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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 | IL
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) | IL
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.

Business Continuity, Uncorked: Winter Festival with Datto & Kraft Kennedy
2021-01-27 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | IL
Sample and savor four wines from your home during this virtual business continuity education session.
For our clients, Business Continuity means preventing data loss and minimizing downtime–giving you peace of mind that your data is safe and normal business operations can be restored in minutes.
What steps you can take to ensure proper Business Continuity right now? What about next year, or 3 years from now? Join us January 27th for answers to these questions as well as a wine tasting lead by a sommelier, compliments of the team at Kraft Kennedy.

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.

ILTA Webinar: Managed Service Provider (MSP) Strategies: How to Find and Vet MSPs When You Can’t Do It All Yourself
2021-02-23 10:30 - 11:45 UTC | IL
As a small firm IT professional, you cannot do it all yourself and finding and vetting managed service providers can be a daunting endeavor. In this session we will help attendees develop a strategy to understand and evaluate different cloud technologies. We will discuss and provide advice on building sustainable support structure for document management systems, financial systems, help desk, training, security, and others.
Speaker: Jude Travers-Frazier, COO, Kraft Kennedy
Interested in this session but not an ILTA member? Reach out and we’ll share the recording and send you the materials. Check out our MSP checklist in the meanwhile.

ACEDS Session: Moving Forward: A Secure, Productive, and Mobile Work Experience
2021-03-04 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Join us for an interactive panel discussion with Kraft Kennedy CTO Chris Owens, covering these topics and the questions you bring to the virtual table:

“War stories” from the 2020 remote landscape
The real reasons behind the things your IT department makes you do
Next Level Remote: more access, collaboration, and productivity
“What”, The Most Expensive Word in Business

To preselect the desired device giveaways for this event, and to enable us to customize the session content, advance participation via this survey is requested. Register here.

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.

ILTA Webinar: How NetDocuments Integrates with Microsoft Teams to Accelerate Firm Productivity
2021-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | IL
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost been a year since our lives were changed, forever. And, while the world shifted to working from home nearly overnight, many firms quickly responded by pushing out Microsoft Teams as an urgent measure to keep employees connected. As a result, an incredible 49% of firms are Microsoft Teams today.
In this webinar you’ll hear from industry experts at Microsoft and Kraft Kennedy about how NetDocuments’ technology is delivering an unmatched, seamless integration with Teams, helping lawyers everywhere work more securely, collaboratively, and productively.
Join the webinar to:

Learn massive shifts taking place industry wide
Discover how CIOs today are handling loss of control and governance issues in a post-2020 workplace
Hear first-hand from Kraft Kennedy how they’re helping firms successfully move to Teams with a tight integration with NetDocuments, and how it’s made all the difference during the pandemic
Get a live demo on how NetDocuments seamlessly integrates with Teams to minimize risk and maximize control over where and how users are saving documents

Save your spot and register today!
Presenters:
Dan Paquette, Infrastructure & Enterprise Systems Practice Manager, Kraft Kennedy
Brian Podolsky, Enterprise Content Manager Practice Leader, Kraft Kennedy
Fred Levesque, Product Manager, NetDocuments
Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments
Alex East, Modern Work Specialist, Microsoft
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.

ALA Webinar: Help, I Need Somebody: How to Find and Vet an MSP
2021-03-30 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
During this session, COO Jude Travers-Frazier will provide a clear strategy to finding and vetting Managed Service Providers (MSPs). We’ll cover the red flags to have on your radar, documentation you should request upfront from a potential MSP, as well as very specific ‘must ask’ security questions.
Giveaway: One attendee will win a trio of wines from our partners at Aldina Vineyards!
Register here

Business Continuity, Uncorked: Spring Festival with Datto & Kraft Kennedy
2021-04-20 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | IL
Sample and savor three wines from your home during this virtual business continuity education session.
For our clients, Business Continuity means preventing data loss and minimizing downtime–giving you peace of mind that your data is safe and normal business operations can be restored in minutes.
What steps you can take to ensure proper Business Continuity right now? What about next year, or 3 years from now? Join us April 20th for answers to these questions as well as a wine tasting lead by a sommelier, compliments of the team at Kraft Kennedy.
Attendance to this event is by invitation only.

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.

ALA Boston Education Program - How to Talk About Race and Racism at Work
2021-04-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
The presenters will cover the following topics: “What is race and racism?”, “Why talk about race and racism at work?”, and “How do you talk about race and racism at work?” They will review scenarios relating to discussing race and racism in the workplace, and provide guidance and suggested approaches. Register here
Presenters:
Su Joun (she/her/hers), Principal of Diversity@Workplace Consulting Group LLC
Jen Coburn (she/her/hers), Consultant with Diversity@Workplace Consulting Group
Stella Okeke-Common (she/her/hers), Consultant with Diversity@Workplace Consulting Group

ALA Boston Education Program - PFML | What? How? The Reality of PFML Claims
2021-05-25 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Webinar
We have a lot of questions about Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) and we’ve put together a panel of professionals with diverse roles to break down the program, highlight our obligations, and discuss everyday concerns that affect us as employers. This education program is for members only. Register here
Panelist Discussion Topics:

Dos and Don’ts
What are the main claims you’re seeing? Anything unexpected so far?
Examples of claims including pitfalls and things to consider for the main types of claims such as:
Parental Leave – with a medical component (mother) and non-medical (father/adoption)
Employee illness
Dependent/family member illness
How does PFML work with other company policies such as Parental Leave and Short Term Disability?
Are there any concerns with Firms’ exemptions? Do they need to refile yearly to opt in/out?
Can employees really use PFML after they leave a company? How does that work?
What documentation do we tell employees they need for a claim? How do you suggest we go about handling that documentation, which we may not want to see!
How detailed is the Commonwealth when making their decision on a claim? What if an employer disagrees with the state’s decision?
Are there notices or other announcements we, as administrators, should make sure we distribute?
Audience Q & A

Presenters:
Elizabeth Dornburgh, Senior Director of Human Resources, Wolf Greenfield
Sarah Hipp, Group Claims Team Leader, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company / Workplace Solutions
Joseph Laferrera, Managing Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP
Abigail O’Connell, Senior Counsel, Sun Life Financial

iManage ConnectLive 2021 – Virtual
2021-06-22 - 2021-06-24 | Webinar
ConnectLive 2021 is the biggest education event for iManage customers, partners, product experts, and users. It’s designed to bring together professionals across industry, to gain insights, share best practices and access the latest product roadmaps, visions, and thinking. Register here.
Product Roadmaps: We share details of our plans for 2021 and beyond
Live Keynotes: iManage leaders reveal how our vision of making knowledge work will help you achieve better business outcomes
Role-Based Tracks: 35+ sessions to explore business, technical, security, cloud, on-premises, and knowledge management themes

Microsoft Teams for Legal – Notes from the Field with Kraft Kennedy
2021-07-09 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Experience successful integrations of Teams at law firms, discuss governance and compliance issues, the basics of document sharing; what you need to know to best serve your firm using Teams. Also tips, tricks and hidden features. This session will be created around crowd-sourced information, so please participate in the survey upon registration!
Register here.
Presenters:
Tracy Kraft, Director of Marketing, Kraft Kennedy
Dan Paquette, Practice Manager of Infrastructure & Enterprise Systems, Kraft Kennedy

Driving IT: Golfing Outing with Datto & Kraft Kennedy
2021-07-21 13:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Rockrimmon Country Club, 2949 Long Ridge Rd, Stamford, CT, 06903, United States
This event is by invitation only.

nQ Zebraworks Webinar: FOMO - Fear of Missing the Office
2021-08-11 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
We’ve been speaking to attorneys and law firms since the start of the pandemic when work from anywhere was top of mind as we all shifted to remote work. Now we’re seeing legal professionals navigate the latest evolution of WFA: Work THE SAME from Anywhere.
Frankly, things were easier when everyone was just remote, or in the office. Hybrid operations are causing FOMO: Fear of the Missing the Office. In this webinar series, nQ Zebraworks untangles the hairy aspects of navigating flexible operations: real estate, infrastructure and security, personnel, and performance management, just to name a few.
Join the first in this series of webinars starting August 11th. Register now.
Presenters:
Bill Bice, CEO, nQ Zebraworks
Rick Hellers, Co-Founder, nQ Zebraworks
Michael Kraft, Kraft Kennedy

23rd Annual ILTA Golf Tournament: Rob Brindell Memorial
2021-08-22 | IL
Rob was instrumental in putting together the ILTA Golf Tournament for the past 20 years. It’s only fitting that we dedicate and honor him.
Rob was the cornerstone of the Kraft Kennedy family for more than 23 years. His dedication, warmth, caring, and sensitivity were boundless. No one was immune from his ability to draw people in and make them friends. Rob’s famous sense of humor was all-encompassing and always kind-hearted.
The 23rd Annual ILTA Golf Tournament: Rob Brindell Memorial, presented by NetDocuments, Mimecast, and Kraft Kennedy, will be held at Bali Hai Golf Club.
Contact us to request registration.
