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April 14, 2009

Looking Back at (and Looking Forward from) ABA TECHSHOW 2009

Episode 2 of The Kennedy-Mighell Report Podcast is now available at its new home on the Legal Talk Network. In this episode, Tom and I talk with our guest co-host, Adrian Linares, about our take-aways from the recent ABA TECHSHOW 2009.

As I mention in the podcast, TECHSHOW reminded me of one of the recurring themes in my work – that legal technology (and information technology in general) is always more about people than it is about the technology. I recommend that you give the podcast a listen to hear our reactions to TECHSHOW and about some of the social aspects of legal technology today. Note also that we are looking for audience questions to answer in future podcasts.

I’ve been meaning to write a wrap-up post on my TECHSHOW experience, and this seems like a good place to do that.

As I first made my way to the TECHSHOW floor, I immediately saw Tom Mighell and Adriana Linares at the Conference Concierge booth and I felt like everything was in the right place in the legal tech world. From there, it was on the Twitter session and the three-day whirlwind that my TECHSHOW visits have become. I think that I did a good job of trying to visit with everyone I could, but if I missed you, it wasn’t for lack of trying, just a shortage of time.

My one disappointment at TECHSHOW was not getting much time on the exhibit floor to visit with vendors. I had a great conversation with Rick Borstein of Adobe about some ways to use Acrobat 9 (think portfolios and RSS feeds) and have some great suggestions to try. Otherwise, I got the chance to visit with my RocketMatter pals, Larry and Ariel, JD Supra, TotalAttorneys, Clio and Thompson West. I learned some interesting things, some potentially practice-changing, but didn’t get a strong sense of where the vendors are at today. As others have mentioned, electronic discovery is definitely a big item these days on the vendor floor.

As I was lamenting the lack of exhibit hall time I had on Friday afternoon (as the exhibit hall neared closing time), I ran into my friend, Andrew Sandler, at LegalQB, who was busy at work shooting videos of vendors and creating a virtual exhibit hall. You could go to the LegalQB site and mouse over vendors on the floor map and get info and see videos of vendor reps answering basic questions about products and services. The idea is that, at your own pace and without being bothered by sales pitches, you can learn about a vendor and come to the booths that interest you armed with basic knowledge and knowing what questions you have. Cool idea. Even cooler, LegalQB plans to make that info always available outside the conference setting. Andrew shot some video of Tom and me talking about our book and podcast that will be up on the LegalQB site. Give LegalQB a look.

I really enjoyed the three presentations I gave, two with Tom Mighell on topics related to our book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, and one with Joel Alleyne, who was excellent to work with as a co-presenter, on a “client-focused” approach to collaboration. I’ve put up stripped-down black-and-white versions of slides from two of the presentations on SlideShare (here and here) as an example of how you can use this online tool to share presentation slides. There was a fair amount of twittering during the sessions and legal blogger extraordinaire Allison Shields has a nice summary of one of the sessions.

Tom and I did a roundtable session on collaboration tools, where we experimented with some “unconference” techniques. After introductions, we found that two of the attendees were actually on opposite sides of some matters. We took the opportunity to break into groups and discussed what, to me, is the hardest, but very common, collaboration situation – collaborating with people on opposite sides. While I’d characterize the success of the experiment as mixed, the planned 5 to minute discussion went much longer and people had some good ideas. I learned a lot. Then we discussed some questions about confidentiality and encryption, Google Docs, SharePoint and some other specific tools.

As a presenter, doing three presentations in a row reminded on the need to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, and to protect your voice, especially on the night before. I was a little lacking in both departments, but left with my voice pretty much intact.

We gave away copies of our book – meaning the book and the new 2009 update on CD – at each of my sessions. After very limited success with the “trivia question” approach last year, Tom and I have done the book giveaways by finding the person in the audience who is newest to the legal business. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how well this approach works (it always narrows down to one; trivia questions often draw many simultaneous hand-raisers). The rest of the audience stays interested and there is a good feeling in the room for the winner. Several people came up to me after sessions to say how much they liked this approach.

We heard from several sources that collaboration was a hot topic and that our book sold well. That’s always good to hear. As I mentioned, there’s a new CD update for 2009, with a new chapter of tips, new developments, forms, audio and more. We also took advantage of the opportunity to lobby our ABA publishers to release the book as a Kindle experiment. I’m not sure that we made much progress, but let Tom or me know if you would be interested in a Kindle version of the book and we’ll keep pushing our publisher.

