Legal Commentary

We open the inbox and find a variety of items:

? The ever-prolific Mark Reichenbach blogs in On the Mark about the Georgetown eDiscovery Institute sessions. A highlight of the meetings, he says, was the closing roundtable:

Moderated by John Rosenthal, (an expert in e-discovery and a litigation partner at Howrey, LLP) , the event closed with a roundtable composed of judicial heavy hitters in the field, including Judge Lee Rosenthal (former chairperson of the Federal Rules Advisory Committee), Judge Shira Scheindlin (former member of the Federal Rules Advisory Committee), Judge Kent Jordon (3rd Cir.), Judge Francis (S.D.N.Y.), Judge Facciola (D.D.C.) and Judge David Waxe (D. Kan).

Reichenbach, veep of client and industry development, also wants you to know that his company, MetaLincs, has upgraded its namesake software. 411 here.

? Stanford students are switching the tables ? and issuing report cards on would-be employers, grading them on their diversity performance. Matthew Schwieger, online media coordinator for Stanford's Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession offers a link to recent media coverage in The New York Times.

? Never underestimate the creativity of bloggers. Eric Turkewitz, of The Turkewitz Law Firm, writes The New York Personal Injury Blog, and his Blawg Review #134 is an hysterical spin on the ING New York City  Marathon. If you look really carefully, towards the end of the race, you just might spot the Scold, with exceptional seats from which to watch the event.

? eWeek always comes up with a clever slideshow, and here's a post-Halloween treat: The 13 Scariest Things in IT in 2007.

? Yup, the holiday shopping blitz has started: Reid Trautz offers his third annual Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers, available on Reid My Blog (that title always makes me giggle.)

And Chadbourne & Parke counsel Lawrence Savell has released his annual LawTunes parodies, this year's Live at BlackAcre, which leads off with "(She's an) Electronic Discovery." You can hear a sample at the website, but a caveat, Clapton it ain't. :)