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Webinar: A Pandemic Law Practice: Collaboration, Culture & Security
2020-03-31 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
When preparing for COVID-19 and the potential evacuation of traditional office space, clearly the ability for lawyers and staff to access data is the first and foremost obstacle to tackle. We know we want to leverage technologies we have already developed, perhaps with incremental retooling, to make access to the systems as simple as possible for the entire firm.
But access is only half the equation of what makes your firm special. Efforts to ensure productive collaboration and maintain firm culture are also key focal points to consider during these events. Likewise, as you start to introduce new ways that allow that collaboration and culture to persist, as the physical boundaries of the law firm office space begin to disappear, you also need to address the security concerns that are inherent with that new scenario. Join Kraft Kennedy for a Q&A session.

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Kraft Kennedy speakers

Michael Kraft
General Counsel
Michael Kraft is the general counsel of Kraft Kennedy. He founded the company with Peter Kennedy in 1988 and continues to provide guidance for the firm today, contributing his unique insight into the technology challenges that face businesses.

Chris Owens
Chief Technology Officer | 20 years with Kraft Kennedy
Citrix CCA | VMware VCP | Interwoven CSA | OpenText CHP
Chris is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft Kennedy. With over 20 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris has helped leading firms with desktop design and management, server and storage consolidation and collocation, DR/BC, email messaging design and migration, document management, and hybrid/thin-client architecture.

Joe Hoegler
Chief Technology Innovation Officer | 17 years with Kraft Kennedy
Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange 2010; Office 365 Exchange Online | Microsoft Certified Solutions Master: Messaging
Joe is the Chief Technology Innovation Officer and heads technology services delivery and solution development at Kraft Kennedy. He also manages all project practice groups. He is an expert in messaging systems and unified communications, directory services, server virtualization, storage area networking, network infrastructure, high availability and disaster recovery, and data center design. Joe is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master: Messaging, one of only 22 people worldwide to achieve this certification.

Webinar: The Changing Normal: Were Firms Ready for WFH?
2020-04-02 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Catch special guest Pat Mansuy in the Litera TV session, The Changing Normal: Were Firms Ready for WFH? with Sherry Kappel.

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DRI Webinar - Your New Virtual Law Firm
2020-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
This pandemic has brought new challenges to how we work. We are now all remote workers, which requires equipment, connectivity, and ways to share information, while still maintaining a secure environment. This webinar will address the elements necessary to operate in this “new world” and suggest ways to get there quickly, efficiently, and safely.

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Kraft Kennedy presenters:

Michael Kraft
General Counsel
Michael Kraft is the general counsel of Kraft Kennedy. He founded the company with Peter Kennedy in 1988 and continues to provide guidance for the firm today, contributing his unique insight into the technology challenges that face businesses.

Chris Owens
Chief Technology Officer | 20 years with Kraft Kennedy
Citrix CCA | VMware VCP | Interwoven CSA | OpenText CHP
Chris is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft Kennedy. With over 20 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris has helped leading firms with desktop design and management, server and storage consolidation and collocation, DR/BC, email messaging design and migration, document management, and hybrid/thin-client architecture.

Joe Hoegler
Chief Technology Innovation Officer | 17 years with Kraft Kennedy
Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange 2010; Office 365 Exchange Online | Microsoft Certified Solutions Master: Messaging
Joe is the Chief Technology Innovation Officer and heads technology services delivery and solution development at Kraft Kennedy. He also manages all project practice groups. He is an expert in messaging systems and unified communications, directory services, server virtualization, storage area networking, network infrastructure, high availability and disaster recovery, and data center design. Joe is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master: Messaging, one of only 22 people worldwide to achieve this certification.

Webinar: ILTA Roadshow 2020 – Delivering the Cloud Infrastructure “Easy Button”
2020-04-23 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Weren’t able to make it to a roadshow near you? Or need a refresher on the content you saw? Sign up for the recap webinar of our 2020 ILTA Roadshow, “Delivering the Cloud Infrastructure ‘Easy Button'”!

