Did technology rock the legal world in 2011, or was it a sleepy little year for legal tech?  What were the tech highlights and lowlights for 2011?  In this episode, we pay homage to one of our favorite shows, ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, and offer up a wide-ranging, fast-paced and highly-opinionated review of what transpired in legal technology during the past year.

Link to the episode:  Pardon the Legal Tech Interruption

Segment 1:  Headlines and Oddsmakers

• Headlines
• eDiscovery
• Social Media
• Using Social Media for Non-Marketing
• Not Your Marketer’s Social Media:  Ten Ways Lawyers Can Benefit from Non-Marketing Uses of Social Media
• Cloud Computing
• iPhones, iPads and Macs
• Oddsmakers – what are the odds that:
• 2012 will be the year the Blackberry loses its place as the smartphone most used by lawyers?
• Tom:  25%
• Dennis: 40%
• Lawyers will be using LinkedIn more than their Outlook contacts in 2012?
• Tom:  15%
• Dennis: 30%
• Lawyers will start bringing their own computers to work next year?
• Tom:  25%
• Dennis:  40%
• Most lawyers will still be using Office 2007 in 2012?
• Tom:  75%
• Dennis: 100%

Segment 2:  Word Up

• Lawyers should think of new software development like predictive coding and IBM’s Watson as ______
• Tom:  Salvation
• Dennis:  Friends
• A recent survey reporting that 94% of the AmLaw 200 law firms plan to use blogs in their social media marketing initiatives is ______
• Tom:  Interesting
• Dennis: Hallucinatory
• The day of doing most of your legal work on a smartphone is ____
• Tom:  Distant
• Dennis: Here
• Keeping up with all of the developments in legal technology has never been more ______
• Tom:  Exhilarating
• Dennis:  Daunting

Segment 3:  The Big Finish