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Earlier this year, ILTA announced an annual recognition program titled ILTA’s Distinguished Peer Awards. The inaugural ceremony was held the last night of ILTA 2010 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas on Thursday, August 26th.
The 'ILTA Awards Dinner – Live from Las Vegas' was the icing on the conference cake, wrapping up four and a half days of educational sessions, dozens of social and networking events, and literally hundreds of vendor exhibit demonstrations and product showcases. Prior to the Peer Awards presentation, dinner guests (including all registered conference attendees and a smaller selection of exhibitors and consultant pass holders) enjoyed an amazing three course meal and the comical banter of Jan McInnis, comedienne and professional speaker. While McInnis played the part of awards emcee, various ILTA board members and conference chairs presented the 19 awards spanning individual peer recognition as well as vendor and organizational awards.
Specifically, the inaugural ILTA Distinguished Peer Awards program was created to honor the achievements of ILTA members who are making technology work for the legal profession. The program recognizes those who have delivered great business value and transformational impact through their innovations and implementations or have been champions in specific areas of focus for their organizations. You can read more background about each award on the Awards page.
Here are the 2010 ILTA Distinguished Peer Awards Nominees and Winners:
ORGANIZATION AWARDS
Innovative Member of the Year
- Mayer Brown LLP – Electronic Balloting
- Mayer Brown LLP – Merger & Combination Playbook
- Bradford & Barthel, LLP – Google Apps Collaboration *WINNER
Project of the Year
- Bingham McCutchen
- Fish & Richardson, P.C.
- McInnis Cooper *WINNER
SharePoint Innovator of the Year
- Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Miller Johnson
- Reed Smith LLP
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP *WINNER
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
ADERANT Champion
- Lin Yang – Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C.
- Jeff Olson – Ulmer & Berne LLP *WINNER
Infrastructure Technologies Champion
- Carlos Rodriguez – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
- Jason Najacht – Mayer Brown LLP
- Dean Leung – Davis LLP *WINNER
Knowledge Management Champion
- Tom Baldwin – Reed Smith LLP
- Meredith Williams – Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz
- Eric Hunter – Bradford & Barthel, LLP *WINNER
Law Department Champion
- Risa Schwartz – Cisco Systems, Inc. *WINNER
Litigation Support Champion
- Duane Lites – Jackson Walker L.L.P. *WINNER
- Joanne Lane – MetLife
- Julie Brown – Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Marketing Technology Champion
- Kristyn Sornat – Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C. *WINNER
Microsoft Champion
- Beau Mersereau – Fish & Richardson, P.C. *WINNER
Mobile, Remote and Wireless Champion
- Drew Collier – Polsinelli Shughart PC *WINNER
Open Source Software Champion
- David Nevala – Lukins & Annis PS *WINNER
Open Text Champion
- Brook Lee – Fox Rothschild LLP *WINNER
Practice Management Champion
- Michelle Mahoney – Mallesons *WINNER
Project Management Champion
- Jennifer Potter – Fish & Richardson, P.C. *WINNER
User Support Champion
- Maritta Terrell – Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C.
- Denise Ash – Robinson & McElwee PLLC *WINNER
- Chris Myatt – Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
REGION OF THE YEAR
- Europe
- Middle Atlantic
- North Atlantic
- North Central
- South Central
- North Pacific
- South Atlantic
- South Pacific *WINNER
VENDOR AWARDS
Innovative Vendor Award
- Guidance Software *WINNER
- iManage Universal Search
- IntApp, Inc.
- Omega Legal Systems, Inc.
- Rosslyn Analytics
Technology Implementation of the Year
- Datacert, Inc. *Winner
- DocAuto, Inc.
- Recommind
InsideLegal would like to congratulate all the award winners and thank ILTA for an incredible event – they always manage to top themselves. Kudos to Randi Mayes, Peggy Wechsler, TJ Johnson, Ken Hansen and the entire conference team – this was our 11th ILTA Conference and it was the best!
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