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The ILTA Distinguished Peer Awards and YOU

By Beth Anne Stuebe
For decades, ILTA has been the leading educational resource for legal technologists. You come to ILTA to learn and grow your skill set, to challenge yourself and become an innovator. You join us at ILTACON, LegalSEC, onsite for ILTACON Europe, for our one-day roadshows, and throughout the year, virtually, to expand your knowledge base and to connect with peers and partners. Now, more than ever, ILTA’s peer-powered network is connecting members, partners, subject-matter experts, and all #legaltechnologists in ways that we could not have fathomed prior to 2020. Today, we are asking our fellow ILTAn’s to look around their own legal tech sphere’s and to nominate ...
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InterAction v8/Hybrid Cloud

By Tiffany Smith
We are looking into updating our environment to v8/hybrid cloud and was wondering if anyone could give me their experience with that transition. Thank you in advance for your time. Tiffany
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PUTTING DATA RETENTION AND DISPOSITION INTO PRACTICE

By Denise Prior
The key to resolving the challenge of excess data is for firms to establish a robust data retention and disposition policy. This means drafting and agreeing a policy, supporting it with appropriate processes, controls and procedures, and then ensuring it’s faithfully executed. Creating a data retention and disposition policy Policies don’t have to be elaborate, but they must be adequate, realistic, and signed off by all parties. A retention schedule sits at the core of your policy. This living document allocates a review date to every piece of data. This will be when it’s assessed for further retention, or disposition or destruction. In the case of matter ...
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Budget: A New Approach to Work

By Marcelo Cardoso
We all know how much the word Budget gives us butterflies in our stomachs, normally the end of the year is the time when we have to stop everything we are doing to start understanding what we spend, list what we are not going to spend and with this information start spending planning for the following year. And the best, all for yesterday… A major barrier in developing an assertive Budget is controlling what we spent during the past few months, where we exceeded what was planned and where we have money saved for not having spent as we planned. This control is one of the main activities of the Legal Ops team. With the observation of this arduous activity in ...
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Simple Ways to Leverage Your People Power with Technology

By Melanie Segraves
Whenever there's a group swapping horror stories about work, I bring up that I was the schmuck supporting DocuSign at a law firm when Covid happened. If you work in KM, that joke will likely make you laugh and cry. In reality, I knew I was (and still am) one of the lucky ones. There are a couple of reasons I felt lucky during peak Covid . For one, I had a job, and many people I knew did not. More than that, though, I worked with a supportive and caring group of people. The moral of this lengthy intro is that the quality of the people we work with is most often the factor that determines our success. Whether you work in the legal industry, retail, or a ...
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From recording to text without typing

By Michaela Kraft
Speech-to-text solutions are the preferred choice for many organizations when considering their dictation requirements and organizational needs. According to a recent market report published by Grand View Research, Inc., the global speech-to-text API market size is expected to reach USD 8.56 billion by 2030 and grow at a CAGR of 15.2% from 2022 to 2030. With this growing need for speech-to-text solutions, it is common for organizations to put together a business case and weigh in the return-on-investment (ROI), to get desired results. However, to arrive at a decision, it is important for organizations to consider the benefits and best practices associated with ...
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Empower Microsoft Teams & SharePoint with NetDocuments Content!

By Ragav Jagannathan
netDocShare - Empower Microsoft Teams & SharePoint with NetDocuments Content! Why netDocShare? netDocShare is trusted by several Am Law firms to Live View, Edit, Co-author, Add, Search, Sync, Attach, and Provision NetDocuments content in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive (incl. OneNote sync with NetDocuments).
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Create a link from a MPO to an exhibit to a declaration in Kofax Power PDF Advancecd

By Rod Laughridge
In Kofax Power PDF Advanced, how do you create a link from a MPO to an exhibit to a declaration?
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Enabling Deletions in M365 - What Can You Do and What are the Best Practices for Implementation?

By Ben Hubble
Please enjoy this blog post authored by Ben Hubble, Records Management & Legal Tech Ops Legal Dept, The Wendy’s Company Before you have your M365 environment retaining and deleting data like a well-oiled machine, there are a few things to do first. Step one, find out what type of M365 license your organization has. This is vital because only the E5 license will give you all the tools needed to create the data management settings discussed below. Some functionality might be available in an E3 license, depending on what a la carte items might have been added on. Find your licensing liaison and make sure you have access to MS Purview (fka MS Information ...
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THE DRIVERS OF INCREASED MATTER MOBILITY

By Denise Prior
What’s driving more matter mobility or client transfers in today’s legal sector and what does it mean for firms? Certainly, clients are moving firm more frequently as nowadays corporate legal departments must closely account for their legal spend and need to achieve demonstrable value. They systematically compare rosters of legal service vendors, eroding the old loyalties. Firms can no longer expect clients to stay long term, so law firms should be ready to transfer client out and onboard new clients continually. The war for talent Simultaneously, there are ever-more frequent skirmishes in the war for talent. Especially among large firms it’s become normal ...
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Press Release | ILTA Announces a new 2022 ILTACON Europe Keynote Sponsor

