Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Dominick Esposito , a co-founder and the executive director of eLaw , a leading docketing and calendaring software tool. He is a frequent guest speaker on computers and the law for the New York and New Jersey Trial Lawyers associations.

I spoke with Ian Campbell , the president of iCONECT Development , the maker of the XERA ® hosted review platform. He is responsible for sales, business development, product lifecycle development, and legal service provider and partner relations.

I spoke with Bruce Berman , the founder of Brody Berman Associates , a management consulting and communications firm that supports intellectual property rights holders and service providers, who is also the author of five books, including The Intangible Investor – Profiting from Intellectual Property: Companies’ Most Elusive Assets (CloseUp Media, 2014).

I spoke with BJ Schaknowski , the Vice President of Sales and Professional Services at LexisNexis , where he is responsible for all sales and consulting for software solutions sold to law firms and corporate legal departments.

I spoke with Doug Horton , the President and CEO of Handshake Software , a leading provider of SharePoint products and services in the legal community. We discussed Handshake’s mission, the impact of its recent acquisition of the Thomson Reuters OneView portal, the impact of SharePoint 2013 on the legal community, and his views on the SharePoint as a DMS debate, among other topics.

I spoke with Larry Port, the founder and CEO of RocketMatter , a total law firm management system in the cloud.

I spoke with Gadi Aharoni , the CEO of ARX , a global provider of digital signature solutions. We discussed the mission of ARX, the key differences between electronic and digital signatures, how they relate to productivity and information governance, and critical trends that are transforming the field.

I spoke with Chere Estrin , the president & co-founding member of the Organization of Legal Professionals , which recently launched a new certification exam focused on litigation support . We discussed the need for litigation support certification, the psychometrics used to design the test and associated prep course, and the range of topics the exam covers.

I spoke with Mark Britton , the founder and CEO of Avvo , which he describes as “the largest legal marketplace directory and Q&A forum on the web,” about the company’s recently completed $37.5 million round of financing , as well as its upcoming Lawyernomics conference. We discussed Avvo’s plans for expansion, the keys to its success, and why the legal industry is attracting so much interest from...

I spoke to David Horrigan , an analyst and counsel at 451 Research , a New York-based global analyst research firm. David covers law and technology, has served as a staff reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, and is a contributing writer at Law Technology News.

I had the privilege of meeting with many of the most respected leaders in the legal technology community at LegalTech New York last week. Below are impressions from Carolyn Betts, Director of Marketing for Nuix , and John Shaughnessy, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Thomson

I spoke with Rajitha Boer , the Founder & Director of Yerra Solutions , a Basel, Switzerland-based boutique consulting firm for global law departments. We discussed the genesis of Yerra, the transparency challenges that corporate legal departments are facing, and Yerra’s inaugural in-house counsel conference in London called: “ Empowering General Counsel to Lead and Succeed ,” which featured speak...

I spoke with Doug Caddell , the new chief information officer for kCura , the maker of Relativity , a web-based platform for the processing, review, analysis, and production of electronic data. Prior to joining kCura, Caddell served as the firmwide CIO at Foley & Lardner based in Chicago. We discussed his new position, the distinction between his role in a corporation vs. a law firm, kCura's n...

I spoke with Dave Deppe , the president of UnitedLex , a global legal services company, which focuses on litigation, contract management, and intellectual property. Prior to joining UnitedLex, he was a founding partner of Focus Legal Solutions, an electronic discovery boutique, which Mutual of Omaha acquired in December 2008. We discussed the release of Questio , the company's new consultant-led t...

I spoke with Albert Buckwalter , the Director of Litigation Support for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division in Washington, DC, and the editor-in-chief of Litigation Support Today , a magazine for litigation support professionals that has been published since 2007.

I spoke with Leah Beckham and Beth Thompson, the CEO and Director of Business Development, respectively, for BillBLAST , a cloud-based application that helps law firms manage their e-billing and related reporting.

I spoke with Larry Barela , the Chief Technology Officer for Catalyst Repository Systems , the developer of Insight , a cloud-based e-discovery platform.

I spoke with Larry Port, the founder and CEO of Rocketmatter , a cloud-based legal practice management and time and billing software product, about Rocket X1 , the company’s new Internet marketing agency and hosting platform.

I spoke with Peter Mercer, the founder and managing director of Vound , an Australia-based software development company focusing on forensics and e-discovery, which is the maker or Intella , the company’s signature tool for processing, searching, and analyzing electronically stored information.

In the fall of 1990, I interviewed for a job that ended up changing the course of my life. The ad to which I responded was for a tutor in the then 1-year old Intergenerational Literacy Project , a collaboration between Boston University’s School of Education and the Chelsea Public Schools in Chelsea, Massachusetts. I had no experience, but wanted a work-study job that was meaningful and rewarding....

I spoke with Eric Hunter, the Director of Knowledge, Innovation & Technology Strategies at California-based Bradford & Barthel , as well as the Executive Director of Spherical Models , a business model innovation consultancy.

I spoke with Matt Homann and JoAnna Forshee , producers of the annual LexThink.1 legal innovation conference , which is being held in Chicago on Wednesday April 3rd on the eve of the ABA Techshow . Homann is the well-known founder of LexThink , a legal innovation consultancy, as well as the creator of the popular [non] billable hour blog . Forshee is the CEO of InsideLegal , which she describes as...

I spoke with Rich Turner , the vice president of business development and strategic marketing for C2C Systems , an e-mail archiving and information management software company. We discussed the most significant e-mail archiving trends, the information management challenges companies will be facing this year, how they can address them, and his predictions for the next 12 months.

I spoke with Jon Resnick , the managing director and head of global sales for Huron Legal , about key operational issues that law departments and law firms will need to address in 2013.

I spoke with Allison Walton, the e-discovery counsel for Symantec, the maker of Enterprise Vault, Clearwell, and other data loss prevention solutions. We discussed trends for 2013 and her expectations for Legal Tech New York.