Accolades to Authors
One of ILTA's most valued resources is our volunteer authors - knowledgeable and experienced legal professionals who come from the ranks of our member and vendor communities.  It's the wealth of educational content that comes from folks out in the trenches that is so valuable to our readers; and we are grateful to our authors for taking the extra time and effort to write down and share the information and experience they've acquired.

If you'd like to contribute an article to ILTA, we want to help you both in getting your idea approved and in ensuring that your piece is published in the best possible light.  It's truly a win-win proposition:  you and your firm or company get exposure to the most attentive audience in the world - and we get to publish articles that keep our readers informed, educated and coming back for more.

2010 Editorial Calendar

PEER TO PEER 
To have your article considered for publication, please send article ideas and pitches to Randi Mayes by the "Article Pitches" deadline.  We accept pitches for features as well as for any other part of the issue, including news items, products, profiles and others.

March - Risky Business
•    Information Governance, Regulations
•    Business Continuity
•    Security
•    Storage, Storage, Storage
•    Managing Lateral Hires/ Processing Departing Attorneys
This publication has closed out

June - Law Firm 2020
Articles Due April 15

September - Leadership
•    Conflict management
•    Critical thinking
•    Enhancing strategic planning skills
•    Managing “information overload”
•    Self-awareness and self- analysis to improve leadership
•    Team motivation techniques
Articles Due July 15

December - Training/Learning Best Practices and Future Trends
Articles Due October 15

WHITE PAPERS 
To have your article considered for publication, please send article ideas and pitches to Randi Mayes by the "Article Pitches" deadline.  Articles should be between 2,000 - 3,000 words and include a 75-word bio and complete contact information.


March - The Business of Law
•    Alternative fee arrangements: creative fee arrangements, fixed fee arrangements; how technology supports this initiative
•    Role of Business Analysts in Legal: business analysts working with data from the tools to direct the firm's strategic planning
•    Aligning the IT business model to the organization's strategic business goals
•    Automating business processes and workflows
Articles Due February 15

April - Microsoft
•    Cloud Computing
•    SharePoint
•    Microsoft Office 2010
•    Exchange 2010
•    Windows 7
This publication has closed out

June - Knowledge Management
•    White Paper to include survey analysis
•    Universal Search
This publication has closed out

July - Case/Matter Management
Articles Due May 31

September - Infrastructure Technologies
•    Unified Communications
•    Application Virtualization (The Next Law Firm Desktop)
Articles Due July 31

October - Project Management
Articles Due August 31

December - Practice Support
Articles Due October 31

Want to Write for ILTA?

STEP 1:  Send your article pitch.
To have your article, news item or other topic considered for publication, please send your pitch to Randi Mayes.

STEP 2:  Sign Author Agreement Letter.
If your pitch is accepted, we'll send an Author Agreement Letter that outlines what we provide and what we expect from you.  The letter will be attached to an e-mail message that will include your deadline, word count and other relevant information.

STEP 3:  Submit your finished article.
Send your article in before the deadline as a MS Word attachment to an e-mail message to Randi Mayes.  Please consider this your final draft.  You will have a chance to review the final layout, but we strongly discourage any substantive rewriting at this point.

Things to Remember as You Write

• Every submission should be an original work. We occasionally reprint an article previously published by the author - but only if fits our theme and audience.
• Start your article with strong concept or thesis.
• Consider including a short sidebar piece in your article, especially if you conduct an interview, want to include a list, or have other related information that doesn’t quite fit in article.
• Consider using subheads and bullet lists. These make good, "quick information" tools.
• Do not include footnotes, diagrams or images.
• Think education, not promotion. Do not spotlight specific products or companies; rather, write about challenges and solutions with technology or administrative procedures (we love case studies).
• Keep your audience in mind. This is an audience of your peers; please consider their knowledge as you write.
• Stick to the assigned word count.
• Craft a strong closing.
• Include an author bio of 50-75 words that includes your title, job responsibilities, company and complete contact information.
• You write, we'll edit. We reserve the right to edit the article to fit the ILTA publications’ style.

Any other questions?  Contact Randi Mayes or call her at (512) 795-4661.