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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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Greg Bray Greg is the managing partner of G. W. Bray Consulting, a technology based consulting service, providing software solutions to Law Offices and Professional Service Organisations throughout Victoria, Australia. He is also 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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Seamus Byrne Seamus is a lawyer with extensive forensic technology and electronic discovery experience. Seamus Byrne recently joined eDiscovery Tools as Chief Operating Officer. He is a specialist in providing e-discovery strategies and solutions to meet the specific requirements of the legal profession and corporate enterprise. Having developed experience through his prior engagements in top-tier legal, chartered accounting and private sectors, Seamus has performed key roles in the advisory, acquisition, discovery, production and life-cycle management of electronically stored information (ESI) in several high-profile litigation matters. |
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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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Christopher Cogan Christopher has pioneered the concept of integrated practice management systems, designing and writing integrated accounting, marketing and document management software from the 1980s through to the 2000s. He has lived and worked in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia and is married with two children. Christopher has designed and written practice management and office automation software for law firms in a variety of computer languages. Recognised for his ideas, persistence and capacity to get things done, Christopher is the Managing Director of BHL Axiom. He has tertiary qualifications in Law, Political Science and Public Administration and an MBA specialising in Technology Management. |
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Noric Dilanchian Noric Dilanchian established Dilanchian in 2000. His prior experience as a lawyer was in national and medium sized law firms and before that with Angus & Robertson Publishers. Noric has published over 75 conference presentations, published articles, reports and industry submissions. He keeps up-to-date with developments through his very active involvement in seminars, workshops and conferences. It includes workshops which provide training and innovative approaches to make contract drafting more efficient and effective. His IP blog, Lightbulb, is a must read for all innovators. |
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Christopher Enright is a chartered accountant, barrister, and solicitor. He is currently a university law teacher. He has published a major text on administrative law, Federal Administrative Law (2002). His main research is legal method. He is currently completing the rewriting of an earlier text, Legal Technique, which will be published shortly as two books. Legal Method will describe methods for organising law, making law, interpreting law, using law in litigation and transactions, reading law and writing law. Legal Reasoning analyses the reasoning that underpins this method. Christopher is also writing a text on legal writing and a text that provides a cross jurisdictional model for legal research. His most recent book, Pleading for Change: Managing Litigation by Managing Information proposes a reformed system of pleading and procedure that seeks to reduce cost and delay in litigation by addressing the neglected task of managing the large amount of documented information that is generated by a case. |
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Michael Fellmann With a systems design background, Michael has been helping lawyers implement computer technology for 20 years. He is a founder and managing director of Inform Solutions Pty Ltd which developed the Informs document assembly software in 2002. Having spent many years helping lawyers achieve cost savings, Michael is now using document assembly technology to help lawyers find new business. In 2007, his company launched two new consumer focused web sites, familycourtforms.com.au and precedents.com.au. These sites utilise Informs in a web environment and allow consumers to create their own forms and documents whilst developing referrals for partnering law firms. |
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David Garde is a lawyer. David is an accredited specialist in taxation law and he has also had a longstanding interest in using computers in legal practice. His practice is fully computerised. David introduced and became the national distributor for the legal accounting software PCLaw in Australia which found over 500 law firm users during his tenure and has written on how to use computers in legal practices effectively including: "Hands on your computer" to Alone Together which is the publication of the Small Practice Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria; and "Trust lost in old measures", which considered the Law Society's trust accounting software examination regime, was published in Lawyers Weekly in 2005 which is still on the web. |
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Robert Garvey Robert's experience includes Commercial litigation with Freehills and Blake Dawson Waldron; Taxation consulting and compliance with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; Capital market trading profit analysis with SBC (now UBS) Warburg; Commercial and technology lawyer with Gadens Lawyers; Capital markets executive for the London Stock Exchange; Company, superannuation, charities and business lawyer with Deacons Lawyers. He now be in the best IT-equipped firm of his career. Since 2001, he has been a sole practitioner in Dayboro, Queensland. |
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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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Fabian Horton 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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Since receiving his law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1994, Dave has devoted the majority of his practice to representing individual consumers in disputes with insurance companies, banks, automobile dealers and credit reporting agencies. Since receiving his law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1994, Dave has devoted the majority of his practice to representing individual consumers in disputes with insurance companies, banks, automobile dealers and credit reporting agencies. |
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Peter Mericka Consumer advocate and lawyer. Focus on protection of real estate consumers of residential real estate services, providing low-cost comprehensive real estate sale services. Australia's first "Real Estate Lawyer", having introduced the concept in 2002, and developing it with a view to expanding the role of the lawyer as vendor and buyer advocate. Strong interest in the development of "blue ocean" strategies for expanding the role of the lawyer into areas lost to other professions, and legal services currently dominated by non-lawyers. |
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Although admitted to practise in the early 70ís, Peter has spent much of his career in marketing and business development, often with a slant to the use of technology in the delivery of legal services, in areas such as legal recruitment, legal costing, online legal information and services. He was involved in the development and marketing of the Lawpoint range of online legal services as Sales & Marketing Manager. In recent years, his career has come full circle and he has returned to legal practice as a sole practitioner where he has attempted to utilise his interest in IT to improve his efficiency as a lawyer. |
