The China Law Society is holding the first legal technology summit in China, a rapidly developing hot spot for legal IT and technology. The event, "Legal Technology Asia 2008", is being held December 9-10 in Beijing. They list a couple of heavy hitting US/UK partners, ILTA and Legal Technology Insider.
According to their email…
"Our conference will gather over 150 people targeting the legal IT decision makers from law firms, corporate legal counsels and courtroom judges in those two days. This conference can provide you speaking and exhibition opportunities to showcase your experience on how your company can help in this area. Please see the program (link below) or go to the conference website.
The target audience can be categorized as follows:1. 55% from local Chinese law firms and corporate legal counsel such as King & Wood, Zhonglun, Junhe and Tencent Corporation.
2. 20% from international firms operating in China
3. 10% from government's judicial system like the Supreme court and Beijing Courtroom
4. 15% from leading legal technology suppliers.
As a booming legal market, China's updated informationization policy had boost all the legal service institutions (all the provincial and municipal judicial organs and over 13,000 lawfirms) to innovate and enhance their legal technology applications.
So far, we have confirmed Black Berry, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Copitrak, Guidance Software, Interwoven, China Law Info as our sponsors and exhibitors."
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