http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/ en-US Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:14:00 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/06/to-all-aspiring.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/06/to-all-aspiring.html Today it is tougher than ever for young aspiring litigators to get hands on in court experience. More and more young litigators are becoming litigation partners having never tried a case let alone first chair it. Litigator used to mean... Stewart Weltman Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:14:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/06/the-dangers-of.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/06/the-dangers-of.html Not sure why but I received a client alert bulletin from one of the ALM top 10 firms [I am not a client and have been adverse to this firm many times]. The bulletin advised me about how a district... Stewart Weltman Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:04:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/06/are-we-lawyers.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/06/are-we-lawyers.html Click here to read an article that to me reflects much about the problems that confront our profession and the clients we serve. It discusses how a mega rainmaking litigation partner - purportedly bringing in $60 million in billings per... Stewart Weltman Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:00:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/correction---on.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/correction---on.html For those of you who may have automatically received a post from this blog entitled "For Aspiring Litigators - Get Thee to A Courtroom", as you may have surmised, this was not supposed to have been posted yet. It was... Stewart Weltman Fri, 30 May 2008 11:04:11 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/the-faustian-de.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/the-faustian-de.html Perhaps because I have a son who is about to enter the profession and perhaps because he is a coveted recruit, I write this post as a small and quiet call for a new paradigm in the treatment of litigation... Stewart Weltman Mon, 26 May 2008 13:07:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/what-is-all-the.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/what-is-all-the.html We have all seen them - various consulting firms advertising their new software programs for e-discovery consulting services. Some of them even provide testimonials from various major firms - about how this or that consulting firm or this or that... Stewart Weltman Mon, 19 May 2008 12:05:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/exhibit-no-1-on.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/exhibit-no-1-on.html I don't know why others went into the practice of law but here is why I did. It provided me with a career that included intellectual stimulation and challenge, while at the same time would, if I worked hard, provide... Stewart Weltman Mon, 12 May 2008 08:05:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/blogs-author-st.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/05/blogs-author-st.html Time to blow my own horn a little. Starting in this May's issue of The Corporate Counselor, an ALM newsletter subscribed to by approximately 4,000 general counsel across the country, this blog's author will commence a series of articles detailing... General counsel Stewart Weltman Mon, 05 May 2008 12:28:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/04/expert-depositi.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/04/expert-depositi.html A good friend of mine (one of the finest complex litigators I know) and I sometimes joke that you could, if you wanted to, send a first year associate to take an expert deposition and get just about as good... Corporate Litigation Costs Deposition In-house counsel Stewart Weltman Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:59:00 -0500 http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/04/hourly-lawyers.html http://leanlitigation.typepad.com/weltman/2008/04/hourly-lawyers.html There is an old saying amongst plaintiffs' lawyers -- "Defense lawyers get paid per diem, plaintiffs' lawyers get paid perchance." This ditty carries with it a powerful economic truth - hourly lawyers get paid no matter what while contingent lawyers... Stewart Weltman Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:00 -0500