The Sessions. For many years, my friends have discouraged me from attending their sessions, saying “you already know this.” That’s not really true, but I know what they mean. I’ve noticed that I attend fewer sessions at conferences, in part because the best learning really does happen in the hallways and lobbies outside the sessions. I also have a unique position where I can talk to many of the speakers outside the sessions, especially at TECHSHOW where many of the speakers are friends, but for any attendee, access to speakers at TECHSHOW is second to none and one of the big plusses of the show.

There were two sessions I attended that I wanted to note. The first was the Twitter session at the start of the conference. While, admittedly, sitting by Jordan Furlong was guaranteed to result in Twitter shenanigans, and it did, it was fascinating to observe the twittering during the session and how the #techshow hashtag moved up to the #3 trending search term on all of Search.twitter.com during the session. While I liked the session, my sense by the end of it was that I’d probably focus more on the whys, hows and so whats of Twitter if I ever presented on the topic.

The other session, which I think was the centerpiece of the conference, was Richard Susskind’s keynote speech. I posted my notes from the session here, so I won’t go into any detail here. A few conclusions – buy the book (The End of Lawyers?), read the book and discuss the book with others. I enjoyed getting a couple of chances to chat briefly with Richard. I compare the book favorably to Tom Friedmann’s “The Earth is Flat” in that pulls together and synthesizes a lot of important ideas that people have been tossing around, systematizes those ideas in highly understandable ways, and provides a single point of entry for those new to the discussion. The presentation was excellent on so many levels and gave me many touchpoints to tie into my presentations the following day.

Probably my favorite part of the move of TECHSHOW to the Chicago Hilton has been the willingness of the TECHSHOW chairs and ABA Law Practice Management Section to open up a suite to attendees to hang out in the evenings. As I mentioned before, the access to speakers is a huge selling point of TECHSHOW.

Anyway, I spent more than a few hours at the suite on the evenings I was there and appreciated the chance to talk to others about technology and other topics. On the first evening, I found myself in a great conversation with Marc Lauritsen, Jordan Furlong and Ariel Jatib in which we were trying to predict what the next wave of lawyers’ use of the Internet would be. If websites were generation one, and blogs were generation two, was Twitter the start of generation three? Maybe. We went well beyond that and the conversation was worth the trip for me. The Twitter length summary of what’s next from our conversation – audio/video (the easy answer), SMS as a platform, and automated decision-making / legal risk management.

Thanks to Adriana Linares, Kevin O’Keefe, Ed Adams (my “boss” for my ABA Journal tech column) and others who organized events like Beer and Blawgers, the great dinner events, and other activities. One of my favorite TECHSHOW moments was at the Beer and Blawger event, where bloggers/twitterers who knew each other by reputation got to meet in person for the first time. It was funny and cool at the same time to hear people shouting, “Oh my God, you’re @legaltypist!” or @econwriter5 or other Twitter handles. It was also fascinating to see the difference in approach of people who brand their names on Twitter (e.g., @denniskennedy, @tommighell, @jimcalloway) as compared to those who use handles.

Tom and I hosted a very nice dinner at Catch 35, a very good seafood restaurant with a very memorable bread pudding dessert, where we talked about Kindles and a bunch of other topics. Thanks to all who signed up for our dinner.

The last day of sessions ended with the speaker luncheon and the passing of the torch from the current board chair, Laura Calloway (fabulous job, Laura!), to the next board chair, Debbie Foster, and the first meeting of the new board. As a former board member, I always enjoy that tradition.

On Saturday afternoon, I had the rare chance to sit down and talk for a couple of hours with my friend and honorary cousin, Dan Pinnington, something we haven’t had the chance to do for a few years. Dan, along with Reid Trautz, has co-written a new book , The Busy Lawyer's Guide to Success, which is chockful of law practice management tips (more than 700) and is a must-read. Lots of great info in it and they have a website for it at http://lawyersuccesstips.com.

I made the comment in my presentations that, especially because of the economy, TECHSHOW was a gathering of the right people at the right place at the right time on legal technology. I suspect that the ideas, relationships and energy generated by TECHSHOW 2009 will one day be seen to have played an important role in the evolution of the practice of law toward the ideas some of us loosely call Law 2.0.

