ILTA Voices

Join Mailise Johnson, Imare' Jordan, and their moderator, LaKeesha Bailey, for the second part of a three-part discussion about mentoring inside of law firms.

What does it mean to be neurodivergent in the legal world? How does it impact your day-to-day and beyond?

Find answers to these and more in this episode of ILTA Voices, brought to you by the Women Who Lead.

Join us for our newest podcast series, Hot Topics, posted weekly every Monday. We'll take you through the latest news in the Legal Tech and AI space to keep you up-to-date for the week ahead.

Interested in reading more on a certain story? We've got you covered—all of our sources are linked below:

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techstartups.com/2026/07/17/top-tech-news-today-july-17-2026-anthropic-apple-google-meta-moonshot-ai-nvidia-more

Join Jose Paulo Graciotti and Tommaso Ricci for a conversation all about the legal tech industry—where it is, where it's going, and what's next.

This ILTA Voices episode explored the growing role of frontier AI companies and major technology providers in the legal market, examining their impact and whether it matters. The discussion covered how large law firms, corporate legal departments, and legal tech vendors are being affected by evolving client expectations, AI-ready deliverables, and new partnership models.

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Recorded on 07-15-2026.

Join us for our newest podcast series, Hot Topics, posted weekly every Monday. We'll take you through the latest news in the Legal Tech and AI space to keep you up-to-date for the week ahead.

Interested in reading more on a certain story? We've got you covered—all of our sources are linked below:

https://techpp.com/2026/07/10/daily-brief-july-10-2026-chatgpt-work/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/meta-enters-the-crowded-ai-coding-battle-with-muse-spark-1-1/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/chinese-ai-models-costs-us-openai-anthropic.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/

https://legaltechnology.com/latest-news/

https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/

https://www.legaltechmonitor.com/

Legal professionals are increasingly using AI to build internal automations, workflow tools, and client-facing applications, often without the involvement of the IT or security departments. This episode examines what happens when "vibe coding" meets the legal environment: client data handled by code nobody fully understands, third-party dependencies nobody vetted, and compliance obligations nobody mapped.  Listeners will leave with practical tips for enabling AI-assisted code development without abandoning their duty of care.

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Recorded on 07-08-2026.

Join Ravan Roddy and Barbara Darby as they explore Ravan's experiences in the role, points of pride, and hopes for what the committee will carry forward.

Brenda Albeno, GRC Manager at Loeb & Loeb, joined host Heather Morrow for the She Secures podcast to share her journey from IT operations into cybersecurity.

Her entry into the field began with an unexpected project: building a physical asset inventory from scratch after the firm had none. What she assumed would be a quick task turned into weeks of detective work, uncovering laptops stashed under beds, cribs, and even in bathrooms. The director of security was so impressed with both the outcome and her approach that he invited her to join the security team. Fifteen years later, she's still in the field.

Brenda is candid about the steep learning curve she faced, crediting late nights of self-study, her Security Plus certification, and the mentorship of her director, Mark Ewing Chao, as the pillars that carried her through. She describes him as someone who believed in her before she fully believed in herself.

Today, Brenda's passion is governance, risk, and compliance. Her days are a constant juggle of vendor assessments, client security questionnaires, policy reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with IT, legal, and leadership. She sees herself as a translator between technical teams and legal stakeholders, focused on building programs that people will actually follow, not just policies that look good on paper.

She closes with a message for women in and around the industry: she wishes more people, especially women, were exposed to cybersecurity earlier in their careers, so they could see just how many different paths the field has to offer.