23 January 2012 -  This week (January 25, 26 and 27) Brussels will be host to the 5th International Conference on Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP 2012).  And the timing could not be better.  The European Commission will on Wednesday propose far-reaching changes to rules dictating how companies handle any personal information, the first time EU regulations first crafted in 1995 are updated. The proposals will impose a single set of privacy standards in the EU’s 27…

By:  Gregory P Bufithis, Juan Di Luca, Eric Fell and Alexis Gambetta

20 January 2012 -  One of the side-benefits to having The Posse List as one of our Group members is that we receive almost weekly feedback from members, law firms and corporations on the good, the bad and the ugly on almost every document review software and information management software out there in Technology Land.   In any given week, on…

12 de ENERO de 2012 – Este artículo se dirige a todos los abogados que son Legal Project Manager sin saberlo. Ya es hora de aprovechar vuestra experiencia, vuestros conocimientos y de vuestras habilidades.

Definís objetivos, manejáis costes y tiempo, gestionáis recursos económicos y humanos, coordináis equipos, comunicáis con los clientes y con todos los actores involucrados en un asunto jurídico que os han encargado. Sois abogados. Pero también sois project manager,…

 21 December 2011– One of the perils of being involved in the e-discovery business (ok, nowadays any business) is being bombarded with more reports, studies and treatises than it is possible to read.  It is at the very least advisable though to skim what one has received.  However  our inbox runneth over with “too much information”.  Sometimes you just want to sit and listen to people who will just put it all in perspective for you.…

20 December 2011– The global economic crisis created a wave of legislation designed to mitigate risk and protect the financial system from shocks.    This in turn has transformed the relationship between regulators and regulated.   And that just concerns financial regulation.   The surge in regulation across all industries and business models is driving people … well, nuts.   Just taking the health sciences industry as another example, regulation and compliance are a way of life.  It governs the entire product life-cycle –…

2 December 2011 — The European Commission … via the Director-General for Competiton (DG COMP) …  is expected to issue a statement of objections (SO) late this year or early next year that allegedly spans more than 400 pages that will spell-out allegations of Google’s abuse of dominance.

Note:  DG COMP began its initial assessment phase of the antitrust investigation last November, following complaints from search engines Foundem, eJustice and Ciao! which had been filed over a year ago.   During that…

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By:  Juan Di Luca, Esq. and Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.

29 November 2011 — Last month we attended the VQ Knowledge Management and Strategy Forum in Stockholm, an event organised by Ann Björk and Helena Hallgarn of VQAB who are former knowledge management consultants at Vinge, Sweden’s second largest law firm.  For more about VQAB click here.…

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By:  Gregory P Bufithis, Athina Kontosakou, Juan Di Luca, Eric Fell,  Romina Donati

17 November 2011 — The Olympus accounting scandal by which Olympus has admitted it hid losses on securities investments dating back…

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 By Athina Kontosakou,  Consulting Attorney 

18 October 2011 –  Almost a month before the adoption of a package of measures improving the system of competition enforcement in Europe, we attended the 15th Annual Competition Conference presented by the International Bar Association Antitrust Committee … and…

13 October 2011 –  Eversheds has been hitting the media wires.  Last week, setting an example once again, it launched an alternative career path to partnership –  the new legal director role.  The role, which will come into use at the firm for the first time in May next year, is intended as an alternative to the traditional partner route, rather than a stepping stone to partnership. However, it will still be possible for legal directors to be…