Description: Don't let the naysayers darken your view. The future of legal is bright, and technology is lighting the pathway to improved efficiencies, lower costs, better security and more. However, technology only takes us so far; a future-focused community is required to ensure people take the right actions based on what technology reveals. Exploring this idea further, we've asked a few of your ILTA peers about the future. Here's what they had to say (read the article in Peer to Peer magazine).

Featured in this episode: Brice Duffy, Network Administrator at Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.

Description: Don't let the naysayers darken your view. The future of legal is bright, and technology is lighting the pathway to improved efficiencies, lower costs, better security and more. However, technology only takes us so far; a future-focused community is required to ensure people take the right actions based on what technology reveals. Exploring this idea further, we've asked a few of your ILTA peers about the future. Here's what they had to say (read the article in Peer to Peer magazine).

Featured in this episode: Brice Duffy, Network Administrator at Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.

Description: Don't let the naysayers darken your view. The future of legal is bright, and technology is lighting the pathway to improved efficiencies, lower costs, better security and more. However, technology only takes us so far; a future-focused community is required to ensure people take the right actions based on what technology reveals. Exploring this idea further, we've asked a few of your ILTA peers about the future. Here's what they had to say (read the article in Peer to Peer magazine).

Featured in this episode: Ken Grady, Lean Law Evangelist at Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Description: Don't let the naysayers darken your view. The future of legal is bright, and technology is lighting the pathway to improved efficiencies, lower costs, better security and more. However, technology only takes us so far; a future-focused community is required to ensure people take the right actions based on what technology reveals. Exploring this idea further, we've asked a few of your ILTA peers about the future. Here's what they had to say (read the article in Peer to Peer magazine).

Featured in this episode: Dan Nottke, Chief Information Officer at Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Description: In this episode of the Trial Support A-Z series, we

provide a high-level overview of legal project management. Follow the

life cycle of a litigation case as we discuss the role and

responsibilities of legal project management. The major points covered

include:

What is legal project management and what dictates project style?

Who is the project manager (PM)?

What is a PM responsible for?

How do you become a legal PM?

Speakers:

Karen Pierson

Paralegal - Antitrust Section

Office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine

Patrice Fatig

Paralegal - Antitrust Section

Office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine

Description: As the new CIO at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, Mark Combs sought to better understand the ISO 27001 standards to determine if he should pitch it to firm management, and if he would find value from instituting these standards at his firm. He wondered if peers in other firms were asking the same questions. We set up an interview with John Verry from Pivot Point Security so Mark could quiz the expert about ISO 27001 and get many of his (and your) questions answered. Some of the topics addressed include:

Speakers:

Mark Combs, the CIO at Steptoe & Johnson, has

expertise in information security, technology, strategy, people and

project management. He has provided leadership for all areas of IT

including networking, telecommunications, PC and application support,

project management and data center operations. With 18 years of

healthcare IT experience, Mark has previously served in a number of

management and security roles. He is a Certified Professional in Health

Information and Management Systems and a Certified HIPAA Security

Specialist.

John Verry, Pivot Point Security's Managing

Partner, is an ISO 27001 Certified Lead Auditor. He established and

directs Pivot Point Security's ISO 27001 practice area, focusing on the

legal vertical. John helps law firms, e-discovery firms and service

providers to law firms discover how ISO 27001 can reduce the security,

compliance and attestation challenges that law firms are wrestling with,

and gain ISO certification in a proven, efficient and fiscally sound

process.