A five-judge panel will select 25 finalists from the submitted applications. 

On Jan. 17, 2023, descriptions of each of the 25 finalists will be posted on the ABA TECHSHOW blog, Above the Law, and LawSites where readers will be invited to vote for their favorites. The 15 startups that receive the most votes will be selected for the Startup Alley section of the TECHSHOW Expo Hall. Winners will be announced on Jan. 31.

This year's judges are:

• Jeannine Lambert, TECHSHOW 2023 co-chair.
• Gyi Tsakalakis, TECHSHOW 2023 co-chair.
• Sofia Lingos, TECHSHOW 2023 co-vice-chair.
• Cynthia Thomas, TECHSHOW 2023 co-vice-chair.
• Bob Ambrogi, Legal Tech Journalist; Startup Alley organizer.

The 15 finalists will face of in a live pitch competition during TECHSHOW’s opening night event. Each startup will have 2.5 minutes to present its pitch in front of an audience of TECHSHOW attendees. At the conclusion of the pitches, attendees will vote to select the most innovative company as the winner.

The winner of the opening night pitch competition will receive:

• Free 10×10 booth space at the 2024 TECHSHOW.
• Free 12-month listing on the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s Buyer’s Guide.
• $5,000 credit to use towards advertising in ABA Law Practice Division media.
• A profile of the company on Ambrogi's LawSites blog.

For more details, see the ABA TECHSHOW Blog.

The application for StartUp Alley can be found here.

_{Last Updated: 6 December, 2022}

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The Law Practice Division of the American Bar Association has opened registration for its 2023 TECHSHOW Conference and Expo.

The event will be held the first week of March, in Chicago, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel, 151 E Wacker Dr.

For nearly 30 years, the ABA TECHSHOW Conference and EXPO has been where lawyers, legal professionals, and technology all come together to learn about the most useful and practical technologies available. The event also includes a variety of CLE programming on related topics.

The Expo hall will feature over 100 legal techonology vendors demonstrating their products and services. 

• Conference: March 1 – 4, 2023
• Expo: March 2 – 3, 2023

For more details or to register, see the ABA TECHSHOW website.

_{Last Updated: 2 December 2022}

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While a solid majority of respondents to the 2018 Survey (88.2%) reported being comfortable with their firm’s technology, they also appear to have lost ground regarding the availability of training in their firms. Only a slim majority of respondents (56.9%) indicated that there was technology training of any kind available at their firm. This is a marked decline from the 74.3% of respondents who responded affirmatively in 2017, 70.5% in 2016, and 67% in 2015.

Internet For Lawyers' principal Mark Rosch takes a deep dive into the responses and what they mean for lawyers in this analysis of the results for the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center.

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The American Bar Association's (ABA's) Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) has released its 2017 Legal Technology Survey Report.  For the past 20 years, the LTRC has surveyed practicing attorneys about their technology choices.

In 2017, the findings of the survey are presented in six volumes:

• Vol. 1: Technology Basics & Security
• Vol. 2: Law Office Technology
• Vol. 3: Litigation Technology and E-Discovery
• Vol. 4: Marketing & Communication Technology
• Vol. 5: Online Research
• Vol. 6: Mobile Lawyers
   
• Combined Volumes 1-6

For the fifth year in a row, the LTRC has produced its ABA TECHREPORT.  Leaders in the legal technology field dive into data from the Survey Report to highlight key numbers and practical takeaways for today’s lawyers in the TECHREPORT.

This year, the ABA TECHREPORT's expert analysis, observations, and predictions are on the topics of:

• Planning and Budgeting - by Catherine Sanders Reach
• Technology Training - by Mark Rosch
• Security - by David Ries
• Cloud Computing - by Dennis Kennedy
• Mobile Technology - by Aaron Street 
• Practice Management - by Dan Pinnington, Ian Hu 
• Social Media and Blogging - by Allison C. Shields
• Virtual Law Practice - by Chad Burton
• Litigation and TAR - by Stephen Embry
• Solo and Small Firm Technology - by Natalie Kelly

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In that order, counsel in the Northern District of California Oracle v. Google case agreed to Judge William Alsup’s proposed March 25, 2016 order that banned them from researching jurors’ internet presence. Oracle v. Google, No. C-10-03561, Document 1573 (N.D.Cal March 25, 2016), http://linkon.in/jurorgoogleoracle. If counsel had failed to agree with the proposed order, the judge stated that he would inform the jurors they were being researched by counsel.

