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Texas is a big place, I hear. So perhaps listing law jobs in seven Texas cities in one feed will overwhelm the reader.

If so, too bad. Enjoy sipping off of the Texas job firehose. (Since it is new as of 8/27, it may take a day or two to begin the feed.)

The ABA has issued a recent opinion that the outsourcing of legal work is acceptable so long as basic precautions for competence, supervision, confidentiality and privilege are maintained.

While this article from the ABA Law Practice Management section publication Law Practice is not new, it's a great primer to the Federal e-discovery rules regarding electronically stored information.

The authors, Sharon Nelson, Esq., and John Simek, are president and vice-president of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. I love their website and am quite impressed with the breadth of their consultancy.

A long-time friend with a very substantial, high-profile criminal defense practice needs a go-getter of a law clerk for 30 days or so while his regular law clerk studies for and takes the Bar exam. JD preferred but will consider well-qualified, diligent 2L or 3L student. Pay is not great but you will be getting a major career contact in this region in criminal law if you do well.

Call me (Bruce Godfrey) for details at threeOHonefivethreeeightfourfourfourtwo (to defeat the phone spammers.)

The sincerest form of flattery is not imitation, but theft.

http://www.responsivedocuments.com/node/16 holds an RSS feed from four blogs that discuss, inter alia, document review issues. I use the word "competition" in quotes because I view these folks as being above my league in production and format, and also because they are in reality professional colleagues, not "competitors."

Enjoy.

Maryland Daily Record, June 3, 2008:

In an opinion lawyers and observers have labeled “a cautionary tale” and a “wake-up call” to members of the bar, a federal judge in Baltimore has ruled a California company waived attorney-client privilege and other protections by inadvertently turning over 165 electronic documents to opposing counsel in a Maryland lawsuit.

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Early in the discovery process, Creative Pipe requested a “clawback agreement,” in which parties agree that waiver does not follow from inadvertent disclosures. However, they abandoned that request after Garbis extended the deadline to turn over documents by an extra four months.

Check out the new Los Angeles/Orange County jobs feed.

From The Posse List, there is a need in New York and Philadelphia for contract attorneys who speak either French or Norwegian. Forward your Word-formatted resume to Leigh Novack at Juristaff at lnovack@juristaff.com.

Gabe Acevedo of Gabe's Guide picked up on a story involving one DC-area law firm's concerns - and subsequent Bar inquiries and declaratory judgment suit before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - about whether outsourcing legal work to India or elsewhere may violate lawyer-client confidentiality or privilege under the broad sweep of the Patriot and Wiretapping Acts, which authorize the federal government to intercept a very broad variety of international communications.

A disciplinary complaint in Illinois alleges that a bar applicant lied about his academic dismissal from medical school before law school, and that upon applying to Sidley Austin allegedly lied again about his grades.

The complaint alleges a systematic pattern of lying about almost every grade in law school both as to numerical score and as to letter grade, while purportedly getting at least the names of the courses at the University of Chicago Law School (!!?) correct.

Per The Posse List, there is an upcoming project through Hudson DC at their 1800 M Street center involving the review of lab books. JD or Masters in Chemistry required. (Godfrey: I suspect, but do not claim to know, that this project involves patent issues, perhaps specifically the timing of certain discoveries and inventions.)

To find out more about the details, sent a resume in Word format to DCLegalProject@hudson.com.

Per the DCMetroContractAttys group and Eugene Volokh's blog, the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, is seeking two staff attorneys at its Arlington, VA headquarters. To apply, send cover letter, resume and writing sample, in confidence, to:

Human Resource Department
Institute for Justice
901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900
Arlington, VA 22203
Email: employment@ij.org

From The Posse List, Hudson New York is looking for "native" Spanish speakers, $30/45 an hour depending on bar status for a Midtown Eastside project. If interested, please email your most current MS word resume to LEGALJOBS@HUDSON.COM immediately, referencing SPN-RVW in the subject line. Locals only.

From responsivedocuments.com's Jobs Feed for DC, the YWCA of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County seeks a full-time, Staff Attorney to provide legal representation to victims of domestic violence in protective order and other family law matters. Membership in MD bar required. Submit cover letter and resume to A.

Hello and welcome to responsivedocuments.com, a Crablaw.com/Crab Media project dedicated to tracking news, developments and career information for attorneys involved in the growing and diverse document review sub-specialty.


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