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Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the co-authors, Nadine Ezzie, Founder + President, ezzie + co. and Kenneth Jones, Chief Operating Officer, Xerdict. Recently, we published a piece on change management via the prism of a legal tech matter management case study. In this ILTA blog, we drill down on the case study to provide six concrete suggestions – three user-facing and three more technological in nature – to assist those in the ILTA community to integrate strong change management principles in their technology efforts. Three Tips - User Facing Aspects Of Change Management In Legal Change Management for Legal Professionals - Communication ...

In Kofax Power PDF Advanced, how do you create a link from a MPO to an exhibit to a declaration?

Just wondering if your law firm blocks insecure file sharing sites even if the client wants to use them. Any insight how this is handled would be greatly appreciated.

Here at ILTA, we’re excited to welcome a new year and a new decade. To ring in 2020, we reached out to ILTAns to share their legal tech trend predictions for this year and beyond. ILTAns took a look into the future and delivered. There might not be any flying cars in the near future, but our community is excited about the changes to come to everything from automation to client privacy, and staff changes to Artificial Intelligence. Read on and then leave a comment below with your own prediction. Maureen Blando, President and COO, Mobile Helix We see two growing trends which people may have been skeptical about as recently as three years ago. They are ...

In 2018, the perception of artificial intelligence in the legal world began the transition from existential threat to business tool. While law firms and corporate legal departments that have fully integrated AI into their workflows are still in the minority, there was a significant increase in interest in this technology. Over the course of the year, ILTA’s member and vendor communities continued to share their expertise through articles, webinars and conference panels. Below is a guide to that content, along with some (hopefully) helpful commentary. ILTACON 2018 Sessions Where is Artificial Intelligence Making a Big Difference? This session serves ...

Why is Virtual Leadership important? Virtually Everything There are numerous reasons why firms of all sizes have remote employees. Large firms have multiple offices across the country or the world and small firms may have remote employees to conserve expensive office space. Additionally, firms require specialized staff; offering flexible or remote work as a benefit is an excellent recruiting and retention tool. Organizations must be agile, investments have been made in cloud technologies, and staff expect mobile access to everything, making virtual employees more commonplace. As leaders we are seeing our teams are becoming increasingly geographically ...

There are few who would disagree that 2017 was the year of AI hype. Everyone in the legal profession worried that they would be replaced by robots - or at least that’s what many news outlets would have us think. Artificial intelligence (AI) was a hot topic at ILTACON 2017, with three “standing room only” sessions focusing on helping attendees understand the basics of the technology, its use cases, and best practices from firms that have already begun to deploy it. Each session was moderated by Andrew Arruda , CEO and co-founder of ROSS Intelligence , and featured an array of industry experts. The first session in the series featured Sam Whitman , KM ...

Tone is the “body language” of the written word. If you’ve ever sat through a presentation where the speaker looked disinterested – even distracted – you know the importance of the right attitude in communicating. In writing, when you set the right tone, your message will be heard. Commit a tonal faux pas , and you’re sure to make a lasting bad impression on your audience. In fact, most readers will miss your brilliance when your bad manners dominate a message. A few very basic tips can go a long way in avoiding a tonal misdirection: So . . . if you want to get someone in a boxer’s stance with your first word, try leading with “so.” It generally ...