“It seems clear that technological change is just beginning and is accelerating rapidly. Our relevance and effectiveness as lawyers in the future depends on our ability to ride this change, to be empowered by it.”

Ralph Losey, Singularity, Computers, and the Law

Rocket-dockets, e-Registrars, new Practice Notes such as the Federal Courts CM 6, rapidly changing technologies and tech savvy adversaries are creating additional challenges and new opportunities for the way discovery is managed.  The years ahead will be interesting for litigators.

To assist those not totally comfortable with all things IT, we have developed a workshop to quickly get you up to speed. It offers a solid grounding in the basic legal IT concepts and issues requiring consideration when a case involves just 200+ relevant documents.
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Simon Lewis LL.B, your workshop leader, pioneered IT in litigation, including part of the Singapore Judiciary’s Courtroom of the Future. This workshop is intended to provide a solid foundation for those who have been more involved with law, than IT.

We will help you start to overcome the challenges and intricacies involved with preserving, managing and producing electronically stored information, relevant to the Federal and Supreme Court Practice Notes. The workshop will include a thorough examination of the IT aspects of the Practice Notes, and presumes no IT knowledge.

"This type of ignorance has wider implications than the duty of a lawyer to his client to be fit to practice in the type of litigation for which he is retained. ... If you practice in document-heavy litigation then you ought to know the basics of the relevant technology or get the help of someone who does.

The wider implications which Judge Facciola moved on to were twofold - the ethical implications for a lawyer who finds himself in a position to take advantage of his opponent’s ignorance, and the burden on the court when dealing with parties whose skill was asymmetric."

Chris Dale, 17 Feb 2009

Judge Facciola LegalTech messages are for UK as well as US lawyers

Who should attend:

Inhouse Lawyers

  • wanting more from their budgets
  • looking to improve processess
  • considering discovery readiness

Litigation Partners

  • needing to converse with clients
  • and manage their own team

Litigation Lawyers

  • handling staff tasks and client data

Barristers

  • dealing with e-Registrars and pre-hearing conferences, and
  • fitting in with a fast moving team.

Supported by:

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