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. An experienced lawyer, Michael was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York before joining Choate Doman Moore & Hahn, where he specialized in international litigation. He co-chaired the Technology and Privacy Committee, served on the Law Office Management Committee and was a member of the Board of the New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. He is a frequent speaker on technology and its consequences for the practice of law, both for law firms and corporate legal departments. Prior to founding Kraft Kennedy, Michael was the Executive Vice President at a financial printing firm. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School.

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.

Chris is the Chief Technology Officer at Kraft Kennedy and Practice Group Leader for the Enterprise Client Systems Group. 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.

Patricia is the Practice Group Leader of the Project Management Practice Group for Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Ms. Mansuy has over 20 years managerial experience in law firms, most recently as the Director of Computer Services Operations at Arnold & Porter, LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm in Washington, DC. She has focused her career on the delivery of innovative technical solutions and operational efficiencies to the legal practice. She also has extensive experience in strategic planning, business continuity planning and implementation, large data center design and startup, operational improvements and infrastructure renovations.

Brian leads the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Practice Group. He has extensive experience implementing and supporting Microsoft Office, iManage, NetDocuments, OpenText eDOCS, and Worldox document management systems, as well as third-party integrated add-ons. He also drives research on the latest ECM technologies including email management, enterprise collaboration and search, and provides guidance and best practice standards to clients implementing ECM solutions.

Charles is a Management Consultant in Kraft Kennedy’s Houston office. Over the last 25 years, he has become deeply familiar with the challenges that law firms face in their operations and how they use technology to address them. Charles combines his technical abilities, knowledge of law firm operations, and management skills to help firms complete successful IT infrastructure and user-facing initiatives as well as process improvement and collaboration projects. As both a lead technical person and management consultant, Charles assists clients in addressing both non-technical issues and decisions that relate to any IT initiative.

Sulabh is a Practice Manager at Kraft Kennedy. He specializes in desktop operations and provides technical leadership on engagements involving a range of law firm technologies such as Microsoft Office, Windows 8.x, Windows 10 and Server 2016, Virtualization, Citrix XenApp, document management systems, software life cycle management and deployment tools.

Dan is a Practice Manager in the Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems group. He leads engagements involving Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Lync and other messaging technologies. He is also an expert in installing and troubleshooting Cisco routers and firewalls.

Dominick is the Practice Group Leader for the Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems Practice Group. He is an expert in designing, deploying, and supporting Microsoft Windows Active Directory and Exchange environments. He also specializes in streamlining administration with Windows PowerShell and is deeply knowledgeable about Azure.

Sherry has more than 30 years’ experience in the design, implementation and change management surrounding content-authoring technologies. She has written and spoken widely to address the needs, goals and strategies of document-intensive businesses, and is an expert in Microsoft Office 365 applications. She was recognized by ILTA as Innovative Consultant of the Year in 2014, and as Vendor Thought Leader in 2017. Sherry is a member of the Document Lifecycle Evangelist team at Litera.

Joel Stern is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms, Inc. (NAMWOLF). NAMWOLF, founded in 2001, is a nonprofit trade association comprised of over 195 minority and women owned law firms in 44 states. NAMWOLF’S mission is to provide corporations the premier place to go to locate and hire minority and women owned law firms of the very highest caliber.