Successful Strategies for Deploying Desktop Change

Pat Mansuy
Whether you're deploying Office 2007, Office 2010, or your firm's first DMS, deploying desktop change is a project with lots of moving parts. How do you coordinate the user and hardware migration? What tools can help maximize resources to ensure you're migrating machines as quickly as possible? What part does communication play in a successful deployment project? What are the keys to successfully partnering with an implementation vendor?

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Aug 23, 2010
10:30am

Las Vegas, NV

Tweaking the Windows 7 Desktop with Advanced Configuration Settings

Todd Parkin
A hands-on session that will allow attendees to learn the benefits and productivity advantages of upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. CIOs, directors and managers, along with trainers, project managers and user support members will actively identify productivity tools such as Jump Lists, Gadgets, integrated search and “Sticky Notes.” Through exposure to the OS, attendees will experience the enhanced security, improved user interface and media sharing opportunities that Windows 7 offers and experience first-hand the ability to support, maintain and present to the legal community.

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Aug 24, 2010
1:30pm

Las Vegas, NV

How KM Supports Alternative Fee Arrangements

Michael Mills
With all the buzz about alternative fee arrangements, you may be wondering how knowledge management can support them. This session will review how KM provides critical support for firms as they design, manage and offer AFAs. In addition to more traditional methods, such as model and sample forms, matter databases, and expertise location, KM supports AFA strategies through project management, financial analysis, business intelligence, and standardized information capture.

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Aug 26, 2010
10:30am

Las Vegas, NV

Co-Managing Projects with Vendors

Donald Sternfeld
Many hardware and software implementations include project management services from the vendor. This session will explore how to most effectively leverage this relationship between vendor project management and law firm project managers.

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Aug 26, 2010
2:00pm

Las Vegas, NV

Law Department Roundtable

Jude Travers-Frazier
This session features a roundtable discussion exploring the latest issues facing corporate law departments.

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Aug 26, 2010
3:30pm

Las Vegas, NV

VDI: The Future (and Present) of Desktop Computing

Justin Grego and Chris Owens from Kraft Kennedy will lead a session discussing the best way to manage both a remote access environment and a separate production environment at the same time, while simultaneously meeting the challenge of providing a consistent experience for users in the office and those on the road. This session will examine one possible solution for the legal environment: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technologies. We will discuss the following topics in our session: the current state of VDI technologies; the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a VDI system; a comparison of the three major players (Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, and Microsoft Enterprise Virtual Desktop); and where VDI is going and whether VDI is right for your firm. Join us as we discuss the above topics and answer any questions you have to help you make the right choices for your firm.

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Aug 24, 2009
10:30am

Washington, DC

Law Firm Economics in a Downturn: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention

John Tsiofas from Kraft Kennedy will be participating in a session addressing the following questions: What happens to law firms when the economy takes a downward turn? Where do the best firms focus in those circumstances: revenues, on costs? If on costs, what determines which costs become a luxury and which remain essential? How does technology fit in that mix? These questions and more are slated for discussion.

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Aug 26, 2009
9:00am

Washington, DC

Data Center Centralization and Relocation Planning

John Tsiofas and Dave Carlson from Kraft Kennedy will be presenting an in-depth session on how to plan, justify and properly execute a successful data center centralization and relocation project. The following topics will be covered: properly analyzing and justifying a data center project; how cloud computing and other technologies should affect your strategy; how to prepare your team to properly manage and succeed on this type of project; opportunities to save money; and actual lessons learned from the field. We will move quickly and will cover a lot of material focusing on practical approaches and strategies that have been proven to work.

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Aug 26, 2009
11:00am

Washington, DC

Virtualization - Benefits and Pitfalls

Matthew Liebowitz from Kraft Kennedy will be participating in a panel discussing the benefits and pitfalls of virtualization. Join this session to learn about capacity planning, infrastructure design, testing, deployment, snapshots and rollback. Discussions will focus on providing a framework on which to establish or tune your own virtual environments. Hear all sides to virtualization and learn the most successful implementation strategies.

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Aug 27, 2009
10:30am

Washington, DC