These are the slides from my Keynote at the the Lexis Nexis 2011 Practice Management Annual Conference, which was held in Orlando, Florida (See: http://www.lexisnexis.com/pmac2011/).
14. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
15. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
September 2006--Facebook opened to the public
16. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
September 2006--Facebook opened to the public
June 2007--iPhone released in US
17. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
September 2006--Facebook opened to the public
June 2007--iPhone released in US
November 2007--Kindle released in US
18. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
September 2006--Facebook opened to the public
June 2007--iPhone released in US
November 2007--Kindle released in US
July 2008--Apple launches the App Store
19. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
September 2006--Facebook opened to the public
June 2007--iPhone released in US
November 2007--Kindle released in US
July 2008--Apple launches the App Store
April 2010--iPad released in US
20. June 2006--Google launches first non-email cloud product
July 2006--Twitter launched
August 2006--Amazon EC2 cloud product released in private beta
September 2006--Facebook opened to the public
June 2007--iPhone released in US
November 2007--Kindle released in US
July 2008--Apple launches the App Store
April 2010--iPad released in US
June 2011--Google+ launched-more than 25 million users in 4 weeks
27. For companies, resistance to
social media is futile. Millions
of people are creating content
for the social Web. Your
competitors are already there.
Your customers have been
there for a long time. If your
business isn't putting itself out
there, it ought to be.
Business Week, February 19,
2009
38. Social Media Factoid #4:
65%
Source: Pew Internet & American Life survey, May 2011
39. Social Media Factoid #4:
As of May 2011, 65% of adult users in the
US use social media sites
Source: Pew Internet & American Life survey, May 2011
40. Social Media Use by Global Fortune 500 Companies
65%
54%
50%
33%
Twitter accounts Facebook pages YouTube channels Corporate blogs
Source: Burson-Marsteller Fortune Global
100 Social Media Study Data collected
between Nov 2009 and Jan 2010
49. Cloud and Mobile
Computing:
Not a Trend
Source: Gartner’s Top Predictions for
IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and
Beyond: A New Balance
50. Cloud and Mobile
Computing:
Not a Trend
• Cloud computing was the top
technology trend for 2010
Source: Gartner’s Top Predictions for
IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and
Beyond: A New Balance
51. Cloud and Mobile
Computing:
Not a Trend
• Cloud computing was the top
technology trend for 2010
• By 2013, mobile phones will
overtake PCs as the most
common Web access device
worldwide
Source: Gartner’s Top Predictions for
IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and
Beyond: A New Balance
52. Cloud and Mobile
Computing:
Not a Trend
• Cloud computing was the top
technology trend for 2010
• By 2013, mobile phones will
overtake PCs as the most
common Web access device
worldwide
• By 2012, 20% of businesses
will own no IT assets and will
conduct business solely in the
Cloud
Source: Gartner’s Top Predictions for
IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and
Beyond: A New Balance
53. Cloud and Mobile
Computing:
Not a Trend
• Cloud computing was the top
technology trend for 2010
• By 2013, mobile phones will
overtake PCs as the most
common Web access device
worldwide
• By 2012, 20% of businesses
will own no IT assets and will
conduct business solely in the
Cloud
• By 2014, over 3 billion of the
world’s adult population will be
able to transact electronically via
mobile or Internet technology
Source: Gartner’s Top Predictions for
IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and
Beyond: A New Balance
55. The
growth of
the iPhone
was 10 times
faster than
the growth
of America
Online
*Source: The Hub Spot Blog/Mobile
Marketing Association Surveys
56. The
growth of
the iPhone
was 10 times
faster than
the growth
of America
Online
There
are more
mobile
phones on
the planet *Source: The Hub Spot Blog/Mobile
than there Marketing Association Surveys
are TVs
57. The
growth of
the iPhone
was 10 times
There are 6.8
faster than
billion people on
the growth
the planet. 5.1
of America
billion of them
Online
own a cell
phone, but only
There 4.2 billion own a
are more toothbrush
mobile
phones on
the planet *Source: The Hub Spot Blog/Mobile
than there Marketing Association Surveys
are TVs
59. Sources: International Legal Technology Association and Inside Legal’s
2011 Annual Law Firm Technology Purchasing Survey and ABA’s 2011
Legal Technology Survey
60. Lawyers’ smartphone use has increased from 79% in 2010 to
88% in 2011
Sources: International Legal Technology Association and Inside Legal’s
2011 Annual Law Firm Technology Purchasing Survey and ABA’s 2011
Legal Technology Survey
