ILTA Roundtable Discussion: The Year Ahead

Lunch will be provided.
 
Description:
In honor of Groundhog Day, ILTA is popping up again! Please join us for our first meeting of the year as we discuss plans for 2016 and more. What's on your agenda this year? What should be on our radar? Which trends, issues and topics are likely to be of interest to local ILTA members in the coming months?

You'll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with your peers -- including some new ILTA members who have recently joined our ranks -- as we look toward the year ahead. It's sure to be a lively conversation and we hope to see you there!

Location:
Jackson Kelly PLLC
500 Lee Street East
Suite 1600
Charleston, WV 25301

Host: Denise Ash
304.340.1343
dash@jacksonkelly.com

Roundtable: Smarter Working

Light Breakfast Sponsor: Clayton Utz

Description:
At our first meeting in 2016, we will facilitate a roundtable on initiatives, policies and strategies to support smart working. Come prepared to discuss the development of the modern workplace, including developing policies such BYOD, e-working to improve speed and collaboration, and technologies that support working from home. We'll focus on sharing what we have all learned in the process, good and bad. This meeting is for anyone and everyone, not just those in an IT role; the broader the scope of experiences to share, the better the information we all gain.

Location:
Clayton Utz
1 Bligh Street
Level 15
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Host: Roxana Jarolimek
61.2.9353.5493
rjarolimek@claytonutz.com

Information Protection for Legal - Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite

Lunch Sponsor: Netrix LLC

Description:
Unsecured firm data can cost you millions of dollars in lost business -- but protecting your information shouldn't make it harder for your attorneys and staff to do their work. Learn how Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) makes it easy to protect sensitive information while keeping attorneys and staff productive. EMS helps law firms to:

• Implement multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access
• Secure file servers with document encryption to protect client information
• Ensure remote or traveling attorneys can work securely on any device
• Give attorneys and staff single sign-on access to over 2,500 applications from the office or a remote site
• Prevent regulatory fines and litigation costs by identifying suspicious activity before data can be compromised
• Reduce help desk calls by 25 percent with self-service password reset
• Prevent leakage of confidential data from mobile devices

Presenter:
Rich Lilly is a Cloud and Datacenter Evangelist for various Microsoft solutions at Netrix LLC, where he is actively engaged in local user group meetings, community events, video blogs and blog posts. He has been working in IT consulting for about 15 years in a variety of roles, and has a deep personal interest in technology. Rich regularly leads Microsoft envisioning sessions at Microsoft Technology Center locations throughout the U.S. and acts as an extension of the Microsoft Technology Solutions Professional. He enjoys helping new customers lay out technical strategies and solutions to match their requirements and showing them how to leverage technology to further their business.

Location:
Ice Miller LLP
250 West Street
Columbus, OH 43215

Host: Tim Eckenrode
614.462.2265
tim.eckenrode@icemiller.com

Improve Your Service Desk - Meeting of the Minds Roundtable

Lunch Sponsor: Tympani

Description:
Is your service desk meeting and exceeding the needs of the employees and partners you serve? Are your performance metrics in line with the firm's expectations? Are you spread too thin, being asked to cover a multitude of corporate and personal devices, programs and applications? Join us for a roundtable discussion to share best practices for help desks, service desks and IT support staff.

Discussion Leaders:
John Irey has spent over 15 years as a technology consultant, solely focusing on Cisco Contact Centers after the first five years. He has worked on contact centers ranging from small to global, with a wide range of technical needs. John has been involved in the full life cycle of projects, including technical sales, design, implementation and support.

Frank Napolitano is a contact center specialist with 15 years of experience selling contact center solutions from Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Aspect, Calabrio, Verint, Nice, Nuance and many others. Frank works with companies to develop a strategy to help get their key performance indicators and performance metrics in line with their goals and objectives.

Kleid Gjataj has over 14 years of consulting experience, both domestic and international, in scoping/planning, design, implementation and optimization of enterprise contact center solutions and advanced technologies. He helps organizations bridge the gap between business and technology to support new strategies, improved operations, increased efficiencies and cost reduction. Kleid specializes in communications technologies, multimedia queuing, quality management, speech analytics and custom applications.

