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Save Email to SharePoint from Outlook 365 with Metadata and Retention Labels

By Sarah Gayda
In this post you will learn how to: Save incoming email messages from your Office 365 Outlook inbox to SharePoint Apply metadata and retention labels as you save emails to SharePoint for quick search and easy record management using Colligo Email Manager for Microsoft 365 Set up quick access “pinned” SharePoint folders to rapid save to desired file locations Share emails as a secure link without leaving Outlook Capture email to SharePoint using Outlook for O365 on a mobile device To save an email to SharePoint with metadata and labels Note: This process can be completed using Outlook on any platform (Outlook on Windows or Mac Desktop, Outlook ...
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Press Release |ILTA Announces Registration for LegalSEC Summit 2021

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) September 14, 2021  – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Announces the opening of registration for LegalSEC Summit 2021. ILTA is pleased to announce the return of the much-anticipated conference, LegalSEC Summit. LegalSEC Summit is the industry’s premier two-day security conference, designed for technology professionals at every level, who manage security, governance, risk, and compliance in support of the practice of law. This year, the digital conference will be held on Thursday, 21 October and Friday, 22 October, 2021, and will offer premier information security education, focused on the information security challenges faced ...
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A Secure viewing experience of your Firm’s matter-centric content in Teams

By Ragav Jagannathan
netDocShare Teams app offers seamless collaboration within Teams   netDocShare Teams app enabling the integration of NetDocuments with Teams NetDocuments is a cloud-based document management software that allows data-sensitive organizations (law firms, financial institutions, insurance, and more) to collaborate, share, edit, and manage documents in a secure location. Integration of NetDocuments with Teams offers inherent security and comprehensive governance protocols, empowering organizations to enhance document sharing and collaboration with both internal as well as external stakeholders. netDocShare Teams app, with its int e grated search ...
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Demystifying eDiscovery Costs

By Gretel Best
Please enjoy this blog post authored by Gretel Best, Manager, Litigation Support & eDiscovery Management Group, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP.  As the volume of electronic data continues to grow, managing the cost of processing, reviewing and producing data as part of the electronic discovery (“eDiscovery”) process is becoming increasingly challenging. Leveraging technology and litigation support tools and retaining the assistance of vendors or alternative legal service providers (“ALSP”) are effective ways to manage these costs. However, implementing cost saving measures can itself present a complex undertaking for those who fail to approach tasks strategically ...
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Business Efficiency Tools We Can’t Live Without Post-Covid

By Tara Patterson
Please enjoy this blog post authored by Tara Patterson, Marketing Technology Manager at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. To say priorities have shifted greatly over the past year and a half is an understatement. Many of us have been tasked with developing and implementing tools and processes allowing for more remote collaboration. Requests have grown in complexity with even quicker turnaround times expected – mainly because we have learned through this pandemic that our workforce is adaptable. To accommodate this progression, we now have technological solutions in our (virtual) tool belts that are indispensable. You literally cannot be efficient ...
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Chaos, Ransomware, & Risk: How to Mitigate Cybersecurity Threats

By Mike Zawisza
The increased adoption of virtual collaboration systems – like Microsoft Teams – due to the pandemic has created a new, hybrid workforce. While this massive switch has allowed organizations to operate during these unprecedented times, new threats have arisen. Cyberattacks – including ransomware – have increased by 62% over the last year. This has led the White House to declare the threat of cybercrime on-par with terrorism. While cybercriminals and hackers have become the face of these attacks, human error is actually the largest risk factor leading to an attack. In fact, nearly 95% of organizations that experienced a cyberattack or data incident last ...
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Microsoft 365, Including Teams, Top Focus in Legal Technology

By Sarah Gayda
ILTACon 2021 offers glimpses of the future of legal tech landscape   We were live on location in sunny Las Vegas for the International Legal Technology Association’s annual conference last week. Dubbed ILTACon 2021 , the conference provided a great opportunity for us to get back to meeting in person with some of you — our partners, customers, and colleagues.   Amid the excitement of the first legal tech hybrid event of 2021, not to mention the glitz and glamour of the City of Lights, three legal technology themes surfaced:    Microsoft 365 is rising rapidly  in the legal industry Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been a ...
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Let’s Talk MS Teams: Best Practices & Lessons Learned for Teams Provisioning & Governance

