ILTA: Recent Episodes
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In the constantly evolving world of information technology, the way managers think about staffing for key roles must also evolve. In this podcast, we discuss methods for identifying key candidates, thoughts around job descriptions and their impact on filling roles, and building relationships with in-house recruiters and staffing firms that will aid in finding the newest member of your team. Additionally, we discuss the evolution of positions in your organization that can make it difficult to replace key team members when it becomes necessary, as well as managing teams that include vendors and consultants.
Speakers:
Brandi Hester, PMP is the Applications Development Manager at Andrews Kurth Kenyon, and an ILTA Member Liaison for Houston. A new face in the legal space, she has been managing teams of developers and database administrators for many years and has developed a passion for building collaborative teams that include IT and the business and practic [...]
As Microsoft continues to evolve their server platforms, there is an increased push toward integration with Office 365 and Azure. In this follow up to ILTACON 2018’s “What’s New in Microsoft Server Platforms,” we move the discussion deeper into Microsoft’s hybrid cloud with a focus on:
- SharePoint integration
- Security and compliance features
- Authentication and federation
- Hybrid search
Speakers:
Nilesh Mehta, the founder and CEO of NGenious Solutions Inc., has nearly 20 years of experience working with enterprise organizations. An enterprise architect across various Microsoft technologies, he drives the company as a key motivator and mentor leading talented professionals. Well known in the industry for his experience in developing enterprise solutions using Microsoft technologies, Nilesh has been awarded the Microsoft P-TSP status for the past five years, is a V-T [...]
In this ILTA Radio leadership podcast, representatives from kCura/Relativity speak about the use of design thinking to improve business processes, why design thinking is especially relevant for today’s times, specific examples of how they’ve used the process at Relativity and why feedback is integral to the successful implementation of design thinking.
Speakers:
Dorie Blesoff is the Chief People Officer at Relativity, and ediscovery company helping corporations, law firms and government agencies manage and analyze electronic data during litigation and investigations. Based in Chicago with an increasingly global presence, the company has seen rapid growth during Dorie’s tenure, and continues to exhibit a dynamic and sustainable culture while demonstrating excellent business results. Driven by the principle “grow your people to grow your business,” Relativity has been laser focused on cultivating the culture o [...]
In this ILTA Radio episode, we discuss the importance of education in the context of communication and leadership. We provide pragmatic approaches to how and when it plays out in the legal industry by talking through real-world scenarios from both the law firm and service provider perspectives.
Speakers:
Ricky Brooman is a Litigation Support Project Manager at Saul Ewing LLP. He consults to internal and external clients on best practices for ediscovery and information governance, and manages all phases of the EDRM for litigation matters. Ricky is also a member of ILTA’s Business Management Content Coordinating Team and mentoring program.
Kris Wasserman is a Senior Consultant and Vice President with D4, overseeing a team of discovery engineers specializing in advisory and workflow solutions for corporate legal, risk and compliance departments on litigation readiness and discovery workflow planning. Kris has o [...]
IDC forecasts the SD-WAN space will reach $6 billion in technology and service sales by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 90 percent over the next five years. In this ILTA Radio episode, representatives from vCom cover how SD-WAN is taking the networking world by storm — and why it must be a part of every IT organization’s strategy. The cost savings and improvement in application performance offer law firms a game-changing approach to managing entire networks.
Uniquely positioned to address this rising trend, vCom can help IT organizations leverage SD-WAN as a key component to a successful IT life cycle strategy. To learn more, visit www.vcomsolutions.com/sd-wan.
Speakers:
Bob Barnes leads vCom’s collaboration spend business unit. He oversees the collaboration sales and operations teams, managing the entire collaboration life cycle and ensuring [...]
Did you know that how you deal with your emotions and the emotions of others might be the secret sauce to success in leadership? In this ILTA Radio installment, we answer common questions about emotional intelligence (EI).
Speaker:
Brian Donato is the CIO at Vorys, where he has handled a variety of leadership challenges over his 20-year career. Follow Brian on Twitter @bjdonato.
Recorded on 8-7-17
Ever wonder what goes on at Enterprise World, OpenText’s annual user conference? OpenText is now one of the top 10 largest software companies in the world and the market leader in EIM and ECM. In this ILTA Radio installment, two attendees summarize the event and give us a glimpse into the product announcements made and the company itself.
Speakers:
Sharon Malloch is the eDOCS Product Marketing Manager at OpenText. With the company since 2013, she previously spearheaded the marketing function for three successive tech start-ups, growing them from concept stage through to funding and customer acquisition. Sharon’s early career was spent learning marketing best practices NCR and Hewlett Packard.
Paul Obernuefemann is the CIO at Lewis Rice and ILTA’s Strategic Relationship Liaison for OpenText.
