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InsideLegal Summit: A Look Inside the Legal Technology Business World

By Sara Skiff | Friday, March 21, 2008

Coming March 25, 2008 to TechnoFeature: LegalTech exemplifies why trade shows still matter — they bring together many of the best minds in the industry. This year, Envision Agency hosted the InsideLegal Summit, a new venue for learning and networking. In this article, our insiders — legal technology superstars Brett Burney and Ross Kodner — provide an exclusive look into this year's InsideLegal Summit — who attended and what they discussed. The topics run the gamut from vendor roles at trade shows and conferences to industry consolidation to the difference between US and UK legal markets. Wish you were a fly on the wall? Our inside scoop is the next best thing.

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Computer Literacy Nice But; VNC Server; Zenview Monitors; Expert Witness Research; PowerPoint 2007; Loislaw

By Sara Skiff | Friday, March 21, 2008

Coming March 27, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Nathaniel Barber discusses the role of technology in the grand scheme of being a good and competent lawyer, Gray Strickland suggests using VNC remote access software for accessing your server and also reviews his dual monitors, Erin Baldwin reviews the Defense Research Institute case database for finding expert witnesses plus a new LexisNexis service, Gregory Landry explains two ways to avoid showing your computer's desktop to the audience during a presentation, and Thomas F. McDow reviews Loislaw. Don't miss this issue.

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ABA TECHSHOW 2008: So You Want to Be an ABA Author? (Special Session)

By Mazyar Hedayat | Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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Presenters: Sharon Nelson, Timothy Johnson, and Dan Pinnington
Thursday, March 13 at 5:15 pm

You'd think that a session held at the end of a very long first day of the TechShow would be a drag, right? But you'd be wrong. Timothy Johnson, Executive Director of the Law Practice Management Publishing, Sharon Nelson, President of Sensei Enterprises and Chair of the Law Practice Management Publishing Board, and Dan Pinnington, Director of practicePRO and Chair of the Webzine Board for Law Practice Today, delivered a helpful presentation for the prospective authors in attendance.

Publishing a Book

The speakers demystified the book publishing process by breaking it down into five simple steps:

1. Informal Proposal
Propose an idea to Sharon and Tim. It's probably a good idea to review what the ABA's Law Practice Management Section has already published. If they think your proposal has merit and it does not duplicate something already in the works by another author, you are off to the races.

2. Proposal Form
Complete a proposal form on the ABA's Web site. Your proposal will then be reviewed by the Publication Board and, if approved, then you are on your way to being immortalized in print, ABA-style.

3. Write the Book
Now, for the hard part. To help you with the process of actually writing your book, the ABA will assign a Project Manager-Editor. Hey, someone has to keep you on schedule. At this point you'll:

• Sign an authorship agreement.
• Propose a timeline (usually 6-12 months).

And remember, this isn't a law review! It's a practical way to share your knowledge and best-practices with lawyers like yourself. Don't forget to include such value-added features as:

• Checklists
• Diagrams
• Lists
• Practice Pointers
• Charts
• Tables
• Data, data, and more data

Once your oeuvre is complete, the time until publication will be about four months. The ABA retains the copyright.

4. Marketing Your Book
The ABA does its share of marketing on your behalf, but it doesn't hurt to sell, sell, sell. Turn to fellow authors, bloggers, Internet talk-shows (podcasts), and don't forget online publications like TechnoLawyer.

5. Royalties
Watch the royalties roll in at the rate of 10% of gross sales. Most books don't make it past their first edition, which is generally about 1,000 copies (although this ranges from as few as one hundred to several thousand). Who knows, maybe you'll become the Stephen King of the legal world, but 1,000 copies is still a good return on investment.

Additional Publishing Opportunities

The ABA has a number of other publications as well, including:

• Magazines
• eZines
• Podcasts
• eBooks
• Blogs
• Form Banks

Magazine Publishing

Law Practice is the flagship publication of the Law Practice Management Section.

• Submissions should be about 1,500-2,000 words.
• Topics should be informative and practical too.
• Circulation of the magazine is 20,000+.
• Authors are not paid.
• The magazine retains copyright (or right of first refusal).

eZine Publishing

Dan Pinnington encouraged people to contact him to discuss submissions to the ABA's eZine, Law Technology Today.

• Submissions should be about 1,000 words.
• Topics should be educational and practical.
• There is usually quick editorial turnaround.
• Expect good exposure due to high traffic.
• Authors are not paid.

