Archive for February 2010

Palo Alto, CA – February 26, 2010 – TERIS announced today that Kevin Brooks has been promoted to Executive Vice President for its Northern California operations. Brooks was previously managing partner for TERIS Silicon Valley. “Kevin’s track record at TERIS has quite simply been stellar,” said Stefan Wikstrom, TERIS Founder and CEO. “He has proven…

Recruiting & staffing specialist David Cowen of The Cowen Group has debuted his litigation support blog, Opportunity Knocks. David uses Opportunity Knocks to provide insights from his position atop the human capital industry. Blog topics include: Career Planning & Development E-Discovery Litigation Support Staffing David is an internationally known headhunter who specializes in staffing and recruiting, with more than…

At approximately 7:50am PST on Wednesday, February 17th, a small airplane hit a high tension transmission tower and crashed into an East Palo Alto home. Tragically, the crash killed three employees of Tesla Motors. Nearly the entire city of Palo Alto lost power for almost 12 hours – including the TERIS Silicon Valley office. Within…

Nearly one in three lawyers see bankruptcy/foreclosure as the area that will experience the most growth in the next three months, according to a poll released Wednesday. Menlo Park-based Robert Half Legal said that another 22 percent believe litigation would exhibit the strongest growth within this time frame.   To the question: “In your opinion,…

Thanks for our friend Gabe Acevedo for pointing out this good cartoon from the folks over at CaseCentral.  

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From Law.com Amanda Royal 02-11-2010 Counsel at public companies have a new task: Figure out how climate change is likely to affect their businesses. That’s the message from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which published new disclosure guidance (.pdf) Monday.  Jane Kroesche, head of the West Coast environmental transactions practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher…

 San Francisco – February 10, 2010 – TERIS San Francisco announced today that veteran litigation support professional Claudine Schardijn joined its office as Senior Technology Consultant. Schardijn has more than 13 years of litigation technology experience and will put that to use immediately by consulting with high-level clients to help them better understand new technologies…

Seattle, WA– February 10, 2010 – TERIS announced that it has partnered with kCura as a Relativity Consulting Partner.  As one of the leading eDiscovery service providers over the past nine years, TERIS has implemented kCura’s world-class review platform, Relativity, to deliver a full range of capabilities for document review and analysis. Relativity provides image…

From ABA Journal Is it unethical for lawyers to hire ghost writers to fill the content on their blogs? That question has been generating some debate among bloggers who do their own writing, Legal Blog Watch reports. The debate took off after the blog Social Media Tyro condemned the practice, pointing to a paralegal who advertises her ghostwriting services…