Podcasts: Increase your tech toolbox with these tips and tricks from ABA Techshow
Legal Talk Network attended the 2015 ABA Techshow in Chicago this month to record interviews with various panelists and participants. Below are some of the podcasts we thought our readers would find most interesting and helpful. For all Legal Talk Network’s available Techshow podcasts, click here, and for full ABA Journal coverage of the 2015 ABA Techshow, click here.
Who’s afraid of the paperless workflow?
Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti interviews Paperless Track presenters Nancy Duhon, Bryan Sims, and Ernie Svenson. Sims discusses treating, naming and charting paperless documents in your office and how resistant lawyers can plan to go paperless on a timeline. Duhon talks about document management systems and processes and paying for the proper software. Svenson urges lawyers to learn to use their document manipulation software effectively and gives some tips about redaction.
Alternative fees, automation, and analytics for firm success
Colletti interviews Britt Lorish, Peggy Gruenke, and Haley Odom Ackerman, three Practice Management Track presenters at the 2015 ABA Techshow. Lorish discusses the pressure for lawyers and law firms to move away from the billable hour; Gruenke explains how automating and documenting processes can increase efficiency; and Ackerman gives some examples of analytics reports most firms should be running–but aren’t.
Improving your online legal research
Colletti interviews Internet research expert (and former law librarian) Carole Levitt. Levitt discusses her book Internet Legal Research on a Budget and her speaking event at the conference, “Bing, Google, Duck, Yahoo: How to search for anything and find it.” Tune in for tips on effective online research for lawyers. Levitt is now president for Internet for Lawyers, which she started in 1999.
20 Blawggers in 20 Minutes: Legal Blogs in 60 Seconds
At the Beer for Blawggers social event hosted by the ABA Journal and LexBlog, Colletti spoke to 20 different attendees about their blogs, including the ABA Journal’s own Molly McDonough and Lee Rawles. Each had 60 seconds to describe their blog’s highlights, before the buzzer went off.
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