Peer to Peer Magazine

Fall 2019

The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association

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54 TJ Johnson TJ Johnson is Strategy Director at Olenick (www.olenick.com). She has great fun focusing on "StrategicIT" – looking at innovation, internally and for clients, and thought leadership around new ways to help clients deliver successful projects. TJ has deep experience in legal technology. A familiar and well-respected figure in the legal technology industry, TJ worked in various capacities for law firms and legal departments. Most known for her recent role on the executive team of ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) where she led the strategy development and execution of ILTA's global portfolio of events, was instrumental in growing their premier conference, ILTACON, and was responsible for the vison and execution of many strategic projects. B Y T J J O H N S O N Y ou would have to be a member of the Flat Earth society not to see that organizations with more diverse workforces perform better financially. The data shows that to be true around the world and in all industries, from entry level positions through executive leadership. So, why do we find it necessary to create diversity initiatives? Is the law firm model so steeped in tradition that it just can't adapt to the realities of our world? It's probably partly that. I do a talk on the practice of law, with some history thrown in. We start with what might be the first IP lawsuit, the development of the wheel… to Eptian law 3,000 years ago, to the birth of the billable hour somewhere around 60 years ago. There's a lot of tradition there. I toured the private library of Worcester Cathedral this summer, which houses thousands of medieval manuscripts and books. They showed us a book of legal studies from the University of Bologna It's 2019: Why do we still need Diversity Initiatives? A S K I N G T H E R I G H T Q U E S T I O N S

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