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Welcome to the portal for all Cyberweek 2005-2006 discussions. Discussions will commence at the beginning of Cyberweek. Please go to the Discussion Forum and join in. If it is your first time in the forum you will need to register (it is free) and designate a username and password; please log in with each subsequent visit. Please note that some of these discussions will have accompanying presentations or materials to download.

Topics

• Will Web-enabled Document Automation Disrupt the Legal Profession? An On-Line and Off-Line Discussion
  Featuring Richard Granat and Marc Lauritsen, Co-chairs of the eLawyering Task Force of the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section and Daryl Mountain, a practitioner and consultant, who is also a member of the Task Force. The eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA is sponsoring a roundtable discussion on this topic at their Quarterly Meeting at the Loew's Hotel in Philadelphia, Saturday. October 22, 11 am to 1 pm. This on-line discussion is designed to complement and supplement that real-time, in-person discussion in Philadelphia. This on-line discussion will last for 30 days, from October 17. 2005 and end on November  17,  2005.

• Ethics and Trust in a Networked Society
  Featuring Tamar Frankel, Professor of Law, Boston University and author of a new book, Trust and Honesty. America's Business Culture at a Crossroad (2005)

• InternetBar.org Africa Committee Forum
  Moderated by Ayo Kusamotu, Kusamotu & Kusamotu, Lagos State, Nigeria. Some specific sub-topics to be addressed: Internet Telephony, Creative Commons, Cyber Crime, E-Commerce, E-Voting, Online Dispute Resolution
  

• The State of the World, the Law and Lawyer in the 21st Century
  Featuring Ramon Mullerat, a lawyer in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, Former President of the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union. Moderated by Joseph P. J. Vrabel, Esq. and featuring an expert panel of lawyers.

• Online Best Practices Committee
  Moderated by Hilary Rowen, Esq., chair of ABA TTIPS e-commerce committee and Jeff Aresty, President of the InternetBar Organization, with online interactive Best Practices table being developed by the Schidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology of the University of Washington Law School. Some specific sub-topics to be addressed: Email; Discussion forums, private “chat” or “deal” rooms, blogs; Client intake through interactive website; Document drafting through interactive website; Extranets; Virtual Libraries; Impediments to eLawyering.

• Collaborative and cooperative law moderated by John Debruyn, an introduction of what is happening in the Collaborative Law movement not only to civilize the divorce process but to introduce the collaborative law concept to other areas of practice.  Initial discussion topics include commitment to non-adversarial resolution, shared elements of the collaborative and cooperative process, going international and online with collaboration and cooperation

• International applications of ODR and/or Use of Mobile technology in conflict transformation Featuring Sanjana Hattotuwa, Head, Research Unit, Info Share, Sri Lanka, and Editor of the Peace Library

• Technology, Culture, and ODR to be moderated by Mohamed Wahab, Faculty of Law, University of Cairo

• Information Technology and Disaster Relief and Mitigation to be moderated by Leah Wing, At-Large Director for the Association for Conflict Resolution, University of Massachusetts Legal Studies faculty member, and long time facilitator.

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