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NetDocuments to be at LegalTech West Coast 2010

The NetDocuments legal team is excited about their trip to Los Angeles in June for LegalTech West Coast, which will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 23rd and 24th.

During the show, the legal team, consisting of Matt Duncan, Keith Schneider and Kirsten Walker, will be hanging out at booth #325 and will be talking SaaS, cloud computing, document management and legal technology all week. Commenting about the event, Matt Duncan said, ”LegalTech West Coast 2010 represents a great opportunity for us to meet with many of our existing law firm customers in the region, as well as connect with other firms that are growing increasingly interested in cloud computing and SaaS.”

What is LegalTech West Coast

The good people at ALM who organize all the LegalTech shows said, talking about LegalTech West Coast 2010, “LegalTech [West Coast] provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice AND offers an expansive exhibit floor with the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet your current and future technology needs.”

The organizers did a fantastic job earlier this year at LegalTech New York and we are expecting the same quality of show in LA. Innovative business columnist for the LA Times David Lazarus and legal expert Erich Andersen of Microsoft will be the keynote speakers at the event. Other sessions we are looking forward to are the Cloud Computing and Advanced Sharing Technologies on June 24th, as well as the Legal Technology and Cost Management track that is also on the 24th.

Social Media

The social media buzz surrounding the show is sure to grow as we approach June 23rd. The Twitter #hashtag for the show is #LTWC and to see a list of attendees using Twitter, check out the LegalTech West Coast Twitter List. Also, for those not attending, be sure to follow the list and hashtag during the conference to stay current on what’s happening.

Post authored by Danny Johnson of the Netdocuments sales and marketing team.




Anticipating LegalTech NY 2010

LegalTech New York is coming up in February, and it looks to be a very exciting event. LegalTech impressed a lot of folks in the industry when it announced the lineup of Keynote speakers for the show. On Wednesday, February 3, Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers and Blink, will be giving the keynote address, while on Tuesday, Mark Howitson, Deputy General Council of Facebook, will be the speaker. We are also very excited that our own Alvin Tedjamulia will be speaking on the Emerging Technologies track on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:45pm. He will be joined by Dierk Eckart, who is the CIO at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.

Emerging Technology Track on Cloud Computing

Title: Why Heads are in the Clouds – Exploring Cloud Computing and SaaS

Alvin Tedjamulia, CTO, NetDocuments

Alvin Tedjamulia, CTO, NetDocuments

There is increasing talk about Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service, its development and potential benefits and concerns. It’s not surprising that many IT professionals and attorneys want to know what cloud computing means to them and its impact on their firms.  With uncertain economic times, the promise of  predictable costs, reduced capital expenditures and dynamic scaling of IT resources collected under a general ‘cloud computing’ banner is proving very popular by vendors, enterprise organizations and law firms. Firms are realizing that it no longer makes sense to build and manage their own entire infrastructure; thus, services “in the cloud” are a feasible solution. During this session, the speakers will share their experiences, highlight cloud services, discuss a single repository in the cloud, and underline examples of firms who have made the jump.

Speakers:

- Dierk Eckart, CIO, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
- Alvin Tedjamulia, Founder and CTO, NetDocuments

Other Noteworthy Presentations

Title: Storage in the Cloud: the Future is Now

When: Tuesday, February 3

This session will feature Chris Romano, CIO of Ward and Smith P.A., who has much experience with data storage in the cloud as his firm uses NetDocuments to store its documents in the cloud. To learn more about his experience with cloud computing, watch this video.

NetDocuments Booth

NetDocuments will be at booth #234 so come stop by and say hi.

Social Media

The social media scene at LegalTech NY will certainly be busy this year. As has become standard at technology shows, attendees will be using Twitter to provide real time news during the show using the hashtag of #LTNY.

We will not be doing a Twitter contest at this show, as we did at ILTA 09, but we will certainly be following, and contributing to the #LTNY conversations. There is also a Wave on Google Wave for LegalTech NY discussion. To find that wave, search “with:public LegalTech New York.” There is also a LegalTech group on Linkedin.