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Theta 360 Degree Camera
By Joseph Raczynski Back from a trip, here are some examples of what the 360 Degree Camera can do with photos. I do believe these gadgets will be popular in the coming year, especially as they work well with the virtual reality viewing gear. Theta 360º Camera
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The Paralegal’s Role in the New World of Cybersecurity
Published: The Legal Intelligencer Written: Victor Panieczko Contributor: Joseph Raczynski Cyberattacks have affected virtually every industry. These include, but are not limited to, health care, education, finance, energy, retail, hospitality and government. Most of us have seen or heard about the security breaches of Home Depot Inc., eBay Inc., Target…
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ILTA’s 2015 Annual Technology Survey Security Highlights
By Joseph Raczynski Security weighs heavily on this year’s survey It’s out! The 2015 International Legal Technology Associations Annual Survey is stocked with insightful legal technology industry knowledge. This is always an exciting time of the year for me as I get to compare and contrast the stories I heard…
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Brand New Theta S 360 Degree Camera (Spherical) Demo
By Joseph Raczynski Another new technology! This is a quick demo of how a spherical camera works. I am in an office giving the demo so you get an understanding for how to use it. Also I discuss possible use cases for this new technology. You can do many things…
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Krabi Thailand – Beaches & Islands
By Joseph Raczynski Visit to Krabi Thailand beaches via land, air and sea with associated islands: Poda Island, Ao Nang, Chicken Island, Tup Island, Railay Beach. Using DJI quad, GoPro and Lumix LX 1000.
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Chiang Mai Thailand – Wats, Elephant Park, Food
By Joseph Raczynski Trip to Chiang Mai to see the temples (Wats), elephant park, zip lining, and various food.
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Cambodia Trip – Siem Reap
By Joseph Raczynski Trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia with visits to the following temples: Angkor Thom, Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei, Beng Mealea, Banteay Kdei, Ta Prohm aka”Tomb Raider” and Siem Reap town.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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ILTACON – Legal Technology Innovation: Bolstering and Destroying the Legal Profession
By Joseph Raczynski The Napsterization of the legal industry is growing more plausible every day. The innovation and disruption seen in the music business around digitization and file sharing is happening right now to the legal industry. Ryan McClead of Norton Rose Fulbright led a panel discussion, “Legal Technology Innovation:…
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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…
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Exponential Growth – The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 1
By Joseph Raczynski We are currently living in the hockey stick portion of explosive data growth. That is, 90% of data humans amassed has been collected during the past two years. According to IBM Watson, this is gathering speed exponentially such that 2.5 billion gigabytes of new data is generated…
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The Anatomy of Successful Cyber Attacks
By Joseph Raczynski Preparation for cyberattacks on your network requires a fundamental understanding of the complete picture of who has launched the assault. Steve Surdu of Surdu Consulting, LLP gave the keynote address at ILTA LegalSEC Summit 2015 in Baltimore, MD describing “The Anatomy of Successful Cyber Attacks.” Steve outlined four…
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Law Firm Security Architecture 101
By Joseph Raczynski In a granular overview of the appropriate security procedures a law firm should have in place, Douglas Brush, Director ISG, Kraft Kennedy; Brad Bragg, CIO Womble Carlyle; Scott Rolf, CIO, Tucker Ellis, LLP; and Tim Golden, Manager, Enterprise Architecture & IT Governance, McGuireWoods; discussed “Security Architecture 101” at the ILTA…
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Keeping It Secure – Internet in a Bubble
By Joseph Raczynski Absolutely! Feel free to use YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Gmail for business purposes at Kelley Drye. As many firms struggle with internal access to these services for their employees, Kelley Drye has figured out how to satisfy employees and firm management by establishing a secure secondary path…
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The World of Advanced Endpoint Security
By Joseph Raczynski Surprisingly the vendors in cybersecurity differ on their approaches to protecting your law firm. At the ILTA LegalSEC Summit 2015 in Baltimore, MD they had a panel discussion on how each vendor tackles the ever bounding threats. For background when this post refers to endpoint security I am…
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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…
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From Russia (and Asia) with Love: Cyber Warfare and the growth of State-Sponsored Hacking
By Joseph Raczynski The 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum The scope of the threats to law firm data is global. In this panel discussion at the Data Privacy, Security & the Globalized Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum, a country by country breakdown of dangers were discussed while the audience absorbed…
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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…
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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…
