Category: Legal Technology
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Security Breaches Trending Ever Higher at Law Firms: Cybersecurity and the Actual Threats Firm See Today
By Joseph Raczynski Security is the number one anxiety for law firm management. After visiting with numerous law firms spanning the East coast over the past month, the anecdotal evidence is rich. These independent accounts from large- and medium-sized law firms alike reaffirm the data presented in the recently released American Bar Association’s 2015 Legal…
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Law Firm of the Future – The Trinity of Forces: Infinite Processing Power, Memory, and Machine Learning
By Joseph Raczynski In ten years, it is predicted that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist1. This forecast originally cited in Fast Company is from a Babson Olin School of Business study. This notion is nearly incomprehensible, but may have a significant impact on the legal business. Why is this happening…
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ILTACON – “Watson, I Need You!” Augmented Intelligence for Legal
By Joseph Raczynski If you were to imagine the researching aspect of a law firm of the future, what would that look like? Kyla Moran from the IBM Watson Group led a discussion down the path of what we could expect. In what seemed like a shock to many in the room, Moran described an…
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Exponential Growth—The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 2
By Joseph Raczynski Over the course of the next several years I predict that many law firms will begin hiring data scientist. In my previous post Exponential Growth – The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 1 I discussed how our current data explosion threatens experts at law firms but could…
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Form a Phalanx: Law Firm Lessons on Managing Cyber Security through Talent and Culture
By Joseph Raczynski The 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum As law firms continue to appreciate the significance of creating an understanding surrounding security and risks, this starts with a sharp focus on talent and culture. The first component that the panel discussed during the Data Privacy, Security & the Globalized Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum,…
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Enemies at the Gate: Responses to Data Security Threats at Law Firms
By Joseph Raczynski The 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum In eerie silence, law firms could be easily breached like JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot and Sony by cyber criminals. The difference with law firms, few would know the sensitive data was absconded. While law firms do not have to report such penetrations we learned at…
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Stanford, Sights Set on Legal: Part 3 – School Projects Create Significant Companies
By Joseph Raczynski The Legal Lessons Learned from Stanford Series Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently…
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Stanford, Sights Set on Legal: Part 1 – Fidelity Investments Estate Planning
By Joseph Raczynski The Legal Lessons Learned from Stanford Series Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently…
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Should Law Firms Build Apps?
By Joseph Raczynski On the first day of ILTA’s 2014 convention I attended a rather fascinating session. The title was “To App or Not To App?” and focused around if it makes sense for a law firm to produce their own Apps. The following questions were posed: Do law firm apps really do the useful…
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Unlocking the Power of the Cloud
By Joseph Raczynski Pressures are increasing for legal IT professionals to increase productivity and reduce costs. Couple that with the demand for anytime and anywhere access to law firm data and the result is a multi-front push for cloud based solutions. At the forefront of this struggle are core functions of a firm like content…
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Google Glass – Full Demo
By Joseph Raczynski This is part five in a series of video’s surrounding Google Glass. This is the full demo of Google Glass. In this video we get to see the complete Google Glass. Take a look at the Google Glass Explorer program. Glass Series Includes: 1) Glass Unboxing 2) Thoughts on Glass: Privacy, Security…
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Google Glass — Law Firm Use
By Joseph Raczynski This is part four in a series of video’s surrounding Google Glass. This is “Law Firms and Glass”. Take a look at the Google Glass Explorer program. Glass Series Includes: 1) Glass Unboxing 2) Thoughts on Glass: Privacy, Security and Its Future 3) Usability Demo 4) Law Firms and Glass 5)…
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eDiscovery Software Solutions: Lessons Learned
By Joseph Raczynski eDiscovery software solutions are invaluable in the litigation preparation process. However, choosing a tool and implementing it poses challenges to law firms. In the last session of ILTA 2013 a panel discussion of William Kellermann of Wilson Sonsini, Chad Ergun of Gibson Dunn and David Hasman of Bricker & Eckler discussed the…
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State of the eDiscovery Software & Service Market
By Joseph Raczynski eDiscovery has matured into a petulant toddler. At least, that is the sentiment of a panel discussing the “State of the eDiscovery Software & Service Market” at LegalTech. Since its inception in December 2006 as an amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), electronic discovery, has grown exponentially; however, the…
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Missing Insurance Payments?
By Joseph Raczynski What if your life insurance company looked to find ways to discontinue payments, but not to locate beneficiaries who were missing payments owed to them? Well it happened and one major life insurance company has recently settled a law suit where they must pay nearly $500 million to people across the United…
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What the Hack is going on lately?