Party Time?

And with that, day one of TechShow ended ... at least the official part. At 6:30 in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Hilton the ABA hosted a wingding of sorts known simply as TechShow After Dark. In addition, a series of working social dinners assembled around discrete topics. As for your humble reporter, I had a quick look around upstairs and went home to write. It was a long day.

Read more firsthand reports from ABA TechShow 2008.

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I Attended ABA TECHSHOW 2008 and All I Got Was This Lousy Blog Post

By Mazyar Hedayat | Saturday, March 15, 2008

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So it's Friday night, getting late, and I've been at ABA TECHSHOW 2008 (hereinafter TechShow), sponsored by the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association. In the past 48 hours I've been misdirected, lost, achy, breaky, sleepy, and mildly amused. But did I learn anything? No time for existential questions ... it's time give the legions of TechnoLawyer subscribers something to read and hopefully some useful tips in the process. In this first report, I'll try to give you a flavor of TechShow — the sights, sounds, smells ... you know the cliche.

Thursday, March 14, 2008

4:30 am: Unlike most attendees and speakers who have flown in from around the country and only have to fight jetlag, I live about 30 miles outside Chicago so I need to wrestle with traffic before setting foot in the hotel. It's a 2-hour commute into the city no matter what and the Thursday preceding St. Patrick's Day would be no exception. (Note to TechShow Planning Committee — please consider returning TechShow to April.)

6:00 am: You only get once chance to make a first impression. I chose a dark blue suit and a shirt with a fine windowpane check, paired with an orange tie and handkerchief. Yes, that's me in the photo. I also armed myself with a legal pad, Redweld file, a pen, a highlighter, my iPhone, a digital camera, and a digital recorder. By the time I walked out the front door, my pockets were swinging uncontrollably from the weight and momentum of my multiple devices. Worse, the messenger-style bag I donned for the occasion cut mercilessly into my shoulder. Now I was ready.

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7:40 am: Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Well, almost comes together. TechShow chair Tom Mighell (of Inter Alia fame) was giving the keynote address at 8:00 so all I had to do was make it to the Sheraton by then ... and I was making great time. The Sheraton Chicago has been the home of TechShow for nearly 10 years. Funny thing though ... it turns out that the TechShow board wanted to shake things up, which included changing the dates and venue of the show. (Second note to self — always read the literature before you show up.)

8:00 am: As I sprinted to the registration desk at the Sheraton I couldn't help noticing the lack of ABA paraphernalia in the familiar lobby with its serene, elegant waterfalls. At first this seemed like a refreshing change — more subtle, less obtrusive. But the dark, unmanned desk was not reassuring.  Nor did it help that I had to haul 40 pounds of technology gear up and down the first, second, and third mezzanines until it dawned on me that maybe the party was going to be held somewhere else.

8:20 am: It's not that I missed the keynote: I was just fashionably late. And what I saw in the cavernous Grand Ballroom at the Hilton (the real venue of TechShow) was a capacity crowd and Tom holding forth about TechShow and the bright techno-future that awaited us.

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8:30 am: With the keynote over, it was time to embark on the day's seminars. First however, I headed to the makeshift media-room set up by the ABA Division for Media Relations and Communication Services.

No sooner had I entered than one of the young staffers asked who the heck I was and what I was doing there. Despite this charming greeting, I was actually impressed by the fact that the LPM Section has included such features as:

TechShow Blog
Live blogging feeds
Live photo sharing on Flickr
Twitter feed! Wow!
• Group on del.icio.us

Of course it only took another 10 seconds before I remembered that the inclusion of such tools — cool as they are and useful as they can be — means squat when coupled with a population that by and large doesn't use them.

8:35 am: Time for my first seminar, Eliminating the Paper Chase: From Boxes to Bytes, a soup-to-nuts look at how to go paperless, if not entirely paperless, in an average law office. More on this seminar and all the others I attended in subsequent Posts.

My Initial Impressions

Making Tom chair of the TechShow was inspired: it shows that the ABA is acknowledging (if only a wee bit) that it needs to change the way it does things. At its best, TechShow is where a host of new, smaller, out of the way vendors get to present themselves each year and out of every new crop some make it and others opt out (legal is a tough market). This year was no different. If anything, Tom's influence will no doubt encourage a slightly different group of lawyers and vendors to participate, and that is de facto a good thing.

