InsideLegal spent some time with the ILTA conference and sessions team at LegalTech New York and wanted to share some of the recent scoop and announcements … 

ILTA INSIGHT UK

ILTA will again be producing the INSIGHT 2011 event in London April 5th. INSIGHT will offer two tracks – The Business of Law 2020 and Law Technology 2020. The sessions offered tie into Law 2020, an ILTA multi-year, multi-platform educational programming initiative focusing on the ways in which law firms will have to adapt in order to thrive over the next decade. You can view the complete agenda online.

As always, INSIGHT is free and open to law firm or law department professionals. You can register here or by e-mail to Peggy Wechsler, ILTA’s Program Director.

Editors Note: InsideLegal is again a sponsor of INSIGHT UK and we look forward to this program this year. Last year will be hard to top. Great sessions and great people…

STAFF CHANGES

ILTA is excited to anounce some new internal organizational changes that will allow them to better tackle their new initiatives and their constant pursuit to top themselves with each Annual Conference. Peggy Wechsler remains as Program Director but will concentrate more on strategic planning, including focusing on vendor, alliance, and press relationships. TJ Johnson, who has been will ILTA since 2003 has been promoted to Program Manager of Conferences. You may not be familiar with TJ, but she is the lady behind the logistics of the conference, from the educational program to the details. You may have seen her running around the conference with a headset. In her new role, she will take over moreof the planning from Peggy of special events outside of the annual conference, i.e. INSIGHT and ILTA’s track at LegalTech. Another ILTA team member, Deb HImsel, has been promoted to Program Manager of Core Education. Deb will direct the coordination of all the regional meetings, roadshows and webinars (and other new media) in this new role. Gaynor Senyszyn, who previous served as ILTA’s Peer Group Coordinator, is moving over to Conference Coordinator to provide support to TJ and the conference planning committee.

A new team member, Kristy Cole, is joining ILTA as Communications Specialist and will be working with Executive Director and Editor, Randi Mayes, on ILTA's publication Peer to Peer and its popular whitepaper series. Kristy has spent the last five years as IS Communication Administrator and Web Content Editor for Mayer Brown so the ILTA content is very familiar to her.

ILTA PEER AWARDS

ILTA's 2011 Distinguished Peer Awards program, announced earlier this month, recognizes outstanding achievements in organizational and individual excellence involving areas of focus covered by ILTA's peer groups. Vendors and consultants will also be recognized, for superior achievements in thought leadership and innovation. The rather simple nomination and application process encourage ILTA members and vendors to nominate themselves, peers or their organization by the April 30th deadline.

In addition to the award itself, presented at the awards dinner at ILTA 2011 in August, winners will be featured on the ILTA website and in various ILTA publications.

Editors note: InsideLegal covered the inaugural ILTA Peer Awards last year and we were very impressed with not only the caliber of nominees and winners, but with the overall organization and presentation – check out the coverage from 2010.