLP; Nathalie Daum, Lewis and Roca LLP; Ramona Cyr, Luce Forward and Kelly Annis, The Stolar Partnership LLP.
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Moiré’s Jeffrey Morgan speaks at LMA National Conference
In the DVD Safety in the Process Industries – Trends, Leading Opinions and Experiences, more than one hundred questions have been answered by world – renowned experts from seven European nations in the safety industry. This compilation (part I) covers some aspects of the following themes: Trends ● IEC standards: Diffusion, Acknowledgment, Obligation ● Legal aspect To find out more visit www.safetyusersgroup.com or go to http
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Safety in the process industry – Compilation I
NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire/ — DOAR Litigation Consulting (“DOAR”) and Inference Data today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which DOAR will acquire Inference Data, a leader in analytics and electronic discovery software. Inference Data, based in New York, NY, is a strategic addition to DOAR’s already extensive discovery management practice. Inference Data provides next-generation software for analytics-driven assessment, meet-and-confer preparation, and accelerated legal review
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DOAR Litigation Consulting Acquires Inference Data
According to the “3rd Annual eDiscovery Survey of Illinois Lawyers,” an end user survey of 185 legal professionals conducted to understand their level of exposure and experience with electronic discovery vendors and products included mentions of companies such as Applied Discovery, Kroll Ontrack, FTI Consulting and Huron Consulting. Four of the key findings noted in the Executive Overview are: Corporate e-discovery in-sourcing continues as customers adopt software and services over reliance on law firms or wholly outsourcing the process
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The 451 Group Releases E-Discovery and E-Disclosure Report
Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (31 March 2010) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“ Global EDD Group ”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative legal technology solutions across the globe, today announced the formation of Asia Legal Technologies ™ (“ALT”), a strategic alliance and joint venture with Data Management Corporation (“DMC”), a document and data processing solutions company based in Singapore. ALT combines the experience, knowledge and resources of DMC and Global EDD Group to provide innovative arbitration, due diligence and litigation support services throughout the Asia-Pacific Region
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DMC and Global EDD Group Form Joint Venture – Asia Legal Technologies
Britain’s most senior judges will hear a landmark appeal this week over whether divorcing couples should be bound by pre-marriage agreements on how their assets will be split.
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Supreme Court to decide on the validity of prenuptial agreements