ILTACON 2025
What's Hot and What's Not!
Join us for a lively discussion on the latest trends in legal technology, fresh from the festivities of ILTACON 2025. Discover what's Hot and what's Not!!
Social Time: 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM ET.
Meeting Time: 9:30 - 11:00 AM ET.
Moderator:
Roberta Gelb
Roberta Gelb is the President at Chelsea Office Systems. She is a well-known professional, having established authority on productivity, software and office systems solutions for law firms and businesses. Roberta has substantial expertise in systems design, implementation, training and the "human factors" associated with effective use of technology.
In 1984, Roberta founded Chelsea Office Systems, a unique software consulting and training company that provides custom productivity recommendation, application programming and development, education, and on-site support to law firms and corporations.
Roberta was a member of the Legaltech News Editorial Advisory Board for several years. She enjoys serving on the Program Committee of the Professional legal Trainers Group. She is extremely active in the community, served on the Board of the NY State Breast Cancer Network; the Scientific Advisory Board of Consano, and volunteering for animal rescue programs in the New York area.
Our Panel:
Joe Davis
Joe Davis is the Practice Technology Manager for Fried Frank. He has spent over 25 years in legal technology at law firms, in the corporate legal space, and at legaltech start-ups. He just finished a 2-year term as the co-chair of ILTA’s Programming Committee and is also a frequent speaker and author on topics including artificial intelligence and enterprise content management. He earned his MBA from NJIT and recently completed an AI program at MIT. Joe has also been a teacher, an entrepreneur, a musician, a real estate investor and a DJ in a flea market.
Bob Ambrogi
Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for three decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a contributor to Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists’ roundtable, Legaltech Week. He is also cofounder of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.
In 2011, Bob was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” In 2017, he received the Yankee Quill award for journalism from the Academy of New England Journalists and was honored by the ABA Journal as a Legal Rebels Trailblazer. In 2023, ABA Techshow presented him with a lifetime achievement award.
Joe Patrice
Joe Patrice joined Above the Law in 2013. Joe received a degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Oregon and a J.D. from the NYU School of Law. From 2001, he worked as a litigator for both Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Lankler Siffert & Wohl, representing a variety of individuals, institutions, and foreign sovereigns in criminal and civil matters. Joe left legal practice in 2012 to pursue writing, contributing to numerous publications, including ATL, before joining the full-time staff.
Judge William Pryor of the Eleventh Circuit described Joe Patrice as "One of the great journalists of our time" and let's just pretend he wasn't being sarcastic. As a Senior Editor at Above the Law, Joe thrives on lawyers embarrassing themselves, making his job one of the many industry roles made easier by lawyers adopting ChatGPT.
Nicole Black
Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney, author, journalist, and Principal Legal Insight Strategist at AffiniPay, whose suite of solutions includes MyCase, CASEpeer, and Docketwise legal practice management software and LawPay legal billing and payment processing software. She is the nationally recognized author of "Cloud Computing for Lawyers" (2012) and co-author of "Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier" (2010), both published by the American Bar Association. She was also the co-author of "Criminal Law in New York," a Thomson Reuters treatise. She writes regular columns for Above the Law, ABA Journal, and The Daily Record, has authored hundreds of articles for other publications, and regularly speaks at conferences regarding the intersection of law and emerging technologies. She is an ABA Legal Rebel, and is listed on the Fastcase 50 and ABA LTRC Women in Legal Tech. She can be contacted at niki.black@mycase.com.
