If you live in or around New Orleans, Louisiana and you are looking to get your year-end CLEs, I would love to see you at the Digital Workflow for Lawyers CLE on Wednesday, December 29, 2010. This is the second year that I have participated in this program, which is put on by Loyola Law School Prof. Dane Ciolino and Ernie “the Attorney” Svenson. It is a 6 hour CLE including 1 ethics hour, 1 professionalism hour and 3 hours of law office practice. The morning session will cover advanced PDF tips, e-mail effiiciency and cloud computing. The afternoon session will cover electronic discovery, social networking issues and 60 Tips in 60 minutes.
I will assist with presenting the last two sessions. The social networking presentation will be an updated version of the presentation that Svenson and I gave this past September when the Federal Bar Association held its annual convention in New Orleans. We had a lot of fun with that presentation and received fantastic feedback, so I look forward to discusing the topic again. The 60 Tech Tips in 60 Minutes segment will be a fast-paced hour filled with tons of great tips, including iPhone and iPad tips.
I met lots of iPhone J.D. readers when I spoke at this CLE last year, and for those of you who can make it to New Orleans at the end of this year, I hope to see many of you again. You can get more information on the CLE by reading this post on Svenson’s website.
By the way, the model for the 60 Tips in 60 Minutes session comes from the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW convention held in Chicago every Spring. The next ABA TECHSHOW is Aprill 11 to 13, 2010, at the Chicago Hilton on Michigan Avenue. This will be the 25th year of TECHSHOW, and I know that the organizers have lots of special things planned for the Silver Anniversary. If you have been to a TECHSHOW in the past, you know that not only are the sessions fantastic, but also it is a great opportunity to socialize with other lawyers who love technology. I’ll be speaking about iPhone topics on the morning of April 13th. Last year I also led a special dinner for iPhone-using attorneys; it was great fun and I hope we can do it again. Make your plans now to join us in Chicago in April, and I hope to see many of you there!