Just published in the Probate and Property publication of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association – iPads and iPhones: Tools for Practice. This article offers insights into the experience and use of the iPad and iPhone as practice tools for lawyers, with special emphasis on the work of property and probate lawyers. It explores the potential for Evernote as a tool for field work and due diligence, highlighting the use of geotagging.

July 12, 2012

American Lawyer Media Webinar – September 20, 2012

“You Let What Go Out?”

Protecting Today’s Transactional Lawyer

The precision and care required to draft transactional documents can conflict with the time and billing pressures of today’s legal market. The risks for transactional lawyers intensify when you couple those pressures with the increased complexities of mobility and the varying devices used to edit or exchange documents. Lawyer and legal technology expert Robert Blacksberg and ALM market expert Lynn Frances explore new workflows and best practices to protect against these risks.

This session covered today’s workflow trends, the risks associated with these trends and technology solutions including:

• How to inject technology into your workflows to accommodate alternative fee structures while improving document quality.
• ALM Legal Intelligence Survey data on the effectiveness of collaboration between the law firm and law department.
• Procedures for improving the stability of documents as they are distributed among multiple contributors and accessed on various devices.
• Technology solutions that ensure clarity and consistency across a document or set of documents.
• Advanced workflows to safeguard proprietary or privileged information that is shared with clients and confidants.
• The efficacy of eyes-only review for transactional document proofreading.
• Best practices for reducing the risk of a lawyer screaming “You let what go out?”.

Speakers:

Robert Blacksberg, Principal, Blacksberg Associates, LLC

Lynn Frances, Principal, eDiscovery Writer, Inc.

Moderator:

Bonnie Reid, Director, Marketing, Microsystems

To watch, first register at http://info.law.com/Microsystems_Registration.html.  Then view the webinar at http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.jsp&eventid=508015&sessionid=1&key=E145E82210EF42D07A7670836960E08F&eventuserid=68520232. Please note that the original webinar qualified for CLE only for those who watched when it was presented.

Metadata is a fact of (document) life, so let’s deal with it. Lawyers are relying more and more on track changes and document properties to collaborate and expedite their workflow.  Discover how to coexist with the metadata menace –– remove it when you want it out, leave it alone when you want it in. Hear how technologists and fee earners are coping with the data within the data.

Presented at ILTA 2012 AC2DC with Glynn Fluitt and Kenneth Henry – Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

The PowerPoint presented at the session can be viewed at:

http://ilta.ebiz.uapps.net/productfiles/productfiles/914334/APP14.pdf.

A common question on everyone’s mind is whether the iPad will replace laptops. What are the capabilities of both devices? Is it feasible for users to perform their daily work on an iPad? We’ll identify which users might be candidates to use iPads instead of laptops, explaining the applications, tools and support they might need. Differing viewpoints will give you the information you need to provide an accurate answer when your partners ask about using iPads.

Presented at ILTA 2012 – AC2DC – Monday with David Neesen – Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger, LLP and Toby Adamson – Microsystems

The PowerPoint presented at the session can be viewed at:

http://ilta.ebiz.uapps.net/productfiles/productfiles/912310/DASPG1.pdf