LegalTech Descends on New York

Lawyers provide legal information to clients and courts of law. The key word is information. With it, we can retain clients, render services, and manage the business of law. And with developments in information technology, we can continually improve our receipt, analysis, and delivery of legal information and account for its costs and remuneration.

With information technology, we can provide better legal services with research tools from the likes of LexisNexis and Westlaw Next and software from e-discovery vendors like Guidance Software, Kroll Ontrack, and StoredIQ that help manage and archive information, as well as cull, produce, and review data for evidence. Transactional lawyers can benefit from document assembly tools and litigators can improve their chances for success with trial technology and internet research. We can also better manage our business with time-and-billing programs, as well as case and matter management applications installed on premise or in the cloud from the likes of Clio and Rocket Matter.

What are the next big improvements in information technology that will benefit lawyers and law firms? Find out at LegalTech New York.

LegalTech brings lawyers, paralegals, law firm administrators, developers, manufacturers, and technologists, and more to the Hilton New York from Feb. 1-3 to share developments and improvements in legal technology, including e-discovery. In 2009, LegalTech New York attracted nearly 13,000 attendees and featured almost 300 exhibiting companies. This year's attendance will be comparable to 2009, says Henry Payne Dicker, vice president of ALM Events, and is ahead in some categories, like paid registrations.

Each day of the show will feature a keynote. On Monday, Feb. 1, Russel Stalters, head of information technology and services for Information and Records Architecture at BP America, leads with "Don't Build Your E-Discovery Program on a Landfill." Mark Howitson, deputy general counsel at Facebook, follows Stalters on Tuesday, Feb. 2, with "Perspectives on Corporate E-Discovery and Social Media." And don't think about cutting out early.

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Source: law.com
By: Sean Doherty