The 2010 ILTA Conference once again allows Elite, part of Thomson Reuters, to spend some valuable time interacting with with customers and attendees, and business partners.
Legal Current caught up with newly-named president of Elite, Kim Massana, to talk about the importance of the ILTA conference and what he’s hearing many clients talk about.
“One trend that we’re seeing a lot from the industry and that everyone is talking about is about alternative fee arrangements,” says Massana. “So we’ve heard plenty of feedback on that from the marketplace.”
Massana explains more of the significance of the ILTA conference in this video interview:
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Monday night at the 2010 ILTA Conference brought the opening of the exhibit hall and a special Vegas-style theme to the get-together for “Viva ILTA Vendors.”
It was our first chance to welcome conference attendees into the booths for our Thomson Reuters, Legal, businesses.
We’ve posted some more photos on our Flickr page.
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The International Legal Technology Association’s 2010 Conference is underway in Las Vegas. Legal Current is part of the Thomson Reuters team here at the Aria Resort & Casino on the Vegas strip.
The theme of ILTA’S 33rd annual conference is “Strategic Unity.” It’s a concept that ILTA says “resonates the need for law firms and law departments to unite their technology with the practice of law. These disciplines must come together as never before in order to survive and thrive in the future.”
Conference Co-Chair Maureen Babcock says ILTA is an organization that reaches around the world, not just the United States, and the content at the 2010 conference is tailored to meet the global legal technology needs of its members – and also is planned by its members.
“That’s the value of a volunteer organization like ILTA,” Babcock says. “We review trends out in the industry, what the hot topics are… …and then we sit down and start brainstorming… …we come up with this enormous pile of ideas.”
We did a podcast with Babcock on Aug. 9 (Her interview is at the 13:15 mark of the show).
Over the next few days here in Vegas, we’ve got a lot planned here on the blog, including a special edition of our Legal Current podcast that I’ll be posting tonight, featuring interviews with several attendees at the conference, highlighting some of the great content and industry insight that ILTA is known for.
We also will have several recaps of the speakers and sessions here on Legal Current and we’ll catch up with several of our Thomson Reuters attendees as well.
You also can follow our updates on Twitter (We’re @legalcurrent) and the hashtag #ilta10.
In addition to the video interviews we’ll be posting here on Legal Current, we also will put some photos up on our Flickr page.
So, be watching the blog for our updates from ILTA!
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It seems like the ideal job; roll out of bed around noon, write about your day, sleep, repeat. But there is more to being a professional blogger than sharing anecdotes in your pajamas.
First, let’s get past the stereotype that bloggers and p.j.’s go hand-in-hand.
Professional blogging is a career, whether it’s done at home or in an office.
Heather Armstrong, author of dooce.com, understands the amount of work that is necessary for making a blog a business. She has become one of the most well-known professional bloggers, with more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter (@dooce) and her blog, and she’s been named as one of the 30 most influential women in the media by Forbes magazine. She and her husband work full-time on the blog, as well as raise two children.
At the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, we caught up with Armstrong before her presentation at the WestlawNext-sponsored CLE, “Legal Issues Resulting from the Social Media Explosion,” which you can read more about here. She told us about why she became a professional blogger and the obstacles that come with living under public scrutiny as a blogger in the first clip, and what a “typical” day in her life is actually like in the second clip below.
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An interesting and insightful CLE session sponsored by WestlawNext at the ABA Annual Meeting explored the legal issues associated with social media and the blogosphere.
Heather Armstrong, one of the most well-known professional bloggers, presented at the CLE, and discussed her experiences dealing with unauthorized use of blog material, defamation, cyber stalking and loss of employment for blog content. (We had a chance to talk with the “mommy blogger” after the session, which you can read more about here.)
From the counsel perspective, Marylee Abrams from Abrams and Schmidt LLC., and Kenneth Kunkle from Kunkle Law PLC, two social media experts, demonstrated how to efficiently obtain legal and factual information necessary for advising clients on issues such as employment law, social media policies, intellectual property and the FTC policy on blog disclosure.
Abrams, a lawyer who represents employers with labor relations and employment law issues, talked with us about the necessity of social media policies in this video clip:
We also talked with Kunkle, a lawyer who advises creative-based clients on matters of copyright, trademark and other general business issues, who told us in this short video clip about the importance of understanding social media.
