Lawyers Workstation Conference

Tim, recently did a CLE session with a large Oz firm. His blog lists some of the benefits for lawyers of mapping arguments. These benefits touch up issues which include quality, efficiency, resoning skills and communication. A comment by Ed Darrell adds a risk managment concern of the lawyer being hit by a bus taking all their arguments with them in their head. See HERE Tim is speaking at the Lawyers Workstation day which is all about smarter lawyers.

Canadian legal computing pioneer, Doug Simpson has launched a new business (BackDraft Systems) to provide consulting services and software tools relating to the development of legal practice systems.  He is developing a set of tools called BackDraft that will assist developers in rapidly developing and deploying systems.  These will be used to complement existing document assembly systems such as HotDocs.

He also recently announced an affliation with Capstone Systems, a world leader in legal practice system development.  Captstone President, Marc Lauritsen spoke at the 2006 Precedent Automation Conference.

Doug is speaking on both March Conference days.

Stanton has become increasingly aware of the need for a re-think in the process flows that underpin technological systems.  Consequently, he has also founded Biopod, which is in the process of developing innovative work stations and systems to change the way we interact with our technology.

Whilst enormous resources continue to be poured into every-increasing advancements in our office tools, scant attention has been paid to the need to change office arrangements to suit these new ways of working.

In fact, not much has changed in relation to the physical office environment since the days of typewriters. ?Most of us still sit at a square desk, perched on an upright chair. We have given no thought to the need for a new process flow to suit our changed work habits.

The cost of these oversights is enormous not only to the bottom line, but to the health and well-being of those who work in these ill-conceived work spaces.? A lawyer’s workstation should be much more than software.  Hence, Stanton will be speaking on the 30th March.

With Vista  and Web 2.0 forcing us all to re-evaluate our IT options Andrew Perry  believes that free and open source software has matured to a point where it can now provide a cost effective solution to lawyers who want to work flexibly, whether in the office, on the road or at home.

His session will discuss and demonstrate free and open source software that enables practitioners to generate and manage documents as well as manage client relationships.