December Meeting Details

Here are the details of our next meeting. To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.

When…

Thursday December 3rd
9 a.m. breakfast
9:15 WLUG Update
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

Who…

Donna Payne
Payne Consulting Group
www.payneconsulting.com 
Twitter: @Donna_Payne
Blog: http://donnapaynesblog.blogspot.com

What…

A Candid Conversation with Donna Payne – Technology Now and In the Future

Join Donna Payne (Law Technology News Consultant of the Year), as she discusses and demonstrates the current state of technology – including topics such as Windows 7, choosing Office 2007 or 2010, the latest trends in metadata along with the mother of all disclosures, spyware and keystroke monitoring devices, and other security need to knows.

Donna will also discuss template software and light document assembly including the Payne offering. Also on the agenda is what’s coming in eLearning, training, Microsoft certifications and more. This session is action packed and fun yet contains valuable information that you’ll want to share with the rest of your firm. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with Donna from Payne Consulting Group.

Where…

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
520 Madison Ave (entrance on 53rd St),
New York, NY 10022

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Presentation from this month’s meeting

Sherry Kappel has kindly provided us with the PowerPoint file from this month’s presentation.  If you were unable to attend the September meeting you really missed an incredibly informative, and well put together presentation.  If your firm is considering its options with regards to the next Office version I highly recommend you download the attached file which contains a lot of very relevant and useful information.

Thank you Sherry!

September 24th 2009 Sherry Kappel Presentation (9MB pptx file)

NYWLUG September Meeting Details

Here are the details of this month’s meeting. To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.

When…

Thursday September 24th
9 a.m. breakfast
9:15 WLUG Update
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

Who…

Sherry Kappel
Sr. VP and Chief Innovation Officer at Microsystems
www.microsystems.com
www.linkedin.com/pub/sherry-mcgovern-kappel/0/262/32b 

What…

Office 2003, 2007, 2010: The Jumping Point

Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010: firm leadership may not know which version of Office supports its business strategies, but you should.

In her annual visit to the New York Word Legal User Group, Sherry Kappel will reprise and extend content delivered recently at the ILTA conference:

•  Learn ways in which technology and document design teams gained alignment to the firm’s business drivers
•  Understand where Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 are divergent – and where they intersect…
• Gain insight into Next Generation implementation approaches of the world’s largest law firms
  • Including: Updates on legal industry adoption of Office 2007, plans for Office 2010
• View myriad ways in which XML has reshaped the document automation landscape*
•  And a special content addition, exclusively for the NY WLUG:
  • the influence of Word 2007 Styles & Numbering – what to expect and how to tame it…

* featuring the native Office apps, and the functionality of Microsystems Legal TemplatesPlus and DocXtools v6

The archetype of our desktop is changing; this session looks at the spectrum of Office technologies available today — and tomorrow! –  that will shape our next decade of document production. Don’t miss out on the conversation!

Where…

Weil Gotshal & Manges
767 5th Ave
New York, NY 10153

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Will you be at ILTA?

If you are going to be at the ILTA Conference in Washington, DC this year let us know so that we can arrange to meet up. Email us at nywlug@gmail.com

Summer break

We are taking a break for the summer.

The next NYWLUG  meeting will be in September, with Sherry Kappel from Microsystems.

NYWLUG June Meeting Details

Here are the details of this month’s meeting.  To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.

When…

Thursday June 25th
9 a.m. breakfast
9:15 WLUG Update
9:30 – 11:30 presentation 

 Who…

Linda Sackett and Valerie Melville from The Sackett Group
www.legalmacpac.com 
Speaker bio’s

 What… 

MacPac 10: The Next Generation of Document Editing, Creation, and Automation

Last year The Sackett Group, Inc. released their new MacPac 10 product which is compatible with Office 2003 and 2007. More than a traditional template and macro package, MacPac 10 has evolved to include user, practice group, and firm-wide content creation as well as document assembly functionality. Utilizing a single interface and feature set, users can create traditional template content such as letters, memos, and pleadings, as well as documents previously reserved for document assembly programs – leases, wills, fill-in forms, clause libraries, or even complex multi-document packages with question and answer storage. With 100% codeless customization capabilities, the product can be customized and managed completely in-house. MacPac 10 integrates with most contact management, email, and DMS programs, and includes outline paragraph numbering and TOC, global author preferences, style management tools, and pleadings, proofs/certificates of service, and notaries for 65 U.S. courts in 17 states. 