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The Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) awarded Sandra R. McCandless with the Liberty Achievement Award at the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting.
The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, was established in 2008 to honor those lawyers and judges who take a leadership role in promoting diversity in the legal profession.
McCandless is committed to bringing in and retaining diverse lawyers as part of TIPS. When she was section chair, she purposely conducted meetings in Miami and San Francisco for the sake of diversity outreach opportunities as well as introduced diversity receptions at major TIPS section meetings.
As a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, she heads her firm’s labor and employment practice in California and has practiced internationally, representing Asian and European companies with business in the U.S.
After the award presentation, Sandy talked with us about her strong commitment to diversity and how it felt to be named this year’s recipient, in this video clip:
John Tarpley, former chair of TIPS and head of its awards committee, also talked with us about Sandy and her achievements, and the importance of diversity in the legal profession, in this video interview:
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This year’s GP Solo Awards honorees were recognized at a reception on the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien – a ship named after the first American captain to capture a British naval vessel during the Revolutionary War.
At the reception on Aug. 6, the Milwaukee Bar Association and the State Bar of Wisconsin were awarded the Small Solo Project Award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, for their partnership on the Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference.
And Jeanne Tate was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, also co-sponsored by Thomson Reuters.
Legal Current was at the event and caught up with GP Solo award committee chair Marvin Dane, who explains what the awards mean and why the recipients were honored this year, in this video clip:
We also have short video interviews with James Grant, head of the GP Solo division; and honorees Britt Wegner, representing the Milwaukee Bar Association and Nerino Petro, representing the State Bar of Wisconsin:
Finally, Jeanne Tate, the recipient of the lifetime achievement award talks with us about her rewarding work in adoption in this video:
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Hildebrandt Baker Robbins is conducting the annual MCC Design Awards for excellence in design and delivery of matter centric workspaces.
The competition will take place at the upcoming ILTA conference in Las Vegas. The deadline to submit entries is Aug. 20.
Firms interested in submitting their industry leading workspace designs can download the submission form.
Participants submit a screenshot of their matter-based, administrative and/or client-facing workspace.
The entries, along with a brief description of the workspace design objectives and key benefits, will be presented at the MCC Design Awards on Aug. 25.
Learn about previous winners here.
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A well-attended CLE session Thursday morning at the ABA Annual Meeting explored “the impact of technology and globalization on ethics for the 21st century lawyer.”
Judith A. Miller, member of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 and former general counsel of the Bechtel Group, moderated a panel discussion about the ethical challenges today’s lawyers and law firms must deal with. Panelists included:
The Commission on Ethics 20/20 was created in 2009 to evaluate the ABA’s guidelines around professional conduct, as well as regulation in the United States around technology and global law practices. Miller tells us about the goals and mission of the Commission in this short video clip:
Conversation in yesterday’s panel touched on many ethical issues today’s attorneys face, including challenges in managing a virtual law practice and cloud computing; practice issues involving foreign lawyers and law firm outsourcing; and different approaches to regulation. In this video clip, Miller recaps the session and talks about some of the key issues the Commission is considering:
The Commission on Ethics 20/20 is seeking input from attorneys across all practice types. More information can be found on the Commission’s website.
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The 2010 American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting kicked off today in San Francisco. Attorneys from across the United States attend the yearly conference to network with their colleagues and peers, and for professional development and continuing legal education programming. Thomson Reuters has a longstanding partnership with the ABA and sponsors various activities during the show.
We caught up with Joe Kubes, director of Strategic Relations for Thomson Reuters, who says, “We’re here to support the attorneys who are here to ultimately improve how the law is applied and how the practice of law takes place.”
Kubes talks more about the importance of the company’s relationship with the ABA, and what we’re doing to support the association during this year’s meeting, in this short video clip:
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Thomson Reuters, Legal, President & CEO Peter Warwick offered his perspective on the company’s approach to the current economic reality in a panel discussion, “Adapting and Thriving in a Challenging Economy”, at the Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference.
The launch of WestlawNext brings a significant advancement in the way professional legal research is done.
A discussion about online privacy and “The End of Forgetting,” with law professor Jeffrey Rosen.
