Lawyers e-Journal
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010
FirmFuture 2010 to offer cutting-edge practice management and legal technology solutions
The Massachusetts Bar Association and The Warren Group will host
FirmFuture 2010, The Practice Management & Legal
Technology Conference from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, Dec. 1 at the Copley Marriott, 110 Huntington Ave.,
Boston.
Legal professionals can access leading industry exhibitors and
powerful educational sessions in the areas of business development,
best practices, technology, sales and marketing. FirmFuture will
feature live podcasting, video-streaming, attendee prizes and
more.
Education seminars will run concurrent all day, and include the
following sessions offered by the MBA:
Starting Your Firm on a Budget
10:15-11 a.m.
For attorneys starting their own firms, or attorneys looking to
upgrade their hardware and software, the question of budget is of
utmost concern. For lawyers in any stage of their practices,
technology is the engine to power up their firm and keep it
running, but at what cost? Is there a way to start a practice
on a shoestring budget? And, what of the width of that shoestring?
Join us as we walk you through three potential start-up and
existing law firm budgets of $2,000, $5,000 and $10,000, including
hardware, software, and some handy websites which will determine
your essential purchases, within each of those budget sets, that
will turn your going concern into a growing concern, in order to
turn your practice into an efficient profit machine.
Faculty:
Alan J. Klevan, Esq., Klevan & Klevan LLP, Wellesley
Rachael Condon, Esq., Klevan & Klevan LLP, Wellesley
Gabriel Cheong, Esq., Infinity Law Group LLC, Quincy
Visualize Your Virtual Law Practice
11:15 a.m.-Noon
The "virtual practice of law" has become a buzzword, but one
without a settled meeting; definitions may range from establishing
a full-scale virtual law office online, to tweaking your email
protocol.
If you're thinking about pushing your practice to become more
virtual, you're likely thinking of leveraging web applications to
increase your efficiency and ability to collaborate. The process
may encompass many aspects of your practice, including some which
you may not have expected would be affected originally; it can
involve the adoption of a single, small application, the adoption
of a single, large, overarching application or the cobbling
together of several programs to achieve a desired effect.
Particular areas to be addressed will include:
- Practice Management Systems;
- Client and Colleague Collaboration;
- Adoption of a Records Management Policy; and
- Marketing.
Faculty:
Jared D. Correia, Esq., program chair, Law Office Management
Assistance Program, Boston
J. Channing Migner, Law Office of Channing Migner PC,
Worcester
60 Sites to Bring Your Firm into the Future
1:15-2 p.m.
The nature of the legal practice is emerging from a paper-driven
beast to an electronic model. The term "from paper to pixels" is
now the norm and not the exception.
Do you want to know how to bring your firm into both the present
and future? What legal technologies exist and will emerge? What
websites are essential for you to stay ahead of the legal curve?
How about websites which will help you go about your business both
at work and at home? And are there some websites out there that you
just have to know about?
Our panel has scanned the globe, surfed the web, and perhaps just
received some emails from fellow legal consultants about some of
these sites. Join them as they show you 60 of the most practical,
popular, and perhaps just far-out sites that you must know
about.
Faculty:
Alan J. Klevan, Esq., Klevan & Klevan LLP, Wellesley
Rodney S. Dowell, Esq., director, Law Office Management Assistance
Program, Boston Robert J. Ambrogi, Esq., Law Office of Robert J.
Ambrogi, Rockport