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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 (Day 1)
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8:30 AM
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Registration & Continental Breakfast (Room: Rotunda, 3rd floor)
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9:00 AM
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LEGALTECH KEYNOTE: Perspectives on Corporate eDiscovery and Social Media (Room: West Ballroom, 3rd floor)
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Social media, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter and blogs have
begun to replace traditional news outlets as viable sources of information.
These utilities also have opened up new, individual and dynamic channels of
communication. While these utilities are broadly accessible and useful, there
are implications in how this information is stored, both from a business and
personal perspective.
Additionally, this keynote will discuss:
• eDiscovery perspectives of a corporate litigator
• The corporate need to have better control over the eDiscovery
process and data
• Measurability of eDiscovery costs, trends and efficiencies
• Cloud computing /on-demand deployment versus on premise
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Mark Howitson
Deputy General Counsel
Facebook, Inc
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10:00 AM
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Mid Morning Break (Delegates make their way back to Mercury Ballroom, 3rd floor)
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10:15 AM
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Chair Opening Remarks
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10:30 AM
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Doing More With Less and Driving Adoption (Room: Mercury Ballroom)
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• How to invest wisely in new technology
• Tips to maximize existing investments
• Ideas for monitoring and analyzing usage
• Strategies to drive adoption and utilization of technology investments
• Leveraging internal resources, how to save money and enhance user training
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Thomas Baldwin
Chief Knowledge Officer
Reed Smith LLP
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Susan Pasfield
Director
Capensys LLC
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Brian D. Zeve
Managing Director - Professional Services Industry Solutions Group
Microsoft
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11:30 AM
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Storage in the Cloud: The Future is Now?
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The value and volume of business data is increasing at an exponential rate. Storing, backing up and recovering data - once considered a purely administrative task - has become a C-level issue due to compliance and business continuity requirements. Cloud-based solutions are once again being popularized by both vendors and the media. Are cloud-based storage, backup and recovery solutions - originally popularized during the dot com boom - ready for prime time and viable for law firms and legal departments of all sizes? This panel presentation will discuss why the time is now right for the cloud-based solutions, the technical advantages of storage on the grid, the value of storage on demand, and the benefits for compliance and business continuity realized by using offsite storage and replication
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George Hoenig
Vice President of Product Operations
i365, A Seagate Company
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Chris Romano
Chief Information Officer
Ward and Smith P.A.
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Chuck Davis
President
Adaptive Solutions, Inc.
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12:15 PM
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Luncheon & Presentation: Intelligent Information vs. Data (Room: Petit Trianon, 3rd floor)
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Where does data leave off and intelligent information begin? Rick King, chief technology officer for the Professional Division of Thomson Reuters, will discuss the sheer volume, velocity and expansion of information and the technologies that help to make that information valuable and immediately actionable. Mr. King also will talk about where all of this is going and what it means for legal professionals.
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Rick King
Chief Technology Officer
Thomson Reuters
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1:45 PM
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Social Networking: Keeping It Secure
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According to the latest survey statistics, law firms and law departments are beginning to adopt social networking tools, such as Facebook, Linkedin, instant messaging, and even Twitter, for a variety of reasons, from marketing to collaboration between lawyers and clients. But to protect the organization, lawyers, executives, and IT staff must not only be careful about what is said via these sites, but the security of the sites themselves and the internal
infrastructure that supports social networking.
Our panel of experts will help you identify -- and address -- these security issues so that your organization can fully exploit these new technologies.
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Monica Bay
Editor-in-Chief, Law Technology News
ALM
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Michael S. Kraft
General Counsel
Kraft Kennedy
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David A. Lewis
Attorney At Law
Proskauer Rose LLP
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2:30 PM
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E-mail Management: Searching for the Holy Grail
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Thorough, safe and efficient e-mail management is an important objective for any organization. In theory, you build the system and they will come. In practice, compelling legal professionals to file email is a Herculean task, for which you must employ the right mix of tools, training and policies (enforced from the top, of course!). In this session, we will discuss the issues you need to consider when choosing an e-mail management product, and explore the actual experiences of some of your colleagues.
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Todd Corham
Chief Information Officer
Lowenstein Sandler PC
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Lori Page Hall
Vice President, Marketing & Communications
DocAuto, Inc.
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John Roman, Jr.
Director, Litigation Technology Services
Nixon Peabody LLP
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Frank J. Spadafino
Chief Information Officer
Epstein, Becker Green P.C.
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3:15 PM
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Afternoon Break
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3:30 PM
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Desktop Virtualization -Realizing Economies of Skill and Scale
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While the benefits of virtualization for server applications has become widely adopted, one of the primary contributors to complexity and cost is the law firm user workstation. As the next generation of application delivery technologies mature, how can firms best leverage newer technologies such as application streaming along with continued innovations in thin-client technology? In this session we will explore some of the considerations for developing and adopting a “service oriented” user application workspace that may finally begin to deliver on the promise of a simplified workstation support environment while improving the user experience.
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Sam Collier
Principal
Kamuela Investments, Inc.
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Melvin B. Ostrow
Chief Information Officer
Jenner & Block LLP
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4:15 PM
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Something Has Changed: The Growing Importance of KM and Other Productivity Tools
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It’s no secret that in the current economy, revenue growth has been weak, or non-existent. In response, firms are restructuring and drastically cutting expenses. But, cutting expenses alone is an unsustainable model—and won’t ultimately improve a firm’s financial position. In the midst of these fiscal pressures, it is also clear that the shift to alternate billing arrangements is a reality. Even if a small percentage of work is handled non-traditionally, the impact on how firm’s deliver services will be huge. An “All –Star” panel will discuss the changes in the market we operate, and the importance of KM and other tools as firms are increasingly pressed to perform work to fixed budgets and otherwise improve efficiencies as a means to driving
profitability.