On the other hand, I loved the Sheraton, I don't care much for the space at the Hilton. It's literally in the basement of the building where the trucks dock — the signs are still up on the walls and the cinderblocks are apparent through the bad paint job. Come on ABA — you can do better. Even if you consider legal technology and LPM in general to be second-rate, you don't have to be so overt about it!

Read more firsthand reports from ABA TechShow 2008.

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From Vista to Mac OS X; Cross-Selling; Sticking With Dell; Greg Krehel; OpenOffice

By Sara Skiff | Friday, March 7, 2008

Coming March 14, 2008 to Fat Friday: Mark Fidel reviews Windows Vista, Kevin Grierson explains the difference between cross-selling and upselling, Carroll Straus shares various thoughts on Dell, (the good, the bad, and the ugly), Bobby Abrams writes in with more kind words for CaseMap co-founder Greg Krehel, and Doug Jacobs reviews OpenOffice. Don't miss this issue.

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Why Email Kicks More Butt Now Than Ever -- Plus Dennis Kennedy's Annual Predictions

By Neil J. Squillante | Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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Earlier this year I peered into my crystal ball, conjured up Johnny Carson's Carnac, and set forth five legal technology predictions for 2008. I also pointed to the predictions of others, but conspicuously missing was the Dick Clark of such predictions — Dennis Kennedy.

The wait is over! Dennis has unleashed his must-read 2008 predictions on LLRX in an article entitled, Eight Legal Technology Trends for 2008 — Good Times, Bad Times or Hard Times in Legal Tech?

Please read the article and reply with your thoughts. For the most part, I agree with predictions 1-3 and 5-8, but couldn't disagree more with Dennis on number 4: The Death Throes for Email?

Ouch, Dennis. That's my home turf!

Dennis begins:

"We're all buried by email. If you have a BlackBerry, you're buried all day wherever you are at and you feel like you can never get away."

This idea that people are buried by email is a myth largely propagated by companies that sell email alternatives. We're all addicted to email, not overwhelmed by it. Maybe an addiction isn't healthy, but it sure is fun. Those of us who can't help checking our email one last time before bed or before the plane takes off or [insert guilty email pleasure here] must find it enjoyable on some level or else why bother?

As it turns out, email is extremely well-suited to human beings. Recent research has shown that people don't multitask well. Email breaks up our world into bite-sized chunks. When you're inside an email message, you tend to focus on just that message. The world around you disappears for a minute. That's healthy.

I think people tend to use the words "email" and "overwhelmed" together because email often creates "tasks." So it's not the email that's overwhelming, it's the tasks they contain. People who feel overwhelmed by tasks may need a better task management system or an administrative assistant or both.

Regarding CrackBerrys and their ilk, Dennis has stated on several occasions that he does not use one. The people I know who use these devices (myself included) like being connected to our email all the time because we can process it when we have nothing better to do (or don't like what we're doing) but don't have access to a computer. We feel lost and out of touch when we don't have these devices with us.

Dennis continues:

"At the same time, some studies indicate that 80-90% of Internet email is spam, and a large fraction of internal email is not much better than spam."

As I've noted many times, the volume of spam sent is irrelevant. All that matters is what you actually receive.

If you currently use an ISP for your email, switch to Google Apps Premier Edition. No one has a better spam filter than Google. If you maintain your own Exchange or other mail server, check out Postini, which is owned by Google.

As for internal mail, your colleagues want to keep you in the loop for reasons both good and bad. If you switch to an email alternative, these messages will simply take a different form. Etiquette training is the answer here, not technology.

Dennis adds:

"You increasingly hear people saying that "email is broken."  The real difficulty with email is that we are asking email to do far more than what was intended for. Email is for sending, well, email messages. We use it for everything — from a document management system to a collaboration platform."

That's what we thought three years ago so we started using Basecamp, a Web-based project management system. Basecamp features its own messaging system that keeps conversations in threads. In fact, we used Basecamp with Dennis when he wrote TechnoLawyer NewsWire.

But Basecamp failed.

By and large, our clients and contributors found the messaging system less convenient than email. When someone sends a message, you receive an email alert. You then have to click a link in the alert to respond in your browser. Rightly so, people just wanted to reply in their email program.

You might think a little extra work is worth the reward — threaded discussions. Nope, as I recently discovered first-hand. We produced our eBook using Basecamp. As a result, none of the messages associated with our eBook exist where I want them — in my email program and in my searchable email archive.

