2023 Ed Cal

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ILTA's 2023 Editorial Calendar

One of ILTA's most valued resources is our volunteer authors — knowledgeable and experienced professionals from our member and vendor communities. It's the wealth of educational content that comes from folks in the trenches that is so valuable to our readers; and we are grateful to our authors for sharing the information and experience they've acquired. If you'd like to contribute an article to ILTA, we want to help you get your idea approved and make sure your piece is published in the best possible light.

It's truly a win-win: You and your organization get exposure to the most attentive audience of legal technology professionals in the world, and we get to publish articles that keep our readers informed, educated and coming back for more.

the process for getting published

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Check out our editorial calendar below to see which upcoming publication theme seems like a good fit.
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Send an article pitch (a paragraph describing the intended article topic) using our idea form.
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If your pitch is accepted, please observe ILTA's publishing guidelines, deadlines and word count. Submit your final draft of the article by the deadline as a Word document. Include a brief bio (50 words) and a hi-res headshot.
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You write, we edit. Each article goes through an iterative editing process. ILTA reserves the right to edit an article to conform to our house style rules and flow well with other content in a publication.
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Approve the final layout, and sign the author agreement letter.

Peer to Peer Magazine

Our award-winning quarterly magazine is available to over 25,000 legal technology and business support professionals. Themes and topics are driven by member input and include thought-provoking features, case studies, interviews and more. Submissions for the ILTA quarterly magazine are open to the greater ILTA constituency and community.

SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE PITCH

It’s been a long few years, right? And, truthfully, a lot has changed. Tech has changed, our in-person collaboration and communication tools have changed. Back at it for 2023, ILTA looks to our members and partners to offer case studies and articles where they look back to 2020 and ahead to 2024 and dive into how their productivity, data, apps, software, hardware, and more have had to adapt to meet and navigate the changing legal-tech landscape.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN JANUARY 1 – JANUARY 30
PUBLISHING LATE MARCH 2023

Turn your Zoom background off blur and tell us where you are! This issue of Peer to Peer tackles the ongoing question of how, where, and why we work, for better or worse. Is it better to be in a distributed law firm? What is the law firm model of the Future? Articles sought for this issue should take aim at board rooms everywhere and talk about tech, tools, and accessibility in an ever-changing world.

….Is that a palm tree behind you?!

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN APRIL 1 - APRIL 30
PUBLISHING LATE JUNE 2023

Where should we start?! Data is everywhere, it is everything. And in this issue, we’ll tackle how you use it, why you should or should not find a new MSP, and why data will continue to be the talk of the town. For this issue, open to both business partners and members, case studies are welcome and should look at data as a larger part of the proverbial legal-tech bubble… show ILTA members and partners your tips and tricks for managing data, in all its forms!

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN JUNE 1 – JUNE 30
PUBLISHING LATE SEPTEMBER 2023

One more for the road… for the last issue of the year, we will look into 2024 and make predictions about what we may see in the coming year and how to plan for your firm and organization in ways to be both recession-proof and innovative. Charge forward: tell us how the world will look, legal tech wise at least, in 2025 or 2042. When will AI truly get off the ground and where in the world is #legaltechnology going next?

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN SEPTEMBER 1 – SEPTEMBER 30
PUBLISHING LATE DECEMBER 2023

White Papers

Created quarterly as digital issues, each set of White Papers will publish as a chaptered issue.

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The Quarter 1 2023 White Paper is open to any ILTAn in good standing. Topics for these quarterly White Papers range from Knowledge Management to Practice Management, to Lit Support, and more. Any topic in Legal Technology will be considered for inclusion. These White Papers open the first of every quarter and close one month later. Acceptance of formal submission begins the following week and each issue will publish once a quarter. You, your firm, organization, or Business Partnership may submit to more than one issue of ILTA’s White Papers per year.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN JANUARY 1 – JANUARY 30
PUBLISHING MID MARCH 2023

The Quarter 2 2023 White Paper is open to any ILTAn in good standing. Topics for these quarterly White Papers range from Knowledge Management to Practice Management, to Lit Support, and more. Any topic in Legal Technology will be considered for inclusion. These White Papers open the first of every quarter and close one month later. Acceptance of formal submission begins the following week and each issue will publish once a quarter. You, your firm, organization, or Business Partnership may submit to more than one issue of ILTA’s White Papers per year.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN APRIL 1 - APRIL 30
PUBLISHING MID JUNE 2023

The Quarter 3 2023 White Paper is open to any ILTAn in good standing. Topics for these quarterly White Papers range from Knowledge Management to Practice Management, to Lit Support, and more. Any topic in Legal Technology will be considered for inclusion. These White Papers open the first of every quarter and close one month later. Acceptance of formal submission begins the following week and each issue will publish once a quarter. You, your firm, organization, or Business Partnership may submit to more than one issue of ILTA’s White Papers per year.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN JULY 1 – JULY 30
PUBLISHING MID SEPTEMBER 2023

The Quarter 4 2023 White Paper is open to any ILTAn in good standing. Topics for these quarterly White Papers range from Knowledge Management to Practice Management, to Lit Support, and more. Any topic in Legal Technology will be considered for inclusion. These White Papers open the first of every quarter and close one month later. Acceptance of formal submission begins the following week and each issue will publish once a quarter. You, your firm, organization, or Business Partnership may submit to more than one issue of ILTA’s White Papers per year.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS OPEN OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 30
PUBLISHING MID DECEMBER 2023

Surveys

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Returning after several years, to much fanfare, the ILTA Salary and Staffing Survey will take a look back, reviewing historical salary trends in legal technology, while bringing new context to new functions and roles. This Survey will contain additional information on staffing and department organization, in relation to salaries.

OPENING LATE APRIL 2023
PUBLISHING JULY 2023

This highly anticipated annual report gives you a current snapshot and trending data of technology systems and processes used in law firms. Look for new trends and topics for 2023!

SURVEY OPENING Q1 2023
PUBLISHING AUGUST 2023

A first for the industry, this benchmarking report serves as an industry litmus: where we are, where we've come from, and how we, as a legal indutry, need to move forward and adapt... or risk a breach. It's no longer when a threat-actor will attack your data, it will happen, but how....

PUBLISHING JUNE 2023

The Litigation and Practice Support Survey has been a stalwart among the ILTA publications for years. Returning for another edition survey in 2023, this survey will address topics such as data analytics, information governance, the effect of technology-assisted review on ediscovery, litigation support for corporate legal departments, and much more.

SUBMISSIONS OPEN JUNE 2023
PUBLISHING EARLY NOVEMBER 2023

Publishing Guidelines

Every submission should be an original, educational piece. Do not spotlight specific products or companies; rather, write about challenges and solutions with technology or administrative procedures (we love case studies).

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 the article. Also consider using subheads and bullet lists.

Do not include footnotes, diagrams or images. Citations should be incorporated into the context of the article.

Keep your audience in mind. ILTA's readers are technology professionals in law firms and corporate legal departments. Consider their knowledge as you write.