Lately, legal tech news has been flooded with a number of ediscovery mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Just to name a few:
- Epiq purchased by DTI investors
- Clearwell acquired by Symantec
- Equivio acquired by Microsoft
- Content Analyst acquired by kCura
- Recommind by OpenText
- RAVN by iManage
- Lighthouse and Discovia
In this ILTA Radio episode, we interview a panel of ILTA members from law firms and legal departments who share their insights, lessons learned and best practices for dealing with ediscovery M&A. We cover cases where one service provider is acquired by another provider and product acquisitions where a core application is acquired by another enterprise software provider, a product is acquired and remains available and when the product is abandoned.
Interviewer:
Catherine McPherson - Litigation Management Consultant, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & [...]
In this ILTA Radio recording, Nate Jedinak and Guy Wiggins discuss SharePoint 2016 and how they customized their online extranets.
Speakers:
Nate Jedinak is the Senior Manager of Service Delivery at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, where he has worked in various capacities since 1998. Nate has been involved with web technologies since the late 90s, and most recently helped architect the firm’s new intranet and extranet platforms using SharePoint Online.
Guy Wiggins Esq. is the Director of Practice Management at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. He is a lawyer, technologist and business-oriented strategic thinker, applying technology to meet law firm business goals for over 20 years. Guy’s responsibilities include improving the firm’s KM, software development, training and IG functions; providing general direction, setting budgets, managing goals, and implementing new technology and processes to s [...]
Introducing security awareness at a law firm can seem like an overwhelming task. In this ILTA Radio segment, we hold a conversation about practical steps for getting the job done.
Speakers:
Julia Montgomery is the architect of Traveling Coaches’ award-winning OnGuard information security awareness program, which has helped over 85,000 law firm employees change their behavior to safeguard information. Julia leveraged her experience in law firms and as a Certified Change Management Professional to ensure the program’s relevance for law firm audiences. Previously, she developed and led security awareness efforts in several law firms. Julia is a frequent speaker and author on topics including change management, effective communications and information security education programs.
Mark Olvey, the ISMS Manager at Taft Law, began his IT career as a trainer 18 years ago. During his legal career, he has also wo [...]
With the increased use of videos and elearning modules as learning content in law firms, there can be some special considerations to ensure that it works well for your learners in your learning management system (LMS). This month, our LMS deep dive panelists discuss what kinds of content they are hosting, how it’s organized and their processes, and share some lessons learned.
Speakers:
Sean McGinty is the Senior Learning and Development Engineer at Carlton Fields, where his focus is on instructional design, audio/video production, LMS management and instructor lead training. He has worked in legal for over nine years and has over 20 years of experience in learning and development, spanning multiple industry groups. Sean holds several certifications in instructional systems design and learning and development software packages.
Claire Morris is an IT Training Manager for a leading international law firm. An a [...]
In this ILTA Radio recording, four ILTA members discuss their firm’s insights on forms of financial distribution, how to get buy in, and the technology, tools and best methods for analyzing this information.
Moderator:
Jarmila Pencikova has been the Director of Finance and Controller at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP for the past seven of her 27 years at the firm. She has played a major role in various projects at Osler over the past 20 years, including the implementation of Aderant Expert, Chrome River, Prebill Viewer, Control Systems and other financial systems. Jarmila is a CPA with 30 years of experience in finance, accounting and information systems.
Panel:
John Ashley is the Director, Financial Systems & Projects at Cozen O’Connor in Philadelphia.
Lynn Bond is the Director of Financial Applications and Project Management at Morrison & Foerst [...]
In April 2014, members of ILTA’s user support volunteer team recorded a podcast on some common trends in training at that time. These topics continue to be widely discussed, so we take another look to see how (or if) our thoughts have changed since then. We cover:
- The modern trainer
- Performance support
- Ways to support informal learning
- Mobile learning
- Gamification
In the next couple of months, we’ll be recording a 2017 Trends in Training podcast to tackle several new topics, so be on the lookout for that, too.
Speakers:
Denise Ash is the Training Manager at Jackson Kelly PLLC, where she has worked since 2011. Previously, she worked as a user support specialist at Robinson & McElwee PLLC. An active ILTA volunteer, she is a member of the Apps and Desktop Content Committee and a member liaison for Charleston, West Virginia. In 2010, Denise won ILTA’s User S [...]
At some point in everyone’s career, the question arises, should I stay, or is it time to go. Hear from our panelists on what motivated them to recently make a career change.
