ILTA Voices

In this session, the speakers explored how law firms and legal professionals can safeguard sensitive data and systems by implementing AI-specific security strategies and effective governance controls.  It also builds on part one, diving deeper into practical approaches for mitigating risk in an AI-driven environment. Moderator: Elizabeth Suehr, Director of Legal Risk Systems & Strategy, Jenner & Block LLP Speakers: Morgan Llewellyn, Director, AI Practice Hike2 Chris Hockey, Manager, Information Risk and Governance Alvarez & Marsal

In this session, the speakers explored how data-driven decision-making can empower KM, legal technology, and legal services teams to extract meaningful insights from overwhelming volumes of information. Moderator: @Alejandro Vallellanes - Former Senior Manager, Research and Information Alerts, Baker McKenzie   Speakers: @Kris Sales - Innovation Product Analyst, Linklaters LLP @Natasha Tucker - Director, Business Development Operations, Bennett Jones LLP @Cem Uçan - Legal Engineer, Legora  Recorded on 06-13-2025.

Challenge traditional onboarding assumptions by exploring optimal training timeframes for legal professionals. This data-driven session will reveal how to create streamlined, effective onboarding programs that prevent information overload while ensuring competency.    Listeners will learn practical strategies for prioritizing Day 1 essentials, structuring follow-up training, and measuring onboarding success through concrete metrics.    In addition, they will receive real-world examples from firms that successfully shortened their onboarding while improving results.   Moderator: @Jeffrey Roach - Partner, EncoreTech   Speaker: @Daniel Kent - Training Manager, Foley Hoag Recorded 6-3-2025

In this podcast interview, Karina Willes, ILTA DEI Committee member and lead on the 2024 DEI Climate Survey, shares her story.

The shift to remote and hybrid working has transformed how leaders should effectively manage their teams.  Understanding skills required to manage engagement, motivation, relationship building, effective communication, cultivating collaborative, cohesive teams, from a distance, are now essential.  In this podcast interview, we will discuss key tips and tricks to build and grow remote and hybrid leadership with empathy.    Moderator: Melanie Prevost, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Technical Support Services, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. Speaker: Michael B. Stevens, Managing Partner, Derrevere Stevens Black & Cozad

In today's workplace, a lot of the burnout and misgivings is because there is an old belief that personal life should end at the workplace door.  In this podcast panel, the panelists share tips and tricks on how to allow leaders to foster a team who can bring their whole self and be their whole self.  Moderator: Adam Wehler, Director of eDiscovery Strategy and Litigation Technology, Smith Anderson Speakers: Lejuane Johnson, IT Specialist, Alston & Bird LLP Tiffany McLean, Training Manager, Warner Norcross + Judd LLP Melanie Prevost, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Technical Support Services, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P.

In this session, long standing members of the ILTA Annual Technology Survey Committee and the Survey Project Manager share best practices in using the survey results, and highlight how the survey has become a key budgeting and decision-making tool for law firms of all sizes around the world.   Moderator: @Laura Murphy - Senior Project Manager, ILTA   Speakers: @Todd Corham - Security and Compliance Administrator, Saul Ewing LLP @TJ Johnson - Transformational Strategist & Leader Recorded  5-21-2025

Engagement is key. Knowing your audience is crucial.  How do you get people to listen when they aren't interested in the topic you're presenting, aka eDiscovery, GenAI, machine learning, document review, etc.   In this podcast, the speakers will fill your cups to the brim with ideas, tips, and various avenues for engagement.  In addition, they will provide you with key suggestions in how to learn to speak your audience's language to get them to understand what your offering. Moderator: Shawn McClurg, Director of Practice Solutions, Miles & Stockbridge P.C. Speakers: Cheryl Wilson Griffin, VP of Vendor Advisory, LegalTechnology Hub Kalina Leopold Oak, Director of Marketing & Communications, Justice Technology Association 

In this podcast session, the speaker will provide a deeper dive into all the prospective questions organizations must ask their technology providers prior to moving forward with a deal.   Although, the technology works, great, but does the company as a whole?   Moderator: @Christina Wojcik - Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Pierson Ferdinand LLP   Speaker: @Krishna Vyas - Director of Third Party Risk Management and Information Security, CITI   Recorded 5-15-2025

In this ILTA just-in-time session, the speaker provided a high-level conversation of how firms should be prepared for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), which will begin implementing the multifactor authentication (MFA) sometime in mid-May to enhance system security for CM/ECF and PACER.    Resource: PACER - Multifactor Authentication Coming Soon Moderator: @Jack Recinto - Director of Applications, Ice Miller LLP Speaker: @Aaron Fenimore - Security Architect, Thompson Hine LLP Recorded on 05-15-2025.