Toward that end, I end by pointing to the continuing Twitter conversation that began at TECHSHOW and has keep going at a great pace ever since. It can be found by searching for "#techshow" (or just "techshow") at Search.twitter.com. You can even join in this conversation by adding the hashtag #techshow to your related tweets. It's definitely a space to watch.

A big thank you to everyone for making this one of my best TECHSHOWs of the ten or so I’ve attended. As I said, legal technology ultimately is more about people than technology.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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February 19, 2009

By Request: Are You Aware of Any SharePoint Training Programs for Lawyers?

As part of blawgiversary week at DennisKennedy.Blog, I've invited readers to send me their questions and I'll try to answer each of them with a "By Request" post.

Not surprisingly, real life has intruded on my plan, so I'm running behind. However, keep sending your questions in and I'll see how many I can answer this weekend.

Here's the next question:

"Are you aware of any tailor-made programs being offered as CLE programs, or simply in-house training presentations for Sharepoint use in-house or in the small/large (legal) office setting?"

My short answer is "no," but I did some checking into this question.

When it comes to SharePoint questions, my "go to" person is my friend Randy Holloway at Microsoft, who, among other things, has written a book on SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions (Programmer to Programmer).

Randy pointed me to Microsoft's online training for SharePoint Server 2007 as a good place to start. It has a set of 21 twenty to thirty minute sessions on a variety of topics.

For legal-specific SharePoint seminars, I'd consider attending the annual ILTA conference or seeing what local or regional ILTA programs might be scheduled on the topic of SharePoint.

I'm curious about whether readers have other suggestions for SharePoint seminars, online or live, or other ways to learn about SharePoint for law firms and legal departments. If you have suggestions, leave a comment.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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February 11, 2009

Using Collaboration Tools in the Real World

I wrote a post on LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com the other day called "Eating Our Own Collaboration Tools Dog Food." For those unfamiliar with the reference, "eating one's own dog food" is a term, often associated with Microsoft, that refers to a company that actually uses its own products.

The reference in my post was to an example of Tom Mighell and I actually using some of the collaboration tools we wrote about in our book to actually, well, collaborate on a project we were working on. I recommend the post because it walks through some of the basic tools we used and how and why we used them.

I noted five takeaways from our experience:

1. We actually use the collaboration tools we write and talk about.

2. We like having a tool box of collaboration tools for different purposes rather than being concerned with a single all-purpose collaboration tool.

3. Different tools work well for different purposes.

4. Even in the same project you might use a number of different tools to do the same types of thins.

5. We really like the way you can open a constant communications channel to help you work by using instant messaging.

I've gotten some email about the post. I was struck by how people recommended another all-in-one tool that we could have used (for example, Acrobat.com) instead of the variety of common tools we actually used.

The emailers are exactly right - we could have done that. And it would have worked well for us, although we are creatures of habit and tend to use the tools we are most familiar and comfortable with..

The most interesting thing about collaboration tools is that there are many ways to get to the same place. The more versatility and flexibility you can have with these tools, the more collaboration options you'll have and you'll be able to find a good way to work with whomever you happen to be working with.

I appreciate all the comments, and invite others as well, once you read the post.

As I look back on the post, I also want to highlight the "takeaway" that instant messaging really can play a key role in collaboration efforts. Tom and I have written an article about this topic that should be appearing soon in the ABA's Law Practice magazine.

This seems like a good time to mention that Tom and I will be speaking on collaboration tools at the ABA TECHSHOW in April, including a roundtable session in which we plan to use some "unconference" techniques. Hope to see you there. You can get quick updates on collaboration tools and our upcoming sessions via Twitter by following @collabtools.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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January 28, 2009

Client Technology Surveys - A Powerful Little Tool

Client technology surveys are an easy and inexpensive way to improve your use of technology and make it easier for your clients to work with you. In my latest ABA Journal tech column, A Powerful Little Tool You Must Use, I talk about the basics, benefits and best tips for using client technology surveys.

To summarize:

"It’s a great time to focus on client technology surveys. They are simple, surprisingly effective, can fit on a single page and can be used as a script on a phone call."

I prefer a short and simple approach and suggest five types of questions to use. Tom Mighell and I also have a sample client tech survey in our book because these surveys can really help you pick the right collaboration tools to use with your clients. It's also worthwhile checking with Adriana Linares for her latest suggestions about client tech surveys.

