I developed a new presentation on technology competence and legal ethics for the recent Missouri Bar Lex Port 2015 conference.
I took a new and practical approach and wrote the following as part of the handout materials. It largely reflects the direction I took in the presentation.
Let me know what you think of this approach.
Timely Technology Competence Tips for the Non-Technological Lawyer
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There’s been a lot of discussion about how the definition of “competence” for lawyers also includes the duty to keep up with applicable technologies.
Talk can be cheap, but the good news is that doing something about learning about applicable technologies lawyers can be an inexpensive proposition, at least in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
I’ve had quite a few articles, podcasts and other things appear over the last few months, but not on this blog. It seemed like a good time to catch up and point to some of those.
Tom Mighell and I have continued a good run of episodes on The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast. Recent ones
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Tom Mighell and I have had an especially good run of episodes recently on The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast. I especially want to recommend the most recent one “Are Lawyers Ready for Artificial Intelligence?“
I had been seeing a lot of blog posts, articles, tweets and other mentions of AI, IBM Watson, machine
Another ABA TECHSHOW (#ABATECHSHOW) blazed by and I barely have had time to catch my breath afterward. I also had little time to catch my breath at the show – it was a whirlwind.
The good news is that Tom Mighell and I captured our reflections on TECHSHOW in an episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report
Twelve years ago today, I launched this blog. I decided to call the blog simply DennisKennedy.Blog.
My blog and I celebrated the birth day quietly today, with only a little fanfare, as we awaited a large winter storm predicted for St. Louis.We talked at length about the positive response the blog has always gotten and
I’ve been thinking lately about whether changes in technology should be causing us revisit ideas and approaches that we have tossed aside or put on the back burner for many years. In simplest terms, the question would be if high-speed Internet connections, mobile access, processor power, memory, storage and the Cloud now make it possible
My latest “Kennedy on Tech” ABA journal column is my attempt to answer a question I frequently hear from lawyers – “What mobile apps should I have?”
One of the things that intrigues me most about our new world of apps is how personalized each of our experiences using tech, especially mobile devices, has become.
For the last few years, I’ve enjoyed reading the posts of several bloggers who are trying to read 52 books in 52 weeks. I’ve also wanted to find a good way for me to keep track of the books I’ve read. And it gives me a good reading target to shoot for.
Last year, I