The judge acknowledged that it is not unethical for counsel to conduct Internet searches on prospective jurors and to also view their public social media profiles. However, he then went on to say,  “That such searches are not unethical does not translate into an inalienable right to conduct them.”

He also discussed ABA Formal Opinion No. 466, where the ABA considered the extent to which an attorney may conduct Internet searches of jurors and prospective jurors without running afoul of ABA Model Rule 3.5(b) (which prohibits ex parte communication with jurors). In that Formal Opinion, the ABA said that judges may limit the scope of the searches that counsel could perform regarding the juror’s social media “[i]f a judge believes it to be necessary, under the circumstances of a particular matter . . . .” 

The judge based his juror research ban on three reasons:

• First, if they knew lawyers were researching them, Judge Alsup feared that jurors would stray from the court’s admonition to refrain from conducting internet searches on the lawyers and the case.
• Second, if the lawyers’ research uncovered certain juror preferences, they might shape their trial arguments and witness examinations to make improper personal appeals to the jurors based on those preferences.
• Third, the judge wanted to protect the privacy of the venire.

In the order, Judge Alsup discussed several ethics opinions related to lawyers conducting juror research, including:  “Formal opinion. No. 2013-189, issued by the Oregon state bar provides, unlike the ABA or the ABCNY, that a lawyer may affirmatively request access to private aspects of a juror’s social media profiles [emphasis added], provided the lawyer accurately represents his or her role in a case when asked by the juror.”

We think he misstated Oregon’s Formal opinion. No. 2013-189.

In footnote two, on page 578-579, the Oregon opinion actually said:

Although a lawyer may review a juror’s publicly available information on social networking websites, communication with jurors before, during, and after a proceeding is generally prohibited. Accordingly, a lawyer may not [emphasis added] send a request to a juror to access non-public personal information on a social networking website, nor may a lawyer ask an agent do to do so [emphasis added]. See Oregon RPC 3.5(b) (prohibiting ex parte communications with a juror during the proceeding unless authorized to do so by law or court order); Oregon RPC 3.5(c) (prohibiting communication with a juror after discharge if (1) the communication is prohibited by law or court order; (2) the juror has made known to the lawyer a desire not to communicate; or (3) the communication involves misrepresentation, coercion, duress, or harassment); Oregon RPC 8.4(a)(4) (prohibiting conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice). See, generally, §61:808, ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct and cases cited therein.

Read the Oregon Formal Opinion for yourself and see if you agree that Judge Alsup misinterpreted the Oregon Formal Opinion. You can find the Oregon Formal Opinion at: https://www.osbar.org/_docs/ethics/2013-189.pdf.

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The American Bar Association (ABA) is offering a free trial membership to any lawyer who is not currently a member. It includes membership in the ABA and one Section, subscriptions to the ABA Journal, e-journal, you can check out their free CLE programs, the usual member benefits/discounts, and more.

There's no charge for the trial membership. They don't even ask for your credit card information. In September, they'll send you an invoice for next year's membership. If you feel you have benefittted from the membership you can pay the prevailing rate to renew for another year. If you're not interested you can just write cancel on the invoice and send it back. 

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California Attorneys and Paralegals can earn one hour of Self-Study Legal Ethics MCLE credit by submitting this quiz after reading the ABA's Formal Opinion 10-457.

ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 10-457 Covering Attorneys' Use of Web Sites to Market Their Practices

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The American Bar Association is closing down its Legally Minded social networking site. In an e-mail today, the American Bar Association informed Legally Minded users, "Legally Minded is shutting down. Retrieve your data now." The e-mail advises users that the ABA will "cease operation of LegallyMinded at 3pm Central Time on Thursday, April 7, 2011." After that date user information will no longer be available for retrieval.

The e-mail also advises that the Legally Minded Job Board will also be shut down on the same date.

The ABA offered the following log-in instructions to users wishing to retrieve their data prior to the deadline

Log-in Instructions Log in to LegallyMinded before 3pm Central Time, Thursday, April 7:

1) Visit: http://be.legallyminded.com/customer_password.aspx

2) Enter the email address this message was sent to.

3) Your password will be sent to you at the email address entered.

4) Visit: http://be.legallyminded.com/login.aspx to log in with your email address and the password sent to you.

Log in to the LegallyMinded job board before 3pm Central Time, Thursday, April 7: http://jobs.legallyminded.com/login/

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