1. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning in Legal IT

2. Meet Your Presenters David Bustle, Director of Technology Buchalter Nemer Scott David, Senior Manager - Service Support Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP Bill Vance, Director of Information Services Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

3. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning During our planning meetings, we discussed a structured succession plan at Vorys. Could you tell us about that?

4. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning Does your firm have a formal mentoring program?

5. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning Do you offer training – either internal or external -- as a supplement to or instead of mentoring?

6. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning Have you ever looked outside the IT department but within your firm for a hire?

7. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning What are the characteristics you look for when promoting from within your firm?

8. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning How do you challenge your staff members who are happy where they are and aren’t looking to move up the ladder?

9. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning How do you handle the person who wants to move up the ladder but doesn’t have the characteristics needed or hasn’t learned the skills yet?

10. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning At what point in a potential manager’s growth path do you guide them to make the tech vs people choice?

11. Promoting from Within and Succession Planning What’s changed in the past five years in your hiring and/or retaining personnel due to the recession?

12. Your Presenters David Bustle, Director of Technology Buchalter Nemer dbustle@buchalter.com Scott David, Senior Manager - Service Support Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP scdavid@vorys.com Bill Vance, Director of Information Services Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP william.vance@pillsburylaw.com