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First Advantage Litigation Consulting Announces Acquisition of DLR LegalMarketWatch (press release)WASHINGTON & LONDON, Mar 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — First Advantage Litigation Consulting, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) company and leading eDiscovery services firm, today announced the acquisition of London-based DLR Legal, a global managed …and more » View full post on legal – Google News

iCONECT Brings Legal Review and Litigation Support to Tablet DevicesSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)XERA which is browser agnostic and developed in HTML5 delivers the functionality of legal review and litigation support – previously limited to desktops and laptops – to the new generation of tablet toting lawyers and paralegals.and more » View full post on legal [...]

Employees across the United States are punching out — and cashing in — on wage and hour cases. The number of Fair Labor Standards Act cases filed in federal court between 2010 and 2011 increased more than 15 percent, according to the latest Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics. The majority of the cases are collective actions, [...]

Bank of America may have thought it put its mortgage robo-signing woes behind it with the government’s $25 billion foreclosure settlement. But the bank could be far from clear of securities claims over the scandal, thanks to a ruling allowing an investor to press allegations over suspect mortgage documents. View full post on Law.com – [...]

Are prospective law students savvy, college-educated consumers or naive twenty-somethings easily taken in by rosy employment projections? That question was one of several before a New York judge, who was considering a motion on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by nine graduates of New York Law School against their alma mater. The case is [...]

Chadbourne & Parke’s Gerry Silver analyzes the current legal viability of various online privacy claims, how potential legislation and remediation may affect such claims, and how e-commerce companies will need to better protect themselves in the future. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment has settled with a key insurance company that denied coverage for legal fees and costs in MGA’s case against Mattel. The settlement avoids a trial between MGA and Evanston Insurance that was scheduled to begin on March 13. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

The plaintiffs lawyers leading El Paso shareholders’ assault on the company’s planned $21 billion acquisition by Kinder Morgan have lost their bid to enjoin the sale, but the judge slammed the deal in no uncertain terms, signaling particular offense at the roles played by Goldman Sachs and El Paso’s CEO. View full post on Law.com [...]

A case that a D.C. Circuit panel described as an example of the “harshest caricature of the American litigation system” may finally be drawing to a close, with a ruling that Iran’s government expropriated U.S.-based McKesson’s interest and withheld dividends following the country’s 1979 revolution. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Apple controls a whopping 62 percent of the tablet computer market, and just as in the smartphone patent wars, tech companies are using the court system to try to gain an upper hand. With litigation over tablets already a thriving industry, why has this new area turned into a pitched battle so soon? View full [...]