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76 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 2 3 ILTACON 2023 Recap: A Press and Member Perspective! M E M B E R R E S O U R C E S I greatly enjoyed all the impressive product update presentations at ILTACON 2023 I was privileged to attend. I only wish I had time to attend more. So many impressive capabilities in the marketplace. The goal of this piece is to share the specifics from the updates I attended, which were Thomson Reuters, Casetext, Microsoft, NetDocuments, iManage and about five micro presentations in the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Startup Hub I caught. Each update was distinctive, taking different approaches and demonstrating an impressive array of innovation, legal process engineering improvements, practical uses of AI balancing productivity/ ethics/privacy/security considerations and, overall, an obvious deep organizational commitment to improving the legal profession. The updates I attended on Monday, by Thomson Reuters and Casetext, were memorialized in a standalone piece, due to the nature of the recent acquisition and the uniqueness of those happenings suggesting it made sense to couple them together in a single piece. Here's a report on the company updates I attended Tuesday and Wednesday, listed in chronological order. I hope you find it useful in helping to convey some of the details which will be forthcoming in legal tech by each of these integral members of our community. Startup Hub To kick things off, allow me to define the ILTA Startup Hub, for it is a fairly new element of ILTACON and may not yet be known to some. The Startup Hub is a featured showcase of legal IT and tech startups, disruptors and visionaries that were all together within an exhibitor destination at ILTACON 2023. Each participant had access to some of the most powerful group of legal IT and tech decision makers that hopefully can help propel their company's business forward via awareness, funding opportunities and business development contacts. The common thread between the companies is they are entrepreneurs, and the newness of their company qualified them for inclusion to this group. There were slightly under 30 companies providing product pitches on Tuesday and Wednesday during the conference in the Startup Hub. by Kenneth Jones

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