I also suggest some good times to use a survey and how it can be a way to create a positive "touch" of your best clients, an especially good idea in tough economic times.

I invite you to read the whole article and let me know your thoughts on the topic.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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August 17, 2008

LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com Goes Live

With a big thank you to our friend Kevin O'Keefe and LexBlog, Tom Mighell and I are pleased to announce that the companion blogsite for our book, LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com, is now live.

I recommend that you check out the initial welcoming post to see what's in store at the site. We're excited about how the blogsite and the companion wiki will extend and update our book.

If you are attending the ILTA conference next week, please be aware that Tom and I will be speaking at two sessions on the topic of our book on August 26 and 27. Hope to see you there and maybe even try to put together some kind of blogger meetup.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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August 06, 2008

See Tom Mighell's Presentation on Collaboration Tools at ABA Annual Meeting

Readers of this blog who will be in New York City on Friday (August 8), either for the American Bar Association's Annual Meeting or otherwise, will definitely want to attend Tom Mighell's presentation, Working Together, Wherever You Are: The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools (Friday, August 8, 2008, 2 :00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., Conference Room D, Executive Conference Center, Sheraton New York).

The presentation is based on our book. I'll not be able to be there, but Tom will do an excellent job, and we're trying to see if I can participate briefly during a demo of one of the online collaboration tools.

From the program description:

Lawyers and firms are increasingly seeking new ways to collaborate with colleagues, clients, opposing counsel, and others. This program will focus on the practical ways every lawyer can use existing and new tools to work better and smarter with others. [This session] will emphasize how to select and use various collaboration tools and technologies. This session is equally useful for both "techies" and "non-techies."

We're also hoping to unveil the new book companion site (LawyersGuidetoCollaboration.com) at the session.

This will be a great opportunity to explore some of the ideas in our book and see some of the tools we like in action. It's one session from a series by the ABA's Law Practice Management Section at the Annual Meeting and learn more about the benefits of membership in the LPM Section.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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July 23, 2008

Collaboration Tech: Around the Corner or Around the World

This month's issue of the ABA's Law Practice Magazine is out and it has an international theme. Lots of good articles, but I especially wanted to highlight an article called "Collaborative Technologies: Working with Others Around the Corner or Around the World," by Tom Mighell and me.

We based the article on some of the main themes of our new book on collaboration tools and technologies. This article is designed as an short introduction to the topic of collaboration tools. The sidebar addresses the all-important issue of collaboration culture and sets out some tips for handling cultural issues in your collaboration efforts.

The money quote:

Today it’s relatively simple for any lawyer, regardless of firm size or budget, to collaborate with clients, colleagues, co-counsel, experts or even opposing counsel in nearly any corner of the world. The difference? The rise of the Internet as a communications tool.

I also like this quote, which illustrates one of our aha insights while we wrote the book - the notion of co-evolution:

The ways that people work together shift over time, which can affect your culture of collaboration. More important, the introduction of collaboration technologies can also change the culture of collaboration. If handled properly, the tools and the culture will co-evolve.

Check out the article to get an idea of why I think that collaboration is the most important topic in technology today.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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April 27, 2008

Using Word 2007 and Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents

Tom Mighell and I thought that the subject of collaborating on documents was so important that we devoted an entire section, with several chapters, to it in our new book, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together.

I noted two good articles recently that give a good introduction to topics we cover in detail in our book.

The first Is Brian Zeve's article "Smarter, Faster Ways for Law Firms to Create and Share Documents" in the latest issue of Law Practice Today (many other good articles in this issue, too). Zeve highlights some of the collaboration features in Word 2007. You will want to familiarize yourself with these features if you will be moving to Word 2007 this year or are noticing that Word 2003 is now 5 years old and you want to put together good reasons to push your organization to Word 2007. The article also links to a Microsoft white paper on Word 2007 for the legal community.

The second is "Google Docs Lives to Share the Words." We not only used Google Docs as a prime example of a document collaboration tool in our book, but we also used it to collaborate on writing the book. The article summarizes the way Google Docs is built for a connected environment.

There is nothing more fundamental to the work of lawyers today than working together on documents and no more necessary skill-set than document collaboration skills. Understanding the available tools is essential. These two articles do a nice job of introducing some of the key tools and taking some first steps. When you are ready to go further, our book will be waiting for you.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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April 17, 2008

Collaboration Tools Book Report

I've gotten some inquiries about the new book: The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together. Let address some of the questions.

