About the author
Ben Cowgill is a member of the Kentucky Bar and a solo practitioner. He is also a member of the Technology Core Group of the ABA Law Practice Management Section. He has been showing other lawyers how to use technology for over twenty years, and actually coined the term "electronic trial notebook" in an article published in the ABA Journal in 1986.
He is the former Chief Bar Counsel for the Kentucky Bar Association, where he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of all disciplinary cases against members of the Kentucky Bar. He has also taught Professional Responsibility as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. He is a member of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He is the author of KentuckyLegalEthics.com, a highly-acclaimed blog in the field of legal ethics.
He is also a well-known seminar speaker. He has presented CLE programs for the American Bar Association Center for CLE, the National Organization of Bar Counsel, the Federal Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, the Washington and Oregon CLE Forum, the University of Kentucky College of Law, the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, the Samuel L. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, the Louisville Bar Association, the Fayette County Bar Association, National Business Institute, Inc. and Federal Publications, Inc.
