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64 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 | S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 How Do We Get From Here to There? The ILTA Annual Tech Survey Volunteer Committee Journey by TJ Johnson TJ Johnson is AVP, Legal Sector Strategist at Qualitest (www. qualitestgroup.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. I t's Spring in much of the world, although not where I am right now in Winnipeg, Canada. Here we wait for our Spring in late April. It may seem we are still in hibernation but we are busy in the background planting seeds indoors to be ready. Similarly, ILTA members wait for the 2022 ILTA Tech Survey results in August. While they wait, the ILTA Tech Survey Committee gets ready to send out the new survey and primes ILTA members to respond to the survey, so the results will bear the fruit we all crave. When ILTA asked me to join the ILTA Tech Survey volunteer group in December 2019, I had little appreciation for how much work goes into the development of the survey, how much we would all learn, and the fun we would have doing it. Two years and a bit later, having gone through the full year of committee work for 2020 and 2021, we are in the throes of the whole exercise again for 2022. This year's committee is made up of long-term members Todd Corham (Saul Ewing) and Jim McCue (Rodey Dickenson), with Cindy McBean (Honigman), Howard Russell (RBRO) and me now in our third year, plus new member Mark Grazman (Conversant Group), Board Liaison Chris Hunt (Sugarman Rogers) and ILTA staffers Beth Anne Stuebe and Teresa Laird. The group has a wide range of experience and expertise, all using their powers for good. Each year, the committee reviews the questions and results from the previous survey. Questions are adjusted for clarity, new questions are added, and questions that are stagnant or no longer relevant are either skipped for a year or two or are permanently removed. This review is used to create the next iteration of the survey. M E M B E R R E S O U R C E S

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