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As part of the ILTA Knowledge Management Peer Group Steering Committee, I am helping put together a session for the annual conference in Washington DC in August.
This session will cover the wide spectrum of uses of document management systems in law firms: from the simple to the complex. Then, we will examine how innovative firms have leveraged document management systems to promote knowledge management efforts.
If you or someone you know has some good experience with this, please let me know.
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Thanks!
Social. Networking.
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Knowledge Management and Law Department Peer Groups will be hosting a reception at the LegalTech Conference on January 31 at 5:15 at the Bridges Bar in the Hilton NY Hotel. the event is sponsored by Autonomy, Bridgeway and Prosperoware. I hope to see you there. This is social networking in an analog sort of way.
On the eve of the Ark Group’s Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession conference in New York City (Oct. 26-27, 2011), I wanted to tell you about an upcoming KM conference in Sydney, Australia. Ark Group’s Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession, scheduled for March 6-7, 2012 in Sydney, is sure to be a great conference.
I spoke at this event earlier this year, and can tell you that the presenters and audience were all top notch. The 2012 conference will surely be excellent. So, if you’re in or around Sydney in March, you should certainly check it out.
Here is a brief description from Ark Group:
This one-day forum will provide you with opportunities to hear timely and topical knowledge management case studies. You’ll have the chance to interact and network with presenters and attendees from organisations similar to yours and share ideas and how to:
There are also post-conference workshops on social media and tacit knowledge transfer.
Click here for a PDF brochure of the event.
In case you missed any of the six Knowledge Management Peer Group Track sessions at the annual ILTA conference this year, you can listen to the audio recordings of them now. And best of all, they are free. Here is a description of the sessions from a previous blog post, and here is a list of the KM sessions (links launch audio):
KMPG1 – Advances in Document Assembly
KMPG2 – Social Networking in the Legal Industry
KMPG3 – It Takes a Village to Deliver Effective AFAs
KMPG4 – How KM Supports Innovative Service Delivery
KMPG5 - Creating an Optimal KM Value Strategy
KMPG6 – KM Helps Meet the ACC Value Challenge
Here is a link to the page with all the conference sessions.
Here is a continuation of my ILTA Conference coverage. ILTA information followed by my brief notes. Please forgive the typos (I’m typing away quickly just to get the thoughts down on “paper.
From ILTA:
Social Networking in the Legal Industry
Description: Law firms, like virtually every other business today, are discovering the benefits of social networking collaboration. Learn about the use of collaborative tools such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums, and networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn.
Date/Time: Monday 8/22/2011 at 1:00 p.m.
Location: Canal C
Speaker(s):
My Notes:
This was a standing room only crowd. They actually had to bring in more chairs and there were still people sitting on the floor. This session covers non- Continue reading »
The ILTA Conference has begun here in Nashville. I’ll be attending as many of the sessions as I can (there are so many to choose from). The first session I attended was a Knowledge Management Peer Group Steering Committee sponsored session called Advances in Document Assembly.
Here is the info from ILTA followed by my brief notes. Please forgive the typos (I’m typing away quickly just to get the thoughts down on “paper”).
From ILTA:
Advances in Document Assembly
Description: While document assembly applications have been around for a few years, adoption has been relatively slow and usually for niche legal practice areas. However, new technologies may rejuvenate interest.
Date/Time: Monday 8/22/2011 at 11:00 a.m.
Location: Canal C
Speaker(s):
My Notes:
Poll: Most people in the room do not currently use DA software.
DH – What is DA? – Continue reading »
If you’re headed to the ILTA Conference next week, please consider attending some (or all) of the six Knowledge Management Sessions. Then, immediately following the final KM session, please join the KM Peer Group for our annual conference Cocktail Party on Wednesday 8/24 at 4:30 p.m. in room Delta C at the Gaylord. The cocktail party is sponsored by Recommind.
The International Legal Technology Association (a.k.a. ILTA) Conference starts next week (Aug 21-25) at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. The official conference Twitter hash tag is #ILTA11.
As a part of the ILTA Knowledge Management Peer Group Steering Committee, I had the pleasure of serving as this year’s conference liaison. The Steering Committee members worked hard to develop six great sessions for the conference. I hope you attend them. Here are the summaries of the six sessions:
1. Advances in Document Assembly
Description: While document assembly applications have been around for a few years, adoption has been relatively slow and usually for niche legal practice areas. However, new technologies may rejuvenate interest.
Date/Time: Monday 8/22/2011 at 11:00 a.m.
Location: Canal C
Speaker(s):
2. Social Networking in the Legal Industry
Description: Law firms, like virtually every other business today, are discovering the benefits of social networking collaboration. Learn about the use of collaborative tools such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums, and networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn.
Date/Time: Monday 8/22/2011 at 1:00 p.m.
Location: Canal C
Speaker(s):
3. It Takes a Village to Deliver Effective AFAs
Description: Learn how KM professionals and key players from finance, IT, professional development, legal project management, records and other areas can collaborate to help law firms implement successful AFAs.
Date/Time: Wednesday 8/24/2011 at 9:15 a.m.
Location: Delta Ballroom C
Speaker(s):
4. How KM Supports Innovative Service Delivery
Description: KM isn’t just precedents anymore. Hear how some true innovators in the field have tied sustainable KM processes and tools to specific legal services in ways that show clear increases in value delivered to clients.
Date/Time: Wednesday 8/24/2011 at 11:30 a.m.
Location: Delta Ballroom C
Speaker(s):
5. Creating an Optimal KM Value Strategy
Description: A sound KM strategy is essential to success. Whether you are just starting a KM program or you’ve been at it for years, you’ll take away insight into how your colleagues have formulated or refreshed their KM strategies to optimal levels, and what did and didn’t work.
Date/Time: Wednesday 8/24/2011 at 1:30 p.m.
Location: Delta Ballroom C
Speaker(s):
6. KM Helps Meet the ACC Value Challenge
Description: The Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC) has challenged law firms to understand their clients’ business better, be more efficient in their work, be more effective in training junior lawyers, and better budget and manage costs. Find out how knowledge management can help achieve these goals.
Date/Time: Wednesday 8/24/2011 at 3:30 p.m.
Location: Delta Ballroom C
Speaker(s):
These are all sure to be excellent sessions and I encourage everyone to attend.
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