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ILTA Miami Roadshow: Microsoft Road Map for 2016 Server Platforms
2016-01-12 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Fowler White Burnett, P.A., Miami, FL, 33131, United States
Microsoft’s 2016 server platforms have begun their release cycle, with Skype for Business, Exchange 2016 and System Center Configuration Manager 2016 already released, and the remainder of the System Center 2016 suite, Windows Server 2016 and SharePoint 2016 expected in early 2016. We’ll help you navigate the road map with our review on the features and functionality of these new server platforms and a discussion about how they will impact law firm technology.
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation will start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Presenters:
Joe Hoegler, a Practice Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc., leads the company’s infrastructure and enterprise systems practice group. He is responsible for direction, delivery and thought leadership in the areas of messaging systems and unified communications, directory services, server virtualization, storage area networking, network infrastructure, high availability and disaster recovery, and data center design. Joe has led or advised over 100 projects on Exchange 2010/2013 for law firm clients totaling over 100,000 users, and has presented at numerous industry conferences.
Holly Jordan is an Account Executive for Kraft Kennedy and has helped firms and organizations of all sizes with guidance and options around strategic technology projects including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. She was also a consultant in the digital forensics/e-discovery and legal research technologies space. Holly can be contacted at jordan@kraftkennedy.com.
Location:
Fowler White Burnett, P.A.
Brickell Arch
1395 Brickell Avenue
14th Floor
Miami, FL 33131
Host: David Tobin
305.789.9241
dtobin@fowler-white.com

Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Servers
2015-12-15 14:00 - 14:45
When: Tuesday, December 15, 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. ET
Where:
Join the meeting: https://join.me/961-159-271
On a computer, use any browser. Nothing to download.
On a phone or tablet, launch the join.me app and enter meeting code: 961-159-271
Join the audio conference:
Dial a phone number and enter access code, or connect via internet.
By phone:
United States – Hartford, CT +1.860.970.0010
United States – Washington, DC +1.202.602.1295
Access Code 961-159-271#

Sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee on us, and watch while we perform a live Failover and Failback with Reporting.
VMware users- this webinar is an excellent opportunity to consider a leading Disaster Recovery solution for your Virtualized Servers.
This presentation of a real world failover/ failback will be provided by Virtacore, a leading Cloud Service Provider for VMware users with a special expertise in Cloud Based DR, and Kraft Kennedy, a leading technology integrator.
All attendees will receive an Starbucks gift card at the conclusion of the webinar. We look forward to failing over and back with you, grab your spot now for a coffee and a show next month!

WHEN
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (EST) – Add to Calendar

WHERE
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International Legal Technology Association St. Louis Roadshow Event
2015-12-09 11:30 - 13:30 | Bryan Cave LLP, St. Louis, 63102
Date: 12/9/2015
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Bryan Cave LLP
Are you planning to change your desktop soon? Join us as we examine the options available from Microsoft 2015 and discuss when Windows 10 and Office 2016 will be ready for deployment. We will demonstrate Windows 10 and compare it to Windows 8, sharing the features of the two operating systems. We’ll show you how attorneys can have all of their applications available locally, on a device the size of an iPad. We will also discuss the Microsoft 2015 tools that make it easier and faster to deploy 2015 desktop, such as USMT, UE-V and App-V.
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation will start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Host:
Carla Feldmeier
314.259.2586
carla.feldmeier@bryancave.com
Presenters:
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted at brindell@kraftkennedy.com
Marcus Bluestein is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. and has been with the company since 1992. He consults with the firm and its clients on making strategic and tactical technology decisions. Marcus is a frequent speaker at ILTA, ALA and bar association meetings..
Location:
Bryan Cave LLP
One Metropolitan Square
211 North Broadway
35th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63102
If you have colleagues in other firms or others within your own firm who share your interest in this topic, please invite them to attend with you. Nonmembers are always welcome at our events, and we’re hopeful they’ll learn a little bit about ILTA from the experience. There is no cost to attend, and there is much to be gained. Tell a friend about the ILTA meeting!

KC CIOs and Local Leaders in Technology Dinner
2015-12-08 18:30 - 20:45
Join your peers from Kansas City’s top firms for knowledge sharing and socializing over dinner at one of city’s premier steakhouses!
Contact our team for your invitation sales@kraftkennedy.com

International Legal Technology Association Kansas City Roadshow Event
2015-12-08 11:30 - 13:30
Date: 12/8/2015
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Polsinelli PC
Are you planning to change your desktop soon? Join us as we examine the options available from Microsoft 2015 and discuss when Windows 10 and Office 2016 will be ready for deployment. We will demonstrate Windows 10 and compare it to Windows 8, sharing the features of the two operating systems. We’ll show you how attorneys can have all of their applications available locally, on a device the size of an iPad. We will also discuss the Microsoft 2015 tools that make it easier and faster to deploy 2015 desktop, such as USMT, UE-V and App-V.
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation will start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Host:
Larry J. Crow
816.572.4482
lcrow@polsinelli.com
Presenters:
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted at brindell@kraftkennedy.com
Marcus Bluestein is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. and has been with the company since 1992. He consults with the firm and its clients on making strategic and tactical technology decisions. Marcus is a frequent speaker at ILTA, ALA and bar association meetings..
Location:
Polsinelli PC
900 W. 48th Place, Suite 900
Kansas City, MO 64112

Attendees may park in the building parking garage. Take the elevator to the first floor and have ticket validated at the security desk.

