The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association
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74 What do you want to learn today? To serve... Access an ex tensive menu of on- demand lear ning anytime, any where, from any device with LegalMind®. INNOVATION BY www.travelingcoaches.com Personal Learning Por tal We have to help each other up and once we climb the ladder, we have reach back down to help the next person up. What does mentorship mean to you? I cannot emphasize enough to you personally and to all the women I know that it is a failing of ours if we do not reach out to help other women. It's not just those who stand beside us, but generations behind us; it's our duty. And mentorship to me is very close to my heart because if I don't help someone, I'm not meeting my purpose. I think we just need a little support, a cup of coffee, and someone to believe in you. Talking more about lessons learned, there are certainly lessons to be learned from failure. What have you learned over your career? BD Well, it is, so not the end. I have learned so much over my lifetime from my failures than my successes. I think that if we look at those as the challenges on which we build our successes instead of the end, I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't failed in some of those areas because it taught me how to go the right way. It told me what did work. Do you think that there is an overarching life lesson in the try, try again, stand up, try it again mentality? Yeah, that's it. That's it: Not that you have failed. You only fail when you don't dust yourself off and get up and go try the next thing. That's the whole key: you've got to learn from what you were doing. Don't keep doing what's failing. BD BD Innovation is an iterative process. What do you think that we could do a better ILTA? Failures are bound to happen, but we can continue to educate, to mentor, to teach 101 and Lessons learned programs… Well, that's how I grew up with ILTA. I knew nothing when I first started and that's how I learned; I learned the basic through networking with people who were more experienced than I was in the field of technolo. [And today] those programs still have to exist and even become more robust. We have some great new folks coming into ILTA and certainly we need to keep those programs not only going, but we have to make them much more robust. We've got to keep up, offer new ideas and programs. I was still doing the same old thing that I was doing 30 years ago when I first started getting into this, I would be pretty much useless to my firm. BD