ADERANT Peer Group Track 
Chaired by David Smith of Ford & Harrison LLP
The ADERANT Track provides information on the expanding suite of ADERANT Expert product offerings, software upgrades and corporate information from both a financial and technical perspective. We strive to provide a mixture of experience and information from our member firms as well as ADERANT “experts.” Join us to share your experiences with peers and the ADERANT team.

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APPLICATIONS Track
Chaired by Tony Hartsfield of Bryan Cave LLP
Join us in learning new ways of using and managing standard enterprise-wide applications in the legal industry.  We’ll examine the capabilities and competitive advantages of practice-area applications, while providing insights into the evaluation, deployment, cost-effective use and management of application software in your organization. We also focus on emerging and innovative technologies utilized by law firms/departments and clients.

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AUTONOMY iMANAGE Peer Group Track
Chaired by Pat Morris of Torys LLP
The Autonomy iManage Peer Group focuses on how organizations can leverage and maximize value from their investment in Autonomy iManage products. Autonomy iManage has a suite of products that enable firms and law departments to organize, find and govern their content. These products include technology for managing electronic files, e-mail, documents, records, enterprise searching and e-discovery.

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BUSINESS STRATEGY Track
Chaired by John Alber of Bryan Cave and Thomas Gaines of King & Spalding LLP
The Business Strategy Track examines how law firm business strategies and technology strategies can be aligned to better enable firms to compete in the global legal marketplace. Sessions focus on maximizing the value of technology services as they relate to the practice and to clients. We pay particular attention to delivering value in difficult economic times and reference, wherever possible, the Association of Corporate Counsel's Value Challenge as a framework for analysis.

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ENTERPRISE 2.0
Chaired by Sean Luman of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
The Enterprise 2.0 track focuses on technologies that alleviate the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools by providing seamless access to information through the use of these emerging technologies. Enterprise 2.0 is gaining significant traction in our profession due to its flexibility, functionality and reduced resource requirements (manpower, software and hardware costs). Sessions cover social networking software, Internet applications, cloud computing, software as a service, federated search technologies, wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, folksonomies, RSS, mashups and data presentation trends/technologies. Hear from industry-leading peers and vendors how Enterprise 2.0 is changing the way legal is approaching business computing.  Learn how to gain a competitive advantage by capitalizing on the collective intelligence available to you via interconnected applications, services and devices.

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EXECUTIVE Track
Chaired by Vince Cordo of White & Case LLP
IT legal technology executives need to run IT as a successful business. They need to evaluate leading technologies to keep their organization competitive in a tight and tough market while maximizing the use of existing technologies to increase the value of services offered  to clients and  stakeholders.  The Executive track involves industry leaders who will discuss, contrast and compare their knowledge and experience on the central role of operational excellence, management from within an organization’s business strategy, creation of succession plans and the development of a leadership pipeline.  In keeping with our current economic challenges, sessions focus on approaches that integrate new technologies, processes and ideas while keeping an eye on the budget.  Come prepared to join in the lively discussions and share your own knowledge with your executive peers! 

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FINANCE Track
Chaired by Jennifer Zimmerman of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP
The Finance Track is designed to help your organization benefit from the latest financial management strategies and techniques. This track will help you gain the knowledge you need to meet the challenges of today’s economy. The sessions are future-oriented, focusing on providing value through deeper analysis and insight. Our finance systems no longer operate apart from the rest of our systems; the interdependencies are becoming more complex and the challenges are becoming more difficult to manage.  We address the expanding relationship between IT and finance and help provide you with ways to maximize the value of what each team brings to the table.  Through presentations by your peers, as well as knowledgeable vendors, you will have the opportunity learn more about existing and upcoming challenges and share ideas with your colleagues.

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ILTA U Track
Chaired by Ceyda Tocsoy of Torys; Assistants Sherwood Archibald and Drew Collier of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
In response to last year’s standing-room only ILTA U sessions, we’re expanding capacity and doubling session durations for all four days of conference.  Experience hands-on training on a host of hot topics, delivered by knowledgeable speakers with on-the-job experience.  You’ll be able to roll up your sleeves and apply all the classroom theory to test software, configurations, setups and more.

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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Track
Chaired by Rachelle Rennagel of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
The Information Management Track examines the transformation of legal information management, focusing on new opportunities and the challenges it has created. While we can create and access information with amazing facility, information overload has made it increasingly difficult to manage, store, analyze and summarize this wealth of data. In this track, we hear how legal organizations are addressing issues such as the continuing challenges in e-mail management contact relationship management, and enterprise content management. We explore creation and management aspects of workflow business automation, compliance requirements and the risks of mis-managing data.  We also address the intersection of records management and electronic discovery, the use of extranets and much more.

