Joe Utsler Leaves Dataflight to Join IPRO Tech

Posted on September 8, 2008 by InsideLegal

According to the following press release, Joe Utsler has left his position as Software Evangelist for Dataflight Software to join IPRO Tech as Vice President of Product Strategy.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JOE UTSLER NAMED VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT STRATEGY FOR IPRO

Phoenix, AZ: IPRO Corp., a leader in the design of scalable, easy to manage litigation support software as well as e-Discovery software, has named Joe Utsler as Vice President of Product Strategy. In this role, Utsler will be responsible for overseeing the development, applications, sales targets and overall strategic initiatives of various software programs from inception to market.

"It is a pleasure to welcome Joe aboard at IPRO in this newly created position," said Jim King, CEO of IPRO. "His skills, experience and leadership will be vital to our success, as we continue to define and refine the litigation support and e-Discovery arena."

Utsler joins IPRO after a seven-year tenure with LexisNexis and Dataflight Software, which was acquired by LexisNexis in 2006. While there, he was the software evangelist for Concordance, the company's electronic discovery and litigation document management technology. He worked with all aspects of Concordance, including development, strategic implementation, end-user application and continuous product improvement. He gained experience with direct use of litigation support technology while with Sidley & Austin from 1991 to 2001.

Utsler is a graduate of California State University in Long Beach, and has taken courses in programming and graphic design. He has continued his education with graduate work in Communications Systems Strategy and Management.

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About IPRO

IPRO offers a diverse suite of superior litigation software tools for e-Discovery, review and production and a complete line of products for both workgroups and high-volume production environments. IPRO has thousands of systems of various sizes in law firms, corporate and government legal departments, and litigation service organizations. Millions of documents are processed using IPRO software annually. The American Lawyer Magazine recently completed a survey of the top 100 law firms in the United States and found that IPRO software is by far the most widely used litigation document software. To learn more about IPRO software tools, visit www.iprotech.com or call 888-477-6463.

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Last Chance to Participate in InsideLegal Technology Vendor Marketing Survey

Posted on September 3, 2008 by InsideLegal

Since the inaugural InsideLegal Vendor Marketing Survey went live, over 80 industry vendors have participated!  If you have not already completed the survey, now is your chance as the deadline for inclusion is Friday, September 6th.  The survey is open to all legal technology vendors internationally and all participants that COMPLETE the survey (roughly 20 minutes of your time!) will receive a copy of the final results and analysis.

We have had a tremendous vendor response and many of you who participated in last week's ILTA vendor education program have expressed interest in participating.

The results will give you some insight on what your competitors and fellow vendors are doing with their marketing programs – what shows they are attending, what they think of the events, where they are advertising and whether their budgets are increasing or decreasing, and what media they are most utilizing for lead generation and market awareness purposes. 

All information collected is completely confidentially and will not be released to anyone.  If you have any questions about the survey, feel free to contact me.

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ILTA is Here! Don’t Miss out on the Program Offered for Vendors on Monday!

Posted on August 19, 2008 by InsideLegal

We at Envision/InsideLegal have been co-producing the Vendor Education Program at the ILTA Annual Conference since 2004.  For our fifth year anniversary, we  took a step back and looked at how we could improve the program, resulting in a plan to offer more content to the vendor attendees while still covering all the main information areas.  Primarily, we wanted to make sure the program was applicable to established vendors who may have attended all past events as well as new vendor attendees.  Please get your booths setup early on Monday, August 25th so you can join us!  Here are the details for the 2008 ILTA Vendor Program that will take place in Texan Station Lower Level:

Vendor Business Meeting – 1:00-1:30 p.m.

Don’t miss the ILTA ’08 Vendor Business Meeting!  This session will include an opportunity to meet the ILTA staff, to receive updates on conference activities, find out about future conference locations and get an update on general ILTA programs.

ILTA Member Technology Purchasing Survey & InsideLegal Vendor Marketing Survey Results – 1:30-2:15 p.m.

We will present the findings of the 2008 ILTA Member Technology Purchasing Survey as well as the inaugural InsideLegal Legal Technology Vendor Marketing Survey, both extremely relevant to vendor executives and marketing staff.  This is good information to be armed with before the exhibit hall opens!  Take a look at the ILTA Member Technology Purchasing Survey from 2007 to get an idea of the information we'll be covering.  We'll also be going over a sneak preview of the Inaugural InsideLegal Legal Technology Vendor Marketing Survey.

