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If you lack the ability or budget to create load files suitable for e-discovery review, or the intended recipient does not have the facilities for document review, dtSearch Publish can create in five easy steps a production set that can be viewed by anyone, says consultant Bruce A. Olson.
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The claim of a former client of Constantine Cannon that the law firm excessively billed for legal fees is moving forward. The decision by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead came in what began as a lawsuit by the firm to recover $359,000 in unpaid legal bills from the family of Howard L. Parnes, a real estate executive. The Parnes family struck back, claiming the firm did not execute an engagement letter and overbilled the family, and seeking disgorgement of $628,000 in already paid fees.
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Gary S. Freed has left Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin after seven years to return to his small-firm roots. Freed joined Robbins-Law last week, and the Atlanta firm changed its name to Robbins Freed & Ross. Firm co-founder Alexa R. Ross said the seven-lawyer firm will be adding counsel and associates, citing Freed's "substantial practice" as one reason why. Freed, who handles business and probate disputes, also is involved in a high-profile divorce case that led to the resignation of a judge.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday issued a one-year suspension to a Newark lawyer who offered discounted fees to female clients or their family members in exchange for sexual favors. David Witherspoon might consider himself lucky. Two justices wanted him disbarred and said the court should set a bright-line rule like the one that mandates disbarment for trust-fund theft. None of the women accepted his offers, but the women all testified they believed he was proposing to exchange legal services for sex.
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Although a recent $10.7 million default judgment that David J. Llewellyn just scored may be tough to collect, the case is a dramatic statement about the Atlanta attorney's development of an unusual national practice: suing over botched circumcisions. Llewellyn brought the suit on behalf of a boy and his parents against Mogen Circumcision Instruments, claiming one of its devices severed the head of the boy's penis during a bris. "He's the expert in this field," said a co-counsel on the Mogen case. "I don't know many other people who handle these cases."
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Non-clients have no standing to disqualify attorneys from jointly representing others, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday, despite a federal trial court ruling that seemed to suggest otherwise. The ruling reverses a trial court's disqualification of Calabasas, Calif., attorney Bruce Graham and his firm, Graham & Associates, from representing clients with some allegedly opposing interests in a libel and breach of contract suit.
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A Massachusetts federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring law firm Parker Waichman Alonso from using or making television or video advertisements with certain phrases, sounds and visual effects. Market Masters-Legal, a law firm advertising company, sought the injunction in a lawsuit that accuses the firm, a former client, of making commercials using its copyrighted material in violation of a written agreement. Among the barred phrases, "You deserve justice, now demand it," and "Let's settle this one."
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William Hebert, a partner with Calvo & Clark, outlasted four other candidates during voting by the State Bar Board of Governors to win the California State Bar presidency on Saturday. He'll be sworn in on Sept. 25. Hebert broke up the room during his opening speech before the board by saying he asked his wife, Morrison & Foerster partner Lori Schechter, whether she ever thought in her wildest dreams he'd be running for State Bar president. "And she said, 'Bill, you're not even in my wildest dreams.'"
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A New York appellate court has overturned a finding that a personal injury lawyer had misappropriated client funds with dishonest or fraudulent intent, citing post-9/11 trauma the attorney blamed for his conduct. The panel approved a one-year suspension for Frederick W. Salo, but dismissed a charge that he had engaged in dishonest or fraudulent conduct, crediting psychologists' opinions that he inadvertently tapped the funds as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered following the terror attacks.
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The California Supreme Court has carved out an exception to a quarter-century-old ruling banning cities and counties from hiring private counsel to handle public-nuisance suits on a contingency fee basis. The court said such hirings are acceptable if government lawyers retain complete control over all critical decision making, providing "a safeguard against the possibility that private attorneys unilaterally will engage in inappropriate prosecutorial strategy and tactics geared to maximize their monetary award."
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The former Levinson Axelrod associate who launched a website mocking the law firm -- and got sued for it -- has quietly settled the litigation and shut down the page. Though a nondisclosure agreement covers the settlement terms, the site, levinsonaxelrodreallysucks.com, is no more.
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