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Like online banking for retail banks, law firms need to be up to date and capable of delivering online services as a part of client service.
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Christopher Balmford Christopher is an internationally recognised plain language expert whose clients include 8 major national law firms, 10 public listed companies, 5 government bodies, the ASX, the United Nations and the European Central Bank. Christopher provides plain-language training, advises on communication cultural-change programs, provides style guides, and rewrites documents. |
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Stephen Bonner Mr. Bonner is the founder and Managing Director of Information Exchange Corporation. Mr. Bonner established the company in 1981, following his experience initially as a research engineer and subsequently as a marketing executive in the Mining and Resources sector. Recognising the potential for the publishing and distribution of information electronically, Mr. Bonner developed a specific focus on the storage and distribution of electronic information. By 1990, the company extended its focus to the development of technology for the delivery of information electronically, and the company expanded its range of technical resources to include database design, networking and secure communication skills. By 1996, Media Technology had expanded its operations into the global marketplace, and with annual revenues of A$16.0m its products and services are used extensively by financial organisations in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe and South East Asia. In 1997, the group changed itís name from Media Technology to Information Exchange Corporation Pty Limited. In June 1998, Information Exchange Corporation acquired the business of Taxation Research Publishing, a long-standing publisher of Taxation information, and provider of regulatory information services. In January 2004, Information Exchange acquired Taxability Pty Ltd to establish a unique Australian publishing and regulatory exchange service with over 3000 business members and subscribers. Mr. Bonner, an experienced Chief Executive, has extensive knowledge of global markets, particularly in the professional services and e-commerce sectors. |
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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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Elizabeth Broderick
Elizabeth is a partner of Blake Dawson Waldron. She has overall responsibility for the Legal Technology Group which comprises all the online activities of the firm. This includes Internet delivered legal services for major litigation, mergers and acquisitions. It also includes the development and delivery of online legal services for clients in the areas of trade practices, privacy, insider trading, anti money laundering, corporate governance, workplace discrimination, advertising and occupational health and safety. Elizabeth has been part of a taskforce established outside the firm to examine the impact of the Internet on the delivery of legal services. The Taskforce has developed a number of different Internet business models for the delivery of legal services by law firms and corporate legal departments. She speaks regularly on technology and law related issues at both local and international forums. Elizabeth has championed workplace flexibility. Blake Dawson Waldron now has 20% of its people working in flexible work arrangements. In 2002, she was Telstra's Australian Business Woman of the Year (Corporate Category) and in 2003 she received the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society through Business Leadership. For the last 3 years, Elizabeth has been a member of the Board of Blake Dawson Waldron.
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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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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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Justin Geddes Justin's Gold Coast firm offers expertise and assistance to clients in a wide range of areas in relation to both contentious commercial and general litigation matters and non-contentious commercial matters. In the 1980s, Justin used Peter Hart's Document Modeler. He has also designed the firms own matter management and other database driven systems. More recently, he has again been working on his automated precedents for web-based document assembly. |
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Richard Granat Richard Granat is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Epoq, US, Inc., a web-based legal information company, and MyLawyer.com., one of the first legal document web sites for consumers in the United States, which is an Epoq company. He is a recognized expert on the delivery of legal services over the Internet. He is also presently Co-Chair of the ELawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association and serves on the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services of the ABA. Richard is also a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar and most recently, chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the Maryland Bar Association. Richard has been involved in developing innovative legal services delivery systems for over 30 years, first as part of the initial working group that created the National Legal Services Program, and then later as President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, the first US paralegal school. He was the founding CEO of Automated Legal Systems, Inc., an affiliate of The Philadelphia Institute, one of the first legal software companies to publish legal applications for the personal computer for law firms. Richard has taught at the University of Maryland School of Law, the District of Columbia School of Law, Rutgers School of Law of Law, courses in Computers and the Law and Law Practice Management. Richard is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.) and Lehigh University (B.A.). |
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David Jacobson David Jacobson established Jacobson Consulting Pty Ltd in July 2004 as a specialist corporate governance, compliance and training firm for financial services industry clients. Prior to setting up Jacobson Consulting, David Jacobson was a partner in the Business Services division of Gilshenan & Luton Lawyers Brisbane and was a founding director of Network Law, an online mortgage service provider which he still administers. He is a former Queensland State Chair and National Director of Quality in Law Inc. As a solo consultant operating from a home office he is an extensive user of web applications. |
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Liz Harris Liz is a solicitor who specialises in advising on all issues relating to client relationships and legal costs, ranging from cost agreements and case estimating, to e-billing and alternative billing strategies. Liz is joint editor of Butterworths Legal Costs Victoria, a member of the Victorian Law Institute Costs Policy Committee and of the Victorian Supreme Court committee considering rules regarding discovery of electronic files. She is also presently re-drafting the Victorian Supreme Court scale of costs. She has appeared in thousands of taxations in all Victorian and Federal jurisdictions, notably: McCabe v British, American Tobacco, The Pyramid litigation, Elliott v National Crime Authority |
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Peter C. Hart Peter C. Hart is regarded by many as the "father" of Legal IT & Document Assembly. Amicus Attorney is partly based upon his pioneering tools of the late 80's & early '90s. Be prepared to be inspired as some of you were in 1988 and 1992 when his tours enthralled lawyers across Australian and New Zealand for the Law Council of Australia Young Lawyers and Practice Management Sections, as well as the Auckland District Law Society |
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Formally of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), is now an industry consultant and trainer in online legal research. Fabian, also a practicing lawyer, will be talking about some new features that are bringing together the vast amounts of legal information. Fabian will also delve into the future with a expose of products soon to come. |
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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 automation systems and electronic collaboration systems for a range of law firms, government department, and inhouse legal departments. |
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Darryl Mountain is a lawyer and expert on disruptive innovations in law who is based in Vancouver, Canada. Mr. Mountain is a member of the e-Lawyering Task Force of the American Bar Association, which examines and responds to the ways in which the practice of law is changing in the Internet age. He has published a number of journal articles on legal technology topics, the latest of which has been one of the most frequently read articles each month in Oxford's IJLIT since it first was made available online in August, 2006. He continues to work on projects involving legal document assembly and the Internet. Darryl can be reached at darryl.mountain@ontago.com. |
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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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Dr Andrew Stranieri Dr Andrew Stranieri is Managing Director of Knowledge Based System company JustSys Pty Ltd. This innovative spin out company from two Australian Universities has applied Wiki technology for organisational knowledge management, developed cutting edge intelligent decision support systems for the on-line determination of eligibility for legal aid (GetAid), the training of intensive care nurses, occupational health and safety guidance for building designers (Toolshed), career options explorations (Options) and the prediction of property splits awarded by Family Court judges (Split Up). He has published extensively in artificial intelligence, narrative, argumentation and data mining. |
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Tim Weekes (BComm, LLB) is the Principal of Weekes Preston, Solicitors. Admitted to practice in 1976, Tim has practised almost exclusively in the marketing of fast moving consumer goods for more than 25 years. Tim's experience includes six years as in-house counsel with Unilever Australia, and eleven years with the international law firm, Baker & McKenzie - six as a partner. In 1999, Tim left Baker & McKenzie to set up Weekes Preston, a firm now specialising marketing and advertising law, and the joys of sales promotions. He also set up online systems for clients. |
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