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"We experiment with software. We buy, we try, we fail. The key to making it all pay off is in the re-engineering process -- that is starting off with a blank slate and working from there". Fred Bartlit, 1994 ABA Techshow. |
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A solicitor with 30+ years of general practice experience, and a champion of the use of plain language in legal writing. He was the primary draftsman of the NSW Law Society lease and is also the author of Letters for Lawyers - Conveyancing published by Federation Press and the self-published Letters for Lawyers - Powers of Attorney. |
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Declan Branagan Declan Branagan CEO and founder of eXpd8. Founded in Ireland in 2001 eXpd8 has won awards, being celebrated and recognized for its innovative, and inspirational approach to collaborating and presenting information on your desktop, from Ernst & Young, Microsoft, Chamber of Commerce and Deloitte. |
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Greg Bray Director of Legal Technology at InTouch, a consultancy which has over 1,000 US law firm clients. Greg is the senior consultant for document management, document imaging and time/billing and accounting solutions. |
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David Brown David is a highly experienced solicitor, specialising in company, commercial and insolvency Law. He has directed the insolvency practice into the business reconstruction end of the market, and is highly respected in the industry for his innovation. Hear David every Monday night between 10pm and 11pm Sydney time on Brian Wilshire's top rating radio program on 2GB 873AM. |
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Christopher Cogan Christopher has pioneered the concept of integrated practice management systems, designing and writing integrated accounting, marketing and document management software from the 1980s through to the 2000s. He has lived and worked in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia and is married with two children. Christopher has designed and written practice management and office automation software for law firms in a variety of computer languages. Recognised for his ideas, persistence and capacity to get things done, Christopher is the Managing Director of BHL Axiom. He has tertiary qualifications in Law, Political Science and Public Administration and an MBA specialising in Technology Management. |
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A Chartered Accountant and business coach with Absolute Business Solutions which helps small firms achieve their goals by creating structure and best practice. He will be addressing how you can profit from your investment in IT |
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Marketing and sales process improvement consultant, who helps firms increase revenues and profitability by simpler and cheaper recruitment of clients, and improving the financial contribution of customer service. |
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Maurie Dobbin Maurie Dobbin is Managing Director of LegalResources, a company incorporated in Sydney Australia to manage the outsourcing of legal process work to professional partners in India. He has over 30 year experience in professional consulting, marketing and management positions. During that time Maurie has been a frequent speaker at international conferences on topics ranging from business strategy through technology developments to providing superior customer service. |
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Robert Garvey Robert's experience includes Commercial litigation with Freehills and Blake Dawson Waldron; Taxation consulting and compliance with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; Capital market trading profit analysis with SBC (now UBS) Warburg; Commercial and technology lawyer with Gadens Lawyers; Capital markets executive for the London Stock Exchange; Company, superannuation, charities and business lawyer with Deacons Lawyers. He now be in the best IT-equipped firm of his career. Since 2001, he has been a sole practitioner in Dayboro, Queensland. |
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A barrister and part time law lecturer with a long-term passion for making the most of technologies in the practice of law, including the oldest, paper. She will be talking on using simple solutions in a complex work environment drawing on experiences from her work in the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, and her current practice in Brisbane. |
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Simon Lewis Since leaving a large Sydney law firm, he has been the principal of legal technology consulting, publishing and development businesses since 1985. Diverse experience in a range of leading edge legal technologies, including developing litigation support systems for clients such as the Singapore Judiciary and the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. Developing document management systems and electronic collaboration systems for a range of law firms, government department, and inhouse legal departments. |
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Peter Osborne Peter Osborne is the managing director of TAMCO who specialises in providing Voice and Data Communication solutions. Mainly through the partnership with Siemens he has provided Voice communication solutions to major Australian corporations such as AMP, American Express and Landcom. Under his management TAMCO has been able to to help hundreds of companies to reduce communication cost and improve efficiency. TAMCO's innovative solutions have been well recognised by different industries and they are the recommended phone system provider for the Dental Innovations National Commercial Network. |
