Why two days and two "different" conferences?
Why Video Presentations?
Who should attend?
Who should attend what?
MCLE
Questions and Feedback

Why two days and two "different" conferences?

Saturday 18th of February is a general conference focusing on how lawyers can personally use IT. It is not limited to those interested in Amicus Attorney 7, so all attendees will benefit regardless of their practice management system. We decided to hold the two conferences together to make it doubly worthwhile for Amicus users who have to travel from afar. For example, attendees are coming from Malaysia and New Zealand.

Why Video Presentations?

As both Peter Hart and Ron Collins have commitments which precluded travel to Australia, the pre-recorded video presentations followed by live questions by phone offer the best alternative.

Pre-recorded video presentations worked well when Richard Susskind, OBE, the Keynote speaker at Legal Technology Conferences conducted late 2004 in Melbourne and Brisbane. An advance on those conferences will be the opportunity to discuss with the speakers their presentation by phone, and follow up issues in the Conference Blog.

Who should attend?

Considerably more lawyers than those who attended the abovementioned conferences. Sadly, it was mostly the "usual suspects" of the Legal IT Support teams from large firms. There were very few lawyers from small firms, yet ironically, it is they who stand to gain the most from IT.

So, who should attend:

• At least all the Partners, so they all start to push in the same direction.
• Lawyers, so they can start to see IT as more than a productivity enhancement, but also assist with creativity, ie. better lawyers.
• The firm IT and Administrative staff so they can support the lawyers who have the vision.
• Those in small firms should consider bringing their external IT consultants/suppliers.

Considerable discounts are provided to additional people from the one firm to facilitate a wider understanding of the importance of IT to lawyers.

Who should attend what?

Day 1: Those with an interest in Amicus, or who would like to see what is regarded as the world leader in lawyer-friendly software.

Those wanting to see what can be achieved with practice management software designed from the ground up for lawyers, as opposed to an afterthought added to a legal accounting system will learn a lot by coming to Day 1.

Day 2: Everyone should attend as it is applicable to all interested in legal IT. It is targeted at lawyers, in particular.

MCLE

If a particular activity is relevant to your immediate or longer term professional development and practice of law, you are entitled to claim one MCLE Unit for each hour of your actual attendance (not including breaks). With a planned 6 hours of seminars daily, it gives you the perfect solution for complying with your MCLE requirements. As far as we are aware, attendees of our legal technology seminars have not had problems claiming MCLE Units over the last 17 years.

Questions and Feedback

We invite you to suggest speakers, topics, or technologies you think we should explore or wish you knew more about. Who's the person you've always wanted to see speak? Who is doing groundbreaking work that we should feature? Drop us a line at simon @ sinch. com. au , and tell us what would make this year's Lawyers Workstation Conference a must-attend.