The cloud is becoming increasingly ubiquitous at law firms. In fact, a recent ABA Technology Survey stated that 46 percent of cloudless firms will be transitioning in the next 6-12 months. In the session on the “New International Standard for Cloud Due Diligence,” Gregg Brown, senior director Technical Strategy, Computer Standards at Microsoft, and Patrick …
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Increasing KM User Engagement – KM with Kim, episode 2
Knowledge Management, like any solution, is only as effective as an organization’s ability to get people to use it. In this episode of “KM with Kim”, Thomson Reuters national manager of knowledge management, Kim Stein discusses how firms can get the most out of the KM systems A white paper on “Knowledge Management Software Has …
- August 31, 2016
- Leonard Lee
ILTACON 2016 Session: Empathetic Design In Legal – Redesigning Law for Clients
Among the themes that have emerged at this year’s ILTACON is the notion of “deconstruction” of the legal industry. It was a point Dan Katz, associate professor of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law, touched on in his keynote, particularly as a precursor of change in the space. After all, unleashing big data or …
- August 30, 2016
- Alex Cook
ILTACON 2016: AI, Smart Contracts, Blockchains & More
What are some of the disruptive technologies facing the legal industry? Ron Friedman of Fireman & Co. led an ILTACON 2016 session on “When Will Blockchains and Smart Contracts Be Important in Legal?” He and Eric Laughlin, managing director, Legal Managed Services, Thomson Reuters, sat down to discuss. [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/legalcurrent/AI__Legal_Technology_with_Eric_Laughlin__Ron_Friedmann.mp3]
- August 30, 2016
- Leonard Lee
ILTACON 2016 Session: How the Past Drives the Future with Predictive Analytics
Does the past drive the future? Why do you need predictive analytics? These are questions a passionate panel of experts sought to answer at the ILTACON 2016 session: “How the Past Drives the Future with Predictive Analytics.” Andy Peterson, Innovative Solutions Strategist at Davis Wright Tremaine; David Cunningham, CIO at Winston & Strawn; Mark Thorogood, …
- August 30, 2016
- Andrew McLennan-Murray
Finding ILTA: The “organic” growth of the International Legal Technology Association
By Monica Bay What is ILTA? Like IBM, not everyone knows what the acronym stands for. (IBM is the International Business Machines Corp., based in Armonk, N.Y.) You won’t find the answer if you assume you can find it at ilta.com. Or ilta.org. ILTA is easy to say and runs smoothly off the tongue—maybe that’s …
- August 30, 2016
- Alex Cook
ILTACON 2016: State of Legal Technology Innovation
Advances in legal technology — both the present and future — will be front and center at ILTACON 2016 this week. Charlotte Rushton, managing director, large and midsize law firms, and innovation leader for the Legal business of Thomson Reuters, discusses the state of innovation in the legal industry
- August 30, 2016
- Leonard Lee
ILTACON 2016 Session: Machine Learning as a Service and the Future of AI and the Law
Daniel Katz, associate professor of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law, opened his Day One ILTACON session by assuring attendees that the days of robot overlords are still a bit further off. “I’m not about robots replacing lawyers, I’m about placing robots where they aren’t now,” Katz remarked. Lawyers, technologists and futurists have long …
- August 29, 2016
- Alex Cook
ILTACON 2016 Session: Preparing a Cybercrime Incident Response Plan
Unleashing the power of technology also means the threat of cyber attack looms just around the corner. As the well-publicized Sony Studios hack played out in 2014, the release of privileged data caused incalculable harm to the organization. While the perpetrators in the Sony case were sophisticated, nation-state actors, law firms must be prepared …
- August 29, 2016
- Alex Cook
ILTACON 2016: Growing Up With ILTA
I am what’s known as a “lifer”… or an “old-timer … or any number of other descriptors usually said affectionately but with just the slightest hint of pejorative undertone. I’ve been around the legal tech community a long time, and am coming up on 24 years at Thomson Reuters Elite. However, I am a mere …
- August 29, 2016
- Alex Cook
