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IgniteLaw 2012 Agenda and Speakers

If you plan to attend the 2012 ABA Technology Show (a/k/a TechShow 2012) March 29-31 then you owe it to yourself to attend IgniteLaw! on Wednesday March 27 – the night before the Big Show.  As I pointed out last year Ignite, the TED of legal thought, is the brainchild of Matt Homann of the [non] billable hour and is sponsored by InsideLegal. This year’s speakers represent a veritable Who’s Who of legal heavy hitters. Take a look at the roster below, read through their submissions, grab a drink, and get your ass down to IngiteLaw.

  1. Mark Britton:  Back to the Future
  2. Richard Granat  Legal Industry Startups: An Overview
  3. Roe Frazer:  Being a Web 2.0 Lawyer in the “Thank You Economy”
  4. Will Hornsby:  Ignite This! Five Ethics Rules That Should Be Incinerated
  5. Ruth Carter:  Flash Mob Law
  6. Jason E. Dyer:  Where Canasta and Counsel Collide
  7. Eric Hunter:  Moving Towards 100% Web
  8. Jay Shepherd:  One Word That Will Reinvent How You Serve Clients
  9. Rachel Rodgers:  Down with the Law Firm Template!
  10. Matt Spiegel:  Don’t Just Communicate …
  11. James F. Ring:  Ending Cheap Talk in Legal Bargaining
  12. Steve Best:  Passion

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03 2012


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LegalZoom …can’t …be …stopped

As highlighted recently on Shatterbox and in my discussions with Richard Granat of DirectLaw back at the 2011 ABA Tech Show, LegalZoom is coming into its own big time. Then again, what else would LegealZoom do with the money raised in its IPO but siphon business from competitors; lawyers?

And that’s exactly what it’s been doing and what it continues to do. Even the bell-weather Missouri class action that some thought might slow the LZ juggernaught has fizzled and instead, as Shatterbox points out, LZ is probably even savvier for the experience.

All of which begs the question: Is LegalZoom unstoppable? Is it inevitable? Is it the future of law practice? Is it the end of sole practitioners? Not that I know. I’m just putting it out there.

Before you answer think about this it looks as if we lawyers are in the pot while the water is getting hotter, but we refuse to acknowledge that our collective goose is being cooked… and probably won’t until it’s too late. That sounds just  like a lawyer’s reaction to and impending calamity: waiting until it’s over to react, conduct a post-mortem, and find someone else to blame. Posted via email from practice (redux)

 

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09 2011


by practicehacker
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ABA TechShow 2011

As most readers know, I write a column for NYC-based TechnoLawyer called SmallLaw (formerly known as, no joke, “Crazy Mazy”). Anyhow, as TechnoLawyer’s intrepid Chicago reporter I’ve written about the ABA TechShow since 2008; and before that for this blog.

Here are the 12 videos we shot at this year’s TechShow. Feel free to subscribe to my YouTube Channel for more legal tech news and check out my TechnoLawyer pieces as well.

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05 2011


by practicehacker
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ABA Tech Show 2010 in Pictures

Posted via email from practice (redux)

28

03 2010


by practicehacker
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ABA TechShow 2010

Posted via web from practice (redux)

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03 2010


by practicehacker
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ABA Social Networking Policy

ABA Advisory Panel: Social Network Usage

The ABA leadership and Standing Committee on Strategic Communications are developing a social network policy to determine how (if) the ABA will utilize social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Thus far they have surveyed lawyers and law students separately and found as follows:

Among practicing lawyers:

  • 1/3 of respondents did not have accounts on any of the 3 social networks mentioned
  • Among respondents who did have an account, LinkedIn was considered professional
  • Among respondents who had an account, Facebook was considered strictly casual
  • Lawyer attitudes toward social networks varied (waste of time, useful for business)
  • Most respondents favor an ABA group on LinkedIn, fewer favor one on Facebook
  • Younger respondents favored the idea of the ABA having a presence on social networks

Among law students:

  • they are much more engaged in social media than practitioners
  • nearly 90% of surveyed law students had Facebook accounts
  • about 75% of surveyed law students accessed Facebook daily
  • they tend to be more positive about social networks in general
  • they tend to favor ABA groups on both LinkedIn and Facebook

In a related story, the ABA Journal did not report that anyone was the least bit surprised by the findings.

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03 2010


by practicehacker
posted in ABA, ABA Jounral, Article, community, facebook, legal marketplace, linkedin, LPM Section, media, new media, old media, poll, practice, practice management, social media, social media tools, social networking, twitter
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