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About the Seminar
When it comes to technology, most lawyers are only human. The goal of this CLE is to help you learn how to be a Superhero when technology is your Kryptonite. National experts Brett Burney and Catherine Sanders Reach are the masters of ceremonies for this lively CLE featuring South Carolina lawyers talking about the technology they use every day. Breakfast and a networking lunch are included, sponsored by the Solo & Small Firm Section.

 

Speakers:
Brett Burney
Brett Burney founded Burney Consultants to provide independent and expert consulting services to corporate executives and legal professionals.

For legal professionals, Brett navigates firms of all sizes through e-discovery challenges and provides objective recommendations for litigation support tools and workflows.

For corporations, Brett lowers costs associated with litigation by assessing their information governance readiness and providing recommendations on how they can proactively manage voluminous data stores.

Brett is also a highly sought-after trainer and presenter for lawyers who seek to integrate Macs and iPads into their practice.

Brett is an esteemed author and speaker on legal technology topics. He has been a featured speaker at numerous legal technology conferences and served as Chair of the 2015 ABA TECHSHOW. Brett speaks regularly for local and state bar associations nationwide, and is routinely quoted in industry interviews for TechnoLawyer, Legaltech News, ABA Journal, and more.

Prior to Burney Consultants, Brett Burney supported lawyers at the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP where he worked with litigation teams in building electronic document databases, counseling on e-discovery issues, and managing the technical responsibilities of presenting evidence at trial.

 

Catherine Sanders Reach
Catherine Sanders Reach is Director for the Center for Practice Management at the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance to lawyers and legal professionals. Formerly she was Director, Law Practice Management and Technology for the Chicago Bar Association and the Director at the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center. Prior to her work at the NCBA, CBA and ABA she worked in library and information science environments for a number of years, working at Ross and Hardies as a librarian. She received a master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1997.

Catherine's professional activities include articles published in Law Practice magazine, Law Technology News and GPSolo Magazine, as well as numerous other publications. She has given presentations on the use of technology in law firms for national bar conferences, state and local bar associations and organizations such as the National Association of Bar Council and the Association of American Law Schools. In 2011 she was selected to be one of the inaugural Fastcase 50, celebrating 50 innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the field of law and in 2013 became a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. In 2015 she was selected to be part of the ABA LTRC Women of Legal Tech. She served on the ABA TECHSHOW Board from 2007-2009, 2014-2016, was co-vice chair in 2019 and was co-chair for 2020. Follow Catherine on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

 

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 6.30 MCLE credit hours, including up to 1.0 LEPR credit hour and 1.0 SA/MH credit hour.

 

This seminar is an Intermediate level program.

 

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2024, please use this course code: 241250ADO.

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2025, please use this course code:  

 

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