Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
360 Lexington Avenue
10th Floor
New York, New York 10017
212.986.4700
NEW YORK, June 6, 2013—Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. (Kraft Kennedy), one of the world’s leading technology consulting firms, announced today that it is moving to new offices in Washington DC. This is in response to significant client requests for a greater local presence.
“Law firms are consolidating, and the overall market for legal services is in a state of flux. Modern, reliable legal technology is becoming more essential and more complex, and that is creating greater demand for IT consulting.” says Michael Kraft, the firm’s CEO. “We let lawyers practice law without worrying about their systems.”
Information workers frequently need special technology that must be fast and reliable. For 25 years, Kraft Kennedy has helped law firms, legal departments, and other professional service clients fully realize productivity gains from modern technology. The company works with clients of all sizes and specialties.
"Our focus on recruiting and retaining some of the most talented people in legal technology is key to delivering excellent, consistent service," Kraft stresses. "Still, delivering the technology is complex, and firms need expert management consulting, technology consulting, and network support." No other technology firm can match the breadth and depth of technical expertise available from Kraft Kennedy.
About KraftKennedy.com
KraftKennedy.com features the latest thinking from Kraft Kennedy experts on all the important technology topics affecting law firms and other professional services companies. Recent topics include security, Microsoft Exchange, project management, tablet computing, disaster recovery, and document management.
About Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. provides technology and strategic consulting services to law firms, corporate legal departments and professional services firms. The company helps analyze, plan, implement and manage business and technology solutions to optimize each organization’s functionality and processes. With an interdisciplinary team of lawyers, IT managers, process specialists, project managers, systems engineers, and training experts, Kraft Kennedy regularly solves the most essential business and technological challenges.
Kraft Kennedy has been engaged by most AmLaw 100 law firms, many prestigious legal departments and financial services firms. The company is considered the knowledge resource for industry best practices, technology management and business processes.
For more information, please contact:
Rob Brindell
Title: Managing Director
Phone: +1 212.692.5604
Email: Brindell@kraftkennedy.com
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Within a year, Microsoft has unleashed a new operating system (Windows 8), a new version of the Office suite (Office 2013) and a new workstation management platform (System Center 2012 - Configuration Manager).
Join us to discover the proven approaches law firms have used to build secure, high-performing desktop and laptop environments that strategically blend proven technologies with the innovative features associated with Microsoft's new products. Kraft Kennedy will focus on use cases and deployment techniques that will allow your firm to solve its business problems successfully and help drive attorney productivity while mitigating the impacts of the change. We will also discuss how to determine the right combination of products and feature sets for your environment.
The following topics will be highlighted:
- System Center 2012’s impact and the changes in SP1
- Direct Access and other features enhanced in Windows Server 2012
- UEFI support and its impacts on Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems
- Leveraging Windows To Go and BitLocker To Go to solve business use cases
- UE-V – Microsoft’s new tool for profile management
- App-V – Finally ready for the legal application set
- Building a user-friendly enterprise desktop for Macs
Presenters
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides management and leadership to Kraft Kennedy and their law firm clients on engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies, such as network design and administration, infrastructure, storage, messaging, document management and security. Rob also provides strategic guidance to firms in areas such as business continuity/disaster recovery, systems consolidation and IT organizational restructuring. He can be reached at brindell@kraftkennedy.com.
Ted Glutz is a Regional Director of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides management and leadership to Kraft Kennedy, as well as to law firm clients on a broad range of technologies, such as network design and administration, infrastructure, storage, messaging, document management and security. Ted retired from serving the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps as a legal administrator after 20 years and now, with over 33 years of experience with law firm operations, he is able to provide strategic guidance to firms in areas such as business continuity/disaster recovery, systems consolidation and IT organizational restructuring. Ted can be reached at Glutz@KraftKennedy.com or 713.221.5350.
Todd Parkin is a Senior Technical Consultant at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of technologies, such as desktop design and deployment, server and application virtualization, software distribution, thin-client architecture, and remote access and VDI solutions. Todd has recently focused on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and has been involved in building System Center 2012 labs for several Am Law 200 firms. He can be reached at parkin@kraftkennedy.com.