ILTA Vendor Breakout Program – 2:15-5:15 p.m.

This year, we will be expanding topics and offering a vendor breakout program including five, simultaneously offered, roundtable sessions offered in 20 minute intervals.  This will give each attendee the opportunity to attend all sessions in a small group where they can interact and ask questions.  In addition to allowing a broader offering and incorporating more ILTA industry partners, we hope this approach will draw additional personnel from the vendor companies in addition to only their marketing contacts. The preliminary breakout topics, which will each be hosted by 2 faculty per table, include:

    • Working with Association Media – Randi Mayes, Executive Director of ILTA, and  Monica Williams, new Editor of ILTA & Larry Smith, ABA LPM Exec Director
    • Working with Online Media/Bloggers – Sean Doherty, Technology Editor of Law.com
    • Working with Legal Media – Charles Christian, Editor of Legal Technology Insider & Albert Buckwalter, Editor of Litigation Support Today
    • Working with ILTA Regions and Peer Groups – Kara Portwood (Armstrong Teasdale) ILTA Microsoft Peer Group VP & Deb Himsel (Locke Reynolds) Great Lakes Regional VP
    • Advice for Selling to ILTA’s Members – Peggy Wechsler, Program Director and Vendor Liaison of ILTA & Joy Heath (Sidley Austin), President of ILTA

The breakout sessions will include with a Q&A portion and an in-room networking reception affording vendors the opportunity to mingle with the other attendees and meet the panelists.  To participate, please RSVP with your name, company, title and email address to JoAnna Forshee by the end of Friday, August 22.

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Tom Mighell Moves on from Cowles & Thompson to Join Vendor Life at Fios

Posted on August 19, 2008 by InsideLegal

As of today, Tom Mighell has left Cowles & Thompson, where he served as Senior Counsel and Litigation Support Coordinator for over 20 years, to join vendor life as Senior Manager and Consultant at Fios.  In case you don't know Tom…

Tom is a frequent speaker and writer on the internet, legal technology, and e-discovery, and is the co-author of The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, with one of my favorite people, Dennis Kennedy.   You can find out more at their cool book companion site www.lawyersguidetocollaboration.com.  Tom has been a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section since 2003, and served on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board from 2004-2008.  He served as Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2008.  He has published the Internet Legal Research Weekly newsletter since 2000, and the internet and legal technology blog Inter Alia since 2002. 

Tom will be at ILTA representing Fios so take the time to introduce yourself if you don't already know him.  Here's a picture of Tom welcoming the faculty at the ABA TECHSHOW 2008.

Tom Mighell Welcomes Speakers

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ILTA Conference Webinar Recording

Posted on July 25, 2008 by InsideLegal

If you were unable to attend the recent webinar we conducted with ILTA entitled "Your Marketing Plan for the ILTA 2008 Annual Educational Conference", now is your chance to catch up on the information.  They had some issues with the recording, but below is a link to the audio file and the PDF of the presentation file.  Please let us know if you have any questions.

Audio File

Download ilta08_marketing_plan.pdf

Also…

  • Take a few minutes and complete the InsideLegal Vendor Marketing Survey.  All participants that complete the survey by July 31st will get a complimentary copy of the final report.
  • RSVP now for the Vendor Program onsite at the ILTA Annual Conference Monday, 8/25th from 1-5 in Texan Station Lower Level.  More details on the program here…  To attend, email your name, title, company and email and we’ll get you signed up.
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Interwoven to Acquire Discovery Mining, Inc.

Posted on July 25, 2008 by InsideLegal

According to the press release…

"San Jose, Calif., — July 24, 2008 — Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV), a global leader in content management solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Discovery Mining, Inc., a leading eDiscovery provider to professional services firms and corporations. Discovery Mining significantly streamlines and simplifies the discovery phase of litigation and investigations with a software-as-a-service solution for processing, reviewing and producing massive volumes of electronic data.

Under the terms of the agreement between Discovery Mining and Interwoven, Interwoven will pay approximately $36 million in cash for all outstanding shares of Discovery Mining and vested stock options, and assume certain existing employee stock options…."

