Here’s a brief preview of the tracks and types of sessions we’ll be offering each day this year at TECHSHOW 2021. We’re busy hammering out details for each session, so some sessions are subject to change. But rest assured, these are the tracks and topics we’ll be covering, plus a lot more!

Monday, March 8, 2021

• CORE CONCEPTS 1: Core Concepts seeks to inform attendees on fundamental technologies and systems that lawyers are or should be using in their practices to remain secure and competitive while meeting their regulatory and ethical obligations to clients. Sessions will focus on production technologies, security and privacy protection, practice management and efficiency solutions and information management as well as APP solutions.
  • Real World Technology Solutions for Small Firm Lawyers
  • Secrets of Microsoft 365
  • Adobe Acrobat DC: Exploring the Newest Features
• ETHICS: 
  • Ethics of Remote Practice
  • Legal Ethics in Difficult Times: A Lawyer’s Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • Ethics of AI
  • The Times They are a’Changing: The Shifting Regulatory Landscape
  • Data Privacy for Lawyers
• DIVERSITY: 
  • There’s Room for You Too: Creating and Cultivating Diversity By Empowering and Developing Lawyers Who Lead
  • Design for Better Outcomes and More Access to Justice
  • Harnessing and Maximizing Technology and Data to Drive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
  • Courageous Conversations: What Leadership on Racial Justice Looks Like in the Legal Community
• COLLABORATION: 
  • Collaborating: What is the Best Tool?
  • Wrapping Your Mind Around Microsoft Teams
  • Mastermind: Starting and Growing Your Brain Trust
  • Should I Stay or Should I Grow?
  • Collaboration and Law Practice Management Programs
  • Breaking Through Knowledge Transfer Barriers with Cross-Generational Conversation: Knowing your Audience

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION: 
  • Solve New Legal Problems with Technology and at Scale: The Inspiration
  • Discover New Practice Areas that Can Scale: The Work
  • Innovating in the New Normal
• CORE CONCEPTS 2: Core Concepts seeks to inform attendees on fundamental technologies and systems that lawyers are or should be using in their practices to remain secure and competitive while meeting their regulatory and ethical obligations to clients. Sessions will focus on production technologies, security and privacy protection, practice management and efficiency solutions and information management as well as APP solutions.
  • Lawyer’s Guide to Zoom
  • Managing, Motivating, and Retaining Virtual & Telecommuting Teams
  • The Case for Practice Management Software: One App Shopping From Billing to Document Assembly
  • Paperless: The Next Generation!
• CYBERSECURITY: One of the core technology competencies for attorneys is the understanding of data security and the potential threats from inside and outside of practice. Another is the duty to supervise external providers to ensure that a professional standard of care is maintained. Let our experts educate you on what has gone wrong for others, how it was remediated, and how to prevent it from happening to your practice and your clients’ business.
  • Behind the Veil of Cybercrime
  • The Amazing Depth of Cyber Investigations
  • Cybersecurity/Cyberliability insurance
• WELL-BEING: Legal professionals are at high risk for anxiety, depression, suicide, substance use disorder, and addiction. The demands of the profession can lead to burnout. How can you manage stress and avoid these pitfalls? Is technology a help or a hindrance – or both? Explore the challenges and get tips for moving toward wellness and well-being.
  • The Psychology of Well-Being
  • Thought Modeling Workshop: The Life Coach Acolytes
  • Tools to Activate Your Wellness Daily
  • Moderated Panel: Well-Being

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• MARKETING 1: 
  • Creating a Marketing Blueprint
  • Creating Client-Centered Marketing
  • Law Firm Website Teardowns
  • Google Marketing Workshop
  • Video Marketing Workshop
  • Email Marketing Workshop
• VIRTUAL/REMOTE 1: 
  • Best Practices for Securing Your Virtual Practice
  • Set It & Forget It: Virtual Workflow Automation
  • Going Virtual: Unconventional Law Firm Design
  • Creating the Framework: Virtual Law Office Models
  • Vital Communication Tools & Tips for the Virtual Practitioner
• FUTURE PROOF:
  • WTH: Technology to Work Smarter and Not Work Too Hard
  • Reconfiguring Offices and Best Practices for 2021 and Beyond: Reimagined Workplaces and Workspaces
  • Avatar in Practice, Not just for Sci-Fi Movies
  • Is Legal Innovation an Oxymoron?
  • Tips for Living the Multi-Device Lifestyle
  • Profitable and Practical Tips to Future-Proof Your Law Firm
• LEADERSHIP:
  • Leverage Your Social Impact: Why Legal Professionals Must Be Leaders for Change
  • How Our Identities Shape Outcomes
  • Practical Tips to Amplify Your Leadership and Impact
  • Moderated Panel: Leadership

