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Welcoming Andrea Looney, Addressing Data Breaches, And A Victory For Western Values In Ukraine
This month we are pleased to welcome Andrea Looney, the eminently qualified new executive director of Lawyers for Civil Justice. She joins the staff of LCJ in the wake of LCJ’s great success in setting in motion a process that shows promise of reducing the cost of litigation by changing the...
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Editor’s Review – FTI Presents: "The Emerging E-Discovery Playbook"
Readers are invited to download a complimentary copy of the “Playbook” at http://tinyurl.com/mkktzkr. Download the Playbook In 2008, FTI Consulting launched the Advice from Counsel Survey and Report with the stated goal of “learning how leading e-discovery practitioners...
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Over-Preservation – Working Together To Find A Solution
Proposed Rules to reduce the cost of over-preservation by setting forth clear guidelines for document disposal are well on their way to adoption. If adopted, this will be the greatest victory yet for our economy in reducing the cost of storing electronic information. As mentioned in our...
Read MoreThe Many Ways MCC Helps Corporate Counsel
The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has the ability to reach corporate counsel throughout the country with important messages both in print and on the web. We are currently helping Lawyers for Civil Justice to reach our audience with what may well be its most important message ever – namely...
Read MoreChief Justice Nathan L. Hecht And E-Discovery Reform
On our cover, we feature Nathan L. Hecht, who is the 27th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and a worthy successor to Hon. Wallace Jefferson. Chief Justice Hecht was first elected to the court in 1988 as a justice and was re-elected four times. He was appointed chief justice by Governor...
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Women Take The Lead, And A Legal Education Can Help
Give thanks to the women in Congress for breaking the recent impasse that resulted in a costly and unnecessary shutdown that further weakened an already struggling economy. It was a great example of the power of women to bring sanity into a broken political process. It is likely that some of the...
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How You Can Voice Your Opinion On The Proposed New Federal Rules
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (Advisory Committee) is seeking public comment on a number of proposals to amend the FRCP aimed at reducing the costs and burdens of discovery. The two most important of these are a rewrite of Rule 37(e), which regulates sanctions for failure to preserve...
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