The nominees are Thompson Coburn, Seyfarth Shaw and Pillsbury Winthrop. [These are my notes from the International Legal Technology Association's 2012 Conference 2012. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain the occasional typographical or grammatical error. Please excuse those. To the extent I've made any... Continue Reading →
Extranets:The Client Disconnect? #ILTA12
Session Title: Beyond Extranets! What Clients Really Want. Speakers; Scott Rechtschaffen (CKO, Littler Mendelson), Lynn Simpson (Knowledge Manager & Six Sigma Master Black Belt, DuPont), Meredith Williams (Chief Knowledge Management Officer, Baker Donelson). [These are my notes from the International Legal Technology Association's 2012 Conference 2012. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after... Continue Reading →
JAG Connect:Army Lawyers go Social #ILTA12
Col. Scott Reid is the Chief Knowledge Officer of the US Army JAG Corps. The JAG has about 2,500 lawyers, plus almost an equal number of support staff, plus the same number again in the reserves. Their offices are in 21 countries. [These are my notes from the International Legal Technology Association's 2012 Conference 2012.... Continue Reading →
Frans Johansson Keynote #ILTA12
Frans Johansson is an innovation expert and author of The Medici Effect. As CEO of The Medici Group, he leads a team which helps clients improve their innovation efforts through an approach they call Intersectional Thinking: Your best chance to innovate is at The Intersection. Here, concepts from diverse disciplines, fields, and cultures collide to... Continue Reading →
Overcoming Law Firm Irrationality [#ILTA12]
We'd like to think that our advanced education protects us from the dangers of irrationality, but for too many of us that is a delusion. The reality is that unless you are keenly aware of how you make decisions, you may well find that your seemingly logical decisions are riddled with unconscious errors. As modern... Continue Reading →
The Alternative Side of #ILTA12
Of course you're special. Your parents have always known it and now the International Legal Technology Association is acknowledging it too. How is ILTA doing that? By recognizing that each of us has a preferred learning style and, therefore, we need different formats and approaches to facilitate our learning. As a a result, the planning... Continue Reading →
The Post-2.0 Era: Social in the Context of My Work #e2conf
Larry Cannell is Research Director at Gartner Inc. At Gartner, he writes for information architects and everyone they influence. You can reach him on Twitter: @lcannell. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2012 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain... Continue Reading →
Surviving Social Software Fatigue #e2conf
Alan Lepofsky (Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc.) discussed some of the challenges facing social software and how to address information overload. His excellent slides are available on Slideshare. You can reach him on Twitter: @alanlepo. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2012 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as... Continue Reading →
Building Intelligent Organizations #e2conf
Sara Roberts (President/CEO, Roberts Golden Consulting, Inc.) and Dr. Margaret Schweer (Managing Principal and Researcher, Tammy Erickson & Associates) are the speakers. This session focused on some "deeply embedded organizational assumptions that are no longer valid ...and why they are no longer relevant." They also discussed how "organizations will need to evolve to become Intelligent... Continue Reading →
Collaboration Readiness #e2conf
Sara Roberts (Roberts Golden Consulting) moderates this session involving Lisa Bonner (AVP, Contemporary Work Practices, The Hartford Insurance Company), Erin Grotts (Director of Internal Communications and Collaboration, SUPERVALU) and Dan Pontefract (Head of Learning & Collaboration, Telus). [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2012 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon... Continue Reading →