UND Law Legal Tech CLE
The UND School of Law Presents:
The Third Annual UND Law Legal Tech CLE
THE DUTY OF TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE AT 10 YEARS
Where we were, where we are, and where we’re going
Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual (Zoom link will be distributed to registrants the day prior to the event)
Cost: Free
CLE Credit: 2 ND Ethics credits or 2 ND CLE credits (Application in Process for 2 MN credits)
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 8, 2022
THE DUTY OF TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE AT 10 YEARS
Where we were, where we are, and where we’re going
2022 marks the 10-year anniversary of the ABA’s adoption of the duty of technological competence in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Since its introduction, the duty has both inspired and confounded. On the one hand, the past decade has seen a boom in legal technology innovation and a steady increase in attorney willingness to adopt and use legal tech; on the other, despite a simultaneous increase in interest and attention from state bar associations, courts, legal academics and others, tech adoption in the law still lags behind other industries and the exact contours of the duty of technological competence remain relatively opaque. Join this discussion with a distinguished panel of legal tech and ethics experts to talk about how the duty has – and hasn’t – changed the legal profession over the past decade and what we might expect from it in the decade to come.
Speakers:
Robert (Bob) Ambrogi is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. He has been writing and speaking about legal technology, legal practice and legal ethics for more than two decades. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Ambrogi currently hosts the LawNext podcast featuring innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law and writes a column on legal technology for Above the Law. He has been blogging about legal tech for two decades on LawSites Blog and recently launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, aimed at helping buyers distinguish and choose between legal tech products.
Ivy Grey is a legal tech entrepreneur and an expert in technology competence, ethics, and innovation. Formerly a corporate bankruptcy attorney, she is now considered a leading voice in legal tech and writes frequently about change management and implementation for Legal Technology Today and other leading publications. In 2018, Grey was recognized as a Fastcase 50 Honoree and a part of the Women of Legal Tech by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center, and in 2020 she was recognized as an Influential Woman in Legal Tech by ILTA. Currently, she is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for WordRake, the creator of American Legal Style for PerfectIt, and an advisor to Intelligent Editing Ltd.
Andrew Perlman is Dean of Suffolk University Law School and a nationally recognized voice on the future of law practice and legal education. Dean Perlman was the chief reporter of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization. He was appointed the inaugural chair of the governing council for the ABA’s new Center for Innovation and was the founding director of Suffolk’s Institute on Legal Innovation and Technology. In 2015, he was recognized by Fastcase as one of 50 “entrepreneurs, innovators, and trailblazers…who have charted a new course for the delivery of legal services.”