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Peter Osborne Peter Osborne is the managing director of TAMCO who specialises in providing Voice and Data Communication solutions. Mainly through the partnership with Siemens he has provided Voice communication solutions to major Australian corporations such as AMP, American Express and Landcom. Under his management TAMCO has been able to to help hundreds of companies to reduce communication cost and improve efficiency. TAMCO's innovative solutions have been well recognised by different industries and they are the recommended phone system provider for the Dental Innovations National Commercial Network. |
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Michael Perkins Michael is a member of the Sydney branch of STEP Australia. He also lectures part-time, at the UTS Faculty of Law, in estate planning, succession, taxation and superannuation. He co-authored Estate Planning: A practical guide for estate and financial service professionals, Perkins, M; Monahan, R (LexisNexis October 2005). He also practises as a commercial lawyer focused on information, service and knowledge based businesses. |
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Andrew Perry Director – Legal & Technology at legal.consult and President of the NSW Society for Computers and the Law. Andrew has long enjoyed the challenge of providing legal advice in the dynamic technology and telecommunications industries while also developing e-commerce systems himself. In the 90's, Andrew founded a Hong Kong e-commerce consultancy. MixedMedia Limited before returning to Australia to continue his legal career. Before founding legal.consult as an innovative law firm and technology consultancy in 2005, Andrew was National Head of IP & Technology for a top 10 law firm. Andrew and his team now enjoy combining their legal, corporate affairs and e-commerce experience to provide clients with commercial solutions, not just legal advice. |
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David Powell David has been with Rpost for over 4 years and heads the Asia/Pacific market. He has a wealth of experience of over 35 years in business management in government and private enterprise in senior roles. He brings the management expertise into e-mailing for Businesses in everyday use. An avid believer in accountability into business-to-business and business-to-client communications through effective and efficient means with appropriate safeguards in place. |
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James Province James Province is a busy solo practice lawyer in Poulsbo, Washington, USA, a small town across Puget Sound from Seattle. His primary practice focus family law but, typical of a small town, he works in diverse areas of law. In 2006, after he had twelve yellow note pads†being used†at the same time in his office, he knew there must be a better way to practice. After finding Tablet PC technology, he no longer has yellow note pads lying around the office. Through his use of a Tablet PC and certain software, he became better organized and increased his productivity. James became so passionate about helping other lawyers learn how to do this that he founded TabletLawyer, LLC and is now a frequent presenter at legal technology seminars. For more information, please visit www.TabletLawyer.com and www.TabletLawyerBlog.com. James earned his B.A. from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California and his J.D. from University of Iowa, College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa. |
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Jim Severino Jim is an independent contractor working on productisation initiatives, online services and keeping costs low but productivity high for law firms. Before that he was in internet network operations, in-house at Mallesons, and with several vendors in the area of legal document management and general tomfoolery. |
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Troy Simpson is co-manager of Serenson Pty Ltd, a new company that has developed two flagship products for lawyers: a 10-step system for writing persuasive legal arguments called Win More Cases: The Lawyer's Toolkit and plain legal language software called WordStyler. Troy also co-manages the multi-award winning Research One Pty Ltd, an Australian company that provides legal research, analysis, and writing services to lawyers worldwide. At Research One, Troy has researched and managed many of the company's major projects and has helped lawyers to prepare winning arguments for some landmark cases. Before Research One, Troy worked at a major government legal department where he provided legal advice on government legislation. He then joined the Australian National University as editor, contributor, and principal researcher for the Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (1998-2001). After the Companion, Troy worked as a rule-base engineer and commentary writer for RuleBurst, a developer of computerised legal expert systems. |
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Guy Thornycroft Guy Thornycroft - Born and raised in Zimbabwe. Fell in love with Australia as a Rotary exchange student 1988. Returned to University in South Africa - BCom (Industrial Psychology and Economics). Moved to Scotland and worked as a Practice Manager, setting up the systems for Whitelaw Wells Financial Planning Pty Ltd, a fee based, comprehensive and life style based planning company, using Prestwood Software. Qualified as an adviser before moving his family to Australia in November 2000 to take up the role of Marketing Manager for Prestwood Australia Pty Ltd. In December 2005 Guy was appointed as Director of Prestwood Australia Pty Ltd. He has completed the Diploma of Financial Planning, plays the Highland Bagpipes and Spearfishes competitively. Guy is the proud father of three children, a girl and two boys and has no difficulty in spoiling them - often. Guy runs regular seminars around Australia on getting the best from software and in particular how to engage clients through the use of technology to make it easy for clients to understand complex issues and solutions. Over the last 12 months he has been working extensively with Michael Perkins from Cutler Hughes & Harris to define the "Gold Standard" of collaboration between professionals working with the same client. |
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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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Tim van Gelder Dr Tim van Gelder is CEO of Austhink Software, and Director of Austhink Consulting. Tim's research at Melbourne University proved that practice in argument mapping dramatically improves critical thinking skills and results. Tim is a cognitive scientist with a background in philosophy, and a specialist in reasoning skills and argument mapping. He has over 60 publications in cognitive science, including Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition (MIT 1995). He is also Associate Professor (Principal Fellow) in the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne. and a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Melbourne. Tim was winner of the 2001 Eureka Prize for Critical Thinking. |
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John Zeleznikow Professor Zeleznikow 's expertise is in Online Dispute Resolution, Web Based Decision Support, Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases and Law and the Internet. Professor John Zeleznikow has written two books, published forty refereed journal articles and one hundred refereed conference articles. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Internet Research, the Journal of Computer Security and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law. Professor Zeleznikow has been the chief investigator on five Australian Research Council Grants, a large European Union Grant, a Scottish Higher Education Funding Grant and numerous other international grants. He has worked and conducted research in UK, USA, Israel, France, Belgium, Canada and the Netherlands. He has supervised ten PHD students to completion and is currently supervising seven PHD students |
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