About Law Practice Management & Technology at the Chicago Bar Association

Welcome to the CBA’s Law Practice Management & Technology Center. This newly created department will provide CBA members with an array of new services and programming including continuing legal education seminars, technology training both online and inperson, and will provide fee-based consulting services to CBA members in areas such as website review, technology review, and strategic technology planning.

Catherine Sanders Reach
Director of Law Practice Management & Technology

Catherine Sanders Reach is Director, Law Practice Management and Technology for the Chicago Bar Association. She was the Director at the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center for over ten years, providing practice technology assistance to lawyers. Prior to her work at the CBA and ABA she worked in library and information science environments for a number of years, working at Ross and Hardies as a librarian. She received a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1997.

Ms. Reach’s professional activities include articles published in Law Practice magazine, Law Technology News and GPSolo Magazine. She has given presentations on the use of technology in law firms for national bar conferences, state and local bar associations and organizations such as the Association of Legal Administrators and the Association of American Law Schools. She served on the ABA TECHSHOW Board from 2007-2009 and is on the editorial advisory board for Law Technology News. In 2011 she was selected to be one of the inaugural Fastcase 50, celebrating 50 innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the field of law.

Catherine can be reached via email or 312-554-2070.