By Mike Zawisza
With over 250 million monthly active users, Microsoft Teams has become the top collaboration platform for remote and hybrid work. With a wide array of collaboration tools and deep integration with the entire Microsoft 365 suite, it’s no surprise that Teams is truly changing the way we work, collaborate, and communicate. That being said, Teams still has its quirks and limitations that organizations need to address if they want to truly leverage their investment and get as much out of the platform as possible. Over the last year and a half, we’ve  worked with many organizations in helping them deploy and manage Teams , so we’re happy to bring you ...
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Press Release |ILTA Announces the Seating of the Newly Elected Board of Directors

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) August 31, 2021 –  The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), at the annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada ,USA, announces the seating of the newly elected Board of Directors. This change is effective immediately, following the conclusion of the Annual Meeting, on Thursday, August 26, 2021, at 2:30 p.m. PT.  The new ILTA Board of Directors includes: President  Ginevra Saylor, National Director, Innovation Programs, Gowling WLG LLP Toronto, Ontario, Canada Executive Vice President Tony McKenna, Director of Information Technology, Howard Kennedy LLP London, England, United Kingdom Secretary Kara Portwood, Practice Area ...
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Empower your Matter-Centric Team with iManage Content in Microsoft Teams

By Ragav Jagannathan
Matter centricity approach can help firms relieve Microsoft Teams channel chaos and extend governance across shared content. The concept of matter-centric content views with Microsoft Teams is gaining momentum, especially in the legal industry, providing a centralized location for the matter-related content, facilitating collaboration, and making an attorney job comparatively easier. With the shift towards work from a home model, many organizations have deployed Microsoft Teams for enhancing their remote worker’s communication and collaboration. Microsoft Teams is one of   t he quickest multiplying products in Microsoft’s history, and in April 2020, it ...
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The Residual Effects of Volunteering Panelists

By Shefali Lakhani
As I was applying to ILTA volunteer positions, I watched the “Residual Effects of Volunteering,” a timely webinar. It amped me up even further, seeing the potential to engage in building a community with other smart, excited individuals. Panelists on the webinar were: Melanie Prevost – Director of Infrastructure and Technical Support Services, Vinson & Elkins Tony Capecci – Associate Director of Business Core Applications, Kirkland & Ellis Sandy Mikita – Information Technology Project Management, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott Moderated by Samantha Surillo – Director of Member & Volunteer Operations Volunteering presents a myriad of ...
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Open Source Cyber Tools for When You Are On a Tight Budget

By Georg Thomas
Please enjoy this blog post authored by Dr. Georg Thomas, CCISO, CDPSE, CISM, CISSP, GRCP   Cyber-attacks are on the rise across the globe with 2021 identified as the highest average cost of data breaches over the past 17 years (IBM, 2021). Law firms are under increased pressure from clients, insurers, and regulators to name a few to ensure that adequate protections are in place to provide protection from cyber threats. It is no secret that law firms hold vast amounts of sensitive and valuable information and consequently, law firms are increasingly becoming targets (Shanker, 2021). Over the past few years, there has been an increased focus on implementing ...
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Surface firm intelligence from multiple Line of Business data sources

By Ragav Jagannathan
Firm intelligence is the next data revolution, and organizations today to be successful must gain value from the information it has access. Businesses to achieve productivity, as well as performance enhancements, must have an intention of transformation, as developing an intelligent organization is not possible without a digital transformation plan. Firm intelligence is workforce or organization focused and enables effective collaborative communications between internal as well as external users. The chatbot does it all! Chatbots have proven out to be one of the best digital transformation efforts to transform the way an organization gathers and utilize ...
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Three Considerations for Outsourced Review