Location:
Baker & McKenzie LLP
300 East Randolph St.
Suite 5000
Chicago, IL 60601

Host: Randall Kalik
312.861.8802
randall.kalik@bakermckenzie.com

Business Skills for IT - Achieving SMARTER Goals

Lunch Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig LLP

Description:
Please join us for a local meeting on building and achieving SMARTER Goals. This session will provide a road map for how to create and successfully manage your annual goals. Attendees will watch a short prerecorded presentation then join a moderator-led discussion on the concepts presented and how to apply them.

Speakers:
Maria L. Smith is the Senior Manager of IT Business Analysis and Training for McDermott Will & Emery LLP. For over 20 years she has led teams in developing and implementing process and technology solutions for large global law firms. Maria has participated on several panels at LegalTech and ILTA, and is serving her third year on the ILTA conference committee.

Scott Reid is the Director of KM Innovation at Littler Mendelson PC. His department focuses on creating new client-facing employment law solutions, and assists the firm's attorneys with a process engineering approach to the delivery of legal services. Scott joined Littler in 2014 after 23 years as an attorney in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, retiring as its first chief knowledge officer.

Moderator:
Gina Johnson,Bowman & Brooke LLP - gina.johnson@bowmanandbrooke.com

Location:
Greenberg Traurig LLP
300 West 6th Street
Suite 2050
Austin, TX 78701

Host: Rakesh Shah
512.320.7214
shahr@gtlaw.com

Technology Roundtable

Lunch will be provided.

Description:
Please join us as we discuss current trends, issues and topics of interest to local ILTA members. You'll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with your peers as you bring your topics and questions to the table for what is sure to be a lively conversation. We hope to see you there!

Location:
Ryley Carlock & Applewhite
2901 North Central
Suite 800
Phoenix, AZ 85012

Host: Bill Dunlap
602.575.2669
wdunlap@rcalaw.com

Get More from Office 365 with New Tools

Breakfast Sponsor: DocsCorp

Description:
Join us for breakfast to learn how DocsCorp and Microsystems will enhance Office 365 capabilities with new tools that deliver on flexibility, productivity and security.

DocsCorp will launch several must-have products for Office 365 in March. We'll get a preview of document comparison and metadata removal tools developed for Office 365 users to compare and clean business-critical documents of metadata from any device, anytime, anywhere.

Microsystems' DocXtools, a powerful Microsoft Word add-in assisting with document structure and advanced formatting, is used by document-intensive businesses to help manage very large, complex documents with mission-critical importance. We'll see how this solution swiftly eliminates formatting issues caused by cutting and pasting by multiple contributors while creating clean document output, eliminating hours of work. DocXtools fills legal-specific functionality gaps in Word, simplifies document drafting and problem-solving processes, and enables law firms to achieve greater drafting efficiency, document quality, productivity and client satisfaction.

Presenters:
Dean Sappey is the President and co-founder of DocsCorp, which develops a range of integrated, easy-to-use software and services for document processing, review, manipulation and publishing workflows -- driving business efficiency for ECM professionals at over 3,500 firms globally. With a successful 25-year track record in developing new products and technologies, Dean combines technical expertise and business acumen to build products that deliver real workplace efficiencies. He speaks at international conferences and forums, and oversees the company's international operations. Previously, Dean founded Perfect Technology, which was later acquired by Solution 6 (ASX:SOH) in 2000.

Matt Breen is the EMEA Sales Director at Microsystems, which has been providing cutting-edge software and innovative document technology solutions since 1995. The company supports document-intensive organisations across the globe, helping them satisfy the complex demands of clients and regulators by mitigating risk, improving authoring, creating error-free documents and enhancing document production efficiency. Matt has over 15 years of experience working with law firms, and for the last eight years has been helping firms improve their document drafting and production efforts.

