Paul J. Unger is a 1994 graduate of Capital University Law School.  He is an attorney and founding member of HMU Consulting, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio.  Prior to forming HMU in February of 2000, Paul was Vice President of a Columbus-based technology consulting firm.  He spent five years at Clark, Perdue, Roberts & Scott Co., L.P.A., limiting his practice to civil litigation. 

Mr. Unger now specializes in litigation technology consulting, trial presentation, document and case management software, and legal-specific software training for law firms and legal departments throughout the Midwest.  Mr. Unger is a member of The American Society of Trial Consultants, the American Bar Association, the Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association.

Judge Herbert Dixon is co-chair of Judicial Division’s Court Technology Committee and Senior Judicial Advisor to William & Mary Law School’s Courtroom 21 Project, the world’s most technologically advanced trial and appellate courtroom. He is a member of the American Law Institute – American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Technology Advisory Panel and the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He is a former Chair of the National Conference of State Trial Judges.

Judge Dixon serves on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He is a former Presiding Judge of both the Civil Division and the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division of the court and was chair of the court’s electronic filing pilot project, which received national recognition for its success.

Judge Dixon received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University.

Reid F. Trautz is the director of the Practice & Professionalism Center for American Immigration Lawyers Association, where he provides ethics guidance and practice management information and consulting services to members to help them improve their businesses and the delivery of legal services to their clients. He is an active author and speaker on practice management solutions and innovations. His articles have appeared in Law Technology News, The Practical Lawyer, Law Practice Management, GP Solo, Washington Lawyer, and Law Practice Today, among others. He is also a frequent CLE presenter at the ABA Techshow and legal conferences nationwide. Reid is an active member of the ABA, currently serving on the Council of the Law Practice Management Publishing Board, and as a member of the GP Solo and Small Firm Division Technology Board. He is admitted to the bars of Minnesota, Virginia, District of Columbia, and the U.S Supreme Court.

Browning E. Marean is a partner in DLA Piper's San Diego office, and is one of the worldwide leaders of the firm's e-discovery task force. He advises firm clients about best practices for the preservation of electronic data to avoid litigation risk and to meet the other challenges of e-discovery in a cost effective manner. He is co-chair of the firm's Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group and is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Marean also specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters, knowledge management and professional responsibility. Mr. Marean is a nationally known teacher and lecturer on various topics including computer technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management, e-discovery, knowledge management, risk and decision analysis and legal ethics issues. Mr. Marean joined the firm (then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of DLA Piper's Technology Committee, as well as a member of the Sedona Conference. He also is on the San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Committee and an emeritus member of the California State Bar Law Practice Management Committee. Mr. Marean is Co-author of "Electronic Discovery and Records Management Guide, Rules, Checklists and Forms" 2008 Edition published by Thomson West, and "Conducting Discovery in an Electronic World: Electronic Data and Discovery" published in California Civil Discovery Practice. Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He is admitted to practice in California and Texas.

Mr. Dominic Jaar is a member of the Quebec Bar and works at Ledjit Consulting as an e-discovery and information management consultant for corporations and law firms. Prior to that, he practiced as commercial litigation counsel in Bell Canada’s legal department and worked at Borden Ladner Gervais in the commercial litigation group. He graduated in civil law from Laval University after studying Common Law at the University of Western Ontario and, International and European Law at the University of Aix-Marseille III. Mr. Jaar specializes in technology related matters. Mr. Jaar has written and lectured on different aspects of information management and litigation, mainly regarding e-discovery, and the use of experts and technologies to manage litigation. (claimid.com/dominicjaar). He is a member of The Sedona Conference working groups 1, 6 and 7. He is a member of the editorial board of working group 7 (Sedona Canada) and was in charge of preparing the French version of the Sedona Canada Principles. He co-presides the Technology Advisory Committee of the Montreal Bar, he is on the executive board of the Canadian IT Law Association and preside the Law Practice Management and Technology Committee of the Canadian Bar Association. He is the founder and principal organizer of Leg@l.IT, Canada’s conference on IT and the law. Finally, he is a blawger and posts about different legal issues involving technologies, mainly e-discovery, on a weekly basis. He also participates to a collaborative blawg which deals with legal research and technologies.

Ben M. Schorr is a technologist and Chief Executive Officer for Roland Schorr & Tower a professional consulting firm headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. In that capacity he consults with a wide variety of organizations including many law firms. He is frequently sought as a writer, teacher and speaker for groups as diverse as the Hawaii Visitor and Convention Bureau and the American Bar Association. Almost 10 years ago Microsoft named him as an MVP in their Outlook product group and he has been supporting Outlook, Exchange and most recently OneNote ever since. Prior to co-founding Roland Schorr, Schorr was the Director of Information Services for Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, a large Honolulu law firm, for almost 8 years. Schorr was a contributing author for "Using Microsoft Office 2000" by Que and has been a technical editor or contributor on a number of other books over the years. For several years he has been half of the "Ask the Exchange Pros" team for Windows Server System magazine. He is the author of the forthcoming "Microsoft Outlook 2007 for Lawyers" which is being published by the American Bar Association. In October of 2005 Schorr was named by the Pacific Technology Foundation as one of the Top 50 Technology Leaders in Hawaii. He's a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Computer Society, the American Bar Association and the United States Naval Institute. In his free time Schorr enjoys coaching football, running marathons, reading, playing softball, ocean kayaking and has completed the Tinman triathlon 3 times. He lives in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. You can reach him at bens@rolandschorr.com.

Brett Burney focuses his time on bridging the chasm between the legal and technology frontiers of electronic discovery. Prior to establishing Burney Consultants LLC, Brett spent over 5 years at the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP where he worked with litigation teams in building document databases, counseling on electronic discovery issues, and supporting them at trial. Brett is a frequent contributor to Law.com, Law Technology News, LLRX.com and the ABA GPSOLO magazine. You can visit his Website and his blog. You can email him at burney@burneyconsultants.com.