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In this new age of consumerization, law firms are expected to support devices of every size and brand. With lawyers and support staff utilizing mobile devices in their always-connected lives, it’s only natural that there is an increasing demand for mobile access to work functions and applications. But when does a device become too small to feasibly perform work? Several ILTA members recently sat down at a virtual roundtable to share their views on this very topic. Our interview with Ryan Alban can be heard in its entirety on the accompanying podcast. Visit the ILTA website to hear each participant's interview.

ILTA Podcast which aims to explore how industry leaders got to where they are in their e-discovery careers. Jared Coseglia of True Staffing Partners interviews Karen Ruocco, Manager of Electronic Discovery at Grais & Ellsworth LLP

As we headed into ILTA’s 2011 annual conference, we took the opportunity to catch up with our three nominees for the new “Young Professional” distinguished peer award. With the changing landscape of legal IT, it was a treat to have each candidate share some information about their view of professionalism and leadership, a history of their career development path and how they’re paying it forward in leading their teammates and subordinates. Our interview with Meredith Williams can be heard in its entirety on the accompanying podcast.

As we headed into ILTA’s 2011 annual conference, we took the opportunity to catch up with our three nominees for the new “Young Professional” distinguished peer award. With the changing landscape of legal IT, it was a treat to have each candidate share some information about their view of professionalism and leadership, a history of their career development path and how they’re paying it forward in leading their teammates and subordinates. Our interview with Carlos Rodriguez can be heard in its entirety on the accompanying podcast.

As we headed into ILTA’s 2011 annual conference, we took the opportunity to catch up with our three nominees for the new “Young Professional” distinguished peer award. With the changing landscape of legal IT, it was a treat to have each candidate share some information about their view of professionalism and leadership, a history of their career development path and how they’re paying it forward in leading their teammates and subordinates. Our interview with Son Nguyen can be heard in its entirety on the accompanying podcast.

The legal market landscape will look vastly different in the year 2020 than it does today. A key difference is that the future will belong to agile law firms — those willing to leverage new technologies and adopt more flexible business models and management strategies to gain competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Hear more from expert Tony Abena of Business of Law for Thomson Reuters Professional in the accompanying podcast.

The Law2020™ initiative is one year in, and although we’re beginning to see a clearer picture of what the legal industry might look like in 2020, there are still unanswered questions lying ahead of us. ILTA recently engaged in a “virtual roundtable” with four industry leaders to discuss their vision of the future of IT — an operations forecast. This is the interview with Marcus Bluestein of Kraft & Kennedy.

The Professional Services steering committee invites you to check out this podcast interview with ILTA’s own T.J. Johnson. T.J. relives the historic flooding in the spring of 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee, that forced the relocation of ILTA’s annual conference, compressing the planning process down from years into a couple of months. As a part of the podcast we explore the disaster recovery techniques that helped make the 2010 event a success, techniques that could help save you and your organization’s projects. We also explore steps that are being taken to make future conferences even more “disaster-proof”.

Companies are using business intelligence (BI) software to access and analyze the raw data associated with their business processes. BI has been found to help cut costs, create best practices, improve decision making and identify new business opportunities. With the growing need to improve efficiencies in every aspect of daily operations, how can the legal industry leverage this software? Several thought-leaders in the business intelligence arena recently sat down to share their views on this topic. This is the interview with Mark Poag at Datacert.

Companies are using business intelligence (BI) software to access and analyze the raw data associated with their business processes. BI has been found to help cut costs, create best practices, improve decision making and identify new business opportunities. With the growing need to improve efficiencies in every aspect of daily operations, how can the legal industry leverage this software? Several thought-leaders in the business intelligence arena recently sat down to share their views on this topic. This is the interview with Josh Bignell at Big Square.

Companies are using business intelligence (BI) software to access and analyze the raw data associated with their business processes. BI has been found to help cut costs, create best practices, improve decision making and identify new business opportunities. With the growing need to improve efficiencies in every aspect of daily operations, how can the legal industry leverage this software? Several thought-leaders in the business intelligence arena recently sat down to share their views on this topic. This is the interview with John Callahan at ADERANT

Communications Technologies - Tips for Supporting Mobile Devices and Managing Expectations. It has become abundantly clear that mobile devices are a necessary part of an attorney’s legal practice and IT departments are finding that they need to change their policies to meet the demands for supporting the latest and greatest devices. Several ILTA members who are leading these efforts at their firms recently sat down at a virtual roundtable to share their views on how to support the ever-growing list of mobile devices and manage user expectations. This is the interview with Ryan Alban, Manager of IT Logistics at DLA Piper

Communications Technologies - Tips for Supporting Mobile Devices and Managing Expectations. It has become abundantly clear that mobile devices are a necessary part of an attorney’s legal practice and IT departments are finding that they need to change their policies to meet the demands for supporting the latest and greatest devices. Several ILTA members who are leading these efforts at their firms recently sat down at a virtual roundtable to share their views on how to support the ever-growing list of mobile devices and manage user expectations. This is the interview with Larry McGrath, Director of Infromation Technology at Burns & Levinson

Communications Technologies - Tips for Supporting Mobile Devices and Managing Expectations. It has become abundantly clear that mobile devices are a necessary part of an attorney’s legal practice and IT departments are finding that they need to change their policies to meet the demands for supporting the latest and greatest devices. Several ILTA members who are leading these efforts at their firms recently sat down at a virtual roundtable to share their views on how to support the ever-growing list of mobile devices and manage user expectations. This is the interview with Donald Sternfield, CIO at Holland & Knight

Communications Technologies - Tips for Supporting Mobile Devices and Managing Expectations. It has become abundantly clear that mobile devices are a necessary part of an attorney’s legal practice and IT departments are finding that they need to change their policies to meet the demands for supporting the latest and greatest devices. Several ILTA members who are leading these efforts at their firms recently sat down at a virtual roundtable to share their views on how to support the ever-growing list of mobile devices and manage user expectations. This is the interview with David Michel, CIO at Burr & Forman.

