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October 11, 2017

 
 
 

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HEAVY DUTY – Lots of law firms still love their desktop computers, even if other professions consider them better used as boat anchors. A full 45 percent of all law firms plan to equip attorneys with desktop computers in their 2017 hardware refresh, according to our 2017 Legaltech News Law Firm Tech Survey. That’s a 16-point jump from last year. Why? Desktop computers are still potentially the most secure, reliable and cheaply maintained option for many firms, Gabrielle Orum Hernández reports. READ MORE HERE

WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA – Testimony from the now-retired Equifax CEO last week helped flesh out the timeline of what company execs knew when--and as Jennifer Williams-Alvarez reports, that timeline raises questions about what CLO John Kelley could have done differently. He was in charge of security--and signed off on stock sales by three executives before the company had gone public with the breach. As one GC put it: “Obviously, in the light of day, the optics look bad.” READ MORE HERE

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ESI, E-Discovery Plans and the Mediator – Facing the Future of Electronic Discovery - As issues concerning Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) and E-Discovery are becoming more prevalent and increasingly complex, litigants are beginning to hear phrases such as “E-Mediation” or “ESI Mediation.” Mediating E-Discovery issues allows litigants to control what is being requested, what is being produced, and how it is being produced.  Read More

WHY PEOPLE GO TO LAW SCHOOL – Take a moment to envy Brian Goldman, who, as a senior associate at Orrick, got to argue, and win, a gun-control case before an 11-judge Ninth Circuit panel. READ MORE HERE

WHAT’S YOUR PASSWORD? – David Nosal’s computer-fraud conviction won’t be a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Ross Todd reports. Nosal, a headhunter, was criminally prosecuted for using someone else’s password to get into his former employer’s system as he was launching a competing venture. His lawyers argued that CFAA’s “unauthorized access” language arguably criminalizes all sorts of largely innocent but “unauthorized” computer access--like checking baseball scores on a work-only computer. READ MORE HERE

FIRM’S MARTYR – Make it six terms for Peter Martyr as CEO of Norton Rose Fulbright. Martyr will start a new three-year stint on Jan. 1. By the end of his term, Joseph Evans reports, Martyr will have led the firm for more than 18 years, having first taken the reins at what was then Norton Rose in 2002. READ MORE HERE

While you were sleeping

FAREWELL, MONGOLIA – The first in is now out. Hogan Lovells, which touts itself as the first global law firm with a permanent presence in Mongolia, is shutting down its office in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. The office was home to 11 fee earners, Rose Walker reports. Hogan Lovells first entered the Mongolian market in 2010, but “global and local markets and the strategic priorities of the firm have changed since then,” said local managing partner Chris Melville, who is set to launch a local firm with other lawyers from the base. That firm will have a cooperative relationship with Hogan Lovells. READ MORE HERE

 

What you said

What litigation they had, they preferred their younger lawyers to do as opposed to the senior lawyers.

Talmage Boston, who has left law firm Winstead after 20 years to join Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton as a partner in Dallas, on what he sees as Winstead’s move away from litigation work.

 

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