Using Technology for Disaster Planning and Recovery

Disasters come in many forms -- hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, power outages even terrorist attacks.  The best disaster recovery plan is a disaster preparation plan so that your practice can be back in business as soon as possible. Technology can assist this process but there are other important business decisions to consider as well: availability of equipment, access to data, staffing issues .....all these are supported by technology in today's law firm and this session will show you how to put the the right technology system in place before disaster strikes.

Tom O'Connor, Director of Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center, is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers. Tom has been the editor of several legal newsletters and is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Law Technology News.   

Craig Bayer is a principle at Law Office Technology, a firm that specializes in Line of Business Applications for the legal community.  He was originally was the head of IT for a Baton Rouge based Law Firm, where he managed the network as well as several Legal Specific Software Packages.  After several years he decided to get into consulting full time.  He now travels all over the southeast consulting with solos to firms with fifty or more attorneys.  Craig also speaks regularly for the Louisiana State Bar Association on technology topics.  His latest interest which he blogs about regularly, is how firms can implement hosted SharePoint and Exchange solutions in legal environments.

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