Thursday 21st Aug 2014
The last five years have seen significant change in the legal marketplace. According to this panel, delivering services to clients is chief among the transformations. At this ILTA session, Ron Friedmann of Fireman & Company, Scott Rechtschaffen at Littler Mendelson, P.C., and Andrew Perlman from Suffolk University Law School discussed “The Legal Industry Inflection Point: The ...
Thursday 21st Aug 2014
At ILTA 2014, we took a deep dive into Active Directory Windows Server 2012 R2. The new version of Active Directory attempts to meet the most pressing contemporary needs of businesses, but how do the features stack up for the modern law firm? One feature the panel of technology experts noted was that ADFS ...
Wednesday 20th Aug 2014
Over the previous three years at ILTA, one of the most popular sessions has been “What’s That? New and Cool Technologies.” This year was no different. A capacity crowd of legal technologists listened to the witty foursome of Jeffrey Brandt of PinHawk LLC, Mark Manoukian of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, Beau Mersereau of Fish & ...
Wednesday 20th Aug 2014
No matter what size your firm is or its location, you must have a global mindset. Oh, and we will all be replaced by robots. Those were the key takeaways after the Wednesday morning keynote at ILTA 2014. Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future Research Limited presented “Unleashing IT to Disrupt, Define and Differentiate Future ...
Wednesday 20th Aug 2014
During ILTA 2014, a number of panelists gave a series of TED-style talks on how to subtly encourage their attorneys into adopting new technology. Each panelist presented their own successful method of stealth disruption, most of which were not driven by technology but rather by social techniques for driving change within their organizations. Each panelist ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
On the first day of ILTA’s 2014 convention on Monday, I attended a rather fascinating session. The title was “To App or Not To App?” and it was focused around if it makes sense for a law firm to produce their own apps. The following questions were posed: Do law firm apps really do the useful things they ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
After several sessions discussing the risks firms may face from cyber security threats, it was a welcome change of pace to hear more about how these threats are orchestrated and what organizations are doing to stay ahead of “threat actors.” Barry Hensley, executive director of the Counter Threat Unit at Dell SecureWorks, offered a ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
Mary Abraham, woman of many hats including author and well-known KM blogger, spoke at ILTA 2014 on Tuesday afternoon about leveraging LinkedIn, or as she called it, “Pimping Your Profile.” LinkedIn allows you to show the world what you can do, according to Abraham. “If you want to manage your reputation online, you need to ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
With day two of ILTA 2014 underway, technologist Rod Beckstrom offered a rousing keynote to start the day. In contrast to yesterday’s address by Peter Diamandis, Beckstrom leveraged his experience as former president and CEO of ICANN, founding director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center, and co-author of the best-selling book The Starfish and the ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
This morning, I attended a session at ILTA 2014 called “Legal Market Trends” presented by Eric Laughlin, managing director, Corporate Counsel segment at Thomson Reuters, and Tommy Williams, vice president, Large Law Firms at Thomson Reuters. Williams began the discussion by talking about what he is seeing in the large law firm space. “Growth for ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
Pressures are increasing for legal IT professionals to increase productivity and reduce costs. Couple that with the demand for anytime and anywhere access to law firm data and the result is a multi-front push for cloud based solutions. At the forefront of this struggle are core functions of a firm like content management, collaboration, search, eDiscovery and ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
Harnessing Big Data could be a key for firms seeking to gain competitive advantages and boost their business development efforts. In the podcast below, Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, discuss their recently published white paper, produced by ILTA, that ...
Monday 18th Aug 2014
As the law firm of the future looks globally to serve its clients, cloud-based data solutions will become even more crucial to survive. But with data storage regulations varying from country to country, how are law firm IT departments supposed to find a cost-effective, secure and practical answer? “By the time you review and propose ...