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Stanford, Sights Set on Legal: Part 2 – “Designing” a Legal Industry
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…
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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…
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The Next Legal Era: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing
By Joseph Raczynski We are on the cusp of a new era in computer technology. What could possibly connect rapid automated legal decisions; systematized stack ranked medical diagnosis, and never created scrumptious food recipes? At the IBM Cloud Innovation Forum in Dana Point CA, Mike Rhodin SVP of IBM Watson…
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Law Firm Innovation: Do or Die
By Joseph Raczynski The last five years have seen significant change in the legal marketplace. According to this panel, delivering services to clients is chief among the transformations. At this ILTA session, Ron Friedmann of Fireman & Company, Scott Rechtschaffen at Littler Mendelson, P.C., and Andrew Perlman from Suffolk University…
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On the Edge of Law Firm Technology
By Joseph Raczynski Over the previous three years at ILTA, one of the most popular sessions has been “What’s That? New and Cool Technologies”. This year was no different. A capacity crowd of legal technologists listened to the witty foursome of Jeffrey Brandt of PinHawk LLC, Mark Manoukian of Kegler,…
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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…
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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…
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Google Glass – Thoughts on Glass: Privacy, Security and Its Future
By Joseph Raczynski This is part two in a series of video’s surrounding Google Glass. This is the Privacy, Security and future 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…
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Google Glass – GPS Navigation
By Joseph Raczynski This is part five in a series of video’s surrounding Google Glass. This is the GPS Navigation demo of Google Glass. In this video we get to see the complete navigation of Google Glass. Take a look at the Google Glass Explorer program. Glass Series Includes:1) Glass…
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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)…
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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)…
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Google Glass – Unboxing
By Joseph Raczynski This is part one in a series of video’s surrounding Google Glass. This is the unboxing of Google Glass. In this video we get to see how Glass is packaged and what comes with the device. Take a look at the Google Glass Explorer program. Glass Series…
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eDiscovery: Backup and Cloud Safeguards
By Joseph Raczynski “Not preparing for eDiscovery will cause your company to spend millions meeting an eDiscovery request via a lawsuit or investigation or worse losing a multi-million or multi-billion dollar law suit because you cannot retrieve data in time to satisfy a judge.” These were the ominous words from…
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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…
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eDiscovery Trends: New Technology, Employment Affects & Native File Productions
By Joseph Raczynski eDiscovery continues rapid technological evolution and significant adoption across law firms. At this ILTA session David Cowen of The Cowen Group and Steven Clark of Lathrop & Gage facilitated an open discussion, with standing room only, on the hottest topics in e-Discovery. The subjects covered in this…
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Law Departments and Cyber Security: Addressing the Scary Stuff
By Joseph Raczynski Law firm security bears one of the softest underbellies within the world of professional services. This alarm was sounded during an ILTA panel discussion surrounding security with Michael Russell of Liberty Mutual, Brian Donato of Vorys Sater, and Natalie Fedyuk of KPMG. The consensus from the group…
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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,…
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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…
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New Phishing Scams Can Hook Ya!
By Joseph Raczynski Many moons ago when phishing scams were first cast they were easy to detect. The bait was rank with punctuation and spelling errors and the emails were typically all text. You viewed the email from Bank of X, cocked your head to the side and then easily…
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Potential Fraud: Who’s Web Watching You? Answers you can finally see!
By Joseph Raczynski Who really knows you? Is it your friends, the government, or could it be the companies on the web that have the best sights? Well, do not be astonished if it is the latter. Online companies may be better acquainted with you than your family. Fortunately, you…
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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…
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Eyes, Now Telling More Secrets
By Joseph Raczynski -Iris scan identity verification now being dispatched Ethan Hunt clad in black slips through the skylight’s slight gap and drops forty feet down on a line in the shadow of night. Pouncing upon his suspect as he sleeps, Hunt pulls out the iris scanner and captures the…
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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…
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White Paper – Customized Integration, Thomson Reuters Legal
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…