Leadership

How to Become a Great Mentor in a Remote Working Environment: Mentor/Mentee Edition

In the second part of this podcast series, the speakers will talk about successful strategies to mentor young or new colleagues in the legal IT space when being remote. In addition, we will learn what is a great mentor, how do you find a mentor, how does it change working remotely and why is mentoring so important?Moderator:@Carolyn Bragiel - Advisor, Legal E-discovery, Cardinal Health
 
Speakers:@Joy Murao - Founder and CEO, Practice Aligned Resources (Mentor)@Candi Smith, CEDS -  Sr. Legal Technology & eDiscovery Specialist, Jabil Corporation (Mentee)
Recorded on 01-26-2022

How to Become a Great Mentor in a Remote Working Environment: Mentor Edition

In this upcoming two-part podcast series, the speakers will talk about successful strategies to mentor young or new colleagues in the legal IT space when being remote. In addition, we will learn what is a great mentor, how do you find a mentor, how does it change working remotely and why is mentoring so important?
Moderator:@Carolyn Bragiel - Advisor, Legal E-discovery, Cardinal Health
Speaker:@Kailee Goold - Assistant General Counsel, Cardinal Health
Recorded on 01-25-2022

Women Who Lead: Carmin Ballou

Our next featured podcast Woman Leader is Carmin Ballou and she is the Director of Data Insights & Analytics at ALAS. She sits down with our WWL group and talks about her Peer to Peer article, mentors, leadership, and more!
 
About
ILTA’s Women Who Lead Advisory Committee put out a call for names earlier this year to identify women who have recently experienced a job transition into their first management role. WWL is profiling four new women leaders in Peer to Peer, one profile in each of the next four issues. WWL will also do an interview with them as part of our podcast series throughout the next year, so stay tuned!  

CEO Conversations: Winter 2021 Peer to Peer

For the Winter 2021 issue of Peer to Peer, ILTA's Director of Publications and Press, Beth Anne Stuebe, sits down with ILTA CEO, Joy Heath Rush, to talk end of year and forward-planning goals for 2022. Tune in now!

What are Firms Doing for Retraining/Upskilling to Accelerate Digital Transformation?

As firms have adjusted to our new normal, and some necessary changes had to be made in the delivery of legal services, new possibilities that were once far off aspirations are now available. These new opportunities require new knowledge and skills to enable the workforce to do new or changing jobs to meet digital transformation opportunities. In this podcast session, we will discuss how firms have transformed their legal service models and how they have addressed upskilling and re-skilling to support these new models.
Questions Asked Today:
Tell us about yourself and what you do at CliffordChance (00:36)
What impact does digital transformation have on the roles traditionally seen in law firms? (1:16)
How does your role serves as dot connector for your firm? (3:11)
How has Amy seen the roles change and how she is creating change at Perkins (6:06)
How do you meet everyone along the spectrum? (13:01)
Provide an example of where you have seen success in upskilling or reskilling what was a traditional legal role into this new digital transformation world? (14:45) 
Moderator:@Amy Monaghan - Senior Practice Innovations Manager, Perkins Coie Speaker:@Conan Hines - Senior Legal Technology Advisor, Clifford Chance US LLP
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​Recorded on 11-22-2021

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

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

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

Fresh Voices of LegalTech - Interview #13

There are a lot of different roles within legal technology. KM, content management, marketing, applications development, etc. How do we get young employees excited about their potential paths and make sure they have a path towards a long-term career in legal tech?Moderator:@Holly Hanna - KM Firm Solutions Manager, Perkins Coie
Speaker:@Allison Duncan - KM Practice Innovation Manager, Reed Smith
​Recorded on 07-15-2021

Fresh Voices of LegalTech - Interview #12

There are a lot of different roles within legal technology. KM, content management, marketing, applications development, etc. How do we get young employees excited about their potential paths and make sure they have a path towards a long-term career in legal tech?Moderator:@Holly Hanna - KM Firm Solutions Manager, Perkins Coie
Speaker:@Melanie Segraves - Knowledge Management Solutions Analyst, Womble Bond Dickinson U.S.
Recorded on 07-15-2021