We are currently working on the details for WLUG meetings for the coming year. If you have suggestions for the type of meetings that you would like to attend please email us at nywlug@gmail.com .
We are also looking for member firms volunteer to host a meeting. Please let us know if you think your firm can provide a meeting space for us.
This file contains a calendar view of the meeting dates for 2010: 2010 wlug calendar
Microsoft has a free 200 page e-Book available called First Look: Microsoft Office 2010. It’s a 10.5MB download from http://bit.ly/6EdXAL
I have just created a Google Wave about which version of Microsoft Office law firms should choose to move to next. I think it could be an interesting and valuable project if we get enough participation.
If you have a wave account and you are interested in participating, email us at nywlug@gmail.com with your Google Wave email address and I’ll add you to the wave.
Simon
Here are the details of our next meeting. To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.
Thursday December 3rd
9 a.m. breakfast
9:15 WLUG Update
9:30 – 11:30 presentation
Donna Payne
Payne Consulting Group
http://payneconsulting.com
Twitter: @Donna_Payne
Blog: http://donnapaynesblog.blogspot.com
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.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
520 Madison Ave (entrance on 53rd St),
New York, NY 10022
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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)
Here are the details of this month’s meeting. To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.
Thursday September 24th
9 a.m. breakfast
9:15 WLUG Update
9:30 – 11:30 presentation
Sherry Kappel
Sr. VP and Chief Innovation Officer at Microsystems
www.microsystems.com
www.linkedin.com/pub/sherry-mcgovern-kappel/0/262/32b
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:
* 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!
Weil Gotshal & Manges
767 5th Ave
New York, NY 10153
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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
We are taking a break for the summer.
The next NYWLUG meeting will be in September, with Sherry Kappel from Microsystems.
Here are the details of this month’s meeting. To RSVP please email nywlug@gmail.com.
Thursday June 25th
9 a.m. breakfast
9:15 WLUG Update
9:30 – 11:30 presentation
Linda Sackett and Valerie Melville from The Sackett Group
www.legalmacpac.com
Speaker bio’s
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.
Alston & Bird
90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10019
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.
