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 …
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Active Directory Windows Server 2012 R2 – ILTA 2014 session
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 …
On the edge of law firm technology – ILTA 2014 session
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 & …
Unleashing IT to Disrupt, Define and Differentiate Future Strategies: ILTA day three keynote
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 …
Stealth disruption – ILTA 2014 session
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 …
Should law firms build apps?
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 …
A Day in the Life of a Threat Actor – ILTA 2014 session
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 …
Mary Abraham on Leveraging LinkedIn: Pimping your profile
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 …
“It’s a MAD, MAD, MAD cyber world” – ILTA 2014 day two keynote
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 …
Legal market trends presented by Thomson Reuters at ILTA 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 …
