Hosted at The Offices of:
Sidley Austin LLC
One South Dearborn
Chicago, Illinois 60603
http://www.sidley.com

Please join Data Fusion for an educational session to discuss Best Practices for Law Firm Profitability Analysis. Jeffrey Suhr, Product Specialist at Data Fusion who is also an expert in Law Firm Profitability Analysis, will lead us through different methods currently being used to help firms analyze and apply profitability analysis to help improve the financial management of your firm. We will also explore different cost allocation strategies and how they can be tailored to help promote positive behavioral change. We will end our session with a discussion on how many firms are leveraging this information to better assist them in Rate Negotiation, Partner Compensation as well as Practice Group Management. This session is applicable to firms of all sizes and is ideal for anyone that wants to learn about the varying ways profitability analysis is being done and how you can roll it out at your firm. For the purposes of this session we will use our IntelliStat Business Intelligence software to demonstrate how you can leverage a warehouse to measure specific revenue metrics and allocate costs throughout the firm by integrating ELBS, FMS, Payroll, Budgeting, Partner Compensation and HR systems.

DFTECHEXPO2010. This seminar is considered by many in the industry to be one of the foremost educational events for Thomson Elite users as well as the IntelliStat user community. While other conferences focus on showing you what is coming in new releases… EXPO focuses on getting you the training you need on the products you currently use today. Whether you are new to Elite or IntelliStat and need to learn shortcuts to get your job done faster, or you are an advanced user who needs to cut your workload down with some advanced features, DFTECHEXPO has a training track that can be tailored just for you.

DFTECHEXPO’s instructors have an in-depth practical knowledge of Elite and IntelliStat software because they practice what they preach, everyday at firms around the U.S. All instructors have been invited to lead classes based on their industry knowledge and because of their unique ability to contribute to your educational growth. As a student at DFTECHEXPO you will gain a deeper understanding of the software you are using and learn about new functionality that will help teach practical and relevant skills that will provide immediate results in the workplace when you apply what you have learned. Best of all, all of our classes are small sizes, many led by 2 people so there is a very personalized learning experience in a collaborative and interactive environment. DFTECHEXPO2010 will be held in sunny Laguna Beach, California, only seconds from the beach, on April 26-28, 2010. Join us for 3 days of a very personalized, hands-on learning experience where you can get the most value from what you have, as well as figure out how to get your job done faster.

Jeff Suhr, Senior Product Specialist will participate as a panelist for ILTA's session "Benchmarking in a Challenging Economy". The description is below and more information about the conference can be found on ILTA's conference site at http://conference.iltanet.org/

With the challenging economy, what was already a competitive market has now become even more competitive and strategic. This session will look at how the benchmarking concept has changed due to the economy and what we can expect in the future. Additionally, how the firm's financials and financial benchmarking are constantly communicated to the partnerships is changing as well, and we will examine some best practices of technological transparency.

ILTA '09 Leading Technology Optimizing Value
Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center
Near Washington, DC
August 23-27

Hosted at the Offices Of:
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Two North LaSalle Street, Suite 2200
Chicago, IL 60602-3801
http://www.ngelaw.com

Hosted at the Offices Of:
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
One New York Plaza
New York, NY 10004-1980
http://www.ffhsj.com

Stop by our booth to learn about our products, training, and services - all exclusively for users of the Elite software. We'll be demonstrating the recent release of our Business Intelligence product, IntelliStat 6.0, as well as providing information on the perfect replacement software for FRx.

We're in Booth #208 in the back of the Exhibit Hall on the left.