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Tony Hartsfield

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Name: Tony Hartsfield
Date registered: November 29, 2007
URL: http://legallearning.net

Biography

Co-Founder of the Society of Legal Learning Professionals. Training Senior Analyst at Bryan Cave LLP.

Latest posts

  1. ILTA Peer to Peer Magazine – December 2010 — December 18, 2010
  2. Mush! — September 22, 2010
  3. ILTA ’09 Day 1 — August 24, 2009
  4. CFO Magazine Article Addresses Training — June 22, 2009
  5. Passwords and Handheld Devices — June 19, 2009

Most commented posts

  1. A Lawyer’s IT Pet Peeves, and My Response. — 6 comments
  2. Jeffrey Roach – Unfiltered — 3 comments
  3. The Google Lawyer, or Lawyer 2.0 — 2 comments
  4. Podcast: Interview with Wayne “The Cranky Middle Manager” Turmel – Part 1 — 2 comments
  5. This Is Not Your Father’s Acrobat: Adobe Acrobat 9 — 2 comments

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Dec
18

ILTA Peer to Peer Magazine – December 2010

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by Tony Hartsfield

The Q4 issue of the ILTA magazine Peer to Peer went live this week.  The theme is Training/Learning in the legal market.  I was featured on a round table discussion called In the Perfect World.  The article was compiled from a series of podcasts that will be featured on ILTA’s website. There’s a lot of …

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Sep
22

Mush!

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by Tony Hartsfield

…And we’re back. For those of you that know us, you’ll understand the absence. For those that don’t, all I can say is that sometimes life is like sled dogging. Unless you’re the lead dog, the view never changes. So you either vie to become the lead dog, or hope that the lead dog is …

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Aug
24

ILTA ’09 Day 1

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by Tony Hartsfield

The annual conference for ILTA has begun. I’ve seen two sessions so far. The first was Greening the Law Office: Why It Makes Cents, presented by Joan Krajewski of Microsoft. Joan had some interesting statistics regarding the costs of business behaviors, and ways to reduce the corporate carbon footprint. Her slides (pdf) have some good …

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Jun
22

CFO Magazine Article Addresses Training

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by Tony Hartsfield

A colleage referred me to a recent article in CFO Magazine titled, Live and Learn – Companies get better at using technology to use training dollars more efficiently. The short article highlights that while training budgets are decreasing in most businesses, learning opportunities do not have to be sacrificed. In fact, because online content development …

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Jun
19

Passwords and Handheld Devices

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by Tony Hartsfield

This isn’t related to legal learning, but there’s an important lesson here. Last week I joined a team from my office to migrate one of our remote offices to new systems.  As we left the restaurant after dinner one night, a team member noticed that her Blackberry was missing. “I just had it at the …

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May
20

Recommendation: Two ILTA Webinars

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by Tony Hartsfield

Whether or not your firm is an ILTA member, you really should take advantage of the materials they offer. Of particular value are the webinar recordings.  You’ll find them on the archives page of their site. I’ll highlight a couple of recent recordings.  First, Jenn Steele presented on ILTA Social Networking: Twitter & Facebook & …

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Feb
26

The New Classroom

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by Tony Hartsfield

ILTA’s latest issue of Peer to Peer Magazine is out (and online). The issue theme is Green Initiatives, and includes a great article called The New Classroom, written by Gina Buser of Traveling Coaches. Gina reiterates what we’ve said here as well, that good training product is already green.  “One option is to create a …

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Jan
08

A Lawyer’s IT Pet Peeves, and My Response.

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by Tony Hartsfield

Ted Banks, former chief counsel for global compliance at Kraft Foods, vented his spleen in a recent Law.com article, What Steams Me About Technology. I like to hear what lawyers think about legal IT.  I don’t know Mr. Banks, but I hear echoes of his pet peeves in comments by other lawyers in my environment. …

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Jan
07

Do You Tweet? Here’s Why I Do.

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by Tony Hartsfield

I joined the Twitter ranks last summer.  The micro-blog site experienced explosive growth in 2008, which continues today. As a legal learning professional, I’ve discovered colleagues in my field, as well as several other legal experts who inform me about the industry.  Do they all relate to my training role? No, but they help me …

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Dec
10

Lessons Learned from a Web Conference Experience

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by Tony Hartsfield

A partner called, asking for assistance setting up a web conference with a client.  It was Thursday, and his meeting was the next Tuesday.  I know what you’re thinking: A partner called 4 business days before a meeting to set it up? Really? But it’s true, and we commended him for his foresight. And it …

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