ILTACON Call For Speakers and Hiatus Explanation

I ceased even irregular blogging for quite a while--I wasn't seeing much interaction, and much of what I was working on wasn't really appropriate for sharing.  But I'm hoping to get back in the game, partly I suppose because one of my current projects is looking at Microsoft Teams, a quite advanced threaded-chat-and-more platform that has gotten my collaboration juices flowing again. More on that later.

My career has continued to evolve--I am now a Director at Goodwin, and also since September have been a co-chair of the incredible events that will be ILTACON 2018 (National Harbor, MD) and ILTACON 2019 (Orlando, FL). 

On that last point, I wanted to share that the ILTACON website now provides a way (for the next few weeks, in any event), for potential speakers and moderators to apply.  This is a new process for ILTACON, one of the joys of working with ILTA and this fantastic group of event professionals and peers is that they are not afraid to try new things!

The way it works is, a full list of sessions is available (the ILTACON committee has been working on developing a set of sessions since October).  Potential speakers or moderators fill out the form, indicating the session where they are seeking to participate. Fill out a separate form for each session in which you are interested.

Business Intelligence and Analytics In the Legal Profession--Ark Group Conference April 28

I'll be speaking again at an Ark Conference, this time, at the fourth "Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Legal Profession" conference, to be held April 28th at the AMA Executive Conference Center in New York.


Formal title:  Business Intelligence & Data Visualization Use-Cases

Description:  

Legal organizations are awash in rich information about the work they do.
Lawyers record time in six-minute increments, save dozens of documents a day,
and even assign each client and matter a unique number, (a system much envied
by our corporate knowledge management peers). Yet few legal organizations
take full advantage of the data that they have, despite the increasing prevalence of
advanced data analytics and visualization tools that make access and interaction
with the data much easier and faster. This case study will share one law firm’s
story about visualizing matter data, starting with a sophisticated
matters information system and moving on to show an interactive business
intelligence system focused on what lawyers need to know about their matters.
Uses include business development, competitive intelligence, knowledge
management, and pricing and budget analysis.

In many ways this presentation will be a follow-on from the presentation at ILTACON 2015 on "Best of Business Intelligence:  Stories of Success" (recording available.)  We've made progress in identifying some important use-cases and in leveraging our matters data since then, of course.

Hope to see you there!