You can’t help but wonder about Am Law 200 firms that significantly cut or eliminated IT and litigation support staff attendance at 2009′s LegalTech and ILTA conferences. The reasons varied, from "it wouldn’t look right" to "we just have to cut expenses everywhere."
In 2008, law firms sent 1,320 people to the ILTA conference in Dallas. Of those, 735 came from firms with more than 250 attorneys. In 2009, at a site near Washington, D.C. that for millions is a train ride away, law firm attend-ance dropped 47%, to 704 full-conference attendees. Firms with 250+ attorneys sent only 376 folks, a drop of nearly 50%. These numbers don’t include the attendees from corporate law departments, law schools, or government, with ILTA’s total attendance down 38% from 2008.
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