Legal Commentary

At our LTN Awards ceremonies at LegalTech New York, I was honored to present our inaugural Law Technology News Lifetime Achievement Awards to three wonderful members of our legal technology . 

John Alber, Thomas Burke, and M. Thomas Collins have all demonstrated leadership and a fierce commitment to technology innovation, customer service, and the legal technology community throughout their careers. 

Alber is Bryan Cave's technology partner and leads its award-winning client technology group. Under his leadership, the group has developed innovative, web-based programs such as TradeZone, an international trade decision support system, and InsiderZone, an insider trading compliance training product. Alber is a frequent contributor to LTN, and the presentation was especially sweet, because he was the recipient of our first IT Champion Award.

Burke is chair and CEO of World Software, which offers the Worldox document management system, used by about 3,500 law firms across 37 countries. Worldox won the 2009 GoldLTN Award for document management. The Burke family founded the company in 1988 and Thomas Burke served as its president until 2009. 

Collins founded Juris in 1988 and served as its CEO. By the time Juris was purchased by LexisNexis in 2007, the had become a leading provider of financial and business information systems for midsize law firms. Throughout his career, he has been a frequent speaker, author, and blogger on management topics as well as technology issues and the legal profession. 

Congrats to all three for their stellar contributions to our community.

Hat tip to Lee Feldman for creating the press release on these wonderful awards.