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New Associate Editor at Law Technology News

Posted on July 25, 2008 by InsideLegal

According to Monica Bay’s post on The Common Scold…

"As we wave goodbye to the lovely Katie Montgomery, as she heads west to Iowa City to begin her Ph.D program, we say hello and welcome to Nabia Jenkins-Johnston, as LTN’s new associate editor. Nabia (pronounced knob-ee-ya) joins us as a recent honors grad of Rutgers. She previously worked with our colleague Jessica Reed on a general counsel project, and we’re thrilled she has joined us. As soon as I can grab my camera, I’ll post her picture. And a big congrats to Shane DeLeers, who recently rec’d his MFA from NYU — and just got a promotion from us! Shane is now LTN’s Art Director! Safia Maharaj, Shane & Nabia are the best team any editor could hope for! I’m so blessed! If you haven’t already heard, we’re retiring ALM as our corporate brand, and introducing Incisive Media. And changing our e-mail protocols. So heads up to all the PR folks, our new address for LTN is lawtech@incisivemedia.com. Cheers! "

Welcome Nabia!

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ILTA Welcomes New Managing Editor – Monica Williams

Posted on July 15, 2008 by InsideLegal

Monica Williams has joined the ILTA staff as Managing Editor of Publications, and will be responsible for the production of Peer to Peer magazine as well as ILTA white papers and surveys. Monica joins ILTA with 15 years of experience in communications, including five years contributing to and producing association publications for the Austin Bar Association, Texas Medical Association and American Society of Civil Engineers. In addition to her print experience, she also has significant experience creating online content, having been an editor and copywriter for drkoop.com and Prodigy Internet Service Provider. Most recently, Monica worked for NextScreen, Inc. managing the creation, production and distribution of digital magazines and their respective websites.

Monica, a native Texan who lives in Austin with her husband and two children, has contributed to more than 20 publications and Web sites as both a freelance and on-staff writer, and in that time has covered a variety of topics including magnetic levitation, entrepreneurship, diabetes and project management. And, has been fortunate enough to expereience many of her stories "first hand". Ask her about these sometime … She will make her ILTA show debut at Conference, but is already soaking up the ILTA culture in the Austin HQ.       

The ever popular and previous editor Ken Hansen assumes the role of Vendor Coordinator in charge of ILTA publication ad sales (as before) and other vendor programs including the Vendor Product Briefing webinar sessions. Ken continues to transition from his previous editing duties (wrapping up ILTA Peer to Peer issue and a few whitepapers) and will be manning the vendor registration desk at conference.

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Reminder! ILTA Conference Webinar for Vendors – Wednesday 12pm EST

Posted on July 15, 2008 by InsideLegal

Please join us for a webinar entitled, “Your Marketing Plan for the ILTA ’08 Annual Educational Conference,” scheduled for Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:00 Noon EST.  The session will cover promotions, PR, advertising, proper etiquette when working with ILTA members, and review all the major networking events and critical deadlines leading up to, and during the show.  We will be joining ILTA to give a “crash course” on ILTA marketing preparedness. The hour long session (45-50 minute discussion and 10 minute Q&A) will give you the marketing essentials and relevant event information you need to successfully (and most importantly professionally) market yourself to our veteran ILTA membership.  If you are unable to attend, the webinar will be recorded for viewing at a later date.

Webinar Access info:

1.  On Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:00 PM Eastern click this URL:  https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/ilta/join?id=9D5RP4&role=attend&pw=N%2F%3Bn6%26h

2. To join the audio portion of the webinar, please dial 888.253.4037 (international 719.867.0591). The conference passcode is 834889#. Your line will be placed on music hold until the presentation begins.  One connection per company please.

https://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Insidelegal?i=http%3A%2F%2Finsidelegal.typepad.com%2Ffiles%2F2008%2F07%2Filta-webinar–.html

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Update – InsideLegal 2008 Legal Technology Vendor Marketing Survey

Posted on July 9, 2008 by InsideLegal

Since the InsideLegal Vendor Marketing Survey went live, we have received a tremendous response from the vendor community.  The more results we receive, the more comprehensive the final report will be so please take some time (15-20 minutes) to fill it our for your company.  The survey is open to all legal technology vendors internationally and all participants that COMPLETE the survey will receive a copy of the final results.  This will give you some insight on what fellow vendors are doing and give you some good benchmarks to compare to. 

All information collected is completely confidentially and will not be released to anyone.  If you have any questions about the survey, feel free to contact me.

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