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  • November 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Inadvertently Ethical

    Grub first, then ethics." � Bertolt Brecht. As a profession, lawyers tend to be adequately fed; so ethics ought to come first for us. Yet our hunger to exploit every advantage fo

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  • January 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Mistakes Happen

    Tallulah Bankhead admitted "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." Mistakes happen. We expect to make them. We are better for having made them

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  • January 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

    E-Discovery Tremors

    The San Francisco earthquake measured 8.25 o Richter scale, claimed 3,000 lives and caused half a billion of damage in 1906 dollars. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake registered 6.9 o

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  • January 12, 2004 | National Law Journal

    A Deadline is a Fine Line

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  • August 31, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Native E-Discovery: Gold Mine or False Prospect?

    Albert Einstein posited that "Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler." So consider this simple question: When you seek electronic discovery, do you want all of the

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  • May 17, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Deposition by Committee

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  • April 4, 2005 | National Law Journal

    UnWaiver

    You are smart enough to know that you cannot unscramble an egg, unring a bell, unmix a spot of ink from a glass of milk. So what makes you think you can unwaive a privilege? OK,

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  • August 20, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Common Interest Privilege

    It's hard to predict things, especially the future." But Yogi Berra, just this once, got it wrong. Some things are easy to predict. No matter how sunny it is today, we own an umbrella be

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  • June 6, 2005 | Legal Times

    This Summer, It's Real

    Once upon a time, in a legal galaxy far, far away, second-year law students dreamily looked forward to their summertime gigs. For many, summer associate time was seen as a much-needed va

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  • June 11, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Don't Let Your E-Evidence Get Trashed

    It was our first night in the suburbs, and we learned the hard way why raccoons wear masks as we surveyed the carnage they had made of our garbage. We were drilling eye hooks into the wall so that

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