The final, and last for 2023, Hopscast host and originator, Beth Anne Stuebe, sits down with Sean McGinty, for one more Hop, one more cast. With a wide-ranging conversation, this episode covers ILTACON 2023, GenAI, a legal tech road map, and much more. Sit back, grab a Hop, and enjoy!
Join us for another episode of the ILTA CEO podcast series. For the Fall issue of Peer to Peer, we sit down with ILTA CEO Joy Heath Rush and discuss ILTACON, what's new, innovative, and happening at ILTA!
“Doing the Right IT Projects” sounds simple. It should be how you to start your project lifecycle and quality methodology: Setting criteria for how IT projects are selected, prioritized and planned, and how the appropriate level of project management, quality assurance and resources are assigned. There are buckets/workstreams for large/complex IT projects and for simple projects that need only project and testing checklists. Once the right projects are in the queue, then you move on to “Doing IT...
How are firms adopting Artificial Intelligence in the Risk Management space? Given the fast-paced and highly publicized technology trends involving AI, what are the biggest challenges organizations face today with adopting AI technologies and in particular maintaining security and compliance around client, firm, and personnel data. Questions the moderator will ask the speakers: Where do AI capabilities exist in the Risk Space? Reporting, Terms of Engagement, Conflicts Searching, Data Analytics, ...
Given the complex nature of AI and the fact that these models are not transparent, the speaker shared best tips on what do you need to know about your AI model, who built it and what is it based on? Questions the moderator asked the speaker: 1) What is and what is not AI? 2) What are AI models? 3) If you are using a pre-generated AI model what are some questions to ask: - what is it based on? - do you know how the model was trained? - is there any data in the model that may cause the model to pr...
Questions the moderator will ask the speaker: -With the audience of this podcast being attorneys and other legal professionals, we have to start with the obvious question, do you see AI taking their jobs? -How do you see AI's role in the legal industry evolving in the future? -When you think of data privacy, security, governance, and compliance, what do you think of related to risk associated to leveraging AI in the practice of law? Both as a tool for legal professionals and for laymen that migh...
In this session, the speaker delved into the transformative power of AI technology in the legal industry. They explored the game-changing solutions that are revolutionizing document intake and processing at law firms, replacing the traditional manual, labor-intensive, and error-prone methods. In addition, they uncovered how AI-powered solutions are unifying document input sources, streamlining categorization and classification, identifying time-sensitive and urgent documents, and seamlessly inte...
Identifying "Moments of Friction" -- workers' pain points with technology, processes and adoption is critical. In this session, the speaker discussed how to identify whether a MOF is a result of technology or psychology; highlight pain points; adoption; needs analysis; dig into the why and learning how to get to the root/core of the issue and user frustration. Questions the moderator will ask the speaker: -Why don’t you tell us a bit about the framework you like to use when thinking about the ne...
Some people predict that by 2025 half of legal teams will be staffed by non-lawyers. Will that be perceived as a threat or an opportunity? Do lawyers need to learn legal tech, or can they just hire people who specialize in it but are not lawyers? Do you need to be a lawyer to effectively use legal tech? Questions moderator will ask speakers: - The term “non lawyer” is sometimes perceived as quite controversial. Many people who support the business of law feel it is used to marginalize expertise....
AI has become an integral piece of responsive/non-responsive coding for reviewing eDiscovery data, and in our last podcast in the series, we discussed how it is increasingly being applied to personal information identification and redactions in litigation and investigations. For this session, the speaker will focus on how AI is being used for data breach response and why it should be part of your response plan. Questions the moderator will ask the speaker: -What do you see as the status quo for ...
Common vocabularies are a core requirement if firms want to fully utilize the knowledge created by their attorneys. Organizing those vocabularies into a taxonomy makes it easier to share knowledge across tools and practices. However, many firms don’t create or maintain common taxonomies, resulting in knowledge gaps and a lack of findability. A common vocabulary, whether it’s something that’s specific to your firm or leveraging existing taxonomies like SALI, is an investment of both time and mone...
If there was a road map for security and authentication, it’s long gone now! We’re on the road to a Passwordless future and we live in a time where no one even answers their phone! This encore ILTA podcast will quickly bring you up-to-speed and help you…and your users help themselves with better password solutions! Questions the moderator will ask the speaker(s): 1) This topic was presented at Legal Week and was very popular. Why do you think that is? 2) What are the biggest challenges to “secur...
Innovation in the legal industry is big news, but its often hard to know where to start. Changing the way we think about our work can help find new ways to approach challenges, and the framework of design thinking has proven success in the legal industry for finding innovative solutions to problems. But what is design thinking, and how can we use its principles and ideas to transform our work in litigation support? Questions the moderator will ask the speaker: What is Design Thinking? Where are ...