Panelists:
Donna Payne is CEO and founder of PayneGroup. PayneGroup went from 0 to 4 million users of their software worldwide since inception. Donna is an author of 13 books. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, and has addressed Congress and Senate committees on the subject of metadata and privacy. She is recipient of Thought Leader of the Year (ILTA), and Lifetime Achievement (ABA awards). Payne is member of the Monica Bay STEM Leadership committee. Before starting PayneGroup, Donna worked in government, Fortune 500 and even did a stint as a rock and roll singer.
Tammy Bearden has been a research professional for over 20 years, managing competitive intelligence and research projects for attorneys, investment bankers, marketers, prod [...]
The RSA Conference in San Francisco is one of the world’s largest gatherings of information security professionals from all industries. Three ILTA members share their experiences from this year’s conference, addressing educational content, vendor expo halls and peer networking. If you’ve never been to RSA, this will help you know what to expect.
Speakers:
Bill Caraher has 20 years of experience managing and supporting technology in the enterprise. As the CIO and Director of Operations for von Briesen & Roper law firm, Bill is passionate about innovative information security and business-focused technology solutions that align and empower his firm’s client-focused attorneys.
William (Bill) Kyrouz is Director of Information Security at Mintz Levin and is based out of Boston. Working in legal technology since 2001, Bill is active in ILTA and is a member of the Threat Intelligence and Exe [...]
In 1946, Grace Hopper recorded the first-ever computer bug when a moth was found in the Harvard Mark II machine. Today, the practice of software testing and quality assurance is vital to all industries with the advancement of technologies. Legal Services is no different, but the focus on quality assurance and software testing has been slow to develop – until now.
Speakers:
Ralph Bonatz is the Global IT Quality Control Manager at Mayer Brown LLP. He has over 20 years of experience in quality control, performing a broad array of activities such as: establishing teams, test management and planning, test case authoring and execution, test tools and environment management, requirements management, defect management, authoring test strategy, and guiding test automation teams. Ralph’s experience crosses many different areas, including Legal, Insurance, Fleet Management, Healthcare, Trading, Enterprise Resource Planning and Government. He i [...]
For everyone except Doctor Who, time marches on. How is that future impacting the skill sets that law firm technologists need to have? Listen to a conversation on current and future skill sets and how people, process and new technology is impacting the delivery of legal services.
Speakers:
Jeffrey Brandt is the Chief Information Officer at the law firm of Jackson Kelly PLLC and has over 30 years of experience in the field of legal automation. Jeffrey is also editor of the popular PinHawk Law Technology Daily Digest, a respected thought leader in the legal technology community and a frequent educational speaker at industry conferences.
Mitch Owens is the CTO at Gilbert + Tobin and leads the firm’s technology function. He has held senior roles in the global banking and professional services industries for many years. With a background that is predominately outside legal Mitch is able to provide a different, and [...]
Reporting is one of the most important and sometimes frustrating features of a LMS. Because firms have different needs, it can sometimes be difficult to get exactly what you need. Even with the data in hand, it may require skilled Excel manipulation. In this podcast, your ILTA panelists share great ideas and insights on how they are using reporting and getting at the data they need. We even touch on connecting the dots between your LMS data and actual performance data.
Moderator:
Michelle Spencer’s skills reside at the intersection of people, processes, technology and learning. She can translate technology for non-technical people and manage projects by getting groups connected and communicating, enabling them to work effectively towards their end goal. Michelle is adept at managing learning and IT projects from both the technical and human perspectives. She uses her knowledge — gained from three decades spent on both legal a [...]
We discuss how physical security tends to be overlooked while we focus so much time and energy on the technology side of security. Keeping your firm’s people and assets safe can rely on good physical security planning and design.
Speakers:
Heath Stanley is the SVP of Information Security. He holds the CISA, CISSP and C|CISO certifications. Heath has managed technology governance consulting for Traveling Coaches Inc. since 2006. His previous experience includes residential lending and process improvement, and he is a subject matter expert in Information Security Governance and Vendor Management.
David Tremont. With 32 years of experience in Networking and Security, Mr. Tremont started his career as a Cryptologist Technician in the U.S. Navy in 1974. Responsible for intercepting and decrypting Chinese and Russian radio transmissions for Fleet Commanders. Mr. Tremont has consulted with many corporate entities [...]
Description: What is all the talk about legal project management? This discussion, Q&A style, dives in to the ins and outs of project management (PM) and legal project management(LPM) from the beginning phase of looking to implement it in your business or law firm. Why is legal project management important for every organization to take stock in and implement to increase productivity? How can LPM help you and your business become more efficient in your daily workflows and produce greater work product?
Speakers:Jinni Zieleniewski is a Litigation Support Specialist with the ediscovery and
litigation support group at KMK. Her responsibilities include managing discovery evidence throughout the litigation life cycle, providing electronic document review management and designing and generating electronic document production deliverables in a cost-effective and value-added manner. A member of the information technolog [...]