Chris Wilsonis a Senior Technical Consultant in the New York office of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of technologies, such as desktop design and deployment, server and application virtualization, software distribution, thin client architecture, and remote access and VDI solutions. He is also experienced in the design, implementation and support of the Microsoft Office Suite, Windows 7, Citrix technologies, and legal-specific applications. Chris has been involved in more than two dozen Windows 7 projects in recent years, including multiple projects with AmLaw 200 firms. Chris has focused on providing solutions to the legal industry with Kraft & Kennedy, Inc over 6 years. He can be reached at wilson@kraftkennedy.com.
Dwight Maloneyis a Senior Technical Consultant in the San Francisco office of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies, such as workstation deployment and management, software distribution, messaging infrastructure design and implementation, e-mail archiving, datacenter design and consolidation. Dwight has also strategically assisted firms with Information Technology organizational structuring and technology planning. He has extensive experience with SCCM, Citrix, VMware ESX, Cisco Infrastructure and Security, multiple third party archiving technologies, and major Microsoft desktop and server technologies. With over a decade of consulting experience, Dwight has been providing legal focused consulting with Kraft Kennedy for over six years. He can be reached at dmaloney@kraftkennedy.com.
Free Webinar
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 Eastern Time
Location: Online Webinar
Planning a VDI deployment is a complex task, involving a variety of considerations including persistent/non-persistent/hybrid, product and hypervisor selection, secondary application delivery, security, provisioning, storage, server hardware, and licensing. Join Kraft Kennedy Senior Consultant Jeff Silverman for a discussion of these topics.
Presenters:
Jeff Silverman is a Senior Consultant in the New York office of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He is a Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA) and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of technologies. When he’s not helping businesses become more productive and efficient with technology, Jeff helps people push boundaries and conquer fears as an instructor at Trapeze School New York.
For additional information, please contact Rob Brindell at 212.692.5604 or Brindell@kraftkennedy.com
Date: Monday, June 17, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 Eastern Time
Location: Free Online Webinar
Take Your IT Projects to New Heights with Office 365 Project Management
Most of you know that Microsoft's Project Server is a powerful tool to manage projects. And,
large law firms have used Project to improve productivity and serve clients for years.
But, if you tried Project Server in the past -- you've been frustrated. Project Server required
Sharepoint, Server Infrastructure and altogether, the required technology was just too expensive.
Great News! Microsoft is now offering Project Server 2013 in the cloud as part of Office 365.
Finally, it's affordable and easy to manage. We will take you on a tour of many new features of
Project Server and discuss best practices for configuring Project Server in Office 365.
The webinar will include a demonstration of Project Server 2013 in Office 365. You'll learn:
- Some best practices for managing technical projects in law firms
- How to schedule your tasks, optimize your resources and prioritize your work
- How we use Project Server internally to manage projects for our clients
- The benefits of on-premise installations and off-premise cloud-based offerings in Office 365
For additional information, please contact Rob Brindell at 212.692.5604 or Brindell@kraftkennedy.com.
15th Annual ILTA Golf Tournament
Join in the fun and shoot to win this year’s hole in one prize, a new Sports Car!
Date: Sunday, August 18, 2013
Time: 7:30 AM Pacific Time
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Title: 15th Annual ILTA Golf Tournament
We will provide transportation from Caesar's to the Bali Hai Golf Club, have a Continental Breakfast and a 7:30am shotgun start and at the conclusion of play, we will have full lunch, refreshments, award prizes and socialize. Appropriate golf attire (i.e., no jeans, cutoffs or tee-shirts) is requested of all guests on the course and practice areas.
Tournament Format: Captain’s Choice/Scramble - Pairings will be based upon handicaps with A, B, C, & D player in each foursome.
Entry fee includes: Transportation, lunch, green fees, cart, range balls, and the awards/reception after finishing! Rental clubs are new Calloway X Hot @ $45 per set (plus on-line registration fee).
For additional information, please contact Ted Glutz at 713.221.5350 or glutz@kraftkennedy.com
More information on: ILTA 2013.
Law Technology News (LTN) recently interviewed Michael Kraft.
Michael discusses:
- Law firms are struggling to find the right balance of technology and service.
- There are more and more pitfalls, and internal staff are often challenged.
- Kraft Kennedy prefers to work with internal staff so that knowledge is transferred and problems are avoided.
- Don't let lawyer productivity suffer due to technology trouble.
- Take the tech out of it. How can technology serve your business and solve your business problems?
In this video, Michael discusses:
- The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
- Privacy and Web Analytics
- The challenges of balancing privacy with more and more data being collected on the web, cell phones, and other technology.
