34th Annual ALA Annual Conference & Exposition

Ross' s educational materials from the  ALA Annual Conference  presentations in April 18, 2005 in San Francisco are here.  Click here to go to the session download list.

If you are interested in having Ross speak at your local chapter meeting, regional ALA meeting, at your firm, legal department, or at your local CLE event, click here for more information.

SPECIAL OFFER TO 2005 ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONVENTION ATTENDEES - Have your practice reviewed for technology efficiency and streamlining by Ross Kodner!

Dear ALA Annual Conference  Attendees:

As a thank you to all of you for and as part of a year's worth of upcoming 20th Year in Business MicroLaw celebrations, I want to give anyone interested an opportunity to get my professional guidance. I normally charge between $2000 and $30,000 for a full  technology and practice flow review and technology plan.  I wanted to offer this to anyone who might have been putting off a technology evaluation/purchases because of the cost or the time involved.

* A MicroLaw Legal Tech/Practice Review - for a flat $1495 (for up to a 5 person practice - or a flat $2495 for a 6-10 person practice - bigger than that and we can talk about flat rates for you too) (Through 4/30/05 only).

This will cover phone interviews (or a live visit - travel expenses nominal, but additional) with you and your people about your present technology, workflow, operational bottlenecks, technology  goals, paper management issues, better use of case managers such as Time Matters, Amicus, PracticeMaster or ProLaw, help with the Acrobat, Mobile Lawyering, Remote Access, Web Marketing and Metadata issues we talked about in the CLE sessions, legal practice systems, system hardware/network structure current software mix, etc. Then I will provide a  written report indicating what I think you need to do -  (with hardware, software and recommended services detailed with street pricing, etc). A  legal technology roadmap  - in plain English. It will also indicate a prospective action plan with referrals to the best local and regional fellow consultants I know (or me if that's practical).

I've done this for over 800 firms and legal departments and for several of you here. Also, if there are several of you in the same city or region and would prefer to do this live, we can explore the idea of pooling travel costs to share them among several firms.  During such a visit, I am also happy to do a CLE or two for a local Bar association if you have those contacts.

Here's what you do if you're interested:

1) E-mail me PRIVATELY at rkodner@microlaw.com (just click my address) and express interest and tell me a little about your practice (number of people, focus, perhaps what your top 3-5 tech/practice management issues are).

2) I'll respond and coordinate with you, making all the arrangements.

3) From the time we do the phone interviews to report presentation will be about 14-21 days (on a first-come, first-served basis).

4) We take MC/VISA if you need/want airline miles.

                                                                    All the best,

                                                                                          Ross Kodner

ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2005 - EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM MATERIALS:

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We are pleased to make our educational materials available for your viewing. Please click on the CLE program names and/or article names to view these files in PDF format. You can also Right Click a title, then select "Save Target As" to download the file for offline viewing and sharing with others. BE PATIENT WHEN CLICKING AND YOU MAY NEED TO PRESS PG-DN A COUPLE OF TIMES TO VIEW THE PDF THAT APPEARS ONLINE! Some are large files and may take a few moments to appear. Please note that all materials are © Ross L. Kodner and/or © MicroLaw, Inc. and all rights are reserved.

ALA Annual Conference 2005 materials below:

   OM11 - Getting Your Money’s Worth: The ROLTI Factor (Return on Legal Technology Investment) (about 1.5 mb)
       (Presenter: Ross Kodner)

   OM12 - 60 Hot Legal PC Tips, Gadgets & Websites in 75 Minutes (about 4.3 mb)
       FINAL LIVE VERSION AS PRESENTED ON 4/18/05 (Presenter: Ross Kodner)
 

OTHER PROGRAMS FROM RECENT CONFERENCES THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU:

   How NOT to Commit Malpractice With Your Computer (about 600K)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner, Donna Payne)

   Lawyer's Guide to Acrobat & PDFing (about 2.5mb)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner)

   Practice and Case Management: From Vendor Selection to Adoption (about 300K)
       (Presenters: Brook Boehmler, Ross Kodner, Tom Rowe)

   From Chaos to Cases (Tips) (about 1.0 Mb)

   Avoiding Knowledge Manglement: Knowledge Assembly (about 2.5mb)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner, Peter Krakauer, Kingsley Martin)

   Web Marketing 2005.blog (about 2.3mb)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner,  Mike Tonsing)

   Case Management Reality Show: Engine for Your Practice  (about 2.0mb)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner, John Tredennick, Chris Greene)

  Unstructured Knowledge Management: Affecting Your Firm's Bottom Line (about 600K)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner, Donna Payne)

   Avoiding Knowledge Manglement: Knowledge Assembly with QShift (about 400K)
       (Presenters: Ross Kodner, Peter Ozolin)

   Minimizing Malpractice Risks with Practice Management Systems  (about 600K)
       (Presenters: Brook Boehmler, Ross Kodner, Tom Rowe)

LINKS TO OTHER Materials:

    Ross' "Ross Ipsa Loquitur" Columns

    Ross' MicroLaw Monday CLEs

For more information, Ross Kodner is happy to assist you with the technology in your law practice or law department! Or call at 414-540-9433.