Cheryl Hutchens is the Manager at Herbert Smith Freehills Document Centre, Australia. With a career spanning over 30 years at Herbert Smith Freehills, she has held various roles in business services and operations, managing templates, document technical support, design, production and print processes. The firm has utilised a number of Microsystems DocXtools features, including the Xref tool, since 2009. A customised house version is currently available on the ribbon to all users in Herbert Smith Freehills' Australian offices.

Location:
DocsCorp
5/66 Clarence St.
Sydney
NSW 2000

Host: Anna Biala
+61.0.2.8270.8500
anna.biala@docscorp.com

Docket Law Essentials and Date Calculation

Lunch Sponsor: Terrapin Technology Group

Description:
It doesn't matter which court or agency you are before, or what state you are in, successful date calculation requires at least a basic understanding of several essential factors that affect the process. We will present an overview and analysis of these essential factors, with examples from California, and discuss the pros and cons of using automated court rules. We'll also review available products and demonstrate an automated court rules product in Microsoft Outlook.

Presenters:
G. Scott Davis, MS, JD is the founder and CEO of CalendarRules, a company focused on building, updating and delivering court rules to various calendar systems. Scott left the practice of law to work in law office automation in 1995, spending nine years at Versys Corporation prior to starting the company. At Versys, he worked closely with developers integrating, selling and supporting Legal-X court rules (acquired by Prolaw, acquired by West) and Compulaw court rules, and was the product manager responsible for managing the addition of court rules to LegalKey (acquired by Hummingbird, acquired by Open Text) critical dates, records and document management products. Using the latest web technologies, CalendarRules now supports thousands of lawyers, using rule sets from all 50 states, in over a dozen different calendaring programs.

Joseph O'Donnell III, a Technical Engineer and Instructor at Terrapin, has an impressive IT background, most recently serving as the senior technical support technician and training coordinator for the law firm McDonough Holland & Allen PC. He has strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, is extremely knowledgeable about desktop, mobile, server and network technologies, and holds the CompTIA A+ and Microsoft Office Specialist certifications. Joe has provided support and training with programs such as Open Text Hummingbird DMS, Litera Innova, Microsystems DocXtools, Microsoft Office, LegalKey, CompuLaw, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Legal, Carpe Diem, Workshare Professional, iBlaze Summation/Sanction, Adobe Acrobat and additional programs specific to real estate, probate and estate planning practice groups. A Microsoft Certified Trainer, he is skilled at assisting people in a classroom setting, one-on-one and via webinar.

Location:
Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard
400 Capitol Mall
27th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

Host: Michael Reese
916.321.4500
mreese@kmtg.com

Increase Productivity and DMS Adoption with NetDocuments' ndOffice

Lunch Sponsor: NetDocuments
 
Description:
NetDocuments' ndOffice embeds the document management system (DMS) directly into the Microsoft Office applications. With the cloud-based DMS seamlessly integrated into MS Office, users need not leave an application to save, edit, version, profile, search or navigate through the system as they work on documents.

See how having the DMS working as a background process and appearing natively in MS Office can increase the number of users leveraging the system and improve productivity by enabling easy compliance with correct information governance practices and helping users get more done without leaving Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Presenter:
Shelby Crotty is a Senior Account Executive for NetDocuments. She has over 15 years of software and professional services experience specific to the legal industry.

Location:
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Host: Dawn Sizemore
513.357.8790
sizemore@taftlaw.com

Improve Server Efficiency with Intelligent Flash Storage

Lunch Sponsor: Tegile Systems

Description:
Learn how all-flash and hybrid arrays can help IT reduce latency, improve server utilization and application performance, and reduce infrastructure footprint though technologies such as deduplication. We'll discuss various types of flash, interfaces, write endurance and more, and show you how to determine if a flash hybrid or all-flash array is best suited to your environment.

Presenter:
Kelley Osburn is the Georgia Sales Manager for Tegile Systems. He has over 25 years of experience in IT, holding a variety of positions including programmer/analyst, network administrator, systems engineer and technical sales. Throughout his career, Kelley has presented to technical audiences at tech forums, roadshows, user groups and professional associations.

Location:
Alston & Bird
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309

Host: Kai Williams-Slaton
678.355.2913
kai.williams-slaton@alston.com