City Councilmember Jean Godden I'd like to thank members
of the Green Ribbon Commission, which took a break from their efforts today to
join this
event, which shows the
kind of innovative spirit that we've got, and environmental leadership that makes Seattle such a great place.
John Stuttard: Well, Legaltech is a fabulous product and it's a fabulous
event, but all products have their life - cycles, and when I
joined I was looking at the trends in terms
of participation and attendee numbers and sponsor activity and that
kind of stuff and I noticed that the legal text sort
of format which is predicated on eDiscovery, has reached a plateau where eDiscovery has become so mainstream that I think it's well understood by the legal community and it's fairly recent, if you go back 10 years it was a very new and interesting and important technology driving a lot
of development in the industry, but in the meantime what ALM built was the single largest collection
of individuals from the legal sector at any one
event, which is very interesting to me because it's only based on really the technology elements
of the legal industry.