Two Technology Conferences

Coming up this fall are two conferences dealing with aspects of law and technology that you won’t want to miss:

1. The Canadian Forum on Court Technology, hosted by the Canadian Centre for Court Technology, takes place in Ottawa on September 22 and 23, 2010. Keynote speakers include Richard Susskind (author of “The End of Lawyers”), Allan Seckel (Deputy to the Premier of British Columbia) and Justice Louise Charron (Supreme Court of Canada). Panels will cover a wide variety of topics including the use of video in the courtroom, online dispute resolution, e-discovery, and modernizing the electronic records in Canadian courts. A full program is available online.
2. IT.Can presents its 14th Annual IT Law Association Conference in Montreal on October 28 and 29, 2010. Speakers and panels will address topics such as trends in IT contracting, social media, online and mobile privacy issues, and, of course, recent developments in copyright, patents, and trade marks law. The full program [PDF] is available online. CLE credits may be obtained for Quebec and British Columbia practitioners; and certification of the program is pending in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. Anyone wishing more information may contact Lisa Ptack.