This presentation will demonstrate both end-user functionality and the administrative back-end. See how firms can leverage the MacPac 10 document designer and content manager within Word to automate common forms as well as more complex documents in-house. We will discuss best practices for automating legal documents and provide tips for inspiring attorneys or paralegals to participate in building model documents for specific practice groups.

Where…

Alston & Bird
90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10019

SkillSite webinar for NYWLUG members

As a follow up to her presentation at our April meeting, Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners has arranged a webinar especially for NYWLUG members. This webinar will show you SkillSite, an Assessment Management System designed to implement, score, and manage legal-specific, competency-based assessments for employees and new hires. It is scheduled for:

Tuesday June 9th, at 11am EST

If you would like to attend this webinar please RSVP to Theresa.Lundquist@Profiscience.com and GoToMeeting connection details will be sent to you.  Feel free to invite other members of your IT and HR departments by forwarding this email to them.

 Further information about SkillSite below:

 

 

 

 

SkillSite is a comprehensive solution that provides end-to-end implementation and management for assessment, including a legal document proficiency assessment, automatic scoring of assessments, creation of individual learner scorecards, aggregate report generation, and important change management communication tools, enabling law firms to successfully drive performance improvement.

Designed exclusively for law firms, SkillSite is the only product on the market today that creates and imports personalized learning plans into your LMS so employees can quickly access their assessment results and complete prescribed training, allowing them to focus immediately on learning and acquiring new skills. This unique capability enables firms to take an important step after assessment, which is to provide the right training to close identified skill gaps and for the first time ever, facilitate more learning with less training.

NYWLUG May Meeting Details

Here are the details of this month’s meeting.  To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.

When…

Thursday May 28th
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11 presentation 

 What… 

Office 2007, etc….. “News from the Front Lines”

A Panel Discussion on deploying Office 2007, the good, the bad and the ulgy. Hear from experts in the field and those in the trenches–with plenty of opportunities for you to share your experiences and learn from others.

The discussion will focus on:
- Workstation Deployment Strategies
- Integration/Development Decisions
- GUI Design Strategies
- Deployment Strategies
- Training Strategies

The panel will consist of:
- Marilyn Mitchell from Sullivan & Cromwell (rolling out/50% completed)
- Dawn Bolston from Fried Frank (pilot completed, June rollout)
- Glynn Fluitt or Donna Kressner from Cravath (pre-pilot)
- Roberta Gelb from Chelsea Office Systems (clients in rollout)
- Michael Worth from Kraft Kennedy (clients in rollout)

Also the NYWLUG LIDS Team will give a quick update on their progress.

Where…

Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
360 Lexington Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10017
(212) 692.5646

Poll: How many applications are involved in your new hire training program?

Please click on the link below to respond to this single question poll for Sherry Kappel from Microsystems.

http://polls.linkedin.com/p/37781/xsgpp

NYWLUG April Meeting Details

Here are the details of this month’s meeting.  To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.

When…

Thursday April 23rd
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11 presentation

Who…

Theresa Lundquist
Chief Learning Strategist at Profisciencē Partners

Speaker bio

 

 What… 

Improving Performance and Productivity with SkillSite.
SkillSite is a comprehensive solution that provides end-to-end implementation and management for assessment, helping law firms to successfully drive performance improvement. This session will include a preview of a Microsoft Word assessment, demonstrate how SkillSite automatically scores assessments and generates customized learning plans. You’ll also see individually scored results following an assessment.

The NYWLUG LIDS Team will also give a quick update on our meetings with Microsoft and the next steps.

Where…

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
825 8th Avenue, New York, NY
(Bet 49th & 50th Streets)