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) November 2, 2022 –  The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Announces iManage as a Keynote Sponsor for ILTACON Europe. ILTA is pleased to announce iManage as a Monday morning Keynote Sponsor for speaker Dr. Hannah Fry at ILTACON Europe , the premier legal technology professional education and networking event. Dr. Fry is a Professor in the Mathematics of Cities. She is a mathematician, a best-selling author, an award winning science presenter, the host of numerous popular podcasts and television shows, and she will be delivering the opening Keynote of the conference. Full programme details ...
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How to Bring Firm Leadership, InfoSec, and IT Together on Data-Sensitive Solutions

By Christiane Matuch
Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of Jay Russell, Principal, Lotis Blue Consulting. Law firms own a gold mine of data. Their leaders know it. Their attorneys know it. Their business professionals know it. And 3 rd party advisors and technology vendors know it. If these data are so valuable, why not harvest their value and enjoy the benefits? Not so fast. A complicated web of changing business priorities, data sensitivity and privacy issues, layers of leader and InfoSec/IT approvals and requirements have proved to be daunting. What can this process look like in real life? A “solution leader” introduces an idea that will require leveraging ...
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Press Release | ILTA Announces a 2022 ILTACON Europe Keynote Sponsor

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) October 25, 2022 –  The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Announces Arctic Wolf as a Keynote Sponsor for ILTACON Europe. ILTA is pleased to announce Arctic Wolf as a Monday morning Keynote Sponsor for speaker Stephen Carver at ILTACON Europe , the premier legal technology professional education and networking event. Full programme details for ILTACON Europe can be found here . The 17 November event is spearheaded by ILTACON Europe co-chairs Damien Behan (Brodies) and Andrew Powell (Macfarlanes), and ILTA Vice President Tony McKenna (Howard Kennedy). This year’s conference will feature five ...
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May the RPA Force Be With You

By Gordon Moffat
Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Emily McIntosh , D.Eng., Senior Manager | Forensics, Ernst & Young, LLP. A quick internet search will return pages of results with impressive statistics about how many organizations have either successfully deployed RPA solutions or are planning to do so. Yet, most of us have encountered “bots” in our personal lives through only (sometimes painful) chat bots. Since the main benefits of automation include cost and time savings, you would expect to see more implementations in the legal industry, where we constantly feel the pressure to “do more with less.” In this blog post, we will discuss how ...
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How to Build a Hybrid Office Successfully – Join our ILTA Webinar

By AshLea Allberry
Hybrid is here to stay. Young lawyers feel so strongly about remote work that 44% of them would leave their current jobs for a greater ability to work remotely elsewhere, according to a new report by the ABA. But many of the attorneys surveyed also reported a decrease in professional networking and quality relationships with co-workers—and this is exactly what keeps law firm leaders up at night. How can a firm achieve the best of both worlds? That’s where Maptician comes in. Maptician is the end-to-end solution for hybrid operations. Our technology ...
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Remote Data Collections

By Brian Balistreri
Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of anonymous ILTA member. As technology becomes an integral part of regular business practices, it’s important for corporate organizations to employ streamlined robust data collection workflows for managing employee collections leading to improving the overall collection experience for the custodian. Businesses looking to maximize data insights must know that relying on ‘manual traditional’ data collection processes is simply no longer a choice. Smart organizations understand that introducing the automation advantage to remote data collection workflows is paramount for gaining accurate insights and making strategic ...
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THE PITFALLS OF DATA RETENTION

By Denise Prior
A big mistake a lot of law firms are making now is that they’re not paying as much attention as they should to getting rid of data. We know that invariably lawyers want to hold on to everything forever. But in today’s climate that’s just not wise, for several reasons. Skyrocketing costs The first drawback of holding too much data is simply the cost of storage. In recent years this has been skyrocketing as firms move from on prem “owned” DMS solutions to cloud-based subscription models with their significant operating costs. Whether it’s physical or electronic, this in an overhead that firms should keep an eye on. A second area of concern with excess data ...
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Press Release | Open Volunteer Roles for ILTA Conferences

By ILTA News
(Chicago, IL) October 19, 2022 – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Announces Open Session Coordinator Roles for 2023: ILTACON and LegalSEC Summit. Today, ILTA has opened applications for Session Coordinators for ILTACON and LegalSEC Summit 2023. These two flagship events, held annually, are seeking Session Coordinators who will help develop the educational program within ILTA's programming framework. For ILTACON 2023, there are multiple Session Coordinator roles available. More information on the Session Coordinator roles can be found here . Applications will close November 16 and, once the roles have been filled, the ...
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Law Firms revamp their Employee Onboarding with DAP technology from Intellek

By Ricci Masero
With a boom in hybrid working and the revolution of remote work, law firms around the world are finding new hurdles to overcome in their approach to employee onboarding. In this article, we look at how eLearning SaaS technology is helping to solve these new challenges. For those of you who are not familiar with DAP ( Digital Adoption Platform ) tools, it is a case of being able to deliver resources and support for your end users at their point of need; during the flow of work, inside any software application. How does a Digital Adoption Platform work? In terms of how it works then, a Digital Adoption Platform works very similarly to what some ...
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Building resilience – The critical role tech now plays in business success

By Rahul Shinh
One way and another, these are tough times to be in business. Which is why every business should do all it can to be resilient. This means being robust, to ride out the turbulence – and always being proactive to anticipate change and maintain competitiveness. Technology doesn’t have all the answers. But certainly, technical solutions can help businesses to increase their resilience immeasurably. All firms need to maximise their staff productivity to achieve more with less. The reality is that there are not always enough people, and technology improves efficiency, risk management and makes for better ways of working. To be more robust, you need to save ...
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