Marc Lauritsen (marc@capstonepractice.com), president of Capstone Practice Systems, Inc., is a Massachusetts lawyer and educator with an extensive background in practice, teaching, management, and research.  He helps lawyers and other practitioners to work more effectively through professional knowledge systems.  With more than fourteen years of experience in system development, Lauritsen has built dozens of major applications for law firms, law departments, publishers, government agencies, and other organizations.  He has trained hundreds of people in the development and use of practice technology.

Lauritsen earned two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School.  He practiced and supervised in legal services programs for seven years, and served as a law school instructor and administrator.  As director of clinical programs, executive director of Project PERICLES, and a senior research associate at Harvard Law School, Lauritsen was instrumental in bringing modern law office technology into the school's experiential education programs.  He became a principal of The Capstone Group in 1992, and founded Capstone Practice Systems in 1998.  During 2000 Lauritsen served as vice president for practice technology at AmeriCounsel.com, an internet legal services company.

Lauritsen has lectured widely and published over eighty articles on the uses and implications of information technology in the legal profession.  He is active in professional and scholarly communities concerned with law and technology both nationally and internationally.  He serves as a technology correspondent for Artificial Intelligence and Law, and is a member of the editorial boards for the International Journal of Law and Information Technology and Informatica e Diritto.  For many years Lauritsen was chair of the American Bar Association's Document Assembly Interest Group and moderator of the Law Office Automation forum on Counsel Connect.