Topics include:
• Tools for boosting profitability, while reducing work for attorneys and
increasing client satisfaction
• Using technology to work more efficiently -- reducing costs for both firms and clients
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Oz Benamram
Chief Knowledge Officer
White & Case LLP
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Brent Miller
Worldwide Director of Knowledge Management
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
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Jeffrey Rovner
Managing Director for Information
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
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MICHAEL MILLS
Consultant
Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
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5:00 PM
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Networking Cocktail Reception (Room: Petit Trianon, 3rd floor)
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 (Day 2)
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8:30 AM
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Registration & Continental Breakfast (Room: Rotunda, 3rd floor)
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9:00 AM
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Chair Opening Remarks
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9:15 AM
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Strategic Planning for the Next 1-3 Years
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In these cost conscious times, extending your planning horizon beyond next year’s budget can be an effective way to promote and gain acceptance for key technology initiatives. Creating a two or three year pipeline of initiatives can give management a heads up about future expenditures and help avoid sticker shock. Presenting your firm’s management with a longer planning horizon can also create opportunities to have a dialog about Firm strategy, how technology can align with those plans and how best to set priorities. This panel will be presenting practical approaches for developing and present long range plans and review the benefits of this approach.
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Don Jaycox
Chief Information Officer
DLA Piper LLP (US)
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Phil Wisoff
Chief Information Officer
Proskauer Rose LLP
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Rakesh Madhava
Chief Executive Officer
Nextpoint
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10:00 AM
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The Changing IT Business Model
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Current business requirements call for tightened IT budget and staffing. We often think in the context of what can we eliminate and still keep our operation intact. Current expectations require us to rethink this approach and consider the implementation of a new IT business model – a new approach to delivering IT support and services to the firm. We can no longer “do more with less,” we must change the way we operate. The current global economic dilemma is causing law firms to reconsider the business model that has been in place for the last 50 years. Just as law firms are rethinking the Firm’s business model, we must rethink the IT business model – much has changed.
Given the above, what can we consider? Centralization, virtualization, and outsourcing are all components of our current model, but will be more mportant in the future. Virtual desktops and thin-client technology add to our ability to continue to provide service while reducing “tech touches” – the number of times technology staff need to perform inefficient tasks. Learn what one firm is doing to not only do more with less, but reinvent their IT service model. The discussion includes addressing Firm culture and Technology allowances for lawyers – do you really need to be in the equipment business.
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Douglas Caddell
Chief Information Officer
Foley & Lardner LLP
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10:45 AM
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Morning Break
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11:00 AM
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Enterprise Search: How to Mitigate Risk and Drive Productivity
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Law firms are increasingly inundated with information. Join us for a lively presentation on managing that information—making it searchable; actionable and enhancing its value within the enterprise, thus managing your risk exposure and driving productivity.
Discover how an enterprise search platform can power a range of flexible tools your firm can use to integrate, enrich and manage both internal and external information, reducing the risk of making costly mistakes and increasing productivity within the enterprise.
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Patrick DiDomenico
Chief Knowledge Officer
Gibbons P.C.
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Bill Puncer
LexisNexis Search Advantage Evangelist
LexisNexis
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Ali Shahidi
Director of Knowledge Management
Bingham McCutchen LLP
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11:45 AM
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Automating the Lawyer - Smart Phones and More
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-Supporting the Blackberry, I-Phone and other new PDAs
- Ensuring a safe network for your firm
- How to work with the lawyers wanting to use new technology
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Andrea Markstrom
Director of Technology Engineering & Operations
Faegre & Benson LLP
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Judi Flournoy
Chief Information Officer
Loeb & Loeb LLP
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David Orthner
Vertical Practice Leader
TANDBERG
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12:40 PM
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Luncheon and Presentation: The Power of Legal Chaining
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Law firms and corporate legal departments face significant obstacles to achieving a fast and effective eDiscovery process. Law firms are often left with their hands tied while they wait for access to their corporate clients’ data. This session will explore Autonomy's unique chaining capability that allows law firms to link directly to relevant enterprise information for a particular matter or investigation, resulting in substantially compressed timeframes and costs associated with eDiscovery. This Discover-in-Place technology is delivered by a combination of Autonomy iManage content management and Autonomy Digital Safe, the world’s largest private cloud. With one, single powerful platform that covers every step in the EDRM, data can move transparently through the entire eDiscovery process, eliminating the need for inefficient hand-offs. This also allows law firms to provide new services to corporations such as early case assessment or outsourced legal hold, dramatically changing the landscape of corporate risk.
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Neil Araujo
CEO
Autonomy iManage
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Mike Sullivan
CEO
Autonomy ZANTAZ
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David Kemp
Sr. General Counsel
RBS
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2:15 PM
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NYS Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Incentives for Technology Energy Efficiency Projects
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Electricity use by technology and the costs associated continues to rise and cause greater impact to decision making around the deployment of new technologies. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) allocated $93 million dollars towards its program that provides incentives to reduce the energy consumption of these technologies. During this session, you will learn how projects such as virtualization for servers and desktops, server upgrades and improved cooling and air flow management are eligible to receive incentives to offset implementation costs.
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Thomas Hudgens
Senior Program Manager
NYSERDA / Willdan Energy Solutions
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2:50 PM
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Conference Adjourns
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