Given the staggering explosion in the amount of available information and the rise in technically creative ways to search and gather information from the World Wide Web, in-house counsel must be prepared to advise their companies on the legal considerations implicated by Web scraping.

What if you could play a game that improves the productivity, collaboration, compliance, or expertise of your legal practice? Within a few years, you may be routinely doing just that.

When it comes to fee shifting, a lawyer shall do unto the opposing party as he would do unto his own client. That’s one theme in a recent Texas Supreme Court opinion that delivers a Golden Rule for parties hoping to collect under fee-shifting statutes.

A state district judge who was sued by a mother and daughter has fired back at the two Georgetown lawyers representing them. Retired district Judge Terry Flenniken alleges that the attorneys were “reprehensible” and “shameless” for drafting a civil petition to promote “a political issue” and to avoid their own “accountability” in a tragic family … Read More »

While email certainly has created problems for privilege claims for in-house counsel communications in the United States, it creates additional complexities when dealing with cross-border privilege claims.