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Roadshow topic: Delivering the Cloud Infrastructure “Easy Button”
Moving core infrastructure systems to the cloud has always had obstacles. While systems like Exchange and document management systems have Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) options that include several layers of management responsibilities for the law firm, the remaining servers had no clear path. Even after security and compliance issues have been overcome, Infrastructure teams need to port virtual machines into Azure and remediate any issues that appeared during the process. Cloud deployments took months and that was on top of learning a new platform.
Now Microsoft and VMware have eliminated the time and education commitments needed to move to the cloud. Move all your servers in days instead of months or years. With Azure VMware Solution (AVS), law firms simply connect to the Azure fabric and vMotion their systems to VMware host instances, selecting the option that best fits your needs.
Keep using the VMware tools you already know to manage workloads on Azure without disrupting network, security, or data protection policies. Run native VMware environments at any scale with unified management of Azure and VMware resources, Azure networking services, and security tools. Join us along with Microsoft and VMware as we discuss the details of this new offering.

Webinar: USDEG Online Round Table and Get Together
2020-04-30 08:45 - 10:15 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Join our hosts Sherry Kappel, Judye Releford, Tracy Kraft from the USDEG for an interesting online round table session on today’s and tomorrow’s skill requirements for document professionals.

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ALA 2020 Annual Conference & Expo
2020-05-03 - 2020-05-06
2020 Annual Conference & Expo Postponed
New dates to be announced soon
Under the circumstances, the ALA Board of Directors has made the decision that it is no longer viable to move forward with ALA’s 2020 Annual Conference & Expo as originally scheduled. In our hearts we had hoped to find a path through these uncharted times to a safe and successful event, but postponement of the event is unavoidable at this time. In the meantime, we’ll continue to recalibrate and analyze various models related to our contracts, terms and conditions in order to come to a timely and informed decision that allows for a level of confidence in protecting the long-term financial health of the Association.
With this decision to postpone, I know that you may have questions about next steps and how this impacts you and your organization. Our immediate focus is to reach a decision on finding a date for postponement in 2020, and we are considering several possible 2020 dates. If we are unable to find a 2020 date, we may need to postpone until 2021. We remain committed to having that decision made no later than the week of March 30, if possible.

Webinar: Hindsight in 2020: Pandemic Preparations and Wishful Thinking
2020-05-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Join Kraft Kennedy COO Jude Travers-Frazier for an interactive virtual roundtable covering what the ALANYC members, in hindsight, wish they had known from a technology perspective when going into a completely remote work environment.
Topics include:

Immediate collective technology challenges as everyone was forced to work remotely.
Some of the solutions/ workarounds that were effective.
Challenges members are facing that they haven’t yet solved.
Futureproofing: emergency preparedness planning.

These topics and other crowd sourced questions will be addressed in this session. Advance participation is encouraged.

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DEG Virtual Meeting
2020-05-28 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Join our hosts Joe Hoegler, Sherry Kappel and Judye Releford from the USDEG for a virtual meeting on Azure Information Protection Services, what the document professional needs to know.
Meeting Schedule:

11:15-11:30 EDT – Networking
11:30-11:35 EDT – Welcome, Overview & Announcements
11:35-Noon EDT – What the document professional needs to know re: AIP (Azure Information Protection Services)

Joe Hoegler, Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Kraft Kennedy

Noon-12:25 EDT – Office 365 WFH Tips That Make Us Happy

Judye Releford, Business Analyst at Keesal Propulsion Labs, and Sherry Kappel, Evangelist at Litera

12:25-12:30 EDT – Wrap-Up

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Webinar: Work-from-Home Security Threats: Protect Your Firm on the Inside and Outside
2020-06-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Capensys, MediaPro, Kraft Kennedy and Remediant will provide an in-depth look at security in light of the recent changes in our work environment, including case studies of recent attacks. What additional threats are posed by a newly dispersed workforce? How can you ensure that the home networks of your users are secure? How are hackers taking advantage of the current situation? How do privileged access accounts pose a particular risk to the firm? What steps can you take to help secure your environment? We’ll highlight the important role that each user plays in maintaining a culture of security warriors to protect the firm and client information.
Join us for this engaging, interactive panel discussion that will include case studies, actionable recommendations, and best practices for our current situation for law firms and legal departments

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CLE Seminar on the Links - Privacy, Security & the Midsize Law Firm
2020-06-18 08:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Rockrimmon Country Club, 2949 Long Ridge Rd, Stamford, CT, 06903, United States
This event has been temporarily postponed. Please check back for more information.
The Legal Executive Institute, in partnership with Kraft Kennedy, is pleased to present a special seminar on midsize law firm data privacy and cybersecurity this May at Rockrimmon Country Club in Stamford, CT.
A three-hour seminar taught by some of the legal industry’s most respected subject matter experts, this program offers law firm partners and executive committee members timely and essential guidance on key threats and emerging practices for protecting the integrity of one’s firm. Do not miss this exciting opportunity to arm yourself with cutting edge insights and an afternoon of professional networking at one of the US Northeast’s most scenic properties.
In addition to CLE credit, attendees can network over a round of golf at one of the Northeast’s most scenic properties.
Participation is strictly limited to the first 50 guests.

