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The Honorable Arthur M. Monty Ahalt was appointed to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland on February 9, 1982. Judge Ahalt retired from the bench on September 17, 1999 at the end of his term and commenced a career as an ADR neutral and technology innovator. He has been recalled as a Judge by the Court of Appeals to sit on specially assigned cases. As Chairman of the Court's Technology Committee, Judge Ahalt was the Court's Chief of Information Technology. He was responsible for organizing the Court's National electronic filing pilot entitled JusticeLINK in 1996. www.justicelink.com. This pilot represented the first comprehensive effort nationally to file pleadings electronically and to organize the Court's information electronically so that it is available to the public through electronic communications. He has served as Chief Industry Advisor for Lexis Nexis CourtLink. LexisNexis CourtLink provides electronic public access and electronic filing to the nation’s courts. www.courtlink.com. Judge Ahalt is CEO of VirtualCourthouse LLC a company he founded which facilitates the resolution of disputes using Internet technologies. www.virtualcourthouse.com .

Judge Ahalt is an internationally recognized advocate, lecturer, and presenter of technology programs. He has made presentations to the Conference of Chief Justices, The Conference of State Court Administrators, and CTC6 the Technology Conference sponsored by the National Center for State Courts, The American Bar Association's Tech Show, The Maryland Bar Association's Tech Show and the Connecticut Bar Association's Tech Show. He has appeared as a feature speaker on the WorldNet Dialogue Broadcast, a television satellite program of the United States Information Agency. He has also made presentations to international groups from: Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Dominican Republic, England, Holland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Venezuela. He is on the faculty of the Institute for Court Management-National Center for State Courts where he has conducted seminars on electronic filing, electronic public access to the courts and public policy considerations of electronic public access.

Judge Ahalt has published numerous technology articles which are published on www.montyahalt.com. For additional biographical information see - http://www.montyahalt.com/about.htm

Christina Ayiotis, Esq., Corporate Records Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton, leads the Booz Allen Integrated Records and Information Management program.  She has worked in 30 countries in the areas of international business development, infrastructure finance and global knowledge management.  She speaks nationally on the topics of e-discovery, records and information management and collaboration.  When she actively practiced law, she was involved in toxic tort and insurance coverage litigation.  She is currently licensed with the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.  She is admitted before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Court of International Trade.  She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Fairfax Bar Association (Law-Related Education Committee; Chair, Technology Committee) and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Co-Chair, Working Parents Forum).  She volunteers in a leadership capacity for ARMA International, serving on its 2008 Las Vegas Program Committees, its E-Discovery Advisory Group and as Vice President of its Northern Virginia Chapter (ARMA NOVA).  She received her BS in Biology/BA in Philosophy magna cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University and her JD from Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary.  She is the proud mother of one daughter and active in the Churchill Road PTA.

Craig Ball, of Austin is a Board Certified Texas trial lawyer and an accredited computer forensics expert, who’s dedicated his career to teaching the bench and bar about forensic technology and trial tactics.  Craig hung up his trial lawyer spurs to till the soils of justice as a court-appointed special master and consultant in electronic evidence, as well as publishing and lecturing on computer forensics, emerging technologies, digital persuasion and electronic discovery.  Fortunate to supervise, consult on or serve as Special Master in connection with some of the world’s largest electronic discovery projects and most prominent cases, Craig  also values his role as an instructor in computer forensics to the Department of Justice and other law enforcement and security agencies.

 Craig Ball is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs throughout the United States, having delivered over 450 presentations and papers.  Craig’s articles on forensic technology and electronic discovery frequently appear in the national media, including in American Bar Association, ATLA and American Lawyer Media print and online publications.  He also writes a multi-award winning monthly column on computer forensics and e-discovery for Law Technology News called "Ball in your Court."  Rated AV by Martindale Hubbell and named as one of the Best Lawyers in America and a Texas Superlawyer, Craig is a recipient of the Presidents' Award, the State Bar of Texas’ most esteemed recognition of service to the profession.

Craig’s been married to a trial lawyer for 21 years.  He and Diana have two delightful teenagers and share a passion for world travel, cruising and computing.

Theodore L. Banks (Ted) is Chief Counsel & Director, Compliance Policy at Kraft Foods in Northfield, Illinois, whose responsibility also includes records management, antitrust, and supervision of computer applications used in the Law & Compliance Department.

Throughout his 30-year career, Ted has also directed many substantial corporate transactions and litigated cases.  He supervised the $19 billion acquisition of Nabisco by Kraft, and the $8.7 billion IPO of Kraft Foods Inc.  He successfully coordinated the defense of the antitrust challenge by the State of New York to Kraft's acquisition of the Shredded Wheat cereal business through a full trial on the merits. 

Even before there were PCs, Ted helped develop computer applications used in the Kraft Law Department, with an emphasis on tools that helped serve clients.   In the corporate compliance area, he has focused on using adult learning techniques to make these efforts educationally effective.  He has taught hundreds of attorneys how to communicate the compliance message effectively through the use of video, audio, computer presentations, intranets, and computer-based training – and by making sure the audience has a little fun.

Ted has written numerous articles on antitrust and legal automation topics, and co-edited the Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook, published by Aspen in 2002.  His multi-volume treatise on distribution law, also published by Aspen, is now in its second edition.  He is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs, where he strives not to bore the attendees too much.

Monica Bay has been with ALM Media, Inc. for 22 years. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News and as author of the popular legal blogs, The Common Scold (www.thecommonscold.com) and EDD Update (www.eddupdate.com)

Her magazines have won awards for editorial excellence from the American Business Media (Neal finalist); the American Society of Business Publications Editors; the Trade Association Business Publications International; and Technolawyer. She has won additional journalism awards from the Associated Press, the American Bar Association and Sigma Delta