ABA TECHSHOW 2007 is over. Congratulations to my friend TECHSHOW chair Dan Pinnington and the TECHSHOW Planning Board (and the great faculty) for another superb event. I’m far from unbiased, but TECHSHOW is my favorite annual event and this year’s edition was one of the best I’ve attended. Both the speakers and the attendees were
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Congratulations! You were named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
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And I think You richly deserve it!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
This is really an inspired choice. The democratization of the WWW through so many new Web 2.0 applications is really quite a change in the way we get our information. We still rely on the mainstream media sources for news, we also look to You: blogs from…
Is Microsoft Providing Better Document Security or Building a New Monopoly?
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Lawyers may like the idea of more secure documents. Wouldn’t it be nice to know your password-protected documents were uncrackable? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to remotely make a document which was e-mailed by accident unreadable by the recipient?
But noted writer and pundit Cory Doctorow asks us to examine "How Vista …
CityTech’s Global Tech Top 100 Leaders
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Well, something really nice happened several days ago. I was shocked and surprised to learn that my name had been included on the Global Tech Top 100 Leaders list for 2006. This list was compiled by a London publication CityTech, which focuses on technology in the legal industry. I’m certainly honored to be on a…
ABA TECHSHOW Scores a Coup: Judge Scheindlin to Speak
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ABA TECHSHOW® 2007 — Judge Shira A. Scheindlin to Speak as the Keynote
The Honorable Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, will give the ABA TECHSHOW 2007 Keynote Presentation on Thursday, March 22.
Judge Scheindlin is renowned for a series of landmark decisions in Zubulake…
National Solo and Small Firm Conference – October 19 and 20th -Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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One of my favorite projects with the Oklahoma Bar Association is our annual OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference. It is a great opportunity for these lawyers to enjoy CLE targeted to their needs. There is also a good amount of networking and potential for referrals. Whenever possible, I’ve tried to help other bar association…
Legal Tech Round-Up – Sept 1, 2006
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OK, class, has everyone now completed reading the 200 or 300 pages that were assigned a couple of weeks ago? If you don’t recall what I am talking about, scroll down a bit. Between August 8th and 18th, I linked to a lot of material for you to download.
I’m now instituting a new form…
Download and Read InnovAction E-zine
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I’ve been meaning to encourage you to download and read InnovAction, a great new e-publication on law firm innovation and creativity from the College of Law Practice Management. Now it is 4:59 p.m. Friday and I’m ready to head out. Luckily Dennis Kennedy explains so well why you need to download it and provides…
Online Filing Cabinets
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If you haven’t been paying attention lately, you may not have noticed that online storage space is getting cheap. I’ve been researching lately into the various potential uses of online storage space for lawyers, from online backup to file sharing to virtual drives for day-to-day work. You have probably noted that there is a lot…
Ten Days Free Access from Wall Street Journal.com (and more)
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From beSpacific, I learn that WSJ.com is celebrating its 10th Anniversary online by giving everyone ten free days full access to its content that is normally for subscribers only. Just click here. But I probably wouldn’t have mentioned that here except for the fact this information lead me to do a search that…