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ConnectLive 2020 – Virtual
2020-06-23 - 2020-06-24 | Webinar
ConnectLive 2020 – Virtual will now be held as a single, global event, on June 23-24. To connect with Kraft Kennedy for a discussion about ConnectLive 2020, please get in touch!

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Webinar: Application Packaging for the Modern Secure Desktop: The AppBakery
2020-06-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Now that Windows updates are released by Microsoft semi-annually, it is more important than ever to keep your applications on the latest version. Join Sulabh Upadhyaya and Emily Saraiva for a lively discussion and interactive demo of Kraft Kennedy’s AppBakery, moderated by Luke Schnoebelen of Shook Hardy Bacon. We welcome audience participation as we tour the application packaging and lifecycle management portal, discussing historic industry challenges and revealing a new and expedited process for getting current and staying current.
Speakers:
Sulabh Upadhyaya – Enterprise Client Systems – Manager of Managed Desktop Services at Kraft Kennedy
Emily Saraiva – Enterprise Client Systems – Managed Desktop Account Manager at Kraft Kennedy
Luke Schnoebelen – Manager of Learning and Development at Shook Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

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Microsoft Inspire 2020
2020-07-21 - 2020-07-22 | Webinar
Microsoft Inspire will be launched as a complimentary digital event experience on July 21-22. To connect with Kraft Kennedy for a discussion about Microsoft Inspire 2020, please get in touch!

Webinar: How Priorities Change in a Changing Time
2020-07-27 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver) | Webinar
The future came faster than anyone expected. In a matter of weeks – if not days- entire work forces went mobile. As we rushed forward, priorities changed. Security remained at the top of the list, but what ‘down the road’ plans suddenly became a 2020 priority project? Which integrations balanced security requirements and the demands to remain productive? As firms chose new collaboration platforms, what were the biggest problems encountered and which clever tools eased transitions?
Brian Podolsky, Practice Leader of Kraft Kennedy’s Enterprise Content Management Team and David Hansen, VP of Compliance at NetDocuments share their notes from the field in this interactive session for the ILTA community. Audience participation is encouraged.

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On Your Radar: The Challenge of Provisioning and Governing Microsoft Teams
2020-08-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Microsoft Teams has quickly become a foundational technology for collaboration and productivity for many firms in this new world. However, the tremendous increase in adoption has not been without its challenges. Specifically, organizations need to manage Teams in a secure and governed way, without interrupting their workflow.
To address these challenges, you are invited to join the conversation as Kraft Kennedy and Prosperoware discuss how as an enterprise software solution, Prosperoware CAM, empowers firms to:

• Automatically provision matter-centric Teams & Channels
• Identify Teams with Matters
• Successfully collaborate around clients, matters, & documents across the organization
• Integrate Teams with iManage, NetDocuments and other content systems
• Obtain a comprehensive governance layer with ethical walls, permissions, and need-to-know security
• Efficiently move content from Teams to iManage DMS

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ILTACON 2020
2020-08-23 - 2020-08-27
Will you be in Tennessee for ILTACON 2020? Reach out to the Kraft Kennedy team for some advance planning! We’d be glad to arrange a call to review the “can’t miss” sessions from the ILTACON 2020 conference agenda, as well as the best parties and vendor events. We look forward to seeing you at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville! #WeAreILTA

22nd Annual ILTA Golf Tournament: Rob Brindell Memorial
2020-08-23 08:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
The 22nd Annual ILTA Golf Tournament: Rob Brindell Memorial, presented by Kraft Kennedy, will be held at Gaylord Springs Golf Links.
Tournament schedule:

8:00am Shotgun Start
Continental breakfast will be served
Lunch will be supplied
Two unlimited beverage carts (on the front nine and on the back) will follow the players during their round
Hole-in-One Contest: first hole-in-one wins a new sports car
Post-tournament awards ceremony with food and beverages will be provided
Top three foursomes will win a prize
Popular contests such as longest drive (men and women) and closest to the hole (men and women)
Raffle for a Driver and two $150 gift cards
Buses will transport players to and from the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and return around 2:00pm Sunday afternoon

