We are excited to announce the selection of our keynote speaker for the 2014 Orion User Group Meeting. Ari Kaplan will be opening our conference this year. Ari is an industry expert and very well known around the ALA. After nearly nine years practicing with large law firms in New York City, Kaplan, named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, has become a leading industry analyst in the legal community. He has been the keynote speaker for events in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and throughout the U.S., and has shared ideas with legal professionals worldwide.

Ari Kaplan’s first book, The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development, was dubbed as a “must-have treasure box of marketing ideas,” and CEOs have described his new book, Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace as “an essential guide” that “expertly showcases the multitude of opportunities the digital age has brought to the professional services market.”

As the author of over 200 articles, Kaplan has received multiple Apex Awards for feature writing. He has been recognized in the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the New York Post, the ABA Journal, Above the Law, the National Jurist, the Chicago Lawyer, and the California Recorder, among other publications. He also served as a legal commentator for CNET Radio and has been interviewed on CNN, WGN-TV Chicago, CBS Interactive’s BNET, WMGT-41 Macon, and Good Morning San Diego. Check out Ari’s blog here.