A new team at practicePRO
There's a new team at the helm of practicePRO: Dan Pinnington has joined LPIC as Director, practicePRO, and Sophie Nicholson-Clarke is the new practicePRO Coordinator.

Dan brings to practicePRO a unique blend of legal experience and expertise in technology and its application to legal practice. A graduate of the joint LL.B./J.D. program offered by the Universities of Windsor and Detroit, Dan practised technology law as well as general law practice with a Niagara area law firm for the past seven years. He is a well-known writer and speaker on legal technology matters; his articles on technology matters have appeared in several publications, including the Lawyers' Weekly. He is currently the president of CSALT - the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Legal Technology (www.csalt.ca), and is known in legal technology circles as "Mr. Tips" for his popular weekly technology tip on the CSALT-talk e-mail discussion list.

Sophie is a nine-year LPIC veteran, with extensive experience in LPIC's Customer Service group. As a member of LPIC's front-line communications effort, Sophie acquired in-depth experience with all aspects of LPIC's operations, including the liability insurance program, TitlePLUS and, of course, practicePRO.

As well as expanding practicePRO's outreach program, which sees Dan and/or Sophie speak to local lawyer groups about LPIC, practicePRO and risk-related issues, Dan plans to develop additional tools and resources to help lawyers address change and risk management issues. His focus: Finding new ways to help lawyers integrate technology into their law practices. To this end, he will be writing a periodic practicePRO Tips column, to be carried both in the LPIC News and on the practicePRO portion of the LPIC web-site. The first of his Tips appears in this issue.

Book early for a date with practicePRO
Dan and Sophie are now booking presentation dates for 2001. If you are looking for an LPIC representative to speak to your monthly meeting or any other gathering of lawyers in your firm or area, on topics such as claims trends, practicePRO and LPIC initiatives, contact Sophie via email at pinningtd@lpic.ca or (416) 596-4623. Dan can be reached at pinningd@lpic.ca or (416) 598-5863. Both can be reached toll free at 1-800-410-1013.