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Dennis Kennedy is an information technology lawyer and widely-published legal technology author, blogger and speaker. Dennis writes the technology column for the ABA Journal, co-authored with Allison Shields, the books, LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers (now in its Second Edition), LinkedIn in One Hour, and Facebook in One Hour for Lawyers, and with Tom Mighell, the book, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools: Smart Ways to Work Together, and co-hosts the legal technology podcast, The Kennedy-Mighell Report on the Legal Talk Network. His blog, DennisKennedy.Blog (http://denniskennedy.com/blog/), is a highly-regarded resource on legal technology topics. Dennis has long been involved in legal technology education and other projects, including the ABA Law Practice Division, ABA TECHSHOW, the ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center and the Legal Skills Prof Blog.
Legal Ease Consulting, Inc.
Allison C. Shields is the President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc., which offers coaching and consulting services for lawyers and law firms in the areas of practice management, marketing, social media, business development, productivity, and client service. A former practicing lawyer and law firm manager, Allison understands the law firm environment and the daily pressures faced by lawyers trying to manage and build their business while practicing law and successfully serving their clients.
Allison is the co-author of two books by the ABA Law Practice Division: LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers, the Second Edition of which was released in October 2013, and Facebook in One Hour for Lawyers, and she is currently working on a new book on productivity for lawyers. Allison lectures frequently on practice management, marketing and social media topics for bar associations, law firms and legal organizations, and writes articles for several legal publications, both online and in print, including Law Practice Today, Law Practice Magazine, Law Technology Today, Slaw.ca, TechnoLawyer and others, as well as on her blog, LegalEaseConsulting.com and website, LawyerMeltdown.com. Contact Allison at Allison@LegalEaseConsulting.com.