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Michael Perkins Co-author of the recently published Estate Planning, from LexisNexis. He also practises as a commercial lawyer focused on information, service and knowledge based businesses. He will be covering the collaborative tools in Vista. |
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Andrew Perry Director – Legal & Technology at legal.consult and President of the NSW Society for Computers and the Law. Andrew has long enjoyed the challenge of providing legal advice in the dynamic technology and telecommunications industries while also developing e-commerce systems himself. In the 90's, Andrew founded a Hong Kong e-commerce consultancy. MixedMedia Limited before returning to Australia to continue his legal career. Before founding legal.consult as an innovative law firm and technology consultancy in 2005, Andrew was National Head of IP & Technology for a top 10 law firm. Andrew and his team now enjoy combining their legal, corporate affairs and e-commerce experience to provide clients with commercial solutions, not just legal advice. |
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James Province James Province is a busy solo practice lawyer in Poulsbo, Washington, USA, a small town across Puget Sound from Seattle. His primary practice focus family law but, typical of a small town, he works in diverse areas of law. In 2006, after he had twelve yellow note pads†being used†at the same time in his office, he knew there must be a better way to practice. After finding Tablet PC technology, he no longer has yellow note pads lying around the office. Through his use of a Tablet PC and certain software, he became better organized and increased his productivity. James became so passionate about helping other lawyers learn how to do this that he founded TabletLawyer, LLC and is now a frequent presenter at legal technology seminars. For more information, please visit www.TabletLawyer.com and www.TabletLawyerBlog.com. James earned his B.A. from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California and his J.D. from University of Iowa, College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa. |
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Stanton Ryan Stanton Ryan is CEO of eBOS Pty Ltd, a software development company that has been designing and implementing software systems for over 20 years. Working with a wide range of industries including major hospitals, engineering and legal firms, Stanton has become increasingly aware of the need for a re-think in the process flows that underpin these 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 |
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Jim Severino Jim is an independent contractor working on productisation initiatives, online services and keeping costs low but productivity high for law firms. Before that he was in internet network operations, in-house at Mallesons, and with several vendors in the area of legal document management and general tomfoolery. |
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Douglas Simpson BSc , LLB, Douglas practised law in Toronto in the mid-1980s. Drawing on his legal experience and computer background, he developed commercial legal practice systems that included both case management and document assembly features in many practice areas for North American lawyers. From 1984 to 1996 he was President of ExperText, a Toronto-based software company. He has written on legal automation issues and presented at many conferences throughout North America. He is an author of The Lawyer's Guide to Extranets: Breaking Down Walls, Building Client Connections, published by the American Bar Association. Between 1998 and 2000 he served as Chief Information Officer of Debt Recovery Network of Canada, which developed a web-based extranet for large financial institutions and their law firm service providers. For the past 5 years Mr. Simpson was the CEO and General Counsel of GhostFill Technologies Inc.. While there, he was involved in the development and implementation of systems in several practice areas, and worked closely with other software publishers to help them create commercial practice systems. Mr. Simpson now heads up BackDraft Systems which uses state-of-the-art document assembly software and tools to build practice systems with smart interviews that gather information from users and databases, and construct complex documents. They are developing a set of tools called BackDraft that will assist in rapidly developing and deploying systems. |
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Six years with Allen Allen and Hemsley were enough of traditional legal practice and the opportunity to take his family for an all expenses paid two year job with an Australian legal firm in London was too good to pass up. He returned to work with the now defunct CitiNational merchant bank. He has also worked for Custom Resources International, subsequent backers of the less than successful Airport railway (other projects have been more successful) and company solicitor at Channel TEN. For over fifteen years he has been working as a contract database developer for clients including Sydney University, MLC and Children's Medical Research Foundation. He is the developer of Counsel's Companion an accounting program for barristers. |
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Tim van Gelder Dr Tim van Gelder is CEO of Austhink Software, and Director of Austhink Consulting. Tim's research at Melbourne University proved that practice in argument mapping dramatically improves critical thinking skills and results. Tim is a cognitive scientist with a background in philosophy, and a specialist in reasoning skills and argument mapping. He has over 60 publications in cognitive science, including Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition (MIT 1995). He is also Associate Professor (Principal Fellow) in the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne. and a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Melbourne. Tim was winner of the 2001 Eureka Prize for Critical Thinking. |
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