Instead, they're in Basecamp, walled off — a prison we're escaping this month as we migrate to Google Apps Premier. You see, Google got it right. Don't force a new messaging system on people. Let them use email. But give them document collaboration (Google Docs and Spreadsheets) and a dashboard with file sharing (Google Sites).

Lots of other companies get it too. Witness the explosion of email archiving solutions. Whether regulated or not, most companies nowadays want the ability to store and search their email.

Dennis writes further:

"People are gradually finding that RSS feeds, news readers, instant messaging, phone calls, and even face-to-face meetings are often better and more appropriate than email for certain types of communication."

That's certainly true, but none of these replace email, except perhaps instant messaging for those under the age of 25. But instant messaging doesn't scale even if you have two or three monitors.

Dennis continues:

"Some even suggest that the trend toward social networking platforms, like Facebook, is in some part due to the failures of email."

A prediction of my own and a wager to boot: I'll bet good money that email will outlast all Web-based social networks, especially those that eschew email. Instead, look for the opposite — better email clients that acknowledge what we've known all along — email is the ultimate social network.

Dennis adds:

"Email has also become unreliable as spam filters and overloaded inboxes make it difficult to be certain that email messages are actually delivered and received."

See my discussion above about Google and Postini.

Dennis concludes:

"The trend to watch is the movement away from email into appropriate tools for the task at hand. Two trillion instant messages were sent in 2007. Firms with policies against instant messaging will find that their clients will insist on the use of it. It has become difficult to send large files by email at a time when it has become essential to send large files. Watch for use of online services for the transfer of large files to grow. Almost every communication alternative to email can be expected to grow in 2008. Email will not die as a tool for lawyers, but 2008 will demonstrate how rickety and sickly the email system has become."

While training people to use the right tool for the job is critical, email's power will continue to grow because people use it when they want to create a searchable record of something noteworthy. No other technology can match email in this regard, especially with all the investment in archiving and storage (Google Apps Premier, at the low end of the enterprise spectrum, now provides 26GB of storage for each email account). Expect to see smarter email clients, even more storage, and better ways to search and mine our growing email collections.

Email isn't in its death throes. It's just molting.

Thoughts on this or Dennis' other predictions? Please reply!

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QuickFile4Outlook Review; Word Processor Diversity; CIC Consultants Forum; KVM; iMac Attack

By Sara Skiff | Friday, February 29, 2008

Coming March 6, 2008 to Answers to Questions: Tim Hughes reviews QuickFile4Outlook - Lawyer's Edition, Lisa Cadungug shares her experience with both Word and WordPerfect in a law office setting (plus we unearth an interesting snippet on this endless debate from a 1997 TechnoLawyer message), Forum Administrator Tom Rowe clarifies some issues regarding the online CIC Solutions Forum for LexisNexis Practice Management products (and we extend a welcome to Questions that don't fit there), David Herdman offers a simple solution for using two computers with one monitor, and Diane Hopkins reviews her new iMac after switching from a Windows PC. Don't miss this issue.

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Biglaw Salary Reality Check; Leet Speak; Train in Vain; Dragon Review; iPhone Gets Pushy?

By Sara Skiff | Friday, February 22, 2008

Coming February 29, 2008 to Fat Friday: Harry Steinmetz attempts to bring a reality check to the thread on biglaw associate salaries, Kurt Schoettler discusses using "leet speak" when creating strong passwords, Harold Burstyn tells us how he really feels about Microsoft Word (and a past CM's Note), John Rigby reviews Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and Grant Griffiths reviews the iPhone (which might soon get pushy if you catch our drift). Don't miss this issue.

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LegalTech 2008 Recap: You Didn't Miss Anything (Because It's All on the Web)

By Neil J. Squillante | Tuesday, February 19, 2008

I didn't attend LegalTech 2008 this year, but I didn't miss anything. And no, I'm not criticizing LegalTech. I'm praising it. ALM (the company behind LegalTech) covered the event extensively in its Legal Blog Watch blog. Additionally, a number of other bloggers and podcasters also covered LegalTech. We've compiled the best of these posts and podcasts below with some commentary.

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Why didn't we attend LegalTech given that our office is less than a mile away from the Hilton? If you're a non-ALM publication, you cannot conduct press briefings at the Hilton as there is no place to sit. Also, hotels serve notoriously bland food. Life is too short for processed turkey sandwiches.

So instead we invited legal vendors to meet with us at our office in our whisper-quiet conference room, which we stocked with high-end gourmet goodies from six best-of-breed New York purveyors.

The result?

