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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Twitter the Next Biggest Connective Development for Humans
By Joseph Raczynski “Twitter could be the next biggest connective development for humans, bigger than TV.” That is what someone who has been working with the development of Twitter told the audience at a legal technology conference I was at in NYC a few months ago. Here is the rationale. Think…