2013 Tech Fair Announcement

Sole & Small Firm Practitioners Section Presents:

Working Smarter and Avoiding Risks in the Digital World

2013 Technology Forum, CLE and Vendor Fair

May 17, 2013, 8:30 am — 4:00 pm

The Foundry at Oswego Pointe

320 Oswego Pointe Dr., Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034

8:30–9:00 Registration, coffee
9:00–10:30 Working Smarter (Dee Crocker and Sheila Blackford, PLF)

  • Adobe tricks and tips: security issues, signatures, Bates stamping, redacting, creating searchable text and more
  • Other tools of the trade for small law offices, including hardware, software, online resources and PLF support
Break
10:45–12:00 Practicing Law in the Digital World (Brian Wassom)

  • The Risks Your Clients Face in Social Media
  • Social Media as a Litigation Tool
  • Discovery & Evidentiary Issues
  • Implications of New and Emerging Social Tools
12:00–1:15 Lunch and meet with vendors (box lunch provided)
1:15–2:15 Attorney Best Practices in Social Media (Brian Wassom)

  • Benefits of Internet marketing, networking and communication
  • Risks and risk prevention
Break
2:30–4:00 Malpractice and Ethics Issues (Stacy Hankin, OSB disciplinary counsel; Jeff Crawford, PLF; and Ben O’Glasser, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP)

  • Coverage issues related to data breach
  • Ethics opinions and recent cases on social media, cloud computing and other tech-related issues
  • Topical hypotheticals

CLE CREDITS: 1.5 ethics and 3.5 general (pending approval)

COST: $35 (SSFP members and new lawyers [2010 or later])

$50 for non-members

Registration cost includes morning refreshments and boxed lunch

Early-Bird Discount: $5 off if your payment is postmarked by May 13!

TO REGISTER

  • Email Janice Hazel so we’ll have an accurate count for the caterer

TO PAY

  • Pre-pay by mailing a check, payable to OSB, to:
    Chris Rounds
    Rounds Law Office
    1409 Franklin Street #217
    Vancouver, WA 98660
    Put “Tech Fair” and the names of the attendees in the memo line.
    Mail by May 13 and save $5!
  • Pay at the door with cash or check (no credit cards, sorry.)

About Special Guest Speaker Brian D. Wassom

Mr. Wassom litigates disputes and counsels clients concerning copyright, trademark, publicity rights, entertainment, and related intellectual property issues. In particular, Brian focuses his practice on social media and other emerging forms of digital communication. Here he is aided by several years’ experience assisting media companies in exercising their freedom of the press, obtaining access to information, and defending claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, and eavesdropping.

Brian chairs his firm’s Social, Mobile and Emerging Media Practice Group. He also authors a popular blog on this topic at Wassom.com, as well as the online treatises Wassom on Social Media Law and Augmented Legality, which examines the law governing “augmented reality” technologies. He is also a highly sought-after public speaker. He regularly speaks to industry groups, legal education seminars, and conferences across the country on social media, augmented reality, and related topics.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

Gold

Ruby Receptionists
Ruby Receptionists

Silver

LawPay
LawPay
USBank
USBank
Thomson-Reuters
Thomson-Reuters

Vendors

NAEGELI Deposition and Trial
Beovich, Walter & Friend
Acuity Group
Real Estate Services Group, Inc.
Lexis Nexis
JDFULWILER&CO.INSURANCE/Court Bonds
Miller Computer Group
Clio
Law Red Wizard/Amicus Data
Epic Web Results
International Forensic Experts
Barrister Support Service, Inc.
Cartridge-Network
Cascade Forensic Engineering

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