Last year we scheduled 23 meetings at the Hilton. This year, we scheduled 41 meetings at our office! I'd like to thank everyone who attended. Same time next year!

As a result of these meetings, you'll learn about lots of new products in the coming weeks — plus some reviews as well. For now, you can get a "taste" of these meetings by checking out the all-day menu we provided.

The photos above show ALM's LegalTech flyer, one of the 41 meetings we held during LegalTech in our conference room, and Eleni's New York cookies, which were among the gourmet goodies we offered our guests. Seated in the conference room from left to right counterclockwise: Me, my colleague Sara Skiff, Jobst Elster, Vice President of Envision Agency, and M.W. Whit McIsaac, President & CEO of Client Profiles. JoAnna Forshee, CEO of Envision Agency, snapped the two conference room photos.

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According to Law Technology News editor Monica Bay, she and her team decided to live blog LegalTech the day it started. As a result, the coverage is more like a series of snapshots in a photo album than a documentary. But it's nonetheless impressive and well worth reading. Because blogs are organized in reverse chronological order, we've un-reversed the best posts for you.

Cuomo Speaks at Fios Party

CourtroomLive Launches Today

Martindale-Hubbell Blog

Balancing In-House and Outsourced EDD Resources

Tuesday Morning Panel Reports from KM Space

Day One Is Nearly Done

Day One Reports

LegalTech Seminar — Authenticating Digital Evidence

"B-Discovery"

Law Technology News Award Winners

The King (or Queen) of LegalTech Swag?

Anonymous Blawger Sighting

Photos from Bloggers' Breakfast

Lawyers Catching Up With Web 2.0

"EDD Uncertainty Looms Over LegalTech"

Google Goes to LegalTech, and LegalTech Goes Global

The Last of the LegalTech Blog Posts


BEST OF THE REST ...

Aaref Hilaly, the CEO of Clearwell Systems, who was kind enough to visit with us and who authors the blog E-Discovery 2.0, published the best account of LegalTech from the perspective of a vendor.

Is LegalTech A Good Investment?

Brett Burney, eDiscovery expert and one of the nicest guys in the business, covered the highlights from the E-Discovery Institute's event, Counselor, Why Can't You Google It? I'm sure the event lasted an hour, but you can read Brett's excellent recap in less than five minutes.

LegalTech NY 2008-Googling Your Document Review (E-Discovery Institute Session)

Ross Kodner, legal technologist extraordinaire and long-time Microsoft critic, concluded that Microsoft made the most electrifying product announcement at LegalTech.

LegalTech NY Day One: Microsoft and the Next Big Thing: "Intrasocial Networking"

Doug Cornelius of KM Space live blogged LegalTech, and, unlike many others, was nice enough to tag his posts so that I can point you to all of them with one link.

In his post, LegalTech Wrap Up, Doug echoes my criticism about nowhere to sit (just in case you didn't believe me and thought we were just making excuses to stay in our office), writing:

"Overall, I found LegalTech to be crowded and loud. I was always looking for a place to sit and chat with people but there was nowhere to be found."

Finally, Thomson West created a blog dedicated to its announcements at LegalTech. Watch the videos, which are like watching product demos in a trade show booth — but better because you're not actually in the booth.

LISTEN TO LEGALTECH COVERAGE ...

Two Legal Talk Network podcasts also covered LegalTech. Below you'll find links to the actual MP3 files. You can also find these podcasts in iTunes.

In her new podcast, Law Technology Now, Monica Bay and guests Craig Ball and Henry Dicker discuss LegalTech, including some inside baseball.

Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams cover LegalTech in back-to-back episodes of their Lawyer2Lawyer podcast. I was invited to participate in one of these shows, but couldn't fit it into my schedule. Nonetheless, they are still worth a listen (ha).

What's New in Legal Technology?

LegalTech Recap 

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BlackBerry 8800 Versus Treo 680; How to Improve CLE; Greg Krehel; Fake Reviews; How to Open WPD in Word

By Sara Skiff | Friday, February 15, 2008

Coming February 22, 2008 to Fat Friday: David Long contributes a comparative review of the BlackBerry 8800 and Treo 680, Carol Seelig provides a few more suggestions for improving the current state of CLE, Peter McInroy reminisces about CaseSoft co-founder Greg Krehel, Laurence Eastham discusses the long history of fake product reviews, and Dean Birch explains how to open WordPerfect files in Microsoft Word 2002 and 2003. Don't miss this issue.

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