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POSTSCRIPT TO THE WHOOPS-A-DAISY DEFENSE STORY

February 5, 2008

Apparently, O’Melveny and Myers is really getting into the electronic evidence world in a big way, and generating a lot of negative press along the way. A reader of Ride the Lightning wrote to add a postscript to my previous posting. My correspondent passed along a post from the blog Above the Law, which said that the firm is furious about comments sent to ATL about the firm’s “poor performance and underhanded layoffs.” This fury reportedly resulted in a modern day electronic witch hunt, with IT folks from within and without instructed to find which associate’s computer was used to transmit the comments. The post doesn’t say that the firm has hired computer forensic folks to aid in the investigation, but that certainly would be logical and likely. O’Melveny associates are now, understandably, reluctant to visit the ATL website at all, and are monitoring it only from home.

All things considered, a lot of O’Melveny attorneys seem to having a very bad day at the office, day after day.

The Above the Law posting may be found at http://www.abovethelaw.com/2008/02/omelveny_myers
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