At the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference (ILTACON), underway this week, no discussion of information and insight about the strategy and operations of modern legal organizations would be complete without a discussion of money and how it’s being spent. In cooperation with ILTA, InsideLegal produces an annual survey of legal technology purchasing practices. …
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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 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
ILTACON 2016 Keynote – Re-Imagining Legal Technology for the 21st Century with Mike Walsh
ILTACON 2016 kicked-off at the Gaylord National Harbor in Maryland this morning with a record-setting number of attendees present. With a promising week of programming ahead, author and futurist Mike Walsh started Day One with a rousing keynote titled “Re-Imagining Legal Technology for the 21st Century.” With a sleek presentation in tow, Walsh’s charm and …
- August 29, 2016
- Alex Cook
ILTA executive director Randi Mayes on ILTACON 2016
ILTACON 2016 is an excellent opportunity for people working in legal technology to learn, share and discuss what works, what doesn’t and the tools to face challenges now and in the future. ILTA executive director Randi Mayes, who has led ILTA for more than twenty years, discusses how ILTA has helped shape the legal technology …
- August 29, 2016
- Leonard Lee
Who Watches the Watchmen?
What do Roman satirist Juvenal, Alan Moore and Jason Thomas, chief of Innovation for Thomson Reuters, have in common? All have asked the question (in one way or another), “who watches the watchmen?” It is a fundamental question of our age when seemingly endless amounts of data are accessible through countless technological gateways. And while …
- January 26, 2016
- Alex Cook