February 7, 2008
LegalTech 2008 Wrap Up
Wrapping up the first major law-related technology show of the year (and my first live blogging event), I have taken some good and bad things with me.
The good:
- It's always good to stay in touch with the trends each vendor is promoting. Based on the sessions, I think vendors may have been more reactive than trailblazing - or it could have been that the vendors that were more relevant to the topics in the sessions were prominent. Either way, I think the tone is set for a year of vendors promoting themselves as having the best E-Discovery solution.
- If you are an attorney who wants to knock out CLE credits as well as get your head spinning around the hundreds of technology solutions available to meet nearly any need your firm could require, this ain't a bad place to be.
- Live blogging is possible in a large tech show with the right amount of focus and determination and hopefully gives readers some value for the toil.
- This show is a great place to network if you are any way affiliated with the legal profession.
The bad:
- Live blogging without consistent internet connectivity is difficult. I spent my time in sessions sitting with my laptop writing the blog entries in Windows Live Writer (my current experimental desktop blogging tool), then doing a mass post when I got back to the suite where I had reliable wireless access. This is a challenge I can't believe will be remedied without more demand for live blogging and will be dictated by the luck of whether there is good wireless access at the location of the show.
- There was precious little focus on financial management in the show (qualification - I am biased). One session on firm profitability (hosted by Thomson West) but that was it. On the other hand, there were 6 sessions with the word E-Discovery in the title alone! I think some wanted to make sure we understood the theme of the show - the beast in the jungle was no ordinary gorilla - it was the many faces of e-discovery.
I hope my fractured writing wasn't too much of an irritant. Please feel free to give me feedback on what you liked, disliked, or would like to see me focus more on in the future.
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