In this podcast session, the moderator will discuss with an attorney the best communications strategies and practices they have encountered with Litigation Support and Legal Staff. Questions the moderator will ask the speaker: -What are some steps you take to keep communication consistent in your remote team? -What are some pitfalls about purely remote work that some managers or team members might not consider? -Do you find that your communication style changes between individual team members or...
This session explored the ever-evolving factors which influence how corporate legal departments evaluate and select law firms, including a spotlight on how mature departments engage in the process. Specific factors covered will include the performance, spend, and DEI metrics used by data-driven departments, as well as a focus on the growing adoption of advanced tools to facilitate the firm selection process. Questions the moderator asked the speaker: Given current concerns over the broader econo...
Just because you’re not a large law firm doesn’t mean you don’t do e-discovery! You have litigation matters that are just as important, and that means you need to know the proper tools to use for collecting, reviewing, and producing relevant data. In this session, we’ll have a attorney and paralegal from not-so-huge law firms discussing the tools and workflows they use to successfully navigate the e-discovery world in which they practice. Questions the moderator will ask the speaker: · First let...
Your average end user now spends more time consuming and sharing educational entertainment than ever before. From podcasts to film documentaries, there is a formula that keeps us coming back for more, and ensures the audience retains that information well enough to talk about it with everyone they know. How do we capture that spark in professional learning? As trainers and developers, how do we bring entertainment to education? What looks easier than it actually is, and what is far easier than i...
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 7 features Kenton Brice, Director of the Law Library at the University of Oklahoma College of Law
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 6 features Michelle Hook Dewey, Legal Technologies Librarian and Associate Professor Legal Technologies Librarian and Associate Professor, Georgia Sta...
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 5 features Michael Robak, Director of the Schoenecker Law Library and Assoc. Dean for Technology & Information Services
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 4 features Anely Nunez, CEDS, Analytics & Review Attorney
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 3 features Kristina L. Niedringhaus, Assoc. Dean for Law Library, Information Services, Legal Technology & Innovation, Georgia State University Co...
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 2 features Geoffrey Geftman, eDiscovery Attorney at Jackson Lewis P.C.
ILTA sits down with an array of SMEs from universities, law firms, and our partners, to talk technical competency rule ABA 1.1 and how technology has evolved and changed the way new lawyers and students learn and thus, practice. Keep up with ILTA and guests as we unpack the ever-changing world of learning and what competency means to them. Episode 1 features Ashley Picker Dubin, Counsel at Day Pitney LLP
Are controlled phishing campaigns against your members the best way to keep your respective firm secure from phishing? This podcast session will look at phishing simulation tools, their overall pros/cons and alternatives available to keep your members secure from getting hooked with that phish. Questions the moderator asked the speaker: 1. Phishing is thought to have originated in 1995 and love bug struck in 2000. Here we are today in 2023 and phishing is still our number one vector of compromis...
Legal Operations is a broad emerging discipline that encompasses all aspects of the business of law including litigation support, technology, service delivery and more. Thus, eDiscovery is a major operational consideration for law firms and corporate law departments tasked with managing and securing data. Organizations typically handle eDiscovery along a spectrum where they insource or outsource certain elements of the process. What are the risks and benefits of different eDiscovery service mode...
How can we articulate the value of technology in helping meeting client expectations and improving the bottom line? In this session, the speakers discussed this and more. Questions Glenn will ask the speakers: -There is a perception by some attorneys that technology is a cost of business and, specifically, only a support function. Where do you think this stems from? -Based on this perception, each of you have likely identified strategies to convince attorney and leaders that technology is more t...
This session will focus on how companies can continuously monitor and assess their security posture by looking at drift from their control baselines in the cloud. Questions Corey asked the speaker: 1) What is continuous monitoring generally and why is it important? 2) What are some of the benefits of implementing continuous monitoring in a cloud environment? 3) What are some of the different cloud security control sources that should be considered when determining what to monitor? 4) At a high l...
Welcome to ILTA’s Risk Management: Data Analytics & Intelligence series. Over the course of this program, we will provide access to experts in the legal industry to discuss challenges of adoption and the benefits of using cloud technologies and Data Analytics to enhance processes, leading to efficiency, cost-savings and secured compliance. We will review the obstacles, challenges and successes of adoption focusing on matter intelligence. How are organizations leveraging data related to clien...
On Monday, April 17, 2023, ILTA sat down with iManage and Bain Capital to discuss their new partnership and #legaltech
