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By Joseph Raczynski Recorded at the University of Maryland, Baltimore during the “Cybersecruity and You” morning session. Discussed is the current landscape of cybersecurity at law firms and corporations, the primary issues these organizations are finding and general awareness of what is happening.
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Blockchain White Paper
By Joseph Raczynski Abstract: This white paper discusses the history, inner workings and applications of blockchain, an online public ledgering system, and how it will soon significantly impact many aspects of the legal industry. The first part of this paper will show the marvels and the pitfalls of Bitcoin and its underlining blockchain technology.…
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Wall Street Lawyer – Securities in the Electronic Age Wall – June 2016 ▪ Volume 20 ▪ Issue 6
By Joseph Raczynski An article of mine on blockchain published on the Wall Street Lawyer: Wall Street Lawyer
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Blockchain Has Arrived in Legal: Important Observations from Consensus 2017
By Joseph Raczynski Originally published in The Legal Executive Institute NEW YORK — There was a real moment of inflection recently for me in how I think about the coupling of the legal industry and Blockchain. Having been involved in Bitcoin since 2011 and an evangelist on the topic with dozens…
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LegalSEC: Email Security is Priority One for Law Firms
By Joseph Raczynski BALTIMORE, Md. — “Three strikes and you are out of the firm.” This is the mantra of one law firm when dealing with employees who click on spear-phishing emails, according to Mounil Patel, Strategic Technology Consultant at Mimecast, an email and cloud security firm. Patel’s comments came…
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LegalSEC: Shedding Light on the Dark Net
By Joseph Raczynski The importance of law firms understanding the dark web Your very sensitive private client data could be available for all to see on the Internet right now. Technically this data would be on the Dark Net or Dark Web. It is the portion of the World Wide…
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LegalSEC: Cybersecurity, Rooted in 500 Years of History
By Joseph Raczynski Learning from colonial piracy about the war on cybersecurity “It is a small world. It’s a fragile world. No one is safe until everyone is safe.” These are the cautionary words of Rod Beckstrom of The Rod Beckstrom Group, the keynote speaker at the cybersecurity LegalSEC Summit…
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Samsung Virtual Reality Demo – NCAA Basketball – UNC v Villanova
Virtual Reality demo with Samsung Gear – three apps tested
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State of the Cloud at Law Firms: The Interstitial Phase of Law Firm Cloud Philosophy
By Joseph Raczynski The word “Cloud” can be a divisive word at law firms. Recently uttering the term during technology meetings with East Coast-based law firms with between 50 and 3,000 attorneys elicited starkly differing responses based on firm size and practice dominance. Most of the midsized firms with whom…
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Building Our Blockchain Future (Part 3) – Beyond Bitcoin – Blockchain and the Legal Impact
By Joseph Raczynski This is the third and final post in a series about blockchain, an online public ledgering system, and how it will soon significantly impact many aspects of the legal industry. In the first post, I demonstrated the potential and the pitfalls of Bitcoin and its underlining blockchain…
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Building Our Blockchain Future (Part 2) – Future Legal Payments Through Cryptocurrency
By Joseph Raczynski This is the second post in a three-post series about blockchain, an online public ledgering system, and how it will soon significantly impact many aspects of the legal industry. In the first post, I demonstrated the potential and the pitfalls of Bitcoin and its underlining blockchain technology.…
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Building Our Blockchain Future (Part 1) – Passage through Mt. Gox
The intent of this post is to show the marvels and the pitfalls of Bitcoin and its underlining blockchain technology. My personal account shared below is an experience with the currency beginning five years ago until today and the subsequent posts will embark on a legal discussion of the real…
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CyberSecurity at Law Firms – Infographic
By Joseph Raczynski
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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…