Practice Management

Live Blogging At LegalTech 2008

By Brian J. Ritchey

I read a post from Kevin O'Keefe last year lamenting the lack of live blogging (other than from Monica Bay) at LegalTech 2007.  He writes:

[P]eople on the leading edges of technology are sharing their observations and insight in real time. The result is a live discourse between not only attendees, but also by bloggers around the country. Such conferences feature bloggers and look for the excitement and discussion they create.

Live blogging is self-defining:  It merely means that thoughts and ideas are posted to a blog as they happen.  Bob Ambrogi, however, explains that live blogging isn't so easy at an event like LegalTech:

...I often find that I have little time for attending many of the panels and presentations -- ostensibly the main reason for being there. Simply making one's way around the exhibit hall and speaking to the many vendors and the many people you encounter along the way easily consumes a full day. Then there are the side meetings and the networking and, yes, the cocktails and dinners.

O'Keefe counters that other conferences of similar size have many live bloggers:  "The fact that legal tech professionals are not following the trend is further evidence that we're lagging in adopting innovative technology."

I will be attending LegalTech next week.  However, I will be spending the greater part of it in a booth.  That said, I will take time to visit other vendors and see what they have going on as well as attend a session or three. 

I have never attended LegalTech before and it is certainly possible I will get side tracked (especially in the LexisNexis booth I will share), but it can?t be that hard.  After all, blogging in many ways is just conversation via an online medium (famous last words, I'm sure).

This will be an experiment for this blog and for me.  If we get a good response, I may live blog again at the ABA TechShow in March.

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Full post as published by More Partner Income on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).