ABA TECHSHOW.blogThe Latest Information About ABA TECHSHOW - The World's Premier Legal Technology ConferenceThe Law Tail- August 28, 2006 Chris Anderson's The Long Tail (2006) is one of those must-read books, like Tom Friedman's The World is Flat and Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point. It doesn't quite live up to the breathless 'advance praise' on the back cover, but it's quickly digested, and full of provocative ideas. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/082806.html Sent Versus Received E-mail- August 16, 2006 As lawyers rely more and more on e-mail as a client communications tool, they should start thinking more about the differences between mail and e-mail. Although the two names sound alike, they function very differently. One interesting legal, and potentially ethical, issue comes about due to this difference. With US postal mail, the act of sending creates a presumption of receipt (in many cases). More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/081606.html ABA TECHSHOW 2007 Begins to Take Shape- August 16, 2006 The ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board is hard at work putting together the agenda for the TECHSHOW 2007, and our session tracks are almost in place. This year TECHSHOW will offer fourteen tracks of educational programming. In addition to the tracks that are always popular — E-Discovery, Litigation, SoloSmall Firm -- here are just a few of the exciting new tracks we'll be featuring at next year's conference: Show Me — demonstrations of some of the legal technology...http://www.techshow.com/blog/081506.html AT&T Attorneys Leak Redacted Info in Brief- August 11, 2006 Ah, the perils of technology. Yet again, attorneys have inadvertently leaked sensitive information about a client, in this case AT&T, which is charged in a lawsuit with facilitating a federal wiretapping program. The 25-page legal brief filed in the case was striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/081106.html VoIP Choice- August 10, 2006 A lot of firms are looking to upgrade their phone systems and almost all of them are at least considering Voice over IP (VoIP) as a possible solution. Before you get seduced by the promise of free (or at least cheap) phone calls and the other great features of VoIP bear in mind that there can be considerable expense in deploying VoIP. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/081006.html Metadata is "Old" News- August 8, 2006 Back in May I presented on Law Practice Management to a group of attorneys, mostly from solosmall firm practices. I brought up metadata, just in case some in the group were not yet aware of it and the ethical dangers it presents. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/080706.html PA Supreme Court Rules on Use of Computer Generated Animation at Trial- August 4, 2006 On April 25th, 2006, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tackled the issue of using computer-generated animation (CGA) in court. In the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Serge, the defendant was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, who had been shot three times and killed inside their house. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/080406.html Encrypt Your CD-ROMs- August 2, 2006 Now there's no excuse for losing discs with sensitive data that's easily-accessible. Ricoh and Kano Technologies recently announced the availability of Ricoh's EncryptEase recordable CD-ROM discs with built-in encryption capabilities. More...http://www.techshow.com/blog/080206.html |