ILTA Voices

Future of Work Practices: How to Maximize Online Collaboration and Virtual Working

The pandemic has brought about an opportunity for individuals to reflect on their lives, and most, in fact 77% of the legal professionals want to retain elements of this new virtual, remote working - to varying degrees. And critically, 22% said they are likely to leave if their employers didn’t accommodate the new way they want to work.In this podcast, we will briefly discuss differing perspectives on remote working, the benefits and drawbacks to individuals, firms and clients to remote working, the impact on collaboration and differences by subgroup, working patterns, before and during COVID-19 and desired post-pandemic and which roles should remote working be available to, plus with or without restrictions.We will also understand where you fit in and how you can maximize your own and your teams’ productivity as we progress into a new world of work with mixtures of both distributed and in person teams. Moderator: @Harriet Joubert-Vaklyes - Process Innovation Senior Specialist, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Speakers:@Kristin Rhodes - Senior Practice Manager, Paul Hastings LLP@Natalie Runyon -  Director, Enterprise Content, Talent, Inclusion & Culture, Market Insights, Thomson Reuters
Recorded on 10-26-2021​​​​​

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

Bridging the Divide: What to Do When Joining a Legal Department as a Young Professional: Part 2

Joining a corporate or government legal department as a young professional can be quite intimidating. As a rule, these organizations tend to skew older since they often hire lawyers who have already worked in law firms for an extended period of time.In this podcast, learn about effective methods of bridging this potential gap with your new colleagues and receive tips and suggestions.Moderator:@Will Pett - Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity Investments
Speaker:@John Crawshaw - Business Analytics Manager, PNC
 
Recorded on 10-15-2021

Fresh Voices of Legal Tech (Europe) - Episode 5: Karim Nassar

For Episode #5 of the Europe edition of Fresh Voices of Legal Tech, Mercedes Oppon-Kusi, ILTA UK Community Engagement Manager, and Leanne Williams, founder of InclusiTech and Business Analyst, sit down with Karim Nassar, Legal Products Manager at Travers Smith.
They talk about Karim's career development from Product Engineer to Legal Products Manager during the pandemic, transferable skills, and so much more! 
 
About the Series
For 2021, the Europe edition of Fresh Voices of Legal Tech is a collaboration between ILTA and InclusiTech with the intention of sharing the different career opportunities in the tech industry that can be accessible for all. Each episode of the podcast will discuss our thoughts and views on the latest hot topics and feature someone from the tech industry to give us a little insight into their role.

Equitable Conversations - Episode #0: New Series Introduction

ILTA Publication
Join us for the first-ever DEI podcast, EQUITABLE CONVERSATIONS. This all-new podcast is hosted by Karina Willes, PhD, MBA, PMP, Senior Project Manager at Foley & Lardner LLP, and ILTA’s own Beth Anne Stuebe, Director of Publications and Press. They sit down with a rotating series of ILTAns, industry leaders, and SMEs in legal and technology to talk about how diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzz words, but practical business choices that move the needle of progress ever-forward. This is Episode #0, an introduction to the monthly series. Tune in now!

HopsCast - Episode 5: Angela Dowd and Leland Smith

For the Fall 2021 edition of HopsCast, Beth Anne Stuebe, ILTA Director of Publications & Press, interviews Angela Dowd, Director of Practice Innovation at Burns & Levinson LLP, and Leland Smith, Technical Relationship Manager at Conversant Group, at ILTACON 2021. They talk all things tech, co-authoring, and of course, about baseball, and hops. 

Women Who Lead: Crystal Kelley

Our second featured podcast Woman Leader is Crystal Kelley, IT User Support Manager at Troutman Pepper. 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!  

Business Analysts

In this session, we will discover and learn about the evolving role of business analysts, what they do, how they help legal technology and why they are so valuable.Moderator:@Carly Prellwitz- Business Analyst 1, Fish & RichardsonSpeakers:@Rex Balboa– Systems Business Analyst, Perkins Coie@Jennifer Perez- IT Business Analyst, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Recorded on 09-14-2021

The Vendor/Firm Ecosystem - How Firms can Impact Product Development

As firms move from jack-of-all trades providers to working with a host of best-in-class tools provided by smaller companies, opportunities for directly influencing product development and product pipeline have greatly increased. During this podcast, we will discuss specific ways in which firms can leverage their networks and vendor relationships to guide the creation of better, more cost efficient vendor offerings.Moderator: @Rebecca Holdredge - Innovation Manager, Husch Blackwell LLPSpeakers:@Anna McGrane - COO, PacerPro@Virginio D'Aversa - Senior Director Knowledge Management and Technology Innovation, Husch Blackwell@Dan Anderson - CEO and Co-founder, SeeUnity@Dan Hauck - Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments
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Recorded on 09-02-2021​​

Ensuring You Have Adequate Visibility As You Move Further Into The Cloud

During this podcast, a cyber security professional will discuss ways that you can ensure that you have adequate visibility to protect against unauthorized access into our data as you move additional pieces of your architecture into the cloud. The conversation will highlight cloud access security brokers, security incident and event management, and data loss prevention tools and strategies.Moderator:@Corey Reitz - E-Discovery Project Lead, Sandia National LaboratoriesSpeaker:Kevin Magee - Chief Security Officer, Microsoft Canada
​Recorded on 08-06-2021​