Randi Mayes, Executive Director of ILTA, recently spoke with Danny Thankachan, Litigation Support Manager at Thompson & Knight LLP, about some of the unique solutions to litigation support issues experienced at his firm. The interview can be heard in its entirety in the accompanying podcast.

Kate Cain interviews Corey Wells regarding the Unified Messaging project at McInnes Cooper, which was recognized as the ILTA 2010 Project of the Year.

Run on Search: Episode 3 – Successful eDiscovery in the Cloud. Take an in depth look with Eric Blank of Blank Law + Technology P.S. and Tom Barce of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. at the legal and technical complexities of electronic data discovery in the cloud. As business move data to the cloud, how can they be prepared to protect themselves? What level of forensic analysis can be performed on user data that doesn’t live on the computer as we know it today? Listen in to gain critical insight into these and other eminent questions.

Litigation Support Career Corner: Episode 2 – Today’s Legal Project Manager. Grab a front row seat for an enlightening, one on one conversation with David Cowen of the Cowen Group and Kevin Hayworth from Paul Hastings about the evolution of project management in the legal industry. Listen to this podcast to help develop an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to project management.

Run on Search: Episode 2 – The Data Analytics Revolution. Join Craig Carpenter from Recommind as Tom Barce of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. asks him about the maturing arena of data analytics in eDiscovery and the new realm of predictive tagging. Listen to this podcast to learn how these emerging trends can help every eDiscovery practitioner.

Interview with Skip Lohmeyer about Team Development and Staff Morale

Interview with Sean Curry about Team Development and Staff Morale

Interview with Scott Christensen regarding Team Development and Staff Morale

Interview with Judy Flournoy and Building Teams

Interview with Joy Heath Rush about Building a Team

Interview with Jim McCue about Volunteer Leadership at ILTA

Interview with Scott Christensen about Volunteer Leadership at ILTA

Interview of Daniel Pelc, Esq. Senior Director of Product Development for Merrill Corporation discussing Law 2020 and the use of mobile technology. A more detailed article by Daniel entitled "Law Anytime, Anywhere: The 2020 Vision" can be found in the June 2010 Peer to Peer located at: http://www.mygazines.com/issue/11430

Randi Mayes, Executive Director of ILTA, recently sat down at the “virtual roundtable” with three industry leaders/visionaries to discuss what the law firm of 2020 might look like. Their insightful comments are certain to spark your own musings about the future. In this segment we hear Sally Gonzalez, a Director in Hildebrandt Baker Robbins’ Strategic Technology Practice sharing her views of the future of the law business. A detailed article of this virtual roundtable can be found in the June 2010 Peer to Peer Magazine http://www.mygazines.com/issue/11430

Randi Mayes, Executive Director of ILTA, recently sat down at the “virtual roundtable” with three industry leaders/visionaries to discuss what the law firm of 2020 might look like. Their insightful comments are certain to spark your own musings about the future. In this segment we hear Preston McKenzie, a Vice President of Thomson Reuters and General Manager of Hubbard One sharing his views of the future of the law business. A detailed article of this virtual roundtable can be found in the June 2010 Peer to Peer Magazine http://www.mygazines.com/issue/11430

Randi Mayes, Executive Director of ILTA, recently sat down at the “virtual roundtable” with three industry leaders/visionaries to discuss what the law firm of 2020 might look like. Their insightful comments are certain to spark your own musings about the future. In this segment we hear Darryl Cross, Vice President of Client Profitability at LexisNexis sharing his view of the future of the law business. A detailed article of this virtual roundtable can be found in the June 2010 Peer to Peer Magazine http://www.mygazines.com/issue/11430

MS Security Bulletins for the month of January 2010 (MS10-001). This month’s podcast is hosted by Rick Carlo of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.

Microsoft January 14, 2010 Security Advisory 979352 discussion. Vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow remote code execution. All versions are effected except 5.01. This month’s podcast is hosted by Rick Carlo of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.

Join Tom Barce of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. as he speaks with Gene Eames of Daegis to share his thoughts and experience about the most effective approach to crafting a strong search strategy in eDiscovery. Listen to this podcast to learn what you need to do to help manage this critical component of your daily eDiscovery challenges.

Cathy Nuxoll (with ILTA’s Microsoft Peer Group) talks with Beau Mersereau, Director of Applications, Development and Support at Fish & Richardson about what's new in Windows 7

Interview with Shawn Samuel of Hubbard One on strong partnership between Marketing and Technology departments and how it works in firms: social networks to firmwide collaboration