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230+ IT leaders participated in the "Delivering Quality
Projects" session I moderated (my passion is helping law
firm technology projects successful by focusing on quality
early in the planning!) Tony McKenna, Alan Reeson and
Christine Becker shared their stories of good and bad
quality, and their simple tips for anyone to help improve
quality in their own law firms.
The ILTA Annual Technology Survey committee, of
which I am a member, delivered a preview / summary of
the 2022 Tech Survey results – "Beyond the ILTA Annual
Technology Survey – Solving Business Problems". It was
fun to share highlights and our thoughts on the trends,
with that all important focus of helping the legal ecosystem
solve business problems (more on that later).
When we wound up the week on Thursday evening,
we were all tired and exhilarated and full of ideas and
plans to go back to our organizations to make things better.
We had actionable takeaways for planning budgets and IT
strategies over the next few months.
Planning for ILTACON 2023
Planning for each year's ILTACON begins as right after
the last ILTA ends and in reality, long before that ILTA
staff are working with the venue, always a few years
ahead on organizing all the operational things that make
ILTACON successful. Since August, The ILTACON co-
chairs, team coordinators and ILTA staff are busily
finalizing the conference committee and starting to
collect topic ideas for ILTACON 2023. Speaking of which,
anyone with session ideas can submit them to ILTA via
this form: https://www.cognitoforms.com/ILTA1/
iltacon2023callforsessionideas
As I mentioned earlier, ILTA sent out an invite
for "enthusiastic and reliable ILTA members, business
partners, associate participants or industry participants
to help us organize, create and execute the vision for ILTA
Conference 2023". It's been 20 years since I had that role
and I thought it might be time to give back for everything
ILTACON has done for me. I applied and was accepted. I am
even more excited than I expected, anticipating the fun and
engagement of joining other ILTA members and business
partners to help develop the session ideas and provide
input/feedback to help shape the path of the conference.
My company is signing up as a Platinum Sponsor again
for 2023. That means we will be exhibiting at ILTACON.
We have plans to continue our mission of maturing quality
in the legal industry with ILTA, ILTACON and ILTACON
Europe factoring largely into that endeavor.
I know whatever happens, ILTACON 2023 will be
another great experience that will make everyone who
attends that much better!!
ILTA's Annual Technology Survey
ILTA's annual Technology Survey is the be all and end
all resource that helps multitudes of people in the legal
ecosystem "Do the Right Things" and "Do Things Right"
IMHO. For as long as I can remember, the law firms I
worked with completed the survey and I have poured over
the results every year.
In late 2019 I was asked to join the ILTA Tech Survey
committee. I learned just how much time is spent each year
dissecting the previous year's results, adjusting questions
for clarity, writing new questions and debating when to
remove less relevant questions. (For more on how the Tech
Survey is put together, see my column from the Spring
2022 Peer to Peer.
In the session the Tech Survey committee delivered at
ILTACON 2022, we shared themes from the 2022 Survey,
provided actionable takeaways and gave the first access to
the Executive Summary of the Survey.
We told stories of how the Survey has helped answer
specific business problems. Jim McCue shared how he
