The International Legal Technology Association’s annual meeting, held this year in Nashville, Tenn., was a buffet of education, from “under-the-hood” training to forecasting future trends. I was privileged to moderate a “2020 Hot Topics” panel, modeled on the provocative” Ted Talks.” Six speakers were each allocated nine minutes to inspire the audience — rants were encouraged, PowerPoints discouraged. The panel included Gareth Ash (Allen & Overy), Janet Day (Berwin Leighton Paisner), Doug Caddell (Foley & Lardner), Steve Fletcher (Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein), John Green (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz), and George Rudoy (Hagen, Streiff, Newton & Oshiro).
Nashville’s Green (above, others except Rudoy behind him) provided the local-vore voice, and offered a pragmatic recipe to get recalcitrant lawyers more comfortable with the inevitable world of remote access. His IT team made a conference room into a “hotel room,” complete with external wi-fi, and then walked users through all-things-remote, from finding the electricity plugs to securing VPN connectivity. Green advocates project management personnel and software to track both initiatives and “where every dime goes.” The team even created an app to help users track small fees, such as hotel internet charges and that 99 cents for the latest iteration of “Angry Birds.”
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