Has Anyone Heard of Palantine Staffing?

by admin on April 20, 2011

So I came across this ad on Craigslist:

Palatine Staffing Inc seeks resumes from experienced document review attorneys for upcoming  projects.We are looking for candidates that are members of the DC bar or have applied for membership. Please send your resume in Word or PDF format.

Here is their website. Looks pretty new. Anyone know of these folks, and who is running them? I am always thrilled to see a new agency start up. I just would like more information as to how they came about.

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Lange Carter Launches Law Counsel Staffing

by admin on April 15, 2011

Lange Carter, formerly of Staffwise, Ajilon Staffwise, and Special Counsel Ajilon Staffwise, has now started her own company — Law Counsel Staffwise! (except there is no Staffwise on the end of that. It’s just called Law Counsel. In fact the Staffwise label ended after Ajilon took over.)

Nonetheless, I am happy to add her company to the list of recruiting agencies in DC. She is already gathering resumes for future projects.

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Tweet of the Day

by admin on April 15, 2011

From the Posse List:

“Just in from our main office: based on our Posse List count, D.C. has 38 projects and 1,800 +/- CAs working. What a change.”

Feel free to follow the Network on Twitter as well. Our ID is @DCKAttys.

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Legal Assets in the Hunt in DC

by admin on March 25, 2011

via The Posse List:

Legal Assets has upcoming document review projects scheduled to begin in April.

  • Expected duration: 6 weeks +
  • Location: Washington, DC
  • Rate: $28 – $32 hourly + OT, depending on project and bar status
  • Matters: Mortgage Loan File Reviews; HSR/Second Request; Civil Rights Investigation
  • Hours per week: 40 minimum
  • Bar Requirements: Varies

Please attach an updated resume in Word format to temps@legalassets.com.

If you are already registered with Legal Assets, please accompany your resume with your availability dates.

If you are not registered with Legal Assets, note your availability dates to interview next week. Note in subject line of email “April Projects”.

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From The Am Law Daily:

Sullivan & Cromwell and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz are serving as lead corporate counsel on AT&T’s surprise $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, while five more Am Law 200 firms are handling the antitrust and regulatory aspects of a deal that figures to receive close scrutiny from U.S. regulators.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is acting as antitrust counsel to Deutsche Telekom on the proposed sale of its Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile USA unit, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier.

Arnold & Porter and Crowell & Moring are also advising AT&T as well.

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Craigslist Calling For DC Contract Attorneys

March 21, 2011

A couple of ads have appreared on Craigslist for DC contract attorneys: Staffing agency seeking fluent Spanish document reviewers for project to start as soon as tomorrow and last about a month. Accepting JD and LLM candidates; no bar requirement. Previous document review experience preferred but not required. Legal staffing agency seeking DC barred attorneys [...]

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AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile for $39 Bil

March 20, 2011

Looks like the is about to be a major review in DC. Breaking: From the Washington Post: AT&T Inc. says it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion. T-Mobile is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the United States.

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HOWREY CEO: Competition In Discovery Is Part of What Did Us In

March 9, 2011

As the once powerful firm Howrey votes on whether it will dissolve itself today, look at what firm CEO Robert Ruyak says was partly to blame. From the WSJ Law Blog: Another challenge was the rise of third-party document-discovery specialists that could provide litigation support services at substantially lower rates, he said. Howrey, a law [...]

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In DC, Hudson Is Jumpin

March 9, 2011

In the past two days, Hudson has advertised two new projects on the The Posse List, which is saying something considering they have their own internal lists of attorneys with which they use in recruting.  The downside, the projects are only $30 an hour with little overtime. Are things starting to get busy? More on the [...]

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Attorney Calls Out Issues with Artificial Intel

March 8, 2011

From Max Kennerly: There’s no doubt that this next generation of document review is the way the future. It will be standard practice for companies and their attorneys to use the software to identify inculpatory and embarrassing materials so they can focus their efforts on precluding discovery into those materials. But there is some cause [...]

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