Beyond knowledge management to better management
Chris DeSantis is an independent consultant specializing in the delivery and design of management and organizational development solutions. This is how the ILTA conference website describes his talk: As IT professionals in legal, we manage a variety of projects and initiatives in an increasingly challenging environment. To be successful, we need extraordinary communication skills and... Continue Reading →
The speakers in this session are Felicity Badcock (Head of Knowledge Management, King & Wood Mallesons); Ginevra Saylor (National Director of Knowledge Management, Dentons Canada LLP), and Shy Alter (ii3). The moderator is David Hobbie (Litigation Knowledge Manager, Goodwin Procter). The Conference website describes this session as follows: Legal knowledge management lies at the intersection of substantive legal... Continue Reading →
Tracey Erin Smith (Founder, soulOtheatre) and Ginevra Saylor (National Director, Knowledge Management, Dentons Canada LLP) [These are my notes from the International Legal Technology Association's 2013 Conference. 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... Continue Reading →
Rohit Talwar is a global futurist and the founder of Fast Future Research. The conference schedule provides the following information on his talk: The next 10 years could see a dramatic rewriting of the law firm playbook as innovators and entrepreneurs break from the pack to change the rules of the game. In what promises... Continue Reading →
It's my good fortune to be attending the International Legal Technology Association's 2013 Conference. The conference takes place this year at the Caesar's Palace resort in Las Vegas. For a relative Las Vegas novice like me, everything here is a little larger than life -- including the prices of food and drink. However, today's main... Continue Reading →
Scott Klososky is Principal at Future Point of View, an Enterprise Social Technology Expert and a Startup Pioneer. In this keynote address he will discuss how to achieve technology mastery at an enterprise level and how to connect more closely with clients. Future Point of View is a technology strategy firm that focuses on teaching technology to... Continue Reading →
Stepping off an early morning flight, I was not at my best when I landed in Las Vegas in August 2010. That's my excuse for the stupid thing I did that morning. What happened? I put my weary body into a taxi and didn't pay close attention when the friendly cab driver welcomed me to... Continue Reading →
We tell ourselves stories all the time. Stories that help us make sense of our days; stories that help us simply make it through our days. On occasion, we tell ourselves lies. Sometimes all it takes for us to understand how false our stories are is to hear their lines uttered by someone completely unexpected.... Continue Reading →
Social media is now so much a part of our lives that it's hard to remember a time when we didn't have immediate access to the deep (and occasionally trivial) thoughts of people far and wide. With the ubiquity of social media comes the challenge of using it for good. To that end, the International... Continue Reading →
This session was entitled "Profitability: Evolving Over the Long Term." That said, the panel and audience discussion covered a range of issues relating to the financial management of law firms. The session was moderated by Anthony Licata (CFO, Dechert LLP). The panelists were Daniel Sheeran (CFO, Duane Morris LLP), Eldean Ward (Head of Revenue Practice,... Continue Reading →
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