"It will be easy and even prudent for law firms to move slowly on technology issues in 2007. At the same time, however, some law firms and legal departments will modernize the practice of law, improve client service, and creative a competitive and technological gap between themselves and most other lawyers, firms and law departments. On what side of the gap will you be?"

Dennis Kennedy's Seven Legal Technology Trends for 2007 - Widening the Digital Divide in Law Practice.

By attending, you will:

• experience new standards in legal IT, emphasising fee earner capabilities.
• be able to get more out of your existing systems such as MS Word,
• be shown the very latest in lawyer IT developments and trends from around the world,
• be able to confidently prepare your "Five-Year IT Plan" for your firm, and more importantly, yourself
• earn MCLE units,
• benefit from meeting with like minded colleagues,
• most importantly, invest in yourself, and augment your legal skills.

2006 marked the beginning of a new era in the use of IT in legal practice. 2007 is already building on that platform. Major IT events include:

• Microsoft releasing Vista, and now Office 2007;
• maturity of Web 2.0 as a growing workspace for lawyers;
• acceptance of VOIP, Blogs, Podcasts, YouTube and Wikis etc;
• outsourcing of admin, IT and even legal services;
• a huge leap in processing power to enable new applications;
• Open source and Apple moving to Intel chips gives more options;

These technology changes are occurring at a time when there will be major changes within the legal profession, and client expections . Hence the references to Law 2.0.

With the interesting array of speakers assembled, the Conference is sure to challenge your thinking and expand your knowledge, and capabilities.