Corporate Governance

E-Discovery Offers Opportunities to Gain Corporate Clients
Corporate legal departments have often sought outside counsel for litigation support. With the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the growth of electronic discovery, corporations are seeking contract attorneys earlier than ever before...

Attenex and PSS Systems Announce E-Discovery Alliance
Seattle, WA ? January 22, 2008 ? Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, and PSS Systems, the innovator who launched the legal holds and enterprise retention management software arena, today announced an alliance to provide enterprise customers with an end-to-end e-discovery solution...

FTI Consulting, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Strategic Discovery, Inc.
New York, NY - February 12, 2008 - FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced the acquisition of Strategic Discovery, Inc...

Cottage industries for law departments, as seen in trade show sponsors
An earlier post covered the three most populous categories of sponsors at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting (See my post of Sept. 21, 2008: law firms, discovery, and compliance...

Electronic Discovery, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance - Relationship Study
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC), records and information management(RIM) and electronic discovery (E-Discovery) are three of the information management compliance (IMC) topics most written about, talked about, and blogged today...

In House Counsel Looking for Deals...Why Not With Solos
If you thought that large corporations had deep enough pockets to pay whatever fees their outside counsel demanded, you'd be wrong.  Turns out that corporate counsel are positively simmering over the way that many large law firms are ripping off clients with exorbitant mark-ups on contract law attorneys...

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

Ford F-150 Recall
alleging a hose in the F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks could affect braking power.

DLP
Ohio State to Receive $42 Million in Corporate Taxes Settlement

Siouxland Urology Center
Sued for Potentially Exposing Clients to HIV and Hepatitis

Bankrupt Money Manager
Former officers to pay $10.7 million settlement in fraud lawsuit.

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.