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Christy Burke covers LegalTech 2012
| 31 January 2012
Christy Burke reports live from LegalTech 2012
Christy Burke reports live from LegalTech New York 2012. During the conference, Christy interviews visitors and exhibitors and asks them about their companies, new products and impressions of the conference.
Alternative Fee Arrangements Give Productivity Software Sales a Boost as Law Firms Brace for Efficiency
| 14 November 2011
Recently, I went to a Microsoft Word users’ group meeting where a legal software application was being demonstrated. The software being shown was going to allow attorneys and legal staff to accomplish a time-consuming legal task in a fraction of the time it would have taken manually. The attendees, mostly legal software trainers, were amazed and very enthusiastic about the software.
Out of curiosity, I asked the trainers, “When you train lawyers and legal staff, do some of them resist learning productivity software tools because they actually don’t want the task to take them less time, because it reduces their billed hours?”
Burke covers ILTA 2011
| 24 August 2011
Christy Burke reports live from ILTA 2011
Christy Burke reports live from the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). During the conference, Christy interviewed visitors and exhibitors and asked them about their companies, new products and impressions of ILTA. Below you will find all Christy's interviews.
Winning Email Communication Strategies for Legal IT Professionals
| 06 July 2011
(Hope All is Well with You…)
Whether you love to hate emails, or you hate to love emails, the fact remains – if you’re a legal IT professional, you’re an emailing machine whether you like it or not.
You would think with all this feverish emailing day and night from laptops, tablets, mobile devices and smartphones, we would all be experts at sending clear, concise, non-annoying email messages. However, in this particular case, practice does NOT make perfect!
Burke covers ABA TechShow 2011
| 12 April 2011
Burke reports from ABA TechShow
Christy Burke visited the ABA TECHSHOW, the annual legal technology conference of the American Bar Association. During the show, Christy interviewed a couple of legal IT leaders and asked them about their companies, new products and impressions of the conference.
Silver in the Windy City – ABA TECHSHOW Turns 25 This Week!
| 07 April 2011
This week marks the 25th Birthday/Silver Anniversary of the ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago which runs from April 11- April 13 at the Chicago Hilton. TECHSHOW is sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management (LPM) section. Having gone to the show for about the past 10 years, I have to say this particular event is always one of the highlights of my year.
The educational sessions at TECHSHOW are always good, the Taste of TECHSHOW dinners have introduced me to interesting people and the best Chicago hotspots, and the Expo Hall overflows with buzz and cool new products. And on St. Patrick’s Day, they do actually dye the river green!
Burke covers LegalTech 2011: all the interviews
| 04 February 2011
Christy Burke reports live from LegalTech
Christy Burke reports live from LegalTech New York 2011. During the conference, Christy interviews visitors and exhibitors and asks them about their companies, new products and impressions of the conference.
Unexpected eDiscovery: Boldly Exploring the Outermost Frontiers of ESI
| 21 December 2010
Space…it was the final frontier for one James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. But where is the final frontier for eDiscovery? Well, there isn’t one. Not yet anyhow. For the pioneers on the cutting edge of eDiscovery, new and surprising sources of ESI are continually being discovered, tapped, and secured.
Any eDiscovery expert or computer forensics professional can find electronically stored information (ESI) in ordinary places such as document repositories and e-mail systems. However, the most creative, intrepid and thorough electronic investigators go farther-- much farther -- to find crucial information in the most unexpected and unusual of places. They find obscure cards, chips, disks, proprietary systems and remote outposts where relevant data lives, preserve it, and bring it into the fold. In short, they boldly go where no one has gone before.
Are you an iLawyer yet?
| 28 September 2010
Charting the Legal Industry's Mac Invasion
“Are you a PC or a Mac?” This is today’s version of an identity crisis, though it’s requiring attention more from IT personnel than psychiatrists. A few years ago, almost every legal professional would have said “I’m a PC” whether they liked it or not. That said, there have always been a few avid Mac fans that would have heartily disagreed and staked their claim to a passionate Mac minority.
Christy Burke covered ILTA 2010: the interviews
| 30 August 2010
Christy Burke reports live from ILTA 2010 - All the interviews
Christy Burke reported live from the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). During the conference, Christy interviewed visitors and exhibitors and asked them about their companies, new products and impressions of ILTA. Below you will find all Christy's interviews.
Will Office 2010 "Make it Great" or Crash and Burn at Your Firm?
| 26 July 2010
Make it Great. Yes, that’s the vanilla marketing tagline Microsoft came up with for promoting Office 2010. This begs the question that’s on legal IT’s collective mind these days: is 2010 actually great, or is it chaos and misery stuffed into a shrink-wrapped box?
On May 12, 2010, Microsoft announced worldwide availability of Office 2010, so the product is officially out of the gate…and running? The issue is: will it run well, will it be in the running for your firm, or will it run you over? Microsoft dominates the legal market and is part of the woodwork of most law firms by now, so many sites are likely to be impacted by this new release, for better or for worse.
Could the BP Oil Spill Lead to an e-Discovery Disaster?
| 21 May 2010
As oil from the BP spill continues to spread into the Gulf waters, the eDiscovery scenario for the company continues to expand and worsen as well. BP has already agreed to take full responsibility for the fallout of this catastrophe, which is one of the most epic environmental debacles…ever.
On May 19, the Associated Press reported in an article that “an attorney is asking a federal judicial panel to quickly consolidate more than 100 lawsuits filed against BP and other companies responsible for the massive Gulf oil spill. Louisiana lawyer Daniel Becnel says legal chaos could break out in five Gulf Coast states if the lawsuits aren't combined. Becnel has asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington to quickly reconsider whether to order the cases consolidated. The panel has indicated it will not decide until July.”
