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Just in time for the New Year...2010 Master Legal Events Calendar Released by InsideLegal.com

115+ Legal Events at-a-Glance!  We have just published the InsideLegal Legal Technology/Law Firm Management Master Events Calendar for 2010 - the most comprehensive, one-stop, legal industry event resource available.

If you have an event you would like us to consider adding, please email us the event name, event owner, dates, location and event URL.  InsideLegal already works with publishers such as ALM and peer networking organizations such as ILTA on providing their legal event calendars, and we’d like to invite you to link to the calendar as well.

Hildebrandt and Baker Robbins & Company to Merge

According to an official press release distributed Friday, December 4th, Hildebrandt and Baker Robbins & Company, two leading legal consultancies, have announced their plan to merge into one company, known as Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, as of January 1, 2010.  

Together, the new firm will be the largest and most diversified consultancy serving the legal market, with over 120 consultants working around the world in a broad range of practice areas. According to an related article in the AmLaw Daily, Hildebrandt managing director Jim Jones and Brad Robbins will be responsible for the combined company's day-to-day operations, with Hildebrandt's founder, Bradford Hildebrandt, still having a prominent presence.

Both are part of the Business of Law group of Thomson Reuters.

Intelliteach Opens Office in London

Intelliteach, the industry's leading legal help desk outsourcing company, has just announced the opening of its first UK office.  The UK Intelliteach team will be led by Sherry Bevan, London Business Manager, who has over 20 years of experience in the legal service and technology support arena with the last decade spent as McDermott Will & Emery’s Global Customer Service Manager. In addition to Bevan, their UK team will include bilingual, French-speaking specialists to handle the service desk demands of French-speaking clients.

"Intelliteach currently supports over 80,000 law firm users in 20 countries including many in the UK," stated Lance Waagner, President and CEO of Intelliteach and former large law firm CIO. "Since starting our business 10 years ago, we have exclusively focused on providing a 24/7/365 service desk specific to the needs of law firm end-users. Our current move to London supports this mission and should nicely complement our existing UK business which started with our first London office client in 2004."

Read the entire release here

Ray Zwiefelhofer Promoted to President of World Software Corporation

According to the press release, Ray Zwiefelhofer has been promoted to President of World Software Corporation.  Zweifelhofer has been serving as Executive Vice President since joining World Software in March 2009.  Prior to joining World Software, he served as CEO of nQueue.

According to the release, "Thomas W. Burke, who co-founded World Software Corporation and has been President since its inception in 1988, will assume the more strategic and visionary role of Chairman and CEO."

ABA TECHSHOW 2010: Practical Technologies for Transforming Your Practice

The ABA's Law Practice Management (LPM) section is moving full speed ahead with TECHSHOW 2010, the 25th edition, taking place in Chicago, March 25-27th, 2010. Earlier this fall, LPM launched a new and improved conference website chock full of valuable content and new information designed to fit the 2010 theme of 'practical technologies for transforming your practice'. In addition to an ABA TECHSHOW dedicated blog, the new site includes a series of 'hot pages' designed to help legal practitioners find the answers to their legal technology questions. Based on our review, the hottest of the hot is the 'best of ABA TECHSHOW' section featuring past legal technology presentations and keynotes. Speaking of, the 2010 keynote has also just been announced. Ari Kaplan, lawyer and experienced technology and marketing author, will speak on "The New Big Bang- The Convergence of Technology and Marketing",
so make sure to schedule your trip to the Windy City in March.
  
From an exhibitors perspective, TECHSHOW is second to none when it comes to appealing to leading technology users and influencers all of which rely on TECHSHOW as their trusted source of information on legal tech products and services. The 2010 TECHSHOW Planning Board, chaired by Debbie Foster, President of InTouch Legal, is preparing an education focused conference full of networking and business development opportunities for legal vendors. LPM does a fabulous job of mixing 'business with pleasure', so in addition to the many technology sessions, and time spent on the show floor interfacing with vendors, all attendees will be able to participate in after dark activities ranging from the annual opening reception to a series of 'dine with the experts' events. TECHSHOW is also the most effective way to interact with an impressive roster of legal technologists, state bar practice management advisors (PMAs), and reputable legal bloggers and social media experts. While the complete detailed agenda is still in the works, the faculty is already in place as is the current 2010 exhibitor list. Exhibitor registration details can be found here.

InsideLegal.com is a media sponsor for ABA TECHSHOW 2010 and in this capacity will be providing InsideLegal.com readers with speaker profiles, session highlights, show statistics, media relations tips and tricks, and other information designed to help you decide if TECHSHOW is right for you and ultimately help maximize your 2010 TECHSHOW experience and exposure.