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contents September 2010 ASKTHE EXPERT Joy Heath Rush Joy Heath Rush is the Enterprise Multimedia Services Manager at Sidley Austin LLP, where she is responsible for audiovisual, presentation and video conferencing technology firmwide. Joy is in her 25th year with Sidley, where she started as a Word Processing Supervisor. Joy is on the steering committee for INSIGHT, ILTA’s award-winning UK educational event, and is ILTA’s immediate Past President. She previously served as Peer Group Liaison to the ILTA’s Board of Directors, Board Secretary, and Microsoft Peer Group Chair. She can be reached at jheathrush@sidley.com. A Focus on Strong Teams: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion Skip Lohmeyer Skip Lohmeyer is the Director of Technology Operations at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak, and Stewart, P.C, where he oversees the firm’s technology support and infrastructure services. Skip is also an adjunct professor at Southern Wesleyan University, teaching MIS and business courses to undergraduate students. He has written for Peer to Peer on occasion, served as an ILTA City Representative and is currently a member of the 2010 ILTA Conference Committee. Skip holds an M.B.A., a B.S. in Business Administration and several industry certifications. He can be reached at skip.lohmeyer@ogletreedeakins.com. Scott Christensen Scott Christensen is the Director of Information Services at Wildman, Harrold, Allen and Dixon LLP. He has served for the past five years on ILTA’s Board of Directors, and presently serves in the capacity of President of the association. Scott enjoys teaching occasional college courses in the areas of computer science and business management and has been a speaker at conferences including ILTA, ALA, and ARMA. Outside of work, he has served on boards of directors of other non-profit organizations with oversight over finance, personnel and governance matters. He can be reached at christensen@ wildman.com. 9 Judi Flournoy Judi Flournoy is the Chief Information Officer for Loeb & Loeb LLP. With 16 years of leadership experience with AmLaw 100 and 250 firms, Judi has been both a strategic and operational director. She is a member of the Microsoft Legal Client Advisory Board and a member of the Thomson Reuters Large Law Firm CIO Advisory Board. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Judi has also served in various leadership roles within ILTA, and she is a past president. She can be reached at jflournoy@loeb.com. 20 www.iltanet.org Peer to Peer Sean Curry Sean Curry is the Firmwide Infrastructure Manager at K&L Gates. Prior to its merger with K&L Gates, Sean served as the IT Director at Hughes and Luce, LLP and has served in technology leadership roles in law firms and the Missouri Attorney General’s office over the past 25+ years. Sean has been in various leadership positions with ILTA, and is a past president of the association. He can be reached at sean.curry@klgates.com. 10 24 32 36 38 Letter from the Director Best Practices Ask the Expert Leadership Profiles Tech Focus Smart Moves Building a Road to the Future: My Transition from Operational Management to Strategic Leadership features The Wizardry of Leading Other and Yourself with Courage, Heart and Brains.................. 46 From Manager to Leader........................ 52 Recognizing and Reducing Information Overload........................... 60 Modern Leadership and Creating Chaos out of Order............................. 64 A CIO’s Secrets of Successful Staffing ............. 66 Enhance Your Leadership Skills Through Self-Awareness ........................ 70 PAGE 50 From Manager to Leader by Matthew Berg PAGE 58 Recognizing and Reducing Information Overload by Leigh Isaacs PAGE 62 Modern Leadership and Creating Chaos out of Order by Ari Kaplan Peer to Peer the quarterly magazine of ILTA 43 features PAGE 44 The Wizardry of Leading Others and Yourself with Courage, Heart and Brains by Gina Buser Credibility and trust are not optional if you want to be a successful leader. A common leadership myth is that if you want to get ahead, you have to be willing to put aside your values from time to time. Effective leaders know this is just not true. Warren Buffet said about leadership: “You need integrity, intelligence and energy to succeed. Integrity is totally a matter of choice — and it is habit-forming.” If your people understand you, you will get their attention. If they trust you, you will get their action. It takes courage to earn trust and to trust others. And good leadership requires the wizardry of combining that courage to lead with right thinking (brains) and emotional appeal, the empathy and emotional investment in others (heart). Our author leads you down the yellow brick road toward greater leadership. PAGE 64 A CIO’s Secrets of Successful Staffing by Erik Goltzer PAGE 68 Enhance Your Leadership Skills Through Self-Awareness by Vic Peterson 77 78 Letter from the President Member Resources Book Reviews, New Members, Event Calendar and More Peer to Peer the quarterly magazine of ILTA 7 92 Inside ILTA Legal Thought Leadership, LEDES Update, Lessons Learned and More

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