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ILTA>ON Session: Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of More Money
2020-08-26 12:45 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Webinar
There can be a sticker shock when moving your infrastructure to the cloud. Learn to shift your expenditures from large capital layouts to predictable operational annual costs. This session will help you have a clear understanding of the potential components you should consider to help you build a multi-year forecast to present to firm management and stakeholders; these components include application creep, data storage, server utilization, and more.
Presented by:

Dominick Ciacciarelli
Practice Group Leader, Infrastructure & Enterprise Systems
Kraft Kennedy

ILTA>ON Session: 14 Gotchas in 45 Minutes: Migrating to Microsoft Cloud Lessons Learned
2020-08-26 14:30 - 15:15 (America/Chicago) | Webinar
You can spend hours reading the ILTA posts by your peers about how to best migrate your applications to the Microsoft Cloud (Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, OneDrive, etc.) OR you can attend this session to get the top tips from your peers virtually “in person”!
Presented by:

Joe Hoegler
Chief Technology Innovation Officer
Kraft Kennedy

Microsoft Ignite 2020
2020-09-21 - 2020-09-25 | Webinar
Microsoft Ignite will be launched as a complimentary digital event experience this September. To connect with Kraft Kennedy for a discussion about Microsoft Ignite 2020, please get in touch!

Litera TV: It's DEG Week!
2020-09-29 - 2020-10-01 | Webinar
Catch the sessions featuring Kraft Kennedy’s Tracy Kraft as well as other DEG discussions this week, 9/29-10/1. Explore the Litera TV schedule here.

NetDocuments Elevate 2020
2020-10-06 - 2020-10-07 | Online Conference
NetDocuments Elevate 2020 will launch for the first time ever as a virtual event this October. To connect with Kraft Kennedy for a discussion about NetDocuments Elevate 2020, please get in touch!
This year’s conference will feature sessions from Kraft Kennedy’s experts Brian Podolsky and Dan Paquette.
Interested in registering for Elevate through Kraft Kennedy?

Global DEG Day
2020-10-07 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online Conference
Registration for this year’s virtual Global Document Excellence Day is now open. We look forward to seeing you there.
Attend any or all sessions featuring interesting topics, speakers and panel discussions throughout the day with joint UK and US sessions to connect with the DEG’s global network. Attendance at DEG’s physical events is normally restricted to members only but this year the invitation is extended to anyone interested in document related topics.
Kraft Kennedy’s featured session:

“Do you miss your Office Guru? (continued)” | 1:30 – 2:15 PM EST
Speaker: Pat Mansuy, Management Consulting Practice Leader

WIPL 2020: Reduce Risk in Remote Legal Operations
2020-10-26 10:30 - 11:30 UTC | Webinar
The future came faster than anyone expected. In a matter of weeks – if not days- entire work forces went mobile. As we rushed forward, priorities changed. We will review the prioritize security imperatives that can reduce risk in the remote workplace.
Registration for this year’s virtual WIPL is now open. We look forward to seeing you there.

Kraft Kennedy’s featured session:
“Reduce Risk in Remote Legal Operations” | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
With the switch to a remote workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many legal teams have been forced to rely on convoluted and outdated systems to manage contracts and legal agreements. This has led to missed deadlines, lost opportunities, and unacceptable levels of risk for organizations, including security and compliance risk. In this session we will break down the key risks exposed by remote work and how cloud-based, automated contract management can help legal teams: Reduce contractual and compliance risk with automated notifications, configurable approval workflows, and full audit trails Eliminate confusion and needless communication in contract lifecycle management when colleagues are working remotely Offer specific examples on how CLM can boost transparency, efficiency, and revenue in organizations Tighten security with all data secured in a single, cloud-based solution.

Fall Fest: Cybersecurity on Tap
2020-11-10 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Guarding against unprecedented cyber threats, without compromising productivity all while under pressure to cut costs! This calls for some careful planning over delicious beers.
Security experts at Kraft Kennedy and Mimecast host this virtual educational session while you sample and savor four hand selected craft beers under the guidance of a brew master, all from the comfort of your home.
Registration is now closed – stay tuned for similar future events!