61. Lawyers’ smartphone use has increased from 79% in 2010 to
88% in 2011
88% of lawyers use a smartphone for law-related tasks while
away from their primary workplace
Sources: International Legal Technology Association and Inside Legal’s
2011 Annual Law Firm Technology Purchasing Survey and ABA’s 2011
Legal Technology Survey
62. Lawyers’ smartphone use has increased from 79% in 2010 to
88% in 2011
88% of lawyers use a smartphone for law-related tasks while
away from their primary workplace
11% of firms have purchased iPads for their attorneys
Sources: International Legal Technology Association and Inside Legal’s
2011 Annual Law Firm Technology Purchasing Survey and ABA’s 2011
Legal Technology Survey
63. Lawyers’ smartphone use has increased from 79% in 2010 to
88% in 2011
88% of lawyers use a smartphone for law-related tasks while
away from their primary workplace
11% of firms have purchased iPads for their attorneys
25% of respondents said that the iPad would be one of the
major technology purchases over the next 12 months
Sources: International Legal Technology Association and Inside Legal’s
2011 Annual Law Firm Technology Purchasing Survey and ABA’s 2011
Legal Technology Survey
79. How can you squander even
one more day not taking
advantage of one of the
greatest shifts of our
generation? How dare you
settle for less when the world
has made it so easy for you to
be remarkable?
--Seth Godin
80. Thanks for listening!
Nicole Black
Co-author of “Social Media for Lawyers”
www.nicoleblackesq.com
@nikiblack on Twitter
Editor's Notes
Welcome to the legal technology revolution--you may not realize but you’re right in the middle of it. Today I’m going to talk about law & tech--and examine the rapidly changing technological landscape and its effect on legal practice--and how those who adapt will be better lawyers. Questions at end.\n
“(Visionaries say) commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems . . . Baloney.”\n
“Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper.”\n
“Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure . . .” \n
“Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts . . . . Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople . . .”\n
Law school--Star Trek TNG--amazing technology--touch screen interfaces--voice responsive computers--tricorders--tablet computers. Still waiting for the transporter app...\n
Fiber-optic cables put in place during dot.com boom.\n
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--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
--30 million ipads sold \n\n--radio--38 yrs to reach 50 mil; tv 13 yrs to reach 50 mil, facebook 3.5 years to reach 50 mil, \n
Technology is catching up to us and making the practice of law easier--Xerox eDiscovery prototype--large touch screen table.\n
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Social media is affecting cases--evidence, etc. For eg.: Dist Court judge polling crtroom re: vio of OOP by FB friending.\n\n
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But it’s important to understand it. But it’s not always easy.\n
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Sometimes it’s obvious\n
Sometimes it’s totally random\n
Sometimes it seems arbitrary\n
And sometimes it makes no sense. But I know you want to figure it out.\n
And you may feel like you’re on a one way trip to nowhere.\n
But it’s better than getting left behind.\n
There’s whole world out there waiting for you\n
Learn gradually. Take it step by step, day by day. \n
From 2010 Sunday Times article Susskind wrote: “In 1996 senior figures in the Law Society said that I should not be allowed to speak in public. I had been predicting that most lawyers and clients would soon communicate by e-mail and the feeling was that I had failed to understand confidentiality and was bringing the profession into disrepute.”\n\n
“I often get the sense, however, that lawyers feel that the impact of IT and the Internet has peaked, that technology has matured, and that, in consequence, legal work can carry on much as before, untainted by any further developments . . .”\n
“Within the lifetime of most readers of this book, our social and economic lives are likely to be radically overhauled as a result of the rapid emergence of a clutch of information and Internet-related technologies of unimaginable power.”\n
“All aspects of the raw technology with which lawyers are familiar will improve radically in a small number of years and thereafter, at an accelerating rate. Yet further advances can be expected: from the resolution of screen displays to the portability of equipment; from the speed of machines to storage capacity; from the availability of wireless connections to the bandwidth of these links.” \n
“My message to lawyers in this context is simple—far from approaching the finishing line, the race has barely begun.”\n
And, this is my challenge to you--change is good!...As much as change may be uncomfortable, you’ll find irrelevance is even more so.\n