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Just in Time for ILTA...Here are some media tips from two leading industry editors on how to work with them for coverage of your product/company news. Both Charles and Monica, along with Randi Mayes, ILTA's Executive Director and the Editor for Peer to Peer Magazine, will be serving on our media panel at the ILTA/InsideLegal Vendor Education Program this Monday at the ILTA Annual Conference in Nashville. After the session, we will be having a vendor reception to give vendors a chance to meet our panelists. For now, here are their tips to consider when contacting them.
We had been hearing reports about major changes to Law Technology News and below is a statement from Monica Bay, Editor-in-Chief.
"Aric Press recently announced the initial stages of ALM’s reorganization of its national newsroom, which includes his promotion to vice president/editor-in-chief of the company.
One of the first steps in the plan is to create a unified “technology desk” to provide content across ALM publications, which will better inform our audience about the role of technology to help readers deliver “better, faster, cheaper” legal services.
Toward that end, we are executing a very exciting revamp of our LTN website, allowing us to devote more of our editorial resources to daily news reporting online. I am especially excited about the opportunity to provide more timely and authoritative coverage of important products and services.
This also allows us to upgrade Law Technology News magazine, with more expanded analysis from our industry leaders; our award-winning columns, detailed product reviews; news about important surveys and trends; and more. We will publish the print magazine on a bi-monthly basis (6x a year) in 2011."
We look forward to the new thought leader content in LTN and in particular, the inclusion of trend stories, case studies and product reviews. We are disappointed that ALM does not view vendors as thought leaders and therefore, vendors will not be allowed to contribute content. We understand that some bad apples had spoiled that for everyone else in the past, but this would be a great time to start fresh and recognize some of the incredible vendor experts in the industry today.
Just heard through the grapevine that some publishers are interested in Charles Christian's print and online information business, consisting of Legal Technology Insider/American Legal Technology Insider newsletter and The Orange Rag blog/LegalTechnology.com. If so, it would be a shame to see him go as he is one of the few independent legal technology journalists left in the market. He's been telling it as he sees it since 1995. On the other hand, he's also a pretty high maintenance guy so they'd probably have to offer him some big numbers to lure him over to the dark side. It will be interesting to see what happens here...
The August issue (see PDF below) of the large law firm publication by Charles Christian, American Legal Technology Insider (ALTi), is hot off the press.
If you haven't subscribed already, send an email to sign up to receive future issues of ALTi delivered to your email free of charge.
LegalSupportNetwork, a networking organization and community website for people who work in the operational, business services and support areas of law firms and throughout the UK, has premiered it's new e-zine called 'Briefing'.
Covering the key business issues facing law firms, Briefing talks to everyone in business services and support about what's important to them in their careers in law firms. Issue 1 of Briefing includes an interview with law firm process and strategy guru Professor Richard Susskind; a feature article on how law firms can use outsourcing and technology to become more efficient and better, more client-focused businesses; analysis on improving and enabling client development from Hubbard One; and case study interviews with real people in law firms who have improved efficiency and profitability at their firms about how they've done it.
Here's some more information from LegalSupportNetwork's head of content and community, Rupert White...
Can you include details on circulation, frequency, distribution, and targeting (UK-only, global, etc.)?
The launch issue of Briefing was printed and sent out to over 2,000 people in senior management, director and C-level in the top 250 UK law firms. We’ve also seen 600 copies of the PDF downloaded this week – we launched on Monday. We’re marketing this actively across all our channels.
Briefing will be monthly but will take a double issue on December/January and, most likely, July/August next year. We’re not restricting to UK download though the content will be heavily biased towards the operations of UK law firms. However, in the future we will be doing content, and possibly a whole issue in 2011, on US Law Firms In The UK.
What information gap does Briefing fill that other publications have not?
Briefing fills a gap in the publishing/business information space for business services and support/ops/admin people in law firms because there simply isn’t a digital or print magazine devoted to the whole market.
If you'd like to be added to the distribution list, email LSN with your contact information and they'll get you signed up.
The latest issue of ILTA's publication, Peer to Peer, is out and as usual, ILTA doesn't disappoint. This issue launches ILTA's Law2020TM initiative across several years. In addition to Peer to Peer's regular sections - Ask the Expert, Ask the Vendor, Best Practices, Case Studies, etc. - this issue has the following special features focused on Law2020.
More about ILTA's Law2020 Initiative
According to Randi Mayes in the "From the Director" column:
"John Alber, Technology Partner at Bryan Cave, reached out to me within hours of the conclusion of last year’s ILTA conference to propose an in-depth look at the law firm of the future. His enthusiasm first reached my BlackBerry while I was awaiting my flight home. Fueled by his own passion for leading change, John saw an opportunity for ILTA to educate our members and support them through the ten years ahead, as John predicts a sea change in law firms. Thus was born Law2020.
This magazine is notable in many ways: it is the largest we’ve ever produced; it is unique in terms of content, with many authors accepting my challenge to write from a future perspective; it provides truly outstanding thought leadership; and it is full of 'fun' ideas, as well."
We agree! Kudos to Randi Mayes, ILTA's Executive Director, and to all the writers who thought outside the box to contribute. And, we were proud to be part of it. InsideLegal has an article on our IgniteLaw event (pg. 99-100) that we produced with Matt Homann of LexThink and a call-out on our series on Bradford & Barthel's Move to the Cloud (pg. 31-32).
The latest issue of Legal Management magazine is out and features InsideLegal's events held during ABA TECHSHOW. If you're not familiar with Legal Management, you should be. Here are some details...
Legal Management is the Association of Legal Administrators’ bimonthly magazine, featuring articles on issues of vital importance to law firm managers, legal administrators, and managing partners. Legal Management is circulated to almost 15,000 legal professionals, including approximately 10,000 ALA members and many of their managing partners. The journal has themed issues covering hot topics in all areas of law firm management, including technological innovations, human resources trends, marketing, financial planning, leadership issues, and general business practices. Legal Management is produced by publisher and editor extraordinaire, John Delavan.
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