First, though, I wanted to say how happy Tom and I have been with the response to the book. The book took a lot of work and it's great to hear from readers - makes it all seem worthwhile.

We were thrilled to get the recent comments from law practice management guru Patrick J. McKenna, who has written some very influential books, including Herding Cats, First Among Equals, and First 100 Days: Transitioning A New Managing Partner. Patrick writes:

There is an old adage that one can either work hard or work smart . . . you have a choice. And we would all choose working smart, but once having made that obvious decision, you then have to figure out how. The good news is that Kennedy and Mighell have now produced the most comprehensive playbook, whether you are a solo, large law firm practitioner or working within a legal department, for how to choose and use the right technology tools to ‘smartly’ collaborate. And for those who know that collaboration is a profoundly human endeavor, the authors identify all kinds of practical and cultural issues to watch for. This is one of those few texts that will be dog-eared throughout, from continued reference.

Evan Schaeffer, one of the most influential lawyer bloggers and a collaborator with Tom and me on some my favorite e-discovery articles says:

No matter what the size or scope of your project, this book will get you started. Sections include the following:

* Collaboration on Cases, Transactions, and Projects
* Commonly Used Collaboration Platforms
* Developing a Collaboration Strategy

Since my own practice includes many joint ventures with differing plaintiffs' firm, each involving a single distinct groups of cases such as asbestos or Vioxx, I've been looking forward to reading this book since I first heard Kennedy and Mighell were writing it. (The three of us have collaborated ourselves from time to time.) Book finally in hand, I'm sure I'll find new and more effective ways to communicate with the lawyers on my team.

I'm especially having fun working my way through Appendix 3, which lists "tools by category," with web links to resources for conference calls, email, extranets, instant messaging, metadata removal tools, online meeting tools, online office tools, open-source software, PDF creation and management, project management, redlining tools, screen-sharing meeting tools, SharePoint tools, high-end platforms, wikis, file sharing, mind mapping, and social networking.

That's quite a list--which gives you an indication of the breadth and scope of Kennedy and Mighell's work. Recommended.

We'd love to get your comments as well.

The most common question we get:

Why is your book only available for pre-order on Amazon and other online bookstores and e-commerce sites?

We're agonizing over this one, but there will be a delay before the book becomes available at those locations. It sounds like it will become available this summer. The good news is that the book is available RIGHT NOW at the ABA Bookstore with available discounts. Note especially the great discounts for orders of 100 or more copies. ;-)

Can I get a sneak peak at the book before I buy it?

Yes. Both the Table of Contents and Chapter 1 are available as PDF downloads on the catalog page for the book.

When will the companion website for the book go live?

Uh, Tom, could you answer that one? Seriously, though, it looks like the site, which might be better described as a blogsite, will be live in a few weeks. I think that people will like it.

Are there Facebook or LinkedIn groups for the book?

Yes indeed. Details here. BTW, if you are the first one to help me figure out how to find the URL for the LinkedIn group, I'll give you a mention and a link on this blog.

Is the book for US lawyers only?

Collaboration is global. We look at many Internet tools. Interestingly, our first article based on the book just appeared in print in the Law Society of Ireland's Law Society Gazette.

Is the book only for lawyers?

Tom and I wrote the book with a broader audience in mind, but with a focus on lawyers. We've been pleased at how consistently readers are telling us that they see that the book has great information not just for lawyers in all types of practices, but especially for others than lawyers. In our view, anyone who is a professional services provider will find the book useful and we'd like the book to find that audience.

If you have other questions about the book, let us know. I'll answer them here from time to time until we get the book's companion site live.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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March 25, 2008

Book Groups and a Book Report

Tom and I could not be happier with the initial response to our new book, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, which has been tagged as a "Best Seller" at the ABA Web Store.

If you've already bought the book, we thank you.

We're still working on getting the word out about the book, so we'd be grateful if you would mention the book to your friends or blog about it.

We're especially pleased by the people who've told us that they think that the book would be valuable to people who aren't lawyers. We think so too.

While we continue to work on getting the companion website for the book launched, we've started two groups for the book on the social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook. On Facebook, check out and join The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies Group. On LinkedIn, look for the group called The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

If you've bought the book or are a regular reader of this blog and would to be a friend or connection of mine on either site, go ahead and invite me.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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