Adding extra value to attendees this year, we’ve added Super Sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning before the educational breakout sessions start.  Three speakers with unique and insightful messages were chosen, with ILTA sponsors covering the costs for each.

Tuesday Super Session – 8:00 a.m.
Gen Y @ Work: Maximizing the Performance of Gen Y Employees in Any Economy

80,000,000 members of Generation Y (born 1977 to 1995) are entering the workforce and/or reaching various stages of advancement. They adhere to a different set of workplace beliefs and priorities than the previous generations. Generation Y's attitude toward work can be difficult for the "other" generations to understand, presenting motivational challenges as well as difficulties in development and retention. In Gen Y @ Work, Jason Ryan Dorsey, The Gen Y Guy, cuts through the stereotypes to teach participants exactly what Generation Y covets at work, and why. He then reveals specific actions employers can adopt immediately to unlock the talent, loyalty, creativity and performance of this fast-emerging workforce.

Jason Dorsey - The Gen Y Guy, is a bestselling author of four books, acclaimed speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. A well-known generational expert, Jason has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Today Show, The View, and in Fortune Magazine. His talent is teaching business and organizational leaders creative and inexpensive ways to maximize Gen Y employee performance while leading all Four Generations in the workplace. For more information about Jason, click here. Sponsored by Altien.

Richard Susskind will discuss his view that the market for legal services will undergo great upheaval in the next few years and that information technology will play a central role in bringing about this change. He will start by explaining that in-house counsel will increasingly require 'more for less'. In response, he will argue there are only two workable strategies. The first is the efficiency strategy, which requires lawyers to cut the costs of legal service, not simply by reducing expenses on support staff and on the back office, but by finding new ways of sourcing legal work (such as off-shoring, outsourcing, computerizing, commoditizing, and more). The second is the collaboration strategy which involves clients, in a variety of ways, sharing the costs of legal services. He will show how both strategies will be underpinned by existing and rapidly emerging information technologies, and especially Web 2.0. He will conclude by considering the future for lawyers in a legal market largely underpinned by technology and the Internet.

Richard Susskind has specialized in legal technology for 25 years. He is an independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments. He lectures internationally and has been invited to speak in over 40 countries. He has written and edited numerous books, including Expert Systems in Law, The Future of Law, Transforming the Law, The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services and has written over 100 columns for The Times. He has advised on numerous government inquiries and, since 1998, has been IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England. In 2003, he was appointed by the Cabinet Office as Chair of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information. He holds law professorships at Gresham College in London and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. For more information about Richard, click here. Sponsored by LitSoft.

Thursday Super Session – 8:00 a.m.
CakeLove: Find Your Passion, Follow Your Calling

We are in a new era of corporate downsizing, rightsizing and off-boarding. Many of us live in fear of the next round of layoffs. How does one keep passion burning and dreams alive in these tough times? The lessons of Warren Brown's success are an inspiration. Like many entrepreneurs, Brown's journey took an unconventional path. He left his job as an attorney for the federal government to pursue his dream of baking cakes and thus began CakeLove. Passionate about cake and the happiness that it brings, his journey encompasses the highs and lows of any start-up business and provides practical tips for surviving and thriving in today's difficult business climate. Brown encourages everyone to direct themselves to greatness and find their own personal calling.

Warren Brown, owner of the Washington, D.C.-based CakeLove and the host of the Food Network's Sugar Rush, is an entrepreneurial icon. In 2006, he was named the Small Business Person of the Year by the Small Business Administration, and Washington Post readers have twice selected CakeLove as the D.C. area's best bakery. Beyond the Food Network and CakeLove, Warren has received much national exposure. He has written the cookbook CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch and this year, will release United Cakes of America. He has also been recognized in many media outlets, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, TODAY, People magazine, Black Enterprise and others. For more information about Warren, click here. Sponsored by Driven, Inc.