ILTA Voices

In this podcast session, we will provide key tips for successfully creating a firm reporting app that effectively addresses how to cross-train employees to alleviate work disparities and overall staffing and shifting priorities in this current pandemic. Moderator: @Daniel Wood, Director of Counsel Assistance, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP Speakers: @Allison Duncan, Manager, KM Practice Innovation, Reed Smith @Bill Koch, CKO, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP​​​ Recorded on 6-19-2020

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. Moderator: @Nicola Shaver - Managing Director, Innovation and Knowledge, Paul Hastings, LLP Speakers: @Jeremy Coleman - Head of Innovation, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP @Simon Wormwell - Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (Canada) Recorded on 6-5-2020

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. Moderator: @Nicola Shaver, Managing Director, Innovation and Knowledge, Paul Hastings LLP Speakers: Marco Imperiale, Innovation Officer, LCA Studio Legale Andrea Lindblom, Administrative Director. Helsingborg District Court Recorded on 5-29-2020

Beth Anne Stuebe, ILTA Director of Publications and Press, sits down with Rachel Shields Williams, Senior Manager, Experience Management, Sidley Austin LLP, to talk about her  recognition in 2019 as a Young Professional to Watch, a part of ILTA's Distinguished Peer Awards. Tune in! To learn how to nominate yourself or others for a 2020 ILTA Distinguish Peer Award, visit iltanet.org/peerawards.The nomination process is open until June 12, 2020!

Beth Anne Stuebe, ILTA Director of Publications and Press, sits down with Sherry Kappel, Litera Evangelist, Litera Microsystems, to talk about her two ILTA Peer Awards (2014 and 2017), innovation, and the award process. 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.

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 Manager Speaker: Nada Elfaki, Business Development Manager – EMEA, DocsCorp

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 Investments Speaker: @Vanessa Lozzi, Senior Legal Technology and Litigation Support Administrator, AVP, Flagstar Bank Recorded on 5-4-2020

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, LLP Speakers: @Beth Patterson, Director, ESPconnect  @Caroline Sweeney, Director of Knowledge Management & Innovation, Dorsey & Whitney ​​​​Recorded on 4-30-2020

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 innovation Interviewer: @Caroline Sweeney, Director of Knowledge Management & Innovation, Dorsey & Whitney Speaker: @Jack Thompson, E-Discovery & Legal Operations, Sanofi

  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