Alt Legal CEO speaks at ABA-IPL 2017 West Conference
Alt Legal Team | October 12, 2017
Yesterday Alt Legal founder and CEO Nehal Madhani spoke at the IP West Conference in Long Beach, California. Nehal’s talk, “Legal Tech is on the Rise, but are you in CTRL?” focused on the increased development of legal technologies, best practices for its implementation, and the latest ethical requirements for using technology.
In his talk, Nehal discussed ABA Model Rules and state bar associations’ adoption of legal ethics guidelines regarding technology. He also provided criteria attorneys could use to evaluate technology solutions, including legal process mapping. Nehal gave examples of both legal technology and other general technology to assist both intellectual property attorneys at law firms and in-house legal departments.
Because of Alt Legal’s intellectual property specialty, Nehal was also able to speak at length about IP technology solutions. He discussed options for docketing software and other IP-related technologies. He also covered Model Rule 1.1, Comment [8] in the context of IP docketing and select cases in which the USPTO addressed the failure of attorneys to properly docket deadlines.