ILTA Voices

Fresh Voices of Legal Tech - Episode 1: Nada Elfaki

Welcome to ILTA’s new blog and podcast series to showcase the new voices of legal technology. This series highlights those who have one or less years of experience within the community in hopes to showcase and educate the future of the legal landscape.For Episode One, Mercedes Brown, ILTA UK Membership Engagement Manager, chats with Nada Elfaki who has a little more than 13 months of experience in the legal tech community with her position at DocsCorp, a trusted ILTA Business Partner. We learn more about Nada's career path, who she thinks is best suited for legal tech, being a millennial in the landscape, her lesser known quirks, and more.
Interviewer: Mercedes Brown, ILTA UK Membership Engagement ManagerSpeaker: Nada Elfaki, Business Development Manager – EMEA, DocsCorp

COVID-19 and What the Future May Look Like

Please enjoy this micro-learning podcast where Will Pett interviews Vanessa Lozzi and asks the following questions below as it pertains to COVID-19 and What the Future May Look Like:
-With COVID-19 forcing everyone to work from home for an extended period of time, do you think we’ll see more legal departments allowing employees to work remotely some or all of the time?-Will any process changes necessitated by the pandemic carry over long-term? For example, will more lawyers become comfortable with e-signed documents.-Will legal departments change their staffing philosophies in response to the pandemic? Will roles like Legal Ops seem more or less valuable to GCs moving forward?-What has you company or legal department doing to keep in contact with employees?​  ​Moderator:@Will Pett, Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity InvestmentsSpeaker:@Vanessa Lozzi, Senior Legal Technology and Litigation Support Administrator, AVP, Flagstar BankRecorded on 5-4-2020

Series: Global Legal Innovators

This podcast series will feature a couple speakers located across the globe who are doing things differently and can offer unique perspectives on what the state of legal innovation looks like in different places.
Interviewer:@Nicola Shaver, Managing Director, Innovation and Knowledge, Paul Hastings, LLPSpeakers:@Beth Patterson, Director, ESPconnect @Caroline Sweeney, Director of Knowledge Management & Innovation, Dorsey & Whitney
​​​​Recorded on 4-30-2020

Success Stories from Corporate Clients and Law Firms (Together or Separately)

In this micro learning podcast series, law firms and corporate clients will briefly share success stories and learn from one another.In this specific podcast, we will focus on the following: 1. Innovation is one of the hot topics in the industry these days. On the law firm side, we hear a lot about clients wanting/expecting us to innovate. Do you expect this of your outside counsel?2. Given the current pandemic, how are you seeing your law firm providers innovate? Are there examples that stand out? Anything that has surprised or especially impressed you?3. How are you innovating within the corporate legal department during this crisis? How do you maintain an atmosphere of innovation via a remote workforce?4. What would be your advice to law firms around innovation, in the time of coronavirus?5. What would be your advice to other corporate in-house legal teams regarding innovationInterviewer:@Caroline Sweeney, Director of Knowledge Management & Innovation, Dorsey & WhitneySpeaker:@Jack Thompson, E-Discovery & Legal Operations, Sanofi

How to Market Existing Firm Technology for Maximum Adoption

 
 
The IT department spent a year and a million dollars on a new software package. The project champions are excited about it and use it daily, but the mid-level associates are blissfully unaware. In this micro-learning podcast, we will discuss what are tried and true strategies firms use to get the word out, build excitement, and most importantly boost adoption about time-saving technology that already exists in house?Moderator:@Dan Pratt, IT Business Relationships Manager, Holland & Knight LLP 
Speaker:Luke Schnoebelen, Manager, Learning and Development, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.Recorded on 4-24-2020

2020 ILTA Awards Podcast: Alison Grounds

Beth Anne Stuebe, ILTA Director of Publications and Press, sits down with Alison Grounds, Managing Director, Troutman Sanders eMerge LLC, to talk about her experience of winning the 2013 Technology Advocacy Professional of the Year Award, what it meant to her firm, and how the ILTA Distinguished Peer Awards are different than other awards programs. Tune in!
To learn how to nominate yourself or others for a 2020 ILTA Distinguish Peer Award, visit lltanet.org/peerawards.The nomination process open May 13, 2020.

CISO in Lockdown, No Parole in Sight

Covid-19 has given us a lot of different technical challenges in a very short period of time.  This has required a lot of CIO’s, CISO’s and their teams to pull out and dust off their pandemic procedures.  Today we speak to Jon Washburn, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)  at STOEL RIVES LLP.  about some of the ups,  downs and challenges we have all experienced and how to overcome them.Speaker:@Jon Washburn - Chief Information Security Officer at Stoel Rives LLPModerator:@Joshua Johns - Manager of Information Governance at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPRecorded: 04-15-2020

How to Make Your Opinion Matter

In modern workplaces, job titles do not always reflect true influence in an organization. In this podcast, learn how to navigate this aspect of the workplace and how to best express your opinions so that they are heard by decision makers.
Interviewer: Kathleen Ratcliffe, Antitrust, Information Specialist, Ohio Attorney General OfficeSpeaker: Ginevra Saylor, National Director, Innovation and Knowledge Programs, Gowling WLG

All New Podcast Series: Work From Home - Episode #7

ILTA Radio is proud to present, Episode #7, in our new podcast series, entitled: “Work-from-Home!”This new series takes a look at many different facets of the organizational, technical, and human sides of the remote work experience. Join us as we find new, interesting, and innovative ways to keep productivity and morale up!Speakers:@Amy Juers - CEO, Edge Legal MarketingModerator:Beth Anne Stuebe - Director of Publications and Press​​​​​, ILTARecorded 04-14-2020

Just Go With the Flow! – How Workflows Can Improve and Automate Business Processes - Episode 2

In the ever evolving ecosystem of legal technology we are always looking for ways to improve our business processes and eliminate wasted efforts and errors.  On the forefront of these improvements is process automation.  On this podcast, Jack Recinto of ILTA discuses with Milan Bobde of Intapp, the best practices for identifying and automating processes to keep legal organizations agile and as efficient as possible.  Listen and learn more about how workflows can work for you if you just “Go with the Flow!Speaker:@Milan Bobde - Director of Product Management at InTappModerator:@Jack Recinto - Senior Applicatoins Developer at Vedder Price P.C.Recorded: 3/31/2020

Just Go With the Flow! – How Workflows Can Improve and Automate Business Processes - Episode 1

Automated workflows are becoming more and more prevalent in the legal industry.  From new business intake and conflicts searches to employee onboarding.  What should you consider before replacing a process with a workflow?  How do you measure the success of a workflow you have implemented? Join Jack Recinto from ILTA and Kim Heyde from OpenText to answer these question and learn the ins and outs of improving and automating business processes by using workflows.Speaker:@Kim Heyde - Product Manager at OpenTextModerator:@Jack Recinto - Senior Applicatoins Developer at Vedder Price P.C.Recorded: 3/31/2020