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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

Attorney at Work

The PMI reached 69 — its highest mark since 2006 and second-highest mark ever. Data privacy litigation? Performance flourished, too, as shown by the fourth-quarter 11-point spike in the Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI). In large part, this can be attributed to flexibility and resilience. Real estate finance or M&A?

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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

Percipient

If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. For instance in, In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litig. , Securities Litigation , Case No. Who covers the expense in responding to it? Micron Technology, Inc. ,

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TIL: “Texas Tamale” Is an Enforceable Trademark–Texas Tamale v. CPUSA2

Eric Goldman

The court said that the trademark owner had been using the trademark since 1985 and registered the trademark in 2006. ” That prompted this litigation. Amazon * More Evidence Why Keyword Advertising Litigation Is Waning * Court Dumps Crappy Trademark & Keyword Ad Case–ONEPul v. ” Say what? ” Uh oh.

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Court Reporting Company Veritext Acquires Canadian Company Reportex, Expanding Its North America Scope

LawSites

The New Jersey-based court reporting company Veritext Legal Solutions , which already provides a variety of deposition and litigation support solutions, has acquired Canadian court reporting company Reportex and its family of brands in British Columbia. This latest acquisition gives it coast-to-coast coverage within Cananda. ”

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The Lawyers of Substack

LawSites

This week, David Lat, who founded the blog Above the Law in 2006, and who earlier, in 2004, started the anonymous blog Underneath Their Robes , and who left blogging two years ago to take a job as a legal recruiter, is returning to writing as a full-time livelihood. But this time, Lat will not be publishing his writing on a blog.

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Illinois Supreme Court Names Lea Gutierrez as New ARDC Administrator

Legal Tech Monitor

Dedicated public servant Gutierrez worked as the ARDC’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Litigation Group Manager, and Senior Litigation Counsel from 2006 until 2021. More recently, she led diversity and inclusion efforts at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the American Lung Association.

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Illinois Supreme Court Increases Compensation for Attorneys Representing Indigent Parties

Legal Tech Monitor

Rule 299 was last updated in 2006. Moreover, through the work of its Commission on Access to Justice and Access to Justice Division , the Illinois Supreme Court is working to improve justice systems to be more accessible for vulnerable litigants, including those who are low-income, limited English proficient, and self-represented.

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