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 Eastern Time
Location: Free Online Webinar
Title: ANSOR 3.0 — Managing Client KM
You'll learn how ANSOR 3 will help you win new clients by highlighting your law firm's relevant experience.
ANSOR Experience is the best of breed application for helping firms easily highlight recent and relevant experience.
The ANSOR platform allows firms to take advantage of investments already made and bring data silos together allowing firms to easily provide personalized and targeted responses. Provide clients with data that supports why your firm is the best fit, and win more business.
What is our recent relevant experience in front of this particular judge? Where have we closed on 20 million + tranche of Series B financing for telecommunication companies?
Register now and learn:
- How you can automatically create these experience records from investments your firm has already made.
- How you can get your entire firm to collaborate without learning new software.
- How firms are leveraging tablet devices to deliver these messages.
For additional information, please contact Bryan Austin at 212.692.5691 or Austin@AnsorSoftware.com
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Free Webinar
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Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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Time: 12:00-1:30 Eastern Time
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Location:
Microsoft Offices, New York City
1290 Avenue of the Americas
6th Floor
New York City, NY 10104
Attendees should be prepared to
show a photo ID at the security desk
on the first floor.
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy
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See a demonstration of Microsoft’s new Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet, and learn how this device can change the way your attorneys practice law.
- Desktop functionality
- Law Firm Applications - Office 2013, Document Management, Email, Time Entry, Lit Support
- Advanced Applications – Lync, Video conferencing, Document Collaboration in Real Time, Smart Board
- Laptop/Mobile functionality but under 2 lbs
- Offline - Office 2013, DMS, Email
- Online – Direct Access, secure connection to firm’s network
- Security - BitLocker
- iPad/tablet functionality
- Touch screen, easy to use
- Write notes, annotate, draw diagrams
- Surf the net, read books, watch movies
- All-in-one device, don’t need desktop, laptop and iPad
- Small enough to take everywhere
- Easier for IT to manage one device instead of many devices
- Pull out Windows 7, Insert Windows 8 and run all of your existing applications.
Presenters:
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides management and leadership to Kraft Kennedy and their law firm clients on engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies, such as network design and administration, infrastructure, storage, messaging, document management and security. Rob also provides strategic guidance to firms in areas such as business continuity/disaster recovery, systems consolidation and IT organizational restructuring. He can be reached at brindell@kraftkennedy.com.
Marcus Bluestein is a Managing Director and CTO of Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies, such as messaging, document management, infrastructure and data center consolidation. Marcus is also responsible for the organization's technical consultants and software development group. He regularly consults on IT management and operational best practices in addition to providing CIO advisory services. Marcus can be reached at bluestein@kraftkennedy.com.
For additional information, please contact Rob Brindell at 212.692.5604 or Brindell@kraftkennedy.com
Date: Monday, April 15, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 Eastern Time
Location: Free Online Webinar
Title: Disaster Recovery with Hybrid Cloud When Minutes Matter Most.
According to Aberdeen Analyst Group, downtime can cost small to mid-sized companies an average of $1,230 dollars per minute. How much would it cost in terms of lost revenue and client satisfaction when your firm’s network is down? In this day and age it’s only a matter of when…not if. Whether it’s a hurricane or a server misconfiguration, firms need to have a disaster recovery solution in place in order to continue to operate, while their internal IT departments resolve the problem.
While many traditional tape backup methods make disaster recovery a slow-motion proposition, hybrid cloud solutions -- a combination of high-speed-recovery appliances and cloud-based technology -- are paving the way for the future of backup, recovery and continuity.
Quorum will focus this session on the importance of going beyond traditional backup methods to implement a disaster recovery and management plan enabling business continuity and prevents costly downtime.
What you'll learn:
- Quorum will discuss this next phase in hybrid cloud technology, and the crucial role of instant recovery in small to mid-sized law firms and how it is the next frontier for disaster recovery planning.
- An overview of current recovery systems, from tape backup, disks, data center replications to private and public cloud-based solutions. Quorum’s lead engineer will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each, as well as how various solutions have performed for real law firms in real-life disaster scenarios.
- The component of speed and simplicity will also be discussed, with a focus on how hybrid cloud solutions can benefit small to mid-sized law firms from a proactive recovery-testing scenario before a disaster strikes.
For additional information, please contact Rob Brindell at 212.692.5604 or Brindell@kraftkennedy.com