ILTACON South America Session: Cloudy with a Chance of Higher Costs
2020-11-12 10:45 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Join ILTA virtually for the first ILTACON South America, a legal technology conference for professionals undertaking initiatives in support of the practice of law. Over the two days, there will be education tracks, exciting takeaways, and opportunities to network with your peers and industry experts.
This is the must attend legal technology conference for leaders, managers and decision-making legal technologists from small to large law firms, corporate and government law departments, and academia to discover and evolve successful legal operation strategies for today’s transforming legal industry. (Translations for Spanish and Portuguese will be available).
Kraft Kennedy’s featured session:
“Cloudy with a Chance of Higher Costs” | 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM EST
Presented by Dominick Ciacciarelli

There Are No Experts Roundtable - Project Compression or Doing More With Less (Time)
2020-11-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
ILTA’s members and business partners reacted quickly and heroically to the demand to transform in-person, high touch businesses into effective remote workplaces overnight. In short, we delivered! So, have we become victims of our own success? IT leaders of all size organizations are reporting that they are increasingly being asked to complete complex projects in record time. In this session, we will explore the opportunities and challenges associated with project compression – and provide each other with moral support!
This roundtable is open to ILTAns and non-ILTAns, so consider bringing a friend!
We are excited for this opportunity to learn and innovate together – we will create the legal industry’s future.
Moderator:
Joy Heath Rush
CEO, ILTA
Panelists:
Jeff Brandt
Chief Information Officer, Jackson Kelly PLLC
Beau Mersereau
Chief Legal Technology Solutions Officer, Fish & Richardson P.C.
Josh Lazar
Chief Information Officer, 18th Judicial Circuit Courts of Florida
Scott Higdon
Senior Project Manager, Kraft Kennedy

ILTA Mid-Law CIO Summit Panel: New Tech for Old Tasks
2020-11-17 11:30 - 12:45 (America/New_York) | Online Conference
When we all transitioned from working at home to working from home in March of 2020, that felt hard. In some ways, though, that was the easy stuff.
Now are coping with a short-term situation that has become long term. Certain operational functions – e.g., mail room, onboarding, equipment deployment and recovery, client pitches, depositions – that were well established had to be turned on their heads. We quickly identified new tools and techniques for accomplishing these tasks.
Now that the genie is out of the bottle, will we ever go back to 2019 tools and techniques? Do we want to? What does this mean for tools and technology? And the skill sets CIOs and IT teams need to develop and enhance? How do we help lawyers embrace these new tools?
Moderator:
Tony McKenna
Director of Information Technology, Howard Kennedy
Panelists:
Matthew Basile
Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren
Michael Gordon
Partner, Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Pat Mansuy
Chief Information Officer, Cole Schotz
Andrew Powell
Chief Information Officer, Macfarlanes
Jamie Rhodes
Solicitor, Howard Kennedy
Amy Sellars
AGC and Director of the Discovery Center of Excellence, Cardinal Health

Worldox Technology Webinar Series - Worldox, Microsoft 365, and Azure Best Practices
2020-11-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Join Rebecca Sattin, Chief Information Officer, at Worldox and Dan Paquette, Practice Manager for Infrastructure & Enterprise Systems, at Kraft Kennedy for a discussion on best practices and process of setting up your Worldox implementation on your Azure server. Register here.
Moderator:
Rebecca Sattin
Chief Information Officer, Worldox
Kraft Kennedy’s featured speaker:
Dan Paquette
Practice Manager, Infrastructure & Enterprise Systems

ALANYC 15th Educational Symposium & Exposition
2021-01-25 - 2021-01-29 | Online Conference
We are excited to participate in ALANYC’s 15th Educational Symposium and Exposition, bringing ALA members thoughtful and practical legal management education. The virtual Symposium is spread over a week, with time slots for educational sessions each day and time to visit with Business Partners at their virtual booths.
Kraft Kennedy featured session:
Developing a Cybersecurity Plan with the Remote Worker in Mind
January 26, 11:00 pm – 12:15 pm EST
Description: Working remotely may be the new normal but, according to an ALA poll, will likely become a permanent reality at least for some. From a cybersecurity perspective, we address the new challenges and dangers associated with the remote workforce. We look at risks and their possible mitigations. We review policies as well as procedures. We show you how to use cybersecurity to build a resilient firm
Takeaways include:

Understanding the risks of the remote network and remote access to the network.
Identifying user risks and attendant procedures and policies to mitigate those risks.
Addressing adequate protection that you need to have with a distributed workforce.
Understanding of various mitigations including layered solutions to help protect the remote worker and the confidentiality.

NOTICE TO ALL PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES – Federal [including Military], State, Local and Public Education. This is a Partner event where items of value, which will include food and beverage, will be available at no charge to attendees. Please check with your ethics counsel to verify that you are permitted to participate in this event and receive items that may be offered. All Services shall be treated as Microsoft Confidential Information unless otherwise designated by Microsoft. The supplier will not highlight competitive solutions as part of the Events.
