Day two of LegalTech NY 2012 consisted of more meetings and more catching up with industry personalities and friends. Tuesday's annual ALM Media breakfast kicked-off with a roll call of ALM publication editors and writers in attendance including Robin Sparkman, The American Lawyer; Michael Moline, National Law Journal; David Snow, ALM’s executive editor; Monica Bay, Law Technology News; Anthony Paonita, Corporate Counsel; Evan Koblentz, Law Technology News (breaking news); Sean Doherty, Law Technology News (product reviews) and several other ALM Media staff and contributors. The big news included ‘year one revisited’ of LTN’s online re-launch as well as the results of the LTN Technology Vendor Survey which included 82 legal technology vendor responses. Similar to our review of LegalTech's 2012 vendor exhibitors, the highest vendor responses came from the eDiscovery and litigation support arena (88 percent).

Next up … the Bloggers Breakfast - The annual bloggers breakfast gave us an opportunity to meet some of the profession's leading bloggers including: 

• EDD Update (eDiscovery)& The Common Scold (general legal tech) - Monica Bay
• Lawsites (web site reviews) - Bob Ambrogi
• InsideLegal (Insider's guide to doing business in legal technology)- JoAnna Forshee & Jobst Elster
• The Intersection of Law Firm Technology and the Real World (legal financial management best practices)- Jim Hammond
• eDiscovery Daily Blog (eDiscovery) – Doug Austin
• Legal Sanity (legal business, career & marketing) – Arnie Herz
• Shear on Social Media Law (social media law)- Bradley Shear
• Legal Research & Writing Pro (small firm professional developement) - Lisa Solomon
• Lexician (legal project management) – Steven Levy
• e-Discovery Beat (eDiscovery)
• Legal Productivity (law firm efficiencies) – Larry Port
• New York Personal Injury Law Blog (PI law)- Eric Turkewitz
• Next Generation eDiscovery Law & Tech Blog (eDiscovery)- John Patzakis
• Virtual Law Practice (virtual/eLawyering)- Stephanie Kimbro
• Small Firm Innovation (small firms)- Gwynne Monahan

Intelliteach - We spoke to Lance Waagner, CEO of Intelliteach, the only outsourced help desk vendor that caters exclusively to the legal profession and law firms. Intelliteach is a clear case of doing one thing and doing it well, which is based on Lance's background as a law firm CIO searching for this service before starting his own outsourced service desk company 13+ years ago. We found, as usual, Lance is leading the way with both an expansion into Hong Kong as well as the vendor's recent ISO 27001 certification. The Intelliteach Hong Kong office will be opening in Q2 and it was fascinating to hear of the journey it has taken to prepare for the opening – from the cultural training involved to the staffing and logistics. Intelliteach's ISO 27001 certification is an information security management systems standard and makes them one of only a few vendors to receive this certification.

Canadian Lawyer: We caught up with Gail Cohen and few of the Canadian Lawyer folks to learn that online content for Canadianlawyermag.com has been vastly expanded to include an impressive lists of columnists and the new Legal Feeds blog. In addition, we received a heads-up on InHouse, Canada's only publication dedicated to the inhouse/corporate legal market.

Affinity University – We met up with legal technology consultants Debbie Foster & Steve Best of Affinity Consulting to learn about their online legal-specific training program, Affinity University. Focusing specifically on real world tips and tricks, their certified experts provide training on popular Practice Management, Time/Billing/Accounting, Document Management, Productivity Software and even Microsoft Office. Classes are one hour and also available on demand to fit your schedule. 

Ross Kodner/MicroLaw – Industry veteran Ross Kodner was also in town for LegalTech and we caught up with him. His firm, MicroLaw, Inc., has provided legal-exclusive automation consulting, law office management consulting, technology “visioneering”, legal PC systems design and planning, specialized lawyer and law firm staff training and support to over 675 law practices throughout the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. Ross leverages events like LegalTech to catch-up with vendors and educate himself on products and services his expanding client base may need or look to invest in.

Charles Christian – We met with Charles Christian and his Marketing Director (and wife), Jane Christian, to learn more about his conference coming up March 15 in London. The event is a joint effort with Netlaw Media and, according to the website, "LawTech Futures 2012 is a futuristic one day conference and exhibition which will bring together some of the most highly respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology worlds to examine and explore the new range of systems, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond." 

One more day to go…