Mr. Levine will also lead a workshop on Sarbanes-Oxley and good corporate governance.
October 11, 2006, Needham, MA — Two Step Software, Inc., a leader in corporate governance and stock plan administration solutions, announced today that its President and Founder, Gary D. Levine, is one of a select group of industry leaders to be chosen as keynote speakers at the upcoming Estrin LegalEd Paralegal SuperConference. This year’s Paralegal SuperConference takes place October 19th to 20th at the Marriot Fisherman’s Wharf hotel in San Francisco, California. The Paralegal SuperConference provides extensive training seminars to enable professionals to meet their continuing legal education requirements.
“The Paralegal SuperConference is one of the premier legal training events and provides outstanding continuing education opportunities for paralegal professionals. This conference also gives me an opportunity to address the convergence of two trends in legal practice today – making client information more available to law firm clients and, in the age of Sarbanes-Oxley, making corporate governance information more available to stakeholders. The use of client portals and advanced practice support technologies, such as Corporate Focus, provide organizations with instant access to critical information that fosters better decision making,” said Levine.
As a featured keynote speaker, Levine will address the question: “Do Client Portals Make Paralegals More Valuable?” He will examine one of the hottest trends at law firms that focus on superior client service: the development of client extranet portals. Even the simplest type of client portal dramatically increases paralegal productivity and responsiveness to clients. Paralegals are the lynch pin to making client portals successful and advocating for them. Mr. Levine will point out the key role a paralegal plays in the development of a law firm’s client portal and how implementing one can dramatically increase a paralegal’s value.
Mr. Levine will also lead one of the corporate workshops on “How Sarbanes Lite Has Become the New Good Corporate Governance Framework for All Companies.” He will offer a unique and informed perspective on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on corporate governance, drawing directly from his experience working with law firms to adopt best practices for corporate compliance.
Although the statutory requirements of SOX are only applicable to public companies, “it has become a framework used as guidance for venture-backed, pre-IPO, and high-value companies that want to adopt best practices for good corporate governance in advance of additional financing or a future acquisition,” says Levine. The workshop will provide information concerning what provisions from SOX provide the most useful guidance: whistleblower protection, document retention, codes of conduct, board composition, online corporate records, and transparency. For more information on the Paralegal SuperConference, visit: www.careercoachesinternational.com/sanfrancisco.html
Two Step’s Corporate Focus software unifies a firm’s fragmented systems for managing corporate governance and stock plan information. With Corporate Focus, law firms and corporate legal departments gain control over their stock plan tracking procedures, increase visibility into corporate governance records and contracts, and more easily access online minute book documents. By implementing Two Step’s Corporate Focus solution, organizations can centrally organize their information, standardize processes that had too many different steps, and provide real-time information to those who need it. Corporate Focus reduces the legal and business risk in the corporate governance process, while at the same time delivering productivity gains and enhanced collaboration.
About Gary D. Levine Mr. Levine is the President and Founder of Two Step Software, Inc., Needham, MA. Previously, he was General Counsel of Pilot Software, Inc. and a corporate attorney with Hutchins and Wheeler, Boston, MA. He has authored numerous articles and is a frequent speaker on corporate governance and stock plan administration. For more than a decade, he has worked with leading law firms and corporate legal departments on practice management issues.