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INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGIES Peer Group Track
Chaired by Bob DuBois of Devine, Millimet & Branch, PA LLP
Legal technologists are constantly being asked to provide an abundance of services that affect the performance of their environments. These services create many challenges within the industry and among our end-users. Technologies such as VoIP, video (HD video), Storage Area Networks (SAN), virtualization, network intrusion prevention and detection, remote access and e-mail now have a significant impact on our networks and have rewritten traditional infrastructure requirements to expand well beyond "the network." Cross-team efforts are required to explore new capabilities, expanded services, and performance improvements.  Striking the proper mix of flexibility, Quality of Service and dependability are key to the team's success.  By partnering with vendors and relying on the experience of our peers, this track builds on existing platforms through presentations of new technologies, both mainstream and cutting edge.  We provide guidance and talking points for consideration when implementing sophisticated and complex new systems for the legal environment.

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IT OPERATIONS Track
Chaired by Eric Hunter of Bradford & Barthel, LLP
The IT Operations track focuses on a wide variety of issues facing firms of all sizes. We cover the latest trends in server virtualization and data center footprint implications, backup strategies, data management/storage, disaster recovery and more. We offer ideas on providing the best value for your organization by balancing new technology investments/advancements with existing gear.  We tackle some of the biggest fears, risks and obstacles of ensuring that your systems are ready for all the technology changes and challenges that lie ahead.

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Catherine Monte of Fox Rothschild, LLP
Sessions in the Knowledge Management Track cover practical, implementable tools and processes that support knowledge sharing and reuse.  We highlight real-world examples of these tools and processes, along with cultural and change management issues that must be addressed with any KM initiative. Given the economic climate, the focus of the track is to provide attendees specific ways to get the most value out of resources they already have in place. The goal of the session leaders is to create forums that give attendees pragmatic takeaways to help maximize the success of KM in your organization.

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LAW DEPARTMENT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Sally Letteri of United States Steel Corporation
The Law Department Track focuses on issues and concerns that face members of law department technology staffs in corporate, government or educational entities. We often find that a law department has different challenges from a law firm or that different solutions are prevalent for some of the same challenges, based on perspective and the interaction with the corporate IT organization. This track provides educational sessions and roundtable discussions to help tackle those challenges and develop ways to gain from the experiences shared with your colleagues.

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LEADERSHIP / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Track 
Chaired by Jim Bertotti of The U.S. Army Judge Advocate
This track examines what it means not only to lead, but also to be leading-edge. To attract and retain top-notch technology professionals, it’s not all about technical skills.  We need to develop their business, communication and leadership skills. Well-rounded employees provide your organization with the skill set needed to bring your technology offerings to the next level, allowing you to gain a competitive advantage while retaining valuable staff. Sessions will help you think outside the box, appreciate others for their skills and capitalize on the value of differences. We combine the value of self-study, training, experience and education to help you shape individuals and teams, making your organization "THE place to work".

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LITIGATION SUPPORT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Mary Pat Poteet of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
The Litigation Support Track covers a series of timely topics in our ever-evolving industry. We examine issues that affect the inner workings of litigation support, including, but not limited to, the tools we use, the strategies we employ and the considerations we must make throughout the litigation and e-discovery life cycle. Leverage the expertise of your peers to optimize the value of your services for your organization and its clients.

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MARKETING TECHNOLOGY Peer Group Track
Chaired by Kate Fontanella of Ropes & Gray LLP
Get on board and ride the rails with the InterAction Peer Group as we expand our service to include Marketing Technology. This year's stops include: experience management, data integration, managing the pitch/proposal process, educating attorneys and a lively panel discussion in the "club car."

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MICROSOFT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Kara Portwood of Armstrong Teasdale LLP
This year, the Microsoft Peer Group track looks to the future of Office, Exchange 14 and Office Collaboration Platform, as well as the Microsoft technology vision and the potential for legal.  We also provide beneficial information for legal organization in the midst of or preparing for Office 2007 deployment including the deployment tools available, lessons learned and best practices. Learn from industry specialists, as well as your peers, on how Microsoft technology is being used and its place in your future.