By Natasha Doucas
Written in collaboration by: - Marta Young LL.B - Review Manager, Ricoh Canada - Natasha Doucas - Business Development Executive, Ricoh Canada At the onset of a large litigation, one of the big decisions you’ll need to make is whether your legal team can handle the entire eDiscovery process, or whether parts of that process should be outsourced.   One of the largest investments of time and resources is document review. Often, firms wait until all documents have been processed before deciding how review will be managed. Fortunately, we are starting to see more review planning at the data identification and collection stages. The earlier you begin planning, ...
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In-Person or Hybrid Workforces Roundtable: Part 2 Summary

By Scott David
In-Person or Hybrid Workforces Roundtable: Part 2 Summary   I again had the pleasure to participate in an ILTA roundtable discussing Return to Work and Hybrid Workforce topics.   Click Here  to see my recap of the first roundtable.  As is the policy with ILTA roundtables, it was not recorded.  However, I did again capture some highlights below:   We again started out the roundtable with several polls, several of the polls were the same questions as before.  This time the results were different probably more due to different participant firms than firms changing their plans.  We asked about how often firms expected different roles to be in the ...
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Press Release |ILTA Announces New 2022 Conference and ILTACON 2021 Updates

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) August 13, 2021  – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Announces a New 2022 Conference and shares 2021 ILTACON Updates. ILTA is pleased to announce the in-person ILTA CXO Summit , to be held tentatively in April of 2022. This event, created to bring together thought-leaders from firms of all-sizes, will offer new educational and networking opportunities. Additionally, a key component of this new event is to partner C-suite level mentors with mentees looking to grow their careers in legal technology. This event will directly align with ILTA’s strategic goals and continue to foster diverse and equitable conversations within the ...
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Improving Your Firm’s Data Mining Process

By Kian Poon
By Kian Poon, Director, Intapp Strategic Consulting More and more legal firms are relying on AI-based technology to unburden their professionals from substantial amounts of manual work, especially labor-intensive data analysis. However, prior to implementing AI, firm leaders and professionals must take critical steps to ensure they truly understand the state of their underlying data. Firms must consider the structure — or lack thereof — of key data, their sources, approaches to data extraction and data collection, and how to organize and analyze the data. Collecting and analyzing data is a daunting task for many firms, especially as the volume, velocity, ...
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There’s Gold in Them There Hills!: Choosing the Best Tools For Your Data Excavation

By Navdeep Vohra
Please enjoy this blog post authored by Navdeep Vohra, Senior Manager, Data Architect & Management at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG). Data extraction can be defined as the process where data is retrieved from various data sources for further data processing and analysis to gather valuable business insights or storage in a central Data Warehouse. The data obtained from different sources can be unstructured, semi-structured, or structured. Corporations, individuals, or companies frequently extract data to analyze it using Business Intelligence (BI) tools, migrate the data to a repository, or replicate data as a backup.  Data Extraction is the first ...
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Press Release |ILTA Announces New Legal Innovation Hub

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) August 10, 2021  – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) is pleased to announce the Legal Innovation Hub. The ILTA Legal Innovation Hub was created to meet the changing needs of the ILTA membership and the legal community at large. The ILTA Legal Innovation Hub is poised to introduce key buyers of legal services with the providers, the talent, and the investor community.  The Hub will be launched in three phases, 1) The Investment Hub ; 2) Talent Marketplace; and later, 3) an Innovation Marketplace.   The ILTA Investment Hub will launch Phase 1 on 22 August 2021 at the ILTACON event in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay. “ILTA ...
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Litigation Support Tool Tip – Mastering Google Sleuthing

By Amy Bowser-Rollins
Please enjoy this blog post tip from Amy Bowser-Rollins, Instructor, Litigation Support Guru. Have you ever had an attorney ask you to track down “something” or “someone” by running Google searches? I know I have! Google has some nifty search tools that can help you narrow down what you’re trying to find. Let’s start with Google Advanced Search . If you don’t know the exact syntax to use, this tool can help prompt you for the information and then format the search syntax for you. Here are some examples you can try: You can add a dash (or hyphen) in front of a word to tell Google you don’t want that word in your search results -- the equivalent ...
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