Dave

David J. Bilinsky is a Practice Management Consultant/Advisor for the Law Society of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and past Editor-in-Chief of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine.  David is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University teaching a totally online, graduate level course in the Masters of Arts in Applied Legal Studies program.  This MA program received the 2011 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education.

Dave’s mission in life is to empower lawyers to anticipate the changes, realize the opportunities, face the challenges and embrace the expanding possibilities of the application of practice management concepts to the practice of law in innovative ways that provide service excellence.

Dave is the founder and current Chair of the Pacific Legal Technology Conference and a past Co-Chair of ABA TECHSHOW.

Dave’s consulting services focus on enhancing law firm profitability, strategic business planning, change management and the application of technology to the practice of law. Dave has been called upon from Shanghai to The Hague, from the Yukon to deep in the heart of Argentina by law firms and legal associations to address personal productivity, change management, technology implementation, career satisfaction, leadership development and the emerging discipline: online dispute resolution.

Dave is a prolific writer on practice management and writes regularly for many publications in the USA and Canada including being a core contributor to the award-winning blog www.slaw.ca as well as www.thoughtfullaw.com.  His articles have been reprinted across the globe and translated into several languages including French, Mandarin, Spanish and Portuguese.

You can contact him at daveb@thoughtfullaw.com.