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Shares3 The annual ABA TECHSHOW was the last major event I participated in before the world locked down. Right before leaving Chicago in 2020, we all knew that COVID would wreak havoc on the country, but assumed that the combination of a global forewarning and the contact tracing and isolation protocols that successfully stifled the H1N1 outbreak would largely shield the country from devastation. We hadn’t counted on the option that no one in government was going to bother with any of that. There’s a lesson in there about never setting your expectations too high I suppose. In any event, t...

Upgrading technology can help lawyers comply with ethics rules     Lawyer Megan Zavieh speaks Friday at an ABA Techshow 2021 session titled “Tech Ethics in a World Molded by the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Lawyers seeking to comply with their ethical duties would be wise to upgrade a wide variety of technology services they utilize, attorney Megan Zavieh said during an ABA Techshow 2021 session Friday. Home internet, online payment software and cloud storage tools were among the areas in which Zavieh recommended attorneys pay for enhanced products. She said the upgrades would help attorneys ens...

Do clients care more about a lawyer seeming smart or likable?   Katy Goshtasbi, CEO of Puris Consulting, speaks Wednesday at the ABA Techshow 2021. Want more leads that turn into paying clients? Embrace your authentic self and market who you are, even if it initially makes you uncomfortable, says Katy Goshtasbi, the author of Personal Branding in One Hour for Lawyers, a book from ABA Publishing. Goshtasbi, an experienced securities lawyer who now helps lawyers cultivate personal brands, spoke Wednesday at the ABA Techshow 2021. In her session, titled “How to Use Branding to Maintain a Div...

This year's conference has surprised me.

There are many different domains in which technological progress has sped past existing laws and policies, particularly in the social media realm, Renée DiResta said during her ABA Techshow 2021 keynote Thursday morning.