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Law Departments Stick with Firms They Know: Report reveals exception for significant corporate and litigation matters
A vast majority of corporate legal departments withheld hiring new law firms to handle their significant legal matters in 2015, according to the LexisNexis CounselLink 2015 Year-End Enterprise Legal Management Trends (ELM) Trends Report. The study concludes that while most legal departments stayed...
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Civil Justice Playbook: The Give and the Get of M&A Suits: Practitioners should expect that disclosure-only settlements will be met with continued disfavor.
Perverse. Frivolous. Collusive. Wasteful. Pointless. Stinky. Excessive. Worthless. Horse hockey. No, we’re not talking about the U.S. presidential election. These are judges and commentators characterizing disclosure-only settlements of M&A litigation, which, in no small part due to the...
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Reaching Common Ground on E-Discovery: Closing the perception gap between inside and outside counsel drives better results
When an in-house legal team works with outside counsel, there is often a disconnect between technology and e-discovery. In-house counsel perceives outside counsel as unnecessarily expansive, while outside counsel perceives the in-house team as overly targeted and budget-focused. Laura Kibbe of RVM...
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