Kermit Wallace Email Address

Chief Information Officer

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP is a law firm providing transactional and litigation guidance to multinational corporations, investment banks and venture capital firms.

A quality- and business-driven CIO, Kermit Wallace has successfully parlayed his passion and technology expertise into being a big picture, enterprise-wide leader committed to driving large scale change, business process re-engineering, and operational efficiency in some of the country’s largest cities. He prides himself on “making the technology disappear” as a support tool so that the business can focus on mission-critical work and flourish.With over 25 years of experience, Mr. Wallace has had success in both the private and public sectors with particular expertise in professional services (legal, finance) technology. He has served in technical, management and leadership positions in the New York City Board of Education, a major Fortune 500 software company, one of the top brokerage / financial services firms in the world, a top international AMLAW 100 law firm, and most recently in the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.A hands-on, “roll up your sleeves”-type executive, Kermit leads by example. He is uniquely skillful at crafting reliable, high-value technology solutions to business challenges and developing high-performing teams to support them. Mr. Wallace is also an accomplished public speaker and subject matter expert who has presented at the ILTA annual convention, the LegalTech CIO Forum, The Thomson Reuters CFO/CIO/COO Forum, CIOsynergy, the ARK Group / Managing Partner Law Firm Pricing & Profitability conference and the PLTG IT Director Panel.Specialties: Application development, budgeting, business continuity, disaster recovery, co-location strategies, data center management; software distribution and management; e-Discovery and litigation support; customer service and user support; information security; ITIL; network and infrastructure management; personnel management and staff development; purchasing and inventory / asset management; quality assurance; risk management; telecommunications (VoIP); training