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"We experiment with software. We buy, we try, we fail. The key to making it all pay off is in the re-engineering process -- that is starting off with a blank slate and working from there". Fred Bartlit, 1994 ABA Techshow. |
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A solicitor with 30+ years of general practice experience, and a champion of the use of plain language in legal writing. He was the primary draftsman of the NSW Law Society lease and is also the author of Letters for Lawyers - Conveyancing published by Federation Press and the self-published Letters for Lawyers - Powers of Attorney. |
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Greg Bray Director of Legal Technology at InTouch, a consultancy which has over 1,000 US law firm clients. Greg is the senior consultant for document management, document imaging and time/billing and accounting solutions. |
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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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Ron Collins, A lawyer who has practised for many years with a large Toronto law firm, Ron is the President & Founder of Gavel & Gown, the publishers of Amicus Attorney®, the world's leading practice management software. Ron first shared a podium with Peter Hart at an ABA Conference around 20 years ago. |
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A Chartered Accountant and business coach with Absolute Business Solutions which helps small firms achieve their goals by creating structure and best practice. He will be addressing how you can profit from your investment in IT |
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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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John England He originally worked in training and consultancy, with a focus on Team Selection and Development, Organisational Change, Leadership and Communications. However, as firm advocates of Jay Conrad Levinson's 'Guerrilla Marketing' tactics, he is flexible and open to progress. So the times changed, and so did he ... hence the birth of 'Mindsystems'. While he still performs his original functions for long term clients, today he is vitally interested in knowledge and information as it applies to individuals and organisations ... with particular reference to visual data representation. |
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A barrister and part time law lecturer with a long-term passion for making the most of technologies in the practice of law, including the oldest, paper. She will be talking on using simple solutions in a complex work environment drawing on experiences from her work in the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, and her current practice in Brisbane. |
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Kate Hart is the principal of KD Hart Consulting, an independent consulting practice, offering Information Technology consulting services to the legal profession in the areas of litigation support, practice management, application integration and training. Kate commenced working in the legal industry in 1988 as the Brisbane Manager for the litigation support group at Morris Fletcher & Cross (now Minter Ellison). She is now recognized as a leading specialist in litigation support and she has an in-depth knowledge of the legal profession and its unique workplace requirements. Since 1992, Kate has also been providing advice in relation to the installation and management of a broad range of application programs used in the legal profession. More recently, one of her principle areas of focus has been to recommend and oversee the implementation of practice management systems for small to medium sized legal practices. Her management role has involved not only responsibility for the efficient running and integration of systems but also the need to pay close attention to the perceived future requirements of her clients to ensure that they have the opportunity to take advantage of technological developments. Kate speaks frequently on a number of Information Technology and practice related subjects for the Qld Law Society and Australian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA).Will be covering Workflow and Document Automation. The Queensland Law Society commissioned her to review practice management systems for its member firms. |
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Peter C. Hart A highlight of Saturday will be a video presentation by Peter C. Hart, regarded by many as the "father" of Legal IT & Document Assembly. Amicus 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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Elizabeth 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 andof 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 allVictorian and Federal jurisdictions, notably: McCabe v British, American Tobacco, The Pyramid litigation, Elliott v National Crime Authority |
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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 management systems and electronic collaboration systems for a range of law firms, government department, and inhouse legal departments. |
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Peter Meyer Peter Meyer is Managing Director of Elkera Pty Limited, a provider of XML document authoring, publishing and content management software and consulting. He was once a partner with a large firm. His interest in IT led him to design the firm's document assembly system around 15 years ago. He also recognised that lawyers were publishers, and as such should make use of SGML and XML document markup applications, particularly with the rise of the internet. |
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Tom Morgan Tom Morgan has had a very varied range of professional experience. He has qualifications in both Science and Law and for the last 10 years has been working in IT. His IT experience includes programming and training. His main interests in Computer Science are in the area of artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Currently he is working on document assembly and other enhancements of the Amicus Attorney environment. |
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Michael Perkins Co-author of the recently published Estate Planning, from LexisNexis. He also practises as a commercial lawyer focused on information, service and knowledge based businesses. He will be covering the building of new service areas in your practice. |
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John has been involved in consulting in the areas of organizational change and development for twenty-three years. His experience includes leading the organization development function for a national professional services firm, a high-profile insurance company and a high-profile media organization. He understands partnerships, and how they compare to other organizations. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on improving organizations. He also runs his own small business, is a FileMaker developer, and is particularly passionate about helping overworked people to have balanced and healthy lives. |
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A qualified accountant, Sue has worked with various small law firms. More recently she has done a consderable amount of document assembly programming inhouse, and as a consultant. She has also conducted training in practice management software for firms around Australia. |
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Six years with Allen Allen and Hemsley were enough of traditional legal practice and the opportunity to take his family for an all expenses paid two year job with an Australian legal firm in London was too good to pass up. He returned to work with the now defunct CitiNational merchant bank. He has also worked for Custom Resources International, subsequent backers of the less than successful Airport railway (other projects have been more successful) and company solicitor at Channel TEN. For over fifteen years he has been working as a contract database developer for clients including Sydney University, MLC and Children's Medical Research Foundation. He is the developer of Counsel's Companion an accounting program for barristers. |
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