ILTA ‘09 Day 1

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The annual conference for ILTA has begun. I've seen two sessions so far. The first was Greening the Law Office: Why It Makes Cents, presented by Joan Krajewski of Microsoft. Joan had some interesting statistics regarding the costs of business behaviors, and ways to reduce the corporate carbon footprint. ...

Recommendation: Two ILTA Webinars

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Whether or not your firm is an ILTA member, you really should take advantage of the materials they offer. Of particular value are the webinar recordings.  You'll find them on the archives page of their site. I'll highlight a couple of recent recordings.  First, Jenn Steele presented on ILTA Social Networking: ...

The New Classroom

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

ILTA's latest issue of Peer to Peer Magazine is out (and online). The issue theme is Green Initiatives, and includes a great article called The New Classroom, written by Gina Buser of Traveling Coaches. Gina reiterates what we've said here as well, that good training product is already green.  "One option ...

ILTA User Support Survey and White Paper Available

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

SLLP's very own Tony Hartsfield, Char LaMaire, and Donna Payne all appeared in the survey and white paper from the ILTA User Support Peer Group.  There's a few things to ponder, but for now, go read them.  Tony's article on alternative learning strategies is on page 5 of the white ...

Career 2.0 SP1: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

I had the privilege of presenting in webinar form one of the sessions I gave at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference last August. This session was in the Professional Development track. I was a little worried about how it would translate from an interactive, live presentation to a unidirectional ...

ILTA 08 Wrap Up: “That’s Right, You’re Not from Texas, but Texas Will Have You Anyway”

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I'm behind the legal blog curve on summaries of ILTA 08, but here goes: As usual, ILTA produced another great conference.  Most attendees look forward to the colloquy, including me.  The peer exchange, access to experts and vendors in the legal vertical, and just plain fun make it a worthwhile trip. The ...

ILTA 2008 – See You In Dallas

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

The ILTA conference is next week.  I hope to see many of you there.  The User Support Peer Group track is on Monday, with sessions for trainers, help desk, and user support staff.  Good stuff. Conference sessions are structured into a few mini-themes this year, including Office 2007.  I'll be hosting ...

Are You Online? Your Lawyers Are

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Social Networking on the Web is big in business circles, and the legal market has started to notice. I’ve read sources that suggesting as many as 50% of lawyers in US firms have online profiles on a variety of networking sites. The percentage will likely increase as new ...

Legal Trainer as Performance Consultant

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I had the privilege yesterday to host a webinar presented by ILTA. The title was From Trainer to Performance Consultant, and was presented by Char LeMaire from Traveling Coaches. Char has been researching this idea for some time now, and introduces a framework for transforming the legal training department into ...

Podcast: Train the Trainer with Susan Horiuchi – Part 3

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The last cast of my conversation with Susan Horiuchi has been posted on ILTA's website. Susan is the VP of Training at the Payne Group.  In this cast we talk about resources for legal trainers to improve their skills, along with some great research sites for information on Office 2007. Train the ...