Orlando-based Wave Software announced that its Co-founder and President, Robert E. Childress III has joined the Vendor Advisory Board of LegalTech. Childress will lend industry insight, expertise and vision to LegalTech’s cornerstone events. He will work with other vendor board members to help LegalTech remain as the most important legal technology event in the industry.
Legal technology is ever changing, and LegalTech offers law firms and legal departments the ability to stay on top of this evolving industry to improve their law practice management. LegalTech offers CLE-accredited sessions and an extensive exhibition hall. Legal professionals attend LegalTech to learn about the newest advances in technology as well as network with industry leaders.
“I am honored to be a part of the LegalTech Vendor Advisory Board,” said Robert E. Childress III, Co-founder and President of Wave Software. “I look forward to collaborating with other board members while sharing knowledge and expertise in the legal technology industry. I hope to be especially helpful to LegalTech as we advance the educational and exhibit hall experience into a new level of excellence and press ahead with its leadership in the industry.”
With Childress at the helm, Wave Software’s flagship product, Trident Pro, won the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Top Provider award, achieved LTN “Presidents Corner” in March of 2009, won a 2009 ITFlorida award, plus it won two LTN Awards: a bronze for Trident Pro De-Duplication, EDD Services Collection and a bronze for Trident Pro Near Duplicate Detection, EDD Services Identification.
Childress is a 2004/2005 National Register Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals winner and winner of the Florida Small Businessman of the Year 2005. Childress is recognized as one of the 20 most influential people in the legal software business, having held senior positions with a number of key technology corporations including Lexis-Nexis, Thomson & Thomson, Elsevier Science, CXA Inc., McGrawHill, and Shepards. While at Lexis-Nexis, Childress managed product design and software sales for legal management software products for their corporate, government and legal markets. He was one of two founders of CXA, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Childress attended University of Colorado. He has been awarded numerous government contracts from clients such as the FBI, CIA, White House and Homeland Security.
More information on Wave Software can be found at www.discoverthewave.com. For information on LegalTech visit www.legaltechshow.com.
By Guest Blogger: Wave Software