Thursday, March 11, 2021

• MARKETING 2:
  • Client Relationship Management Workshop
  • Social Media Workshop
  • Advertising Workshop
  • Marketing Measurement Workshop
  • Online Communities Workshop
  • Marketing Technology Tool Trends
• VIRTUAL/REMOTE 2:
  • Building Virtually: Onboarding & Managing Teams
  • Go with the Workflow: Improving Your Virtual Client Intake
  • Client Portals: The Cornerstone of Virtual Practice
  • Outsourcing as an Efficiency Tool
  • Building a Lifestyle Law Firm: Benefits of Virtual Practice
• NEXT 20: Learn from forward-thinking educators about how to address some of today’s most pressing challenges in the legal field. Find out how legal education has and continues to adapt to modern practice and how it can inform the future of the profession.
  • Rules as Code: How Technology May change the Language Legislation is Written, and What it Might Mean for Lawyers of Tomorrow
  • Law of Technology vs Law Practice Technology Courses: Who Should Teach and How to Design
  • Continuing Law Student Well-Being: The Relationship to Character and Fitness of Future Lawyers
  • The Value Proposition of Legal Incubators: Today and in the Future
  • Algorithmic Responsibility, Algorithmic Bias
• AUTOMATION: Learn how to use your tech to create documents in a snap, erase pain points for your coworkers, and build the best customer experience for your clients. All with tools you already have or can easily obtain.
  • Proofreading and Writing Automation: Brief Catch, Microsoft Suite, and G Suite
  • Transactional Attorney Automation Tools
  • Document Automation and Fixed Fees Relationship
  • Using Document Automation Platforms to Create DIY Services & Passive Income
  • Mixing People and Automation: Finding the Sweet Spot
  • AI Workflows and Automation in lieu of Human Intepretation

Friday, March 12, 2021

• BUSINESS PLAN BOOTCAMP:
  • Applying What You Learned at TECHSHOW: Marketing
  • Applying What You Learned at TECHSHOW: Trust Accounting
  • Applying What You Learned at TECHSHOW: Operations/Automation
  • Applying What You Learned at TECHSHOW: Management/Culture
  • How Do You Stay in Line with Your Business/Strategic Plan?
  • Innovation or the Client: Which Comes First? 
• LESSONS LEARNED:
  • Tools You Didn’t Know You Needed: E-signatures, Remote Notaries, and Beyond
  • Tech Ethics in Post-Covid World: Ethics of Paperless Office
  • Rebooting a Practice: Disaster & Continuity Planning
  • Cybersecurity & Deception: The Year in Review and Lessons for the Future
  • Setting Boundaries to Create Work-Life Balance and Improve your Productivity
• NEXT 20: Learn from forward-thinking educators about how to address some of today’s most pressing challenges in the legal field. Find out how legal education has and continues to adapt to modern practice and how it can inform the future of the profession.
  • The Future of AI, Mindmapping, and Online Dispute Resolution
  • New Skills for a Remote World: The Evolution of Instruction to Become Technologically Competent
  • The Wild West of Internet Accessibility Litigation
  • Red Pill or Blue Pill? Ethical and Practical Considerations in Offering Subscription Agreements and Limited Scope Representation
• LITIGATION: Just for trial lawyers, this popular track enhances your skills in the areas where you need it most: investigating a file, running a tech-fueled trial, presenting evidence with the most effective fireworks, and an up-to-date look at online dispute resolution.
  • Online Dispute Resolution
  • Cloud Based E-Discovery for Small Firms
  • Trial Advocacy While Inside Your Zoom Box
  • Pretrial in the Virtual World
  • Artificial Intelligence and Analytics in Litigation and Beyond