Judye Carter Reynolds

21 days until ILTA…

ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. Each year, they host and organize the largest technology conference and trade show for legal technology professionals. This year’s venue is Dallas, Texas.

At Esquire, we look forward to this conference all year not only for the new contacts we’ll make, but it gives us the opportunity to reconnect professionally and socially with our clients and technology partners. On a professional level, we get to talk about where we are, what our future development plans are, and what you’d like to see from us. This year, we’ll be introducing our new line of products that comprise iOffice 7.  iCreate, iScrub and iRedline have a brand new look and cool new features for Microsoft Office 2007… very exciting!

On a social level, if you’ve been to ILTA, you know what I’m talking about… but my favorite Esquire-sponsored event is our client appreciation luncheon.  Good food, good wine, and good friends.  We also raffle off a beautiful gift basket, provided from one of the local wineries here in Temecula. 

If you’re not familiar with ILTA, you’re missing out! Its an opportunity to network with peers, meet your software vendors, get ideas, share ideas, and relax. (I’m lying about the “relax” part).More info to come on iOffice 7.  Hope to see you there!    

Thank you to Dawn Ivey for sharing this with me….

god and metadata…..?

P.S. As far as I know, G-d is not using iScrub.

At LegalTech in New York this week and having a great time.  If you are looking for us, we are booth-less …on purpose though.  Instead, we spend the week meeting with clients individually and collectively, meeting with our partners, potential resellers, and vendors of other third-party apps we might integrate with. 

Still lots of talk and concern about e-Discovery and a little about Office ‘07.  I don’t see the same panic in everyone’s eyes as I did last year.  I think we’ve all calmed down and have forged a plan.  For Esquire’s products, you will find installs on our website for our Office ‘07 versions for iCreate, iScrub and iDociD.  These are all v5.  iRedline is coming soon as version 5.1.  There’s a reason why… stay tuned.  I think its big.

Now regarding Office ‘07, I have to say I am surprised at how many have approached this upgrade… SUDDENLY!  I’ll get a call or an e-mail that goes something like this… “Judye, we’re upgrading to Office 2007 tomorrow.  Is iCreate gonna be ready?”  This takes me back to 1997 when some firms migrated from WordPerfect to Word over a weekend without any consideration for document conversion or training. Yikes!   

Most, are taking a long range planning perspective and treating this as more than an upgrade… a migration even.  That’s wise.  Several of our partners, ODC and Education Partners, for instance, offer wonderful seminars for the IT staff and also for end users.  More on that later, too.

Okay, gotta go.  Stay plugged in!