ILTA 08

These are my notes from the 2008 International Legal Technology Association annual convention.

ILTA Conference Wrap Up

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 live [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 to [...]

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 help [...]

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