If you have colleagues in other firms or others within your own firm who share your interest in this topic, please invite them to attend with you. Nonmembers are always welcome at our events, and we’re hopeful they’ll learn a little bit about ILTA from the experience. There is no cost to attend, and there is much to be gained. Tell a friend about the ILTA meeting!

ILTA Holiday Party - NYC
2015-12-03 17:30 - 20:00 | Zengo, 622 Third Avenue, New York, 10017
To register please click HERE.

ILTA Holiday Party - Washington DC
2015-12-03 17:00 - 20:00 | La Tasca, 722 7th Street N.W. , Washington, DC, 20001

International Legal Technology Association Detroit Roadshow Event
2015-12-02 11:30 - 13:30
Date: 12/2/2015
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Bodman PLC

Are you planning to change your desktop soon? Join us as we examine the options available from Microsoft 2015 and discuss when Windows 10 and Office 2016 will be ready for deployment. We will demonstrate Windows 10 and compare it to Windows 8, sharing the features of the two operating systems. We’ll show you how attorneys can have all of their applications available locally, on a device the size of an iPad. We will also discuss the Microsoft 2015 tools that make it easier and faster to deploy 2015 desktop, such as USMT, UE-V and App-V.
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation will start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Host:
Steve Carey
313.392.1044
scarey@bodmanlaw.com
Presenters:
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted atbrindell@kraftkennedy.com
Marcus Bluestein is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. and has been with the company since 1992. He consults with the firm and its clients on making strategic and tactical technology decisions. Marcus is a frequent speaker at ILTA, ALA and bar association meetings..
Location:
Bodman PLC
6th Floor at Ford Field
1901 St. Antoine Street
Detroit, MI 48226

If you have colleagues in other firms or others within your own firm who share your interest in this topic, please invite them to attend with you. Nonmembers are always welcome at our events, and we’re hopeful they’ll learn a little bit about ILTA from the experience. There is no cost to attend, and there is much to be gained. Tell a friend about the ILTA meeting!

International Legal Technology Association Toronto Roadshow Event
2015-12-01 11:30 - 13:30
Date: 12/1/2015
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Sherrard Kuzz LLP

Are you planning to change your desktop soon? Join us as we examine the options available from Microsoft 2015 and discuss when Windows 10 and Office 2016 will be ready for deployment. We will demonstrate Windows 10 and compare it to Windows 8, sharing the features of the two operating systems. We’ll show you how attorneys can have all of their applications available locally, on a device the size of an iPad. We will also discuss the Microsoft 2015 tools that make it easier and faster to deploy 2015 desktop, such as USMT, UE-V and App-V.
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation will start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Host:
Edmund Reid
416.603.6959
ereid@sherrardkuzz.com
Presenters:
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted at brindell@kraftkennedy.com
Marcus Bluestein is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. and has been with the company since 1992. He consults with the firm and its clients on making strategic and tactical technology decisions. Marcus is a frequent speaker at ILTA, ALA and bar association meetings..
Location:
Sherrard Kuzz LLP
250 Yonge Street, Suite 3300
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2L7

If you have colleagues in other firms or others within your own firm who share your interest in this topic, please invite them to attend with you. Nonmembers are always welcome at our events, and we’re hopeful they’ll learn a little bit about ILTA from the experience. There is no cost to attend, and there is much to be gained. Tell a friend about the ILTA meeting!

Backup and Disaster Recovery Options for Small-Mid Sized Firms- ILTA Product Briefing
2015-10-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Join Kraft Kennedy Practice Architect Jeff Silverman for a review of the backup and disaster recovery options we typically deploy for small-mid sized firms, including alternatives to tape, virtualization-aware solutions, appliance-based solutions, and software-based replication
View the event recording here

ALA Business of Law Conference
2015-10-22 08:00 - 2015-10-24 17:00 | Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Evolving the Business of Law
ALA’s 2015 Business of Law Conferences provide identical education across three convenient U.S. geographical locations. The high caliber educational content is geared toward the needs of legal management leaders and functional specialists in the business of law.
Conference features:

Insight on hot topics in today’s legal industry
Intensive networking opportunities
Experts on profitability, innovation, strategy, leadership, technology and more
The latest in legal management products, market intelligence, services and technology
Deep-dive sessions covering communications, finance, human resources, technology and operations
Continuing Education Credits

