The Legal Technology Summit: Seeking Corporate Legal, Records Management and IT Experts

Are you looking for an opportunity to present information about legal technology to your colleagues? Would like to join this illustrious group of speakers? Then look no further, because a handful of speaking opportunities are still available at the 2011 Legal Technology Leadership Summit.

If you would like to submit a speaker proposal, please email speakers@abovethelaw.com (subject: “Summit Speaking Proposal”). Let us know the company where you work, your title, and the subject on which you would like to speak, picked from the Summit agenda located here.

Those whose speaker proposals are accepted will receive a free pass to the event, and speakers will be able to attend all portions of the Summit. Please hurry, as we have only a handful of opportunities left. Travel scholarships are available for qualified corporate counsel, and applications for CLE credits have been submitted.

The Summit will take place on September 6 – 8, in Amelia Island, Florida. If you are interested in attending the Summit, please sign up here to join us. You can also take a look at the full agenda for the event here.

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The Legal Technology Leadership Summit: Revisiting Qualcomm and Possible Ethics Sanctions

As we learned in Qualcomm v. Broadcom, e-discovery can be tricky. While there is an ethical rule against disclosing client confidences, there is an exception to that rule. In order to properly invoke that exception, certain procedural and ethical steps must be taken.

A special ethics and e-discovery panel at the Legal Technology Leadership Summit will reexamine the Qualcomm e-discovery sanctions opinions, particularly as they affected six of the attorneys representing Qualcomm.

On January 7, 2008, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major of the Southern District of California imposed sanctions on those attorneys for Qualcomm’s failure to produce certain electronic discovery (2008 WL 66932). Just under two months later that part of the opinion was vacated and remanded by U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster (March 5, 2008, 2008 WL 638108). A little over two years after remand, Judge Major ultimately declined to impose sanctions and dissolved the order to show cause (April 2, 2010, 2010 WL 1336937).

Attorney Adam Arthur Bier, the junior-most attorney identified in the Qualcomm case, plans to discuss the impact of ethical sanctions and will offer some thoughts on ways to avoid such situations. Attorney Frank Cialone, who defended several of the six attorneys involved in the case, will discuss the self-defense exception to the ethical rule against disclosing client confidences and will describe what has to be done procedurally and ethically to invoke the exception. Cialone will also suggest the ways in which law firms and clients can work together to avoid such circumstances.

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Legal Technology Leadership Summit: Golfing Isn’t Just For Doctors

When they asked me “Do you golf,” I naturally responded with “You know I’m not bad, and I love the FaceGen technology, but my swing seems to have a natural fade that I can’t correct for unless I line up the controller exactly right, and that’s frustrating.”

Much to my surprise, they weren’t asking me about Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12. They were talking about real golf. Played outdoors. I don’t even know where they set up the Kinect, but apparently we have the technology to do this now.

And we will be golfing at the Legal Technology Leadership Summit on Amelia Island from September 6 – 8. Click here to attend the conference, and here for more information on the golf outing. Here’s how the festivities were explained to me:

Don’t worry if you’re not a good golfer, or even if you’ve never played before. Each foursome will be comprised of 3 actual golfers (an A, B and C player) and a fourth player whose sole duties will be to drive a golf cart and putt. This will let those non-golfers who don’t want to miss out on the fun a chance to participate without embarrassment (and without the expense of golf shoes!).

The first group will go off shortly after noon on Tuesday, September 6.

Well, my sole duty will be to end up with the coolest foursome at the event. It’s not illegal to drink while driving a golf cart, right?

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