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MOBILE, REMOTE AND WIRELESS Peer Group Track
Chaired by Eric Anderson of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
If you want the latest and greatest on mobile devices, services, wireless networks, remote access and more, this is the place for you. This track focuses on the technologies involved in the worlds of mobile, remote and wireless computing. Learn how other ILTA members are utilizing these varied technologies to advance their firms and what it takes to manage and support them. We’ll present the value of new hardware and software offerings from different vendors in these spaces and ways to move technology forward with minimal impact on your budget.

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Peer Group Track
Chaired by Mark Manoukian of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter
Good, fast and cheap! Dream the impossible dream with best-of-breed software courtesy of your friends, neighbors and vendors in the open source community. Open source is the secret ingredient in many of the technologies that we use today in legal, and you are using open source software, whether you realize it or not. We show you how to effectively expand your use of open source software to achieve better, faster and cheaper results.

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OPEN TEXT, INC. Peer Group Track
Chaired by Rhonda Lewis of Balch & Bingham LLP 
Gain a better understanding of how the Open Text suite of products, including eDOCS DM, Legal Information Management and LegalKEY, can support your organization, people, processes and content. Hear about new product offerings, the company technology roadmap and migration strategies. Learn through customer case studies by dealing with migrations and integrated products, and share experiences with your peers and the Open Text team.

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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Peer Group Track
Chaired by George Rudoy of Shearman & Sterling LLP
Does your responsibility include everything the practice touches including technology, business development and client consulting? Do you start by identifying client needs within the evolving socioeconomic context to develop a practice strategy? Have you found that your job is getting bigger as you piece together the risk assessments, tactical components of technology, operations and client outreach?  And then, of course, there's the added requirement of continually challenging the everyday and considering the new. The demands of running a versatile yet profitable business within your firm bring new challenges every day.  Join your peers and thought-leaders from around the globe to identify trends in practice management and share ideas for keeping your practice offerings and client service current in a rapidly-changing world.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Kate Cain of Winston & Strawn LLP
Project management can be a stabilizing force in a world of constantly changing technology, constricting budgets, limited resources and conflicting priorities.  The pressure to "do more with less" requires creative thinking, careful planning and precise execution.  Whatever the size and scope of your technology initiatives, solid project management can be the difference between "smooth sailing" and a case study in disaster.  The Project Management Track is focused on applying best practices, tools and technologies and leveraging the real-world experience of your peers.  Sessions offer a combination of case studies, hands-on activities and lively discussions to expand your thinking about the discipline of project management and how to apply it to your part of the world.

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RECORDS MANAGEMENT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Charlene Wacenske of Morrison & Foerster LLP
How does records bring value to your organization? The Records Management Track focuses on optimizing the relationship between records and IT and streamlining processes that best integrate the work between these two areas. The track provides practical "how to" examples from successful records management programs of all sizes. With an increasing emphasis on doing more with less, the sessions focus on using technology to increase the efficiency of your Records Management.

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RISK MANAGEMENT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Adam Hansen of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
The Risk Management Peer Group is excited to deliver sessions ranging from conflicts best-practices to the strategic placement of the risk management function(s) in legal organizations of all sizes, shapes, operating models and geographic presence. Those in the risk management arena cannot afford to miss these sessions!  Industry experts will present practical guidance that you can take back to your organization.  Presentations are supported by fresh, timely research, identifying emergent trends in legal-specific risk management practices.  We show the value of focusing on risk issues versus the true cost of not doing so.

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THOMSON ELITE Peer Group Track
Chaired by Dick Jensen of Goodmans LLP
The Thomson Elite track focuses on the ever-increasing suite of products by Thomson Elite. We offer sessions targeted to both financial and technical individuals, from the beginner to the advanced user.  Speakers include experts from Elite and the Elite user community, as they share their cutting edge stories and hands-on experience of how they have maximized and integrated their systems.

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USER SUPPORT Peer Group Track
Chaired by Honora Wade of Perkins Coie
Even in strong economic times, user support and training often have less tangible resources (budget, manpower, etc.) than other areas of IT. In our lean economy, maximizing IT's support value to the organization becomes critical. Our "Training on the Cheap" session will provide hands-on, practical ideas and resources for maintaining a robust training program when budgets are evaporating. "Engaging Your Audience: Creating Persuasive Training and Presentations" will transform university research on the psychology of persuasion into specific steps to improve the effectiveness of your presentations. We then turn to application challenges for our final two sessions: (1) a panel of participants from various firm sizes who have completed their transition to Office 2007 share their successes, challenges and insights from the upgrade trenches; and (2) one of our famous application shoot-outs, this time focused on template/macro packages.

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