ABA TECHSHOW 2010 opened in Chicago yesterday and the keynote speaker was Ari Kaplan, a lawyer and experienced technology and marketing author who spoke on “The New Big Bang- The Convergence of Technology and Marketing”. Reported by:  Val Chulamorkodt for ThePosseList.com As expected, it was high-energy, quintessential Ari.  We have profiled Ari before (click here) and we have chatted with him numerous [...]

We have had numerous posts on our site concerning raising your profile, “branding” yourself,  marketing yourself, and doing that through writing.  As we have said, despite the universal concern over the current economic climate, Posse List members have found creative ways to serve their constituencies and to raise their profiles.   Technology (Web 2.0) has been the catalyst for this [...]

In Part 1 of our Trends series (click here) we provided some brief observations on trends we see in the contract attorney market and e-discovery market based on our conversations and meetings over the last few weeks.   In Part 2 (click here) we concentrated on going solo/freelancing,  and building a website/blog.  Here in Part 3 we will discuss raising your [...]

We spent the last 3 weeks in Chicago, D.C., LA and NYC.   We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments where we have contacts, plus a few Federal government contacts. What follows are some brief observations on trends we see in [...]

We covered Richard Susskind’s speech at the ABA TechShow (click here) and we had previously covered his thoughts in our “Changing Legal Landscape” series (click here). Today’s Legal Blog Watch reports on a trend of BigLaw being dumped for lower-priced boutiques following the lead of DuPont and adding firms with 300 or fewer lawyers to [...]

[For our review of Day 1, click here]. On Day 2 we tried to cover a wide range of seminars, and complete our review of the vendors.  We also networked with a number of our Chicago law firm contacts regarding the Chicago market for contract attorneys: Adobe Vendor Track Session Basically, this program has more than [...]

  The Posse List team has descended upon Chicago for the annual ABA TECHSHOW.   For us it’s an opportunity for us to meet and network with other lawyers, law firms, e-discovery companies, and legal technology professionals to obtain information on the contract attorney market (including solos and freelancers) and to see what new developments have emerged to assist the contract attorney market. [...]