The International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference was loaded with educational programs. I have lots of posts with my notes. From the early days of this blog, I have kept my notes from educational conferences in this blog. But I was not alone doing this at the ILTA conference. There were a few other people [...]
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Law Department Knowledge Management Roundtable
Continuing my live-blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. . . Over the past several years, the big buzzword in law firms has been “knowledge management.” What is it and how can it realistically apply to the information requirements of an in-house law department? In this session, we facilitate a roundtable discussion reviewing KM [...]
Building Bridges to Practices
Continuing my live-blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. . . . How many times have you heard that technology projects “need buy-in from the top” or that IT needs to “connect with the practice?” Many projects, and sometimes whole IT departments, find it hard to establish this connection, leaving them little recourse than [...]
Making the Move to WorkSite 8.3 and Laying the Groundwork for 8.5
Continuing my live-blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. . . . This was a sparsely attended session (it was during lunch time) from Chris RuBert, Director Customer Care of Interwoven giving a Worksite 8.3 Field Update and Shawn on preparing for Worksite 8.5. Technote 62008-2619 provides planning guidelines. For every 5 million documents [...]
Law Firm Economics
Continuing my live-blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. . . . This session builds on last year’s session by Bruce MacEwen and John Alber. They will review the basic economics of law firms – what makes them similar to other businesses and what differentiates them – and then explore particular applications of these [...]
MCC Design Awards from Interwoven
Interwoven announced the winners of their MCC design contest at International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. Congratulations to Lisa Gianakos of Reed Smith LLP for getting First Place!
Law Firm Adoption of Web 2.0
Continuing my live-blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. . . As Web2.0 tools mature, there is an increased number of adoptions by Fortune 500 companies. We explore and learn if Web 2.0 solutions already being adapted by Fortune 500 companies would be accepted by the lawyers in your firm. Speaker: Bruce MacEwen of [...]
Fire the Technology Committee
Continuing my live-blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference. . . . Let’s see, what qualifies someone for membership on a firm’s technology committee? Desire for an Apple iPhone? Having assembled an Altair computer in 1975? Having a son-in-law in the computer business? Technology committees are notorious for their ineffectiveness. We’ll do our best [...]
Interwoven Matter-Centricity for Non-Conformists
Continuing my live blogging from International Legal Technology Association’s Annual Conference, I sat in the session from Interwoven and MicroStrategies on using their Matter Centric approach to their document management system. MicroStrategies and Todd from Lownestein Sandler presented their view on how Lownestein Sandler use Matter Centricity. Specialized practice groups operate differently. Managing partners and [...]
Legal Aspects of Collaboration Tools (Blogs, Wikis, MashUps, IM, Text Messages, Social Networks and More)
More live blogging from the ILTA Conference. . . Collaboration technologies help promote information sharing, efficiency, cost reduction and can provide competitive advantages. How does the legal environment deal with the information overload and the security of confidential information escaping the realm of the organization? What aspects of legal information need to be considered to [...]
