Craig Ball of Austin, Texas is an obscure Board Certified trial lawyer, certified computer forensic examiner and (some might too-boldly suggest) an electronic evidence expert. He has dedicated his unremarkable career to teaching the bench and bar about forensic technology and trial tactics. After decades meekly trying lawsuits, Craig now limits his no-great-shakes practice solely to serving as a court-appointed special master and consultant in computer forensics and electronic discovery, and to inconspicuously publishing and shyly lecturing on computer forensics, emerging technologies, digital persuasion and electronic discovery. Craig's oddly award-winning e-discovery column, "Ball in Your Court," appears in Law Technology News. Some of Craig's many other publications on electronic discovery can be found at his website, http://www.craigball.com. None are soon to be a major motion picture. Despite his retiring nature, Craig Ball has consulted or served as a testifying expert in computer forensics and electronic discovery in some of the most challenging and well-known cases in the U.S. (but that sounds more impressive than it was, and he really shouldn't get a big head about it). Inexplicably named as one of the Best Lawyers in America and (though he cannot fly or bend steel with his bare hands) a Texas Superlawyer, Craig is the almost-certainly-accidental recipient of the Presidents' Award, the State Bar of Texas' most esteemed recognition of service to the profession and of the Bar's Lifetime Achievement Award in Law and Technology.

Joseph L. Kashi practices law in Soldotna, Alaska. He has been active in legal automation areas for many years and has had various positions in the Law Practice Management Section. With Thomas Boedeker, he authors a regular legal automation column for Law Office Computing Magazine. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and his law degree from Georgetown University in 1976. He is admitted to practice before the Alaska Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit.

Dennis Kennedy is a well-known legal technology expert, technology lawyer and blogger. His blog and his web page are highly-regarded resources on technology law and legal technology topics. He is member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section's Council and Webzine Board.

Browning Marean is a litigation partner in DLA Piper's San Diego Downtown office. He specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters, professional responsibility, and knowledge management.

Browning is a nationally known teacher and lecturer on computer technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management, risk and decision analysis, legal ethics issues, e-discovery and knowledge management.

Browning is a member of DLA Piper's Technology Committee, and is an emeritus member of the California State Bar Law Practice Management Committee. He is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Committee and the Sedona Conference.

Tom Mighell is Senior Counsel and Litigation Technology Support Coordinator at Cowles & Thompson in Dallas, Texas.  He is a frequent speaker and writer on the Internet, e-discovery, and other legal technology issues.  He has published the Internet Legal Research Weekly newsletter since 2000, and the Internet research and legal technology weblog Inter Alia since 2002.  He is a co-author of   Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms, published by the ABA, and an upcoming book on collaboration technologies with Dennis Kennedy.  Tom will serve as Chair of the ABA TECHSHOW 2008 Planning Board, and currently serves on the ABA TECHSHOW 2007 Planning Board and Law Practice Management's Council.  He received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. Over the years he has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.

Tom's involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation and, over the past several years, has expanded to include electronic document depositories and trial presentation systems.

A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and currently teaches a course on legal technology in an ABA approved paralegal program at a local college. He has been on the planning board for the annual ABA TECHSHOW as well as the advisory board of the national LegalTech conferences. A prolific writer on the subject, with articles in numerous legal publications as well as being the Editor of several legal newsletters, Tom is also the author of The Automated Law Firm, a guide to computer systems and software published by Aspen Law & Business, now in its fourth edition and The Lawyers Guide to Summation, published by the ABA in the summer of 2004.

Dan Pinnington is the Director of practicePRO, an innovative claims prevention initiative that provides lawyers with tools and resources to assist them in avoiding malpractice claims and succeeding in the practice of law, at Lawyers' Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO) in Toronto. Dan has a LLB/JD from the Universities of Windsor and Detroit and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1993. Prior to joining LAWPRO Dan practiced for eight years in the Litigation Department of a Niagara area law firm.

Dan is a prolific writer and speaker on risk management, technology and law practice management issues. His articles regularly appear in LawPRO and other law-related publications. He is a veteran of hundreds of CLE presentations and he actively participates in the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations. Dan also very active in the ABA's Law Practice Management Section. He is Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007 and writes a monthly column for the ABA Law Practice Management Section's Law Practice Magazine. He has contributed chapters to several books published by the ABA LPM Section.

A litigator for 16 years, George Socha is President of Socha Consulting LLC, offering services as an electronic discovery expert witness, special master and advisor to corporations, law firms and their clients, and legal vertical market software and service providers in the areas of electronic discovery and automated litigation support. For five years, George has been co-author of the leading survey on the electronic discovery market, The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey. In 2005 he launched the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project; in 2006, the EDRM Metrics and XML projects; and in 2007, the EDRM Code of Conduct, Evergreen, Metrics 2 and XML 2 projects. George has a J.D. for Cornell Law School and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

John Tredennick spent more than 20 years as a nationally-recognized trial lawyer and litigation partner with Holland & Hart in Denver Colorado. One of the early pioneers in litigation technology, John published the ABA bestselling books Winning with Computers, Volumes 1 and 2 in 1990 and 1991. Since then he has authored two other book on litigation technology along with scores of articles and columns for the leading legal publications. He also regularly speaks at legal technology conferences around the world.

In 2000, John founded Catalyst Repository Systems (formerly CaseShare Systems). Catalyst provides secure, online repository systems to help professional teams manage large volumes of electronic documents and work together on complex legal,financial and insurance matters. A pioneer in the industry, Catalyst is used by many of the largest corporations and law firms in the world.

Sheri Jacobs, CAE, is the Managing Director at the Chicago office of McKinley Marketing, Inc. she is a frequent speaker and a contributor to various association magazines and publications and books. She is currently serving as the chairman of the American Society of Association Executives Membership Council and the managing editor of the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section's Law Technology Today and Law Practice Today webzines. Sheri earned her BA from Indiana University and was selected as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for the nonprofit management program at Roosevelt University.