By Joseph Raczynski The concussion from the bombardment of computer code is silent, though the havoc wreaked is deafening. Cyber-attacks have escalated in scope and frequency in the last five months affecting finance, creditability, and confidence in the private and public sector. What is going on and why? There are several fronts in this battle. …
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WHITE PAPER – WEST POINTS OF CUSTOMIZED INTEGRATION
By Joseph Raczynski In the ever-evolving legal marketplace, law firms, corporate legal, and government agencies are seeking to deliver rich, more dynamic, intelligent environments for their users. As the new normal solidifies, tailoring specific content through selective dissemination embodies the essence of this new reality. At West, two primary complementary services exist to best position…
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Twitter Unlocking Courtroom Doors?
By Joseph Raczynski For a seemingly innocuous 140 characters, Twitter continues to rouse evocative legal discourse. The newest twist for Twitter consists of judges grappling with the question of what place, if any, Twitter has in the courtroom. According to a recent article in Time, the United States Supreme Court has yet to rule on…
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Social Media: From Handcuffs to Handshake?
By Joseph Raczynski The world of ever evolving social media can be legally and technologically confining for companies. ALM recently hosted an event Social Media: Risks and Rewards at the Harvard Club in New York City. The stage was set for the daylong conference by the keynote Joel Reidenberg, Professor of Law and Director at…
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Project Management’s Last Frontier: Law Firms
What would the father of project management Henry Gantt say today? Having increased its scope to nearly every industry, from civil engineering to defense and software development; project management has rarely delivered at law firms, until now. The landscape and technology has transformed enough such that project management can and will thrive at law firms.…
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Social Media & eDiscovery: The Water Is Rising
Lawyers are mired the immensity of eDiscovery materials. Enter into the quagmire social media, which in part encompasses Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn creating a massive flood of discoverable data. At LegalTech Michael E. Lackey, Jr., Partner at Mayer Brown, Jack Halprin VP of eDiscovery and Compliance at Autonomy, and Honorable David J. Waxse of…
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Improve Information Flow with Enterprise 2.0
By Joseph Raczynski Jessica Shawl – Intel Corporation Paul Domnick – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Enterprise 2.0, collaborative based applications, solve inefficiencies caused by the inability to locate accurate information. This session at ILTA discussed why intranets do not suffice, single silo search is dying, and what is necessary to advance the firm’s productivity. Across…
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Meaningful Metrics to Quantify ROI for KM and Enterprise 2.0 Deployments
By Joseph Raczynski Clark R. Cordner – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Charlotte Herring – The US Judge Advocate General’s Corps Recently some select firms have forgone the necessity to prove return on investment (ROI), for KM, portal and Enterprise 2.0. However for the vast majority, ROI justification remains a constant. In this session…
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Strategies for Managing Mobile Devices in Law Firms
By Joseph Raczynski Christopher B. Hunt – Tarlow, Breed, Hart & Rodgers, P.C. Kris Snyder – VoxMobile Today at the typical law firm the onslaught of various mobile devices abound. The firm is now confronted with requests to support a fractious market of iPhones, BlackBerries, and Androids. Not only must they deal with devices,…
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Social Media Policy Development
By Joseph Raczynski Panelist: Julia Montgomery, Technology Projects Manager, Arent Fox LLP Karen M. Sheehan, Head of PLC Law Department at Practical Law Company, Inc. Mary Abraham, Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (Moderator) As social media has ballooned in popularity and use, law firms have had to wrestle with the myriad of implications on…
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Enterprise Content Management: Integrating KM, RM and DM
By Joseph Raczynski Massive collections of information are inundating law firms. With multiple points of integration, interfaces, and varying disciplines this further muddies the waters. This session at ILTA answered questions relating the issues of organizing and managing content across all firm repositories to reduce silos, improve data quality, facilitate KM and ensure full and…
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Portal Trends at Law Firms
By Joseph Raczynski Significant trends are finally emerging in portal usage by the Am Law 100. After years of vacillating about platforms, purpose, and its promise many firms have bought into the reality that portal is for real. Based on legal conferences and consultations with C-level officers over the last several months, the following themes…
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Social Media and Privacy
By Joseph Raczynski Editor’s note: Guest blogger Joseph Raczynski, an Applications Integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal , is also a technology evangelist who specializes in social media and portal technology. He also has been a consultant in web and wireless development. Legal Tech May 20, 2010 Legal Tech: Social Media & Privacy I attended the…
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Twitter: Mind the Gap
By Joseph Raczynski Editor’s note: Guest blogger Joseph Raczynski, an Applications Integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal , is also a technology evangelist who specializes in social media and portal technology. He also has been a consultant in web and wireless development. Twitter: Mind the Gap In the social media sphere within the legal industry there…