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Document Review
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In-House Ops
How to Design Document Reviews To Cut Costs: It all starts with building the right workflow
By Corporate Counsel Business Journal
By Aaron Fluss, FRONTEO Aaron Fluss, the National Director of Managed Review for FRONTEO, talks about the value of creativity during document review and explains why, despite an explosion of data…
All About eDiscovery
In Parallel Case to Lola v. Skadden Arps, 13-cv-05008, Quinn Emanuel Wins OT Challenge
By Katie Cole
Last year we wrote about the Lola v. Skadden Arp case wherein contract attorney, David Lola, brought suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) for overtime pay. (See When…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Nothing New for Doc Review: Federal Court Rules That Doc Review Attorney, Like Other Practicing Lawyers, is Exempt
By Michael Fucci, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by Kat Jugo and Kevin Young The lawyers in our readership are quite familiar with the fact that, as a general matter, practicing attorneys are not entitled to overtime…
Law and the Workplace
Federal Court Says Document Review By Contract Attorney Is Exempt Work
By Allan Bloom, Carolyn M. Dellatore
On December 30, 2015, a federal district court in Manhattan ruled that a temporary contract attorney was not entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act or the New…
The Faculty Lounge
Lola Wage-and-Hour Document Review Case Settles; Vexing Questions About What Constitutes “The Practice of Law” Persist
Lola v. Skadden Arps has settled (reports here and here). Lola is a wage-and-hour case with wide implications for the legal profession. To recap (see my previous post on the…
All About eDiscovery
When Do Contract Attorneys “Practice Law”?
By Katie Cole
On July 23, 2015, the Second Circuit, in Lola v. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Tower Legal Staffing, Inc., revived (see our earlier blog posts dated March 11,…
The Faculty Lounge
When Is Document Review The “Practice Of Law,” And When Is It The “UNAUTHORIZED Practice of Law”? The Answers May Surprise You.
Yesterday the Second Circuit decided Lola v. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, et al., a case rich in ironic implications. (Hat tip to my friend Matt Sawchak at…
Boundary Dispute Law Blog
Motivational Comments about Bartleby the Doc Reviewer
By Bob Zierman
NW Lawyer's issue this month has an article titled: With Kings and Counselors, Bartleby the Doc Reviewer. In it Garrett Oppenheim compares the modern day life of a document reviewer to…
All About eDiscovery
What Exactly is The Practice of Law?
By Katie Cole
In a case that helps clarify what discovery-specific activities constitute the practice of law, District Court Judge Richard Sullivan - a judge in the Southern District of New York -…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Quinn Discovery Dispute A Defeat For the Plaintiff
I had recently blogged about the discovery dispute in the FLSA class action case involving Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and how I believed the plaintiffs were overreaching and…