Sandra Potter
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Sandra Potter is an internationally recognized expert in the law and technology field, with a remarkable depth of specialist knowledge in the areas of document management, litigation support and the adoption of technology to control both paper-based and electronic material.
Sandra's in-depth knowledge of the legal profession and its unique workplace culture is the result of a twenty year career as a prominent legal technology consultant for law firms and the courts throughout Australia.
Apart from knowledge management and litigation support, her specialist areas of expertise include process re-engineering, change management, project management and risk management.
Currently Sandra is running an eCourt Strategy project for the United Nations at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia which involves, re-engineering current process to manage evidence, transcript, electronic in court presentation systems, drafting a Practice Note for the use of technology in the court room, drafting protocols for 13 matters which are currently running and a migration strategy, identifying appropriate technology to be implemented to assist these processes and piloting the first full eCourt for the UN. She has also been engaged by the UN International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and the Iraqi Special Tribunal to run similar projects.
She recently assisted the Royal Courts of Justice in the UK to draft a Practice Direction for the use of technology in their courts which is due to be published later this year and will undertake a similar task for the Canadian Courts later in the year. She has also implemented major projects for the Supreme Court of Victoria including the cyber court technology project and is currently chairing a committee (endorsed by the court) that is looking at discovery of electronic files and standards that may be able to be introduced.
Sandra was involved in the development of Australia's first electronic court in Victoria, driving the project through to drafting and reviewing the Victorian Supreme Court of Victoria's Practice Note dealing with electronic hearings. (This Practice Note became the basis of the defacto standard throughout Australia) and benchmarking costs for the use of technology in civil litigation matters.
Sandra has published extensively in industry publications both in Australia and internationally, as well as mainstream publications such as The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She has delivered numerous papers at 'Technology and the Law' conferences and seminars throughout the world, and lectures on litigation support and document management at some of Australia's leading technology universities, including the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and the Queensland University of Technology. These courses have also recently been picked up by Cambridge University, Institute of Continuing Education.
Sandra has received wide recognition for the highly pragmatic, professional nature of her advice and her ability to pinpoint workflow problems unique to the industry and develop strategies and implementation programs to solve those problems, thereby dramatically transforming the knowledge management systems of numerous organisations.