Anne Shackleford, of ALA sponsor Kraft Kennedy will at the conference, waiting to equip you with takeaways for the folks at home in Booth 35 during next week’s ALA Business of Law conference! Your odds are very good in our FitBit giveaway and Anne can also coordinate a discussion for your firm’s IT team on any of these cutting edge topics:
Information Security and Governance: Security assessments, policy, digital forensics
Enterprise Content Management: DMS selection, planning, implementation, integration
Desktop Design and Integration: Infrastructure, storage, deployment, Windows 7/8/10, Office 2013, BC/DR, VDI ,Office 365
Infrastructure & Data Center: Design, BC/DR, Messaging, VDI ,”the cloud”, Office 365
Managed Services & Support: 24/7 monitoring, patching & support
Legal Process Management: Process Analysis/Pricing Initiatives
Management Consulting: CIO Advisory Services, Technology Review & Planning
Messaging: Exchange and Lync, upgrades and implementations, migrations, performance remediation, email retention and archiving
Help prepare your firm for the unexpected, meet with Anne to qualify for a complimentary disaster recovery consultation.

Riding the Wave of Change
2015-10-09 09:00 - 11:30 | Kraft Kennedy, 630 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Please join us at the October PLTG meeting where our guest speaker, Neil Jacobs will present a program on change management.
The cliché that has become a truism in any article or book written recently about change is that change is a constant. Engineering and managing change has become a must-have competency for leaders and organizational success has become heavily linked with a company’s ability to activate, navigate and respond to change. For some, change is highly motivating and exciting, presenting new opportunities and possibilities. For others, change can be paralyzing and fear-inducing. Change often arouses a flight or fight response in employees. In this session, Neil Jacobs, principal of MindsOpen, a business psychology practice, will:

Share some of his experiences working on a significant change program at Scotland Yard, the police service for London, during one of it’s darkest periods
Discuss principles for managing change
Explore the psychological impact on people faced with organizational change

Bio of Neil Jacobs, MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Neil began his career working as a psychologist for the British Military, where he found his niche profiling officers for specialist roles. In 1999, he joined Scotland Yard, the police service for London and was soon appointed Head of Psychology. He worked on a range of high profile assignments including debriefing the UK police response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and helping the organization learn from failed murder investigations, kidnappings and child protection cases. In 2005 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to undertake research into domestic violence homicide in the United States. His last role at Scotland Yard was Director of Security Strategy for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2008, Neil joined YSC, a global leadership consulting firm. After leading the East Coast business, he was promoted to Managing Director and ran the Americas business. He left YSC in 2014 to launch his own practice, Minds Open, working with individuals, teams and organizations in the leadership, culture and talent space. Neil coaches CEOs and other C-Suite executives and works with leadership teams to improve performance and shift culture. His other areas of specialism include organizational development and change, leveraging relationships, debriefing major incidents and creating purpose and meaning for people and organizations. In addition to his business psychology work, Neil is the owner and curator of The Road Gallery, a contemporary gallery representing some of America’s finest emerging and established artists.

RSVP: Register on the PLTG web site.

SIP, Cocktails Over the City
2015-09-30 17:30 - 20:00 | Kraft Kennedy NYC Terrace, 630 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Learn if you are SIPing the right way.

Hands on Windows 10: Cocktails at Our Device Bar
2015-09-17 17:00 - 19:30 | Kraft Kennedy NYC Terrace, 630 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY, 10017, United States

The Best of Kraft Kennedy at ILTACON 2015- ILTA Product Briefing
2015-09-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Join Kraft Kennedy as we present highlights from the following ILTACON 2015 Presentations: “Are You Ready for Windows 10?”, “Modern Multifactor Authentication”, “Building the Foundation for a Secure Enterprise: The Critical Controls, ISO27001 and Other Approaches”, “Could Ignoring IRM Technology Be Malpractice?”.
Check out an archive of this webinar HERE

Microsoft 2015 Roadmap for Desktop and Servers - New York City Roadshow Event
2015-09-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Kraft Kennedy, 630 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Are you planning to change your desktop in 2015? Join us as we examine the options available from Microsoft 2015 and discuss when Windows 10 and Office 201X will be ready for deployment. We will demonstrate Windows 10 and compare it to Windows 8, sharing the features of the two operating systems. We’ll show you how attorneys can have all of their applications available locally, on a device the size of an iPad. We will also discuss the Microsoft 2015 tools that make it easier and faster to deploy 2015 desktop, such as USMT, UE-V and App-V.
Lunch will be provided.
International Legal Technology Association – New York City Roadshow Event
Host:
Jim Aulbach
(212) 848-4997
jim.aulbach@shearman.com
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation will start promptly at 12:00 p.m.
Presenters:
Marcus Bluestein is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. and has been with the company since 1992. He consults with the firm and its clients on making strategic and tactical technology decisions. Marcus is a frequent speaker at ILTA, ALA and bar association meetings.
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted at brindell@kraftkennedy.com
If you have colleagues in other firms or others within your own firm who share your interest in this topic, please invite them to attend with you. Nonmembers are always welcome at our events, and we’re hopeful they’ll learn a little bit about ILTA from the experience. There is no cost to attend, and there is much to be gained. Tell a friend about the ILTA meeting.
