Perhaps the biggest news out of the 2017 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference happened before it even started.

ILTA describes itself as a “volunteer led, staff managed association with a focus on premiership.”

ILTA is primarily made up of large law firms and better known legal technology vendors. At this year’s conference, for example, there were lots of legal professionals from well known and well heeled law firms, few legal start ups and few practicing lawyers.

A year ago, ILTA lost its Executive Director to retirement right before its annual Conference. In March of this year, Dan Liutikas was named Chief Executive Officer. Dan was formerly with CompTIA, also a trade association for the information technology industry. He has a reputation for innovation and decisiveness.

In one of his first public acts, on Friday, August 4, the virtual eve of this year’s conference, ILTA let go Peggy Wechsler, the Director of Programs and Strategic Relationships who was the primary organizer of the annual conferences since 1998.

To many, she was the face of the organization.
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I just returned from the International Legal Technology Convention in Las Vegas. ILTA is big law’s technology association; the conference is ILTA’s biggest of the year and attracts vendors and law firm IT professionals. It has keynotes and educational sessions and not a few networking parties.

This was my first time at ILTA and I wore 2 hats: one hat was that of a practicing lawyer, one of the few in attendance, a fact which, as I discussed in a recent Lawyerist post, makes little sense.Continue Reading What I Did on My Summer Vacation…. Tracking the TechLaw Crossroads