Please help our friends from Dewey and LeBoeuf

I’m sure that you are all aware of the terrible situation going on at Dewey right now. We feel for the staff who are dealing with the collapse of their firm. In an effort to help our fellow WLUG members and their colleagues in the Dewey IT and Document Production departments, we have offerred to post their resumes on our site.  I hope you will join us in showing our support in their job search.  Please help us to help them by distributing this link as far and as wide as you can ….send it to your HR dept, peers, vendors, other industry peer groups , and post it on your social media accounts.

Let’s try and make a difference and show them what a great community we can be.

http://nywlug.wordpress.com/resources/dewey

Kind regards

Roseann & Simon

Questions from the Office 2010 panel discussion

Prior to the April meeting we asked the panel members to answer several questions about their Office 2010 deployment. You can find their answers here.

April Meeting Details

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

When…

Thursday April 26th 2012
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

What…

We will have a lively panel discussion focusing on real experience of law firms during their Office 2010 rollout.  Hear from firms who have either already completed or are in the midst of their rollout.  We will explore a variety of topics from the planning stages to deployment and everything in between.  

Who…

Moderator:
Carol J. Gerber, J.D., M.A.
Gerber Amalgamated LLC
 
Panelists: 
Eileen Velazquez-Perkins
User Support Technologist/Trainer
Hogan Lovells US LLP
 
Robyn W. Pascale
IS Department Manager of Training, Communications & QA
Cozen O’Connor
 
Katy Garrabrant
Sr. Technology Trainer
Latham & Watkins LLP
 
Lee Morrow
Global Training Manager
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Magher & Flom LLP

Where…

Latham & Watkins LLP
885 Third Avenue
New York NY 10022

Supporting materials from our February meeting

Many thanks to Sherry Kappel who has kindly provided us with the following:

Word 2010 Compatibility Considerations

NY WLUG – Don’t Round Trip Over Your Office File Formats

Use Excel 2010 with earlier versions of Excel

February Meeting Details

 

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

When…

Wednesday February 22nd 2012
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

What…

Our industry’s migration to Office 2010 is in full swing – and so must be our troubleshooting talents and forensic weaponry.

During this session, we will arm you with:

-          Best practices when dealing with multiple versions, file formatsBest Practice: Don’t round-trip!

• What features aid – or impair – your efforts?
  • In Word
  • In PowerPoint
  • In Excel
• What happens when a file is round-tripped?
• In 2010: Compatibility Mode does ‘double-duty’…

-          Considerations for the on-going journey

• Default Save: Considerations for your environment
• File Blocking & Protected Mode
• Downgrading: The Compatibility Pack vs. File Save As in 2010
• Upgrading: There’s a bit more to it than adding an ‘x’…

-          Q&A and Open Discussion (throughout)

-          Resources and Next steps

Who…

Sherry Kappel
Chief Innovation Officer
Microsystems
www.microsystems.com

Where…

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
450 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Map

Presentation uploaded

Sherry Kappel has kindly shared her PowerPoint presentation from this week’s WLUG meeting.  There are some some great annimations and links in here ….Enjoy!

NY WLUG_Collaboration Collision 10272011

October Meeting Details

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

When…

Thursday October 27th 2011
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

What…

Avoiding the Collaboration Collision

 Our industry’s methods for the production of legal work product are evolving in response to:

·         Technology advancements
·         Corporate Counsel demands
·         Economic pressures
·         Competition, brand identity

Microsoft Office 2010 opens the possibility to rethink and reposition the legal team’s authoring environment to meet the new reality of higher quality, modern electronic documents. Learn how new and re-architected functionality drives collaboration, comparison and co-authoring efficiencies and improves the firm’s ability to remain competitive into the future.

Who…

Sherry Kappel
Chief Innovation Officer
Microsystems
www.microsystems.com

Where…

Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
360 Lexington Avenue
10th Floor
New York, New York 10017

Telephone:  800.523.3081 or 212.986.4700

June Meeting Details

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

When…

Thursday June 23rd 2011
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

What…

Best Authority – the present and the future.

Ian Levit will be doing a demonstration of the latest release of Best Authority, version 2.7.x.  He will emphasize, using  examples from documents from the large law firms, the way firms format TOAs, to meet both court requirements as well as attorney preferences, showing hoew they cannot be done in native word (TA/TOA fields), or any third party product based on the Word feature set.

 As a special bonus, we  will get a look at the pre-release of Best Authority Version 3.0.  Version 3.0 is 5 to 50 times faster than Best Authority 2.7x, and includes many new features, including an interactive live preview of the completed TOA.

Who…

Ian Levit 
Vice President
Levit & James Inc.
www.levitjames.com

Where…

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
One World Financial Center
New York, NY 10281

Directions to Cadwalader:
 
X marks the location of One World Financial Center.
 
The closest subways are scored in blue.  If you take the 1 local, get off at Rector Street and walk N towards Albany Street.  Go West and cross the West Side Highway at Albany Street.  We are the building that is on your right as soon as you cross the West Side Highway.  The official address is 200 Liberty Street or One World Financial Center.  Proceed to reception on the 39th floor.

PowerPoint from our May Meeting

Sherry Kappel has kindly shared her  presentation with us.  Note that there  are ‘bonus features on this disc’ …… there are resources and added links at the end of the presentation, as well as a few slides we did not actually get to!

NY WLUG – The Finer Points of Word’s Styles, Templates

May Meeting Details

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

When…

Thursday May 26th 2011
9 a.m. breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 presentation

What…

The Finer Points of Word’s Styles, Templates & Building Blocks

In this deep-dive of the finer points of Word 2010’s styles, templates & building blocks, Sherry Kappel, Sr. VP and Chief Innovation Officer (Microsystems) will showcase the devilish details learned as the legal industry reestablishes its document design and automation architectures for Office 2010. We’ll also review the impact of your decisions on document exchange and compatibility with the OpenXML file formats. Our review will include:

       Building your Building Blocks

• Built-in Galleries
• Custom Galleries
• Automation Opportunities
• Why (new) Styles & Themes Matter

       Templates

• The New File | New
• Numbering, the TOC & Linked Styles
• Setting proper defaults (table styles, footnotes/endnotes, properties and tags)
• Quick Style Sets

        Roundtripping lessons learned

• The Compatibility Pack: realistic expectations
• The Compatibility Mode…
• Setting .docx. as the Default File 

Where…

Kirkland & Ellis
601 Lexington Avenue,
New York, New York 10022

Telephone: 212-909-3029 (Jeff Casper)

Main entrance is now on Lexington Ave, btw 53rd and 54th.  Bring photo ID.  Come directly to the 50th Floor Conference Center.