Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:37 AM
Blawg's Sunday Paper, a quick spin through the blawgosphere and the week that was.
Robert Ambrogi highlighted the latest episode of the Coast to Coast podcast he hosts with J. Craig Williams: C2C this week: The latest in e-discovery.
Our guests this week are:
Ernest Svenson, who writes the longstanding Ernie the Attorney, offered E-filing - More thoughts on scanning problems, in his other weblog, PDF for Lawyers. "Many people are surprised that lawyers are scanning entire documents just so that they can have their orignal signature appear on the document that they e-file. I'm not; lawyers are comfortable with signatures and they like them. I'll bet their are lawyers out there trying to figure out how to apply sealing wax to their e-filed documents."
Mary Mack at Sound Evidence announced an upcoming webcast, Sedona--International Ediscovery: "Ken Withers, Richard Braman and collegues from the Sedona Conference Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure and Sedona Canada will present a webcast on Wednesday, January 24. Besides the discussion, there will be specific downloads helpful for practioners dealing with international issues." Hit the link above to find out more and sign-up.
Prism Legal Consulting's Strategic Legal Technologies blawg reported on the consolidation trend, wherein large corporations pare down the number of law firms serving them, in the post Convergence to the Max . According to the post (and the press release the post referenced) Tyco International [took] convergence (consolidating the number of law firms used) to the limit, paring back from 250 to 1, Eversheds in the UK.
Split Circuits, a blog dedicated to tracking developments concerning splits among the federal circuit courts, from University of Richmond law professor A. Benjamin Spencer, provided the following update on one such split: Sixth Circuit Weighs in on Split Re Whether a Dispute over a Side Agreement Falls Within a Collective Baraining Agreement's Arbitration Clause. Per United Steelworkers of America v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., --- F.3d ----, 2007 WL 101990 (6th Cir. Jan. 17, 2007).
Over to Australia, David Jeffrey, a lawyer in a government environmental agency, who also writes Oikos, covering environmental and economic issues, offered a weekly a Weekly Blog Roundup of "interesting blog posts from the week on environmental and economic issues – concentrating particularly on Australian issues and on issues that are both environmental and economic." For anyone wishing to keep up with developments in that area of the world and legal/economic sectors, you might want to add Oikos to your subscription list.
Canadian Business lawyer Rob Hyndman commented that Podcasts: Everything Old is New Again after visiting iTunes recently. "Wow. In the space of only a few months, iTunes’ podcast section has been transformed from a flea market of handmade goods into a mainstream media showroom."
Carolyn Elefant at MyShingle has been busy, Phew, Six Posts At Once. And, take it from me, starting to follow the links from any of the six will launch you into an extended tour of the blawgosphere today. Great stuff. Just hit the "Six Posts" link to get started at her site.
And, leaving off on a lighter note, Robert Loblaw at eNotes' Decision of the Day Blog reported on Empacadora de Carnes v. Curry, 05-11499 (5th Cir., Jan. 19, 2007) in the post Fifth Reinstates Texas Ban on Horse Meat. "We all know Texans love their beef. But horse meat? Not so much."