Professional Development

How to Best Protect Yourself Against Rising Phishing and Smishing Tactics

In this brief podcast, we hope to bring continued awareness to current cybersecurity vulnerabilities and how cybercriminals are evolving to target individuals/businesses using legitimate-looking emails and social media messages.Moderator: @Carolyn Bragiel - Advisor, Legal E-discovery, Cardinal Health​Speaker:​Marissa McDermid - Program Manager, Security Awareness, ResilienceRecorded on 10-28-2021
 
 

Collaborating with Co-Counsel: How Can You Optimize Collaboration Between Co-Counsel in a Litigation Context?

In this podcast, the speaker will discuss how to best leverage technology to facilitate collaboration and task tracking, design workflows that systematize regular, on-going tasks; and facilitate effective communications/working towards common goals for a shared client.Moderator:@Shawn McClurg -  Litigation Support Manager, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.Speaker:@Jessica Hasen - Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP
​Recorded on 10-28-2021

Future of Work Practices: How to Maximize Online Collaboration and Virtual Working

The pandemic has brought about an opportunity for individuals to reflect on their lives, and most, in fact 77% of the legal professionals want to retain elements of this new virtual, remote working - to varying degrees. And critically, 22% said they are likely to leave if their employers didn’t accommodate the new way they want to work.In this podcast, we will briefly discuss differing perspectives on remote working, the benefits and drawbacks to individuals, firms and clients to remote working, the impact on collaboration and differences by subgroup, working patterns, before and during COVID-19 and desired post-pandemic and which roles should remote working be available to, plus with or without restrictions.We will also understand where you fit in and how you can maximize your own and your teams’ productivity as we progress into a new world of work with mixtures of both distributed and in person teams. Moderator: @Harriet Joubert-Vaklyes - Process Innovation Senior Specialist, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Speakers:@Kristin Rhodes - Senior Practice Manager, Paul Hastings LLP@Natalie Runyon -  Director, Enterprise Content, Talent, Inclusion & Culture, Market Insights, Thomson Reuters
Recorded on 10-26-2021​​​​​

How to Deal With ROI Conversations When Vetting Legal Technology

In this podcast, the speakers will discuss how to best quantify the ROI of legal technology has on the bottom line of matters, tips in vetting legal technology, etc.Moderator:@Holly Hanna - KM Firm Solutions Manager, Perkins CoieSpeakers:@Ginevra Saylor - National Director, Innovation and Knowledge Programs, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP@Giles Thompson - Head of Growth, Avvoka​Recorded on 10-22-2021

Common Security Worst Practices

This topic was one of ILTACON 2021's most popular conference sessions, and as security is a concern to many the original panel has reunited for a follow-up podcast.
Security is complex and when left without robust resources of money, knowledge, and people we sometimes revert to the ostrich head in the sand approach. Even though we try to do our best, we sometimes fall into bad habits.This podcast session is the opposite of sharing best practices . . . we will call out the absolute worst mistakes. Without mentioning any entity or name, we will discuss the criticality of certain practices. Our goal is to give you the opportunity to walk away with a private GOLD STAR or perhaps the feeling of "oh no, I do that and better fix that" without having to admit it to your peers.Moderator:@Corey Reitz - Cyber Assurance Architect, Sandia National LaboratoriesSpeakers: @James McKenna - Chief Information Officer, Fenwick & West LLPMelodi (Mel) Gates - Senior Legal Editor, Privacy & Data Security, Thomson Reuters@Rebecca Sattin - Chief Information Officer, Worldox@Robinson Roca - Practice Lead, Infrastructure Services, Helient Systems LLC@Heather Morrow -Director, Project Management & Training, Loeb & Loeb LLP.​Recorded on 10-21-2021

Bridging the Divide: What to Do When Joining a Legal Department as a Young Professional: Part 2

Joining a corporate or government legal department as a young professional can be quite intimidating. As a rule, these organizations tend to skew older since they often hire lawyers who have already worked in law firms for an extended period of time.In this podcast, learn about effective methods of bridging this potential gap with your new colleagues and receive tips and suggestions.Moderator:@Will Pett - Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity Investments
Speaker:@John Crawshaw - Business Analytics Manager, PNC
 
Recorded on 10-15-2021

Business Analysts

In this session, we will discover and learn about the evolving role of business analysts, what they do, how they help legal technology and why they are so valuable.Moderator:@Carly Prellwitz- Business Analyst 1, Fish & RichardsonSpeakers:@Rex Balboa– Systems Business Analyst, Perkins Coie@Jennifer Perez- IT Business Analyst, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Recorded on 09-14-2021

Maximize Fixed-Free Arrangements with AI, Analytics and Automation

Many junior and mid-level associates are beginning to realize that the billable model is moving towards fixed-fee arrangements. This is becoming especially true during the pandemic, where everyone is looking to cut costs. In this podcast session, we will learn more about how to handle transactions using less lawyer time (through AI or other methods)Moderator:@Brian P. Morris - IT Business Relationship Manager, Holland & Knight LLP
Speaker:@Tobin Brown - Chief Practice Management Officer, Perkins Coie​
​Recorded on 08-06-2021
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Skills Roadmap: What to Learn First (Aimed at New to Industry)

Litigation support can be daunting to those new to the industry – not only are there technical skills to learn, but also legal considerations, project management and communication & presentation skills are all keys to your success. In this podcast, we will discuss the kinds of transferable skills which will help you in your new role, how best to learn those important technical skills, and how to identify the opportunities to develop and improve your skills.
 
Moderator:@Rachel McAdams - eDiscovery Technical Specialist, A&L Goodbody Solicitors
Speakers:@Kathy Dallaire, CEDS -  eDiscovery and Litigation Support Coordinator,Stikeman Elliott LLP@Doug Austin -  Editor, eDiscovery Today
​Recorded on 07-26-2021

Session 301 - The Study Case #2: Use of Artificial Intelligence to Optimize the Lawyers Work (Human + Machine)

***Please note this podcast is in Spanish!
In this third part of the series, the idea is that the speaker talks about the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence to optimize the work of the lawyers in generating the first draft of any legal document that they have to create. *** Please know the podcast is in Spanish only. Moderator:@Rodolfo Christophersen -Sr. Manager, Head of Legal Operations, Mercado LibreSpeakers:Nicolas Vilela - Co-Founder & CEO, ZTZ TechPablo Balancini - CEO, LegalHub
Recorded on 07-26-2021​

The Modern Ethical Minefield - Leveraging Technology to Manage Conflicts at the International Law Firm

The continued growth of law firms, and the increasing transience of their attorneys, have created many new risks for firms to account for regarding conflicts of interest management.   Increasingly, large international Firms have transitioned to a centralized approach for conflicts clearance, utilizing non fee-earning professionals for this function. 
Despite this, challenges remain - particularly stemming from increasingly restrictive conflicts language within Outside Counsel Guidelines as well as recent US case law.  In this podcast session, the speaker will focus on discussing the unique conflicts challenges faced by US firms with international presence and various approaches to these challenges; how technology and centralization are the key to meeting these challenges; and whether changes to the conflicts rules are needed in order to "modernize" and account for the breadth of today's international law firm and technological advances.Moderator:@Tracey Pardo - IS Process Improvement Analyst, Cooley LLP
​Speaker:@Mark Agin - Senior Manager of Global New Business Intake and Information Management, Shearman & Sterling LLPRecorded on 07-23-2021