Executive Director’s Message by Karen A. Gould The VSB TECHSHOW: A “Must Attend” Event Under the able and dynam-ic leadership of Sharon D. Nelson, former Virginia State Bar president and techy extraordinaire, the third VSB TECHSHOW will take place on April 24, 2017, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Information and registration details can be found online at http://www.vsb.org/site/ events/item/vsb_techshow. The 2017 VSB TECHSHOW will feature Virginia Supreme Court Justice Cleo E. Powell and a nationally known panel of ABA TECHSHOW ® speakers, all of whom are very approachable and love answering the questions of attendees, even when not at the podium. Technology is here to stay, so it’s more important than ever to keep up with it in your practice. In 2016, the Supreme Court of Virginia amended the ethical rules governing Virginia lawyers to require that “[a]ttention should be paid to the benefi ts and risks associated with relevant technology.” 1 At the same time, it also amended Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6(d) to require that “[a] lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to prevent the inad-vertent or unauthorized disclosure of, or unauthorized access to, information protected under this Rule.” 2 Is it time to learn how to encrypt confi dential client e-mails or is it past that time? In addition to keeping up with technology to comply with your ethical obligations, you really need to understand technology so that it can help you with business development. Social media may be part of that pic-ture, but technological tools can make an unbelievable difference in produc-ing results. The VSB TECHSHOW schedule should make it obvious why you should attend this program. The schedule in-cludes a panoply of choices, depending upon where your interests and your needs take you: 8:00–8:30 Registration/Continental breakfast 8:30 Welcome — VSB TECHSHOW Chair Sharon D. Nelson, VSB President Michael W. Robinson and Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia Cleo E. Powell 8:45–9:45 First Sessions • Ethics: Practical Budget-Friendly Cybersecurity at Warp Speed (Sharon Nelson, president, Sensei Enterprises Inc., Fairfax, and John Simek, vice president, Sensei Enterprises Inc.) • Taking Your Law Firm Paperless: A Step by Step Guide (Catherine Sanders Reach, direc-tor of Law Practice Management and Technology, Chicago Bar Association, Chicago) 9:55–10:55 Second Sessions • Building a Virtual Law Practice, Including a Client Portal (Jim Calloway, director of Management Assistance Program at Oklahoma Bar Association, Oklahoma City, and Nerino Petro, chief information offi -cer, HolmstromKennedy PC, Rockford, IL) • Time/Billing/Accounting Software: Everything Lawyers Need to Know (Britt Lorish, Affi nity Consulting Group, Roanoke) 11:05–12:05 Third Sessions • Essential Law Offi ce Tech — On a Budget (Britt Lorish/Debbie Foster, Affi nity Consulting Group, Tampa) • Digital Transactions: E-Signatures, E-Contracts and Authentication (Tom Mighell, Contoural Inc., Dallas, and Dave Ries, Clark Hill PLC, Pittsburgh) 12:05–12:45 Lunch 12:45–1:45 Fourth Sessions • Avoiding Ethical Missteps in the Digital Era (Reid Trautz, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, DC, and Nerino Petro) • A Lawyers Guide to Case Management Systems (Natalie Kelly, director of Law Practice Management at State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, and Debbie Foster) 1:55–2:55 Fifth Sessions • Encryption is Simple, Easy and Cheap — and May Be Ethically Required (John Simek and Dave Ries) • Everything Lawyers Need to Know About Backing Up — In or Out of the Cloud (Catherine Sanders Reach and Jim Calloway) 12 VIRGINIA LAWYER | February 2017 | Vol. 65 www.vsb.org