Here’s a preview of the tracks and types of sessions we’ll be offering this year at TECHSHOW 2022. We’re busy hammering out details for each session, so some sessions are subject to change. But rest assured, these are the tracks and topics we’ll be covering, plus a lot more!

• DESIGN: Know what your firm’s super powers are and design a process for everything else!! Can you launch a law firm and survive, initially on the fumes of talent and will power alone without any design-thinking? Yes! Of course it is possible, but eventually burnout is guaranteed. Design-thinking helps legal professionals work smarter and faster and in today’s ever-evolving market. This track is for those who are willing to be curious about how design can foster new and creative approaches to delivering legal services while supporting healthier and happier legal teams. Sessions include:
  • Serve New Clients by Increasing Cultural Competency
  • Location, Location, No-cation: Law Firm Real Estate Post-Pandemic
  • The Cyber-Security Plan 
  • Recruiting + Team Growth Strategies
  • Boost Productivity by Designing for Wellness in Your Firm
  • What Legal Can Learn from Other Industries?
  • Fee Setting Strategies – How to Use Customer-Focused Pricing to Increase Client Satisfaction & Lawyer Well-Being
  • Side-Hustle Law Firm – How to Bridge the Gap When You Are Starting Your Own Practice

• LAUNCH: Whether you launched your firm or business yesterday or 5 years ago, you may need to reconsider some of your plans and practices. With sessions on incorporating technology to prepare for modern-day emergencies (hello, global pandemic and economic shutdown), maximizing efficiency and improving processes for billing, intake, marketing and office management, and using focus and deep work to attain your short and long-term goals, the Launch Track will help you tweak your processes to achieve long-term business success. Sessions include:
  • Managing Modern Emergencies: Are You Ready?
  • Planning for a Successful Career: Tech to Improve Your Thinking and Creativity
  • Launching a Digital Shingle: How Incubators Can Help
  • Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace: Managing Cases and Clients 
  • Get Paid: Creating the Right Billing Process for You
  • Executing Your Marketing Plan: Are You Sure You Know What You’re Doing?
  • Starting with the Best: Building the Right Intake Process
  • Ethics and Remote Work: Do More with Less Time

• GROW: Systematize and Scale; You’ve established a clear service and or product and now you’re ready to consistently build with data driven decisions; Transition point (past Entry Level, but still need experience). Sessions include:
  • Know Your Customer: Scaling and Protecting Your Firm in a Global Economy
  • Building Out Your Operations
  • Using Your Finances to Inform Key Business Decisions
  • Advanced Customer Relationship Management
  • Interpreting Data to Drive Decision-Making
  • Infusing Cultural Competence into Your Business Operations
  • Strategies to Grow Your Team with Ease
  • Using Your Business to Fund Your Impact

• SUSTAIN: As an established business earning revenue, growth is constant and incremental.  This track will explore how to:
  • Sustain growth and not just the status quo
  • Learn to work on your business and not in your business
  • Turn the “grind” into healthy and sustainable lifestyles
  • Build a solid foundation and the skills required to maintain that foundation
  • Prepare for transformative work as you/your firm moves into its next phase of the journey

  Sessions include:

  • Making Yourself Replaceable and Get Back to Leading
  • Utilizing Tech to Replace or Improve Admin Work
  • Managing Change Through Uncertainity
  • Building Bridges to a Complete Legal Ecosystem: Getting Lawyers off an Island
  • Legal Support Services: Managing a Remote or Hybrid Workforce
  • The Untapped Opportunity: Rethinking Access to Justice to Grow Your Business 
  • Legal Operations: Rebuilding An Effective Foundation
  • How to Improve Document Creation Workflows – And Why It Matters

• TRANSFORM: How is technology transforming legal education, the roles of legal professionals, even the definition of justice? The Transform Track sessions at TECHSHOW 2022 provide the opportunity to consider and discuss the dramatic changes in the legal system for current and future practitioners as well as the public. With topics like Attorney Roles in an AI-empowered World, Online Dispute Resolution, and Technology’s Potential to Improve Access to Justice, the Transform track is an environmental survey preparing attendees to begin thinking about how to Design, Launch, Grow, and Sustain their practices. Sessions include:
  • Come Play in the Sandbox: How to Advance Legal Services Through Regulation
  • Re-Envisioning Attorney Roles in an AI-Empowered World 
  • Online Dispute Resolution: Transforming Our Definition of Justice
  • Top Insights from Analyzing AI Tools in Legal Writing Instruction
  • Building Your Dream Law Firm: Unlocking the Possibility of Alternative Legal Services
  • Creating a Certification for Trustworthy AI? If, When & The Future for Legal Professionals & Clients
  • Realizing Technology’s Potential to Improve Access to Justice
  • Future Practice of Law, 2022 and Beyond 

Virtual Tracks

• CORE CONCEPTS: Tested, tried and true to TECHSHOW, Core Concepts brings you the basics in applications and concepts from eDiscovery, security, building a virtual law firm, PDF skills, a look at the new Windows 11, and more and all in a virtual environment. Kick back in your jammies or supplement your in-person experience while you explore these valuable offerings. Sessions include:
  • eDiscovery: Magic Simplified- Collecting & Analyzing Evidence from Mobile Devices 
  • MS Teams: Mastering the Fundamentals
  • How to Comply with Duty of Technology Competence: A Practical Guide
  • What Lawyers Need to Know About Using a Mac in their Law Practice
  • Build a Virtual Law Firm 
  • PDF Skills: I Didn’t Know I Could Do That!
  • The Digital Client File
  • Stopping the Trojan Horse: Securing and Preserving Your Business
  • MS Windows 11 for Law Firms – (What’s) News at 11
  • Next Level on Camera Training for Lawyers

• VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING: Virtually Everything brings you a robust, virtual TECHSHOW 2022 experience. The lineup includes a cross section of sessions from all of this year’s innovative tracks to bring the best of what TECHSHOW offers. Either as a complement to your in-person experience or as a standalone virtual experience, Virtually Everything has it all! Sessions include:
  • Evaluating Technology for Your Practice
  • Foundations of Change: Legal Design Thinking, Process Improvement, and Project Management
  • 21st Century Practice: Creating a Sustainable Workplace for the Next Generation
  • Accounting for Lawyers: Ins and Outs
  • Technology Leadership for Effective Teams
  • Creating a Law Firm Legacy through Adopting Technologies that Matter
  • Artificial Intelligence: Contract Analysis and Management
  • A Crystal Ball: Peering into the Future of Blockchain in Legal
  • Virtual Reality in Law Practice: Training, Trials, and Technology
  • Managing Tech Overwhelm
  • Designing Your Career