New Orleans, New Law:
Community Revival with Technology
 

SPONSOR INFORMATION

This event, which will have both seminars on technology implementation and hands on sessions with software providers, will be completely supported by vendor donations and will be free to all members of the Louisiana bar.

Cost

The total cost of this 2 day event will be approximately $20,000 including space rental, breakfast and lunch, Internet access, speaker expenses and a Monday evening social event. We are totally dependent on vendor participation to fund this event since neither the ABA nor the Louisiana Bar will be providing funding and there will be NO cost to attendees.

We are seeking contributions of all sizes to support this much needed event. In addition, we are encouraging all participating vendors to provide attendees with free or reduced cost copies of their software. We are also looking to one of our vendors to provide a complete home office system including computer, printer and software to be given away to an attendee.

Because this event is a non-profit event, all donations are tax deductible. All funds contributed by vendors will be used to support the event and the resulting Resource Center. A budget and business plan for that Center will be forthcoming later this month.

Schedule

The first day will have sessions on purchasing hardware and software and will culminate with a panel of local judges speaking on the state of the courts. The second day will feature sessions on mobile technology such as wifi and PDA usage which proved essential to those attorneys who survived Katrina as well as a session on using Web based technology to revive and maintain your practice. The session will wrap up with a panel by local members of large firms about their activities.

Simultaneously on both days we will have participating vendors set up at tables in order to answer questions and load software. It is our hope that vendors will either give away their software or provide a deep discount for all attendees. To that end, I have already spoken with several vendors who have pledged their support and we expect to arrange similar endorsements with a number of key vendors in the next several weeks.

This vendor area will also provide the basis for the establishment of a technology resource center for Louisiana attorneys, an idea I have previously discussed with Carl Roberts. The La Bar Tech Committee envisions a location central to the courts in downtown New Orleans (both the local and federal courts are in the same general area) which would provide high speed printers, scanners, internet access and most important meeting rooms where attorneys who are currently working out of their homes can have access to these all important resources. Once again we expect vendor support to be critical to the establishment of this center and I will also be pursuing all possible avenues of grants and emergency aid to set up this center as soon as possible.

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