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P E E R T O P E E R : I L T A ' S Q U A R T E R L Y M A G A Z I N E | F A L L 2 0 1 8 73 A P E E R T O R E V E R E Bradelynn Boyce-Dendy A current active member of ILTA's Talent Council and an ILTA volunteer for over two decades, Bradelynn Boyce-Dendy sits down with ILTA Senior Content Marketing Manager Beth Anne Stuebe to discuss the role of women in the workplace, mentorship and kindness, and how we all can benefit from slowing-down and working together to make legal tech more inclusive. Thank you, again and again, for always finding time to talk with me. Tell me a little about what's on your plate now and where your firm is going. Well {laughs} it has been quite a wild ride, but we're always learning, always bringing new people on. We have to challenge ourselves: a few years ago, our head of the technolo committee sent our attorneys a survey that said, "Okay, what do you not like about our technolo?" And the number one thing they said was, well, we just don't know what's out there. Sure. So yeah, not only do we not know how to use it, but we don't know what we've got. Well, how can you use it if you don't know what you've got? So, I created, well, really I stole this from ILTA: I just said "Why don't we just do a vendor fair?" And so we did! And we did a three-day fair in every office; we created slide shows and we demoed six different types of software that we offered BD from technolo, gave away prizes and offered pizza and just all sorts of things to get them in just to see what we offered. I would go pretty much anywhere for free pizza. Good knowledge helps with company uptake and company culture; free pizza never hurts. Culture is important: We don't just want to keep it, we want to create it. We have a life-long learning culture here at Nelson Mullins. And of course, that's why I've been around so long. They've been very good about supporting us and making sure that people know that opportunities are available Seeing women in your arena being represented is so important; the last time we talked, you said that four out of the six IT managers in your company are women? BD Yes; we definitely have a large preponderance of women in technolo and our applications department, specifically, has added even more women to the field. And in my department, we have a mix of male and female leaders, but it's growing by leaps and bounds. Nelson Mullins also participates in internship programs and we want to bring the best and brightest to the table. One of the things you've said to me what that organizational culture, over the last ten years, has changed so much, and so much for the better. How so? It really has, it really has. What I would like to see more of is the Chief Officer seats changing. I have seen that the staff level changed; the management level at my level has changed. What I would like to see in the next five to ten years is the chief officer level change because that's a different level of glass ceiling. BD BD L E A R N I N G & D E V E L O P M E N T D E P T. M A N A G E R F O R N E L S O N M U L L I N S R I L E Y & S C A R B O R O U G H L L P

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