Because of ABA TECHSHOW's prestige as the world’s premier legal technology CLE conference, the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board considers numerous suggestions and requests each year in selecting the conference faculty.

Faculty selections are necessarily limited to a small number of experts in the field. Faculty members include subject-matter experts from many areas of legal technology, including practicing lawyers, law firm IT personnel, legal technology consultants, and bar association practice management advisors, among others.  We strive to have excellent presentations on every session in the program, and just as important from a Continuing Legal Education point of view, our attendees go home with a CD-ROM packed with detailed papers for every session. ABA TECHSHOW faculty are required to prepare both written and presentation materials.  We demand that our speakers present objective content that informs and educates attendees. We do not tolerate selling from the podium.  This sets ABA TECHSHOW apart from many other legal technology conferences.  Please note that representatives of commercial vendors are rarely included in the CLE faculty, but opportunities are available on the program grid for presentation of company- or product-specific sessions in our Vendor Track.

Speaker selection is done by the members of ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board.  Members of this board are all veteran ABA TECHSHOW attendees and faculty, and together they have years of experience with the conference.  Speakers are selected during the summer and fall each year, based on the CLE topics outlined for the grid of the following year's program. Approximately ten of the top-rated presenters from each year's conference, as judged by their session evaluations and the quality of their materials, are invited to present again the following year, but the planning board also makes a strong effort to keep ABA TECHSHOW fresh by inviting approximately one-third new faculty each year.  A new speaker is someone that hasn’t spoken at TECHSHOW ever before, or within the last two years.

Prospective faculty members should have experience in writing and presenting legal technology CLE topics to large audiences, and are expected to prepare in most cases, both written materials and visual presentations for the conference. Faculty members generally have enough broad expertise to present on more than one topic at the conference, and would typically do two sessions.  Examples of presentation and written materials are also helpful to the board during the faculty selection process. To be considered for the ABA TECHSHOW 2008 faculty, or to submit a question, please send an e-mail message to  Laura Calloway, Chair of TECHSHOW 2009.

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