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switch to a remote workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many legal teams have been forced to rely on convoluted and outdated systems to manage contracts and legal agreements.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)
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
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)
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
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
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.

ILTACON 2021
2021-08-22 - 2021-08-26 | Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89119, United States
Wondering about ILTACON 2021? The conference will be hybrid! The in-person portion will be at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV August 22-26th. Road mapping sessions to create your firm’s personal strategic technology plan, are now available. To schedule, please reach out to the Kraft Kennedy team.
We will review the topics you’re interested in learning about at ILTACON and highlight the ‘don’t miss’ session the ILTACON 2021 conference agenda. #WeAreILTA
Hot topics for ILTACON 2021: Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Modern Authentication (OAuth), Azure Information Protection, Office 365, Exchange On-Premises vs. Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, Information Governance, Document Management Migrations, Project Management-as-a-Service, Security and Compliance, Application Lifecycle Management, Windows 10 update cadence.
We’d love to learn what you’re prioritizing for ILTACON 2021 – please get in touch.

ILTACON 2021 Session: This is the Way: The Force of Kraft Kennedy, NetDocuments and Microsoft Teams Combined
2021-08-24 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89119, United States
It’s been more than 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.
Join us at ILTACON where 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

This is an ILTACON 2021 session. Save your spot and pre-register today!
Presenters:
Michelle Gilbert, Modern Workplace Teams, Technical Specialist, Microsoft
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

Webinar: Planning, Trust, and Precision: How Ice Miller Adopted the Cloud Completely Remote
2021-09-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
When Ice Miller set out to adopt a new document management system (DMS) they knew that internal adoption would be both the most difficult hurdle and their key to success. They spent months carefully planning their implementation. But then, the pandemic shut down the world.
Recognizing that their teams simply could not function as effectively without a cloud-based DMS while working remote, Ice Miller put their trust in implementation partner Kraft Kennedy and NetDocuments, their chosen DMS system, to bring them through a successful remote cloud adoption.
Join this webinar with Ice Miller Project Manager Kelly Kautsky and Director of IT Applications, Steve Johnson, in addition to Kraft Kennedy and NetDocuments, to hear first-hand how their trust in the process and technology paid off. Spoiler alert: it worked beautifully.

ALA Philadelphia Legal Expo
2021-09-09 16:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Millennium Hall at the Loews Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
We’re pleased to confirm that ALA Philadelphia’s Legal Expo will be held in person at the Loews Hotel this September. Already registered? Let us know if you’d like to be a part of our special events.

2021 Equal Access to Justice Gala
2021-09-22 | Webinar
Each year, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley hosts a Gala in celebration of the philanthropic and/or pro bono commitment of several notable and deserving honorees. This event raises substantial revenue to benefit individuals seeking civil legal services in the region who cannot afford an attorney through sponsorships, ticket sales and a fund-a-need paddle raise and text-to-give during the evening. Register here.
Honoring:
Barbara Finkelstein, LSHV’s retired CEO
Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York State Senate Majority Leader
Keynote Speaker:
Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY)

Thrive with Kraft Kennedy
2021-09-22 | Thrive Restaurant + Bar, 101 Marietta St. NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
Get ready for an evening of delicious food and good company!
Join Kraft Kennedy’s Deborah Jillson, Stacy Fischbach, Caesar Rodriguez and team after ALA Atlanta Expo for a night of cocktails, food, and fun at Thrive Restaurant + Bar.
This event is by invitation only.

ALA Atlanta Expo 2021: Reunited
2021-09-22 07:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Georgia Aquarium, 225 Baker Street NW, Atlanta, 30313, United States
We are excited to announce that the AALA Expo is back and will be held at the Georgia Aquarium (Oceans Ballroom) on September 22nd. Plan to spend your day reuniting and reconnecting with AALA members and fellow business partners.
Registration is available for ALA members only here.

ALA Annual Conference & Expo 2021
2021-10-03 - 2021-10-06 | Austin Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX, 78701, United States
We’re getting ready to educate, challenge and inspire at ALA’s 2021 Annual Conference & Expo. The conference committee is hard at work developing an educational program that will bring together the varied perspectives, experiences and knowledge that make our community truly great.
We can’t wait to share the details with you soon. Register here.
Already registered? Let us know if you’d like to be be a part of our special events.

A Night Out in Austin: Dinner and Cocktails with Kraft Kennedy
2021-10-05 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | ATX Cocina, 110 San Antonio Street, Austin, TX, 78701, United States
Get ready for an evening of delicious food and good company!
Join Kraft Kennedy’s Deborah Jillson, Stacy Fischbach, Caesar Rodriguez and team for a night of cocktails, food, and fun at ATX Cocina.
This event is by invitation only.
