Leading minds in the world of law gathered at Thomson Reuters offices in Canary Wharf on Thursday, April 16 to hear a lively debate on the highly contentious issue of corporate wrongdoing – and who should pay. The event, moderated by Axel Threlfall, editor at large for Reuters, was the second in the Thomson Reuters …
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How lawyers can find out if their traffic report is lying to them
When it comes to firm marketing, it can be easy to become fixated on metrics like website visits and search rankings, but do they tell the whole story? Mark Jacobsen, senior director of Strategic Development & Thought Leadership for FindLaw, sits down with Sean Sands, digital marketing expert, Web Content for FindLaw, about their new …
ABA Techshow session recap: The Future of Advertising
While marketing may not be the favorite pastime of many attorneys, most would agree that in today’s hyper-competitive environment, it has become an activity that law firms must understand and, increasingly, embrace. In light of this, the 2015 ABA Techshow lunch and learn session, “The Future of Advertising,” sponsored by FindLaw and presented by Eli …
Podcast: Judge Daniel Brenner on Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. Examples of net neutrality violations include when the Internet service provider Comcast intentionally slowed peer-to-peer communications. On …
ABA Techshow session recap: Buying, Implementing and Replacing Technology
Many people like to have the latest piece of technology, that new shiny toy; some even spend a few days in lines to purchase the latest phone or tablet. At the 2015 ABA Techshow, one of the first questions asked at a panel discussing buying, implementing and replacing technology in a law practice was whether …
ABA Techshow: Keynote speaker Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr’s keynote at ABA Techshow was one part history refresh and one part warning how technology is making us stupid. He began his talk by spending some time putting the cloud into a broader context in order to set the stage and show the audience what might be coming in the future. He started by looking …
ABA Techshow: How to Balance Tech and Re-Establish Eye Contact
My name is Susan Martin and I am a technology addict. So I decided to attend a session at ABA Techshow titled “How to Balance Tech and Re-establish Eye Contact.” Presented by Sharon D. Nelson, president of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., and Shawn Holahan, IT consultant, the session focused on our general overuse of technology – …
ABA Techshow: Your Information is Digital and YOU Need to Know Digital Security
ABA Techshow started out with a bang this morning at the heavily-attended session titled “Your Information is Digital and YOU Need to Know Digital Security.” Presented by Kenneth Lyons, senior manager of IT engineering and security at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and Matt Kesner, CIO of Fenwick & West, LLP, the session covered the security practices all …
Don’t think that’s weird: Emerging Legal Technology Forum review
This post was written by Ryan McClead, legal technology innovation architect, Norton Rose Fulbright contributor, 3 Geeks and a Law Blogger A few weeks ago I was in the midst of one of my typical breathless explanations of the latest technology that was going to revolutionize nearly everything about the firm. It was going to …
Futureproof? Protecting innovation in rapidly evolving technologies
This post was written by Mohammed Karim, attorney at Bird & Bird international law firm Gordon Moore’s law that computer processor speeds would double every two years has historically held true. Ray Kurzweil’s modern theory of human development and the Law of Accelerating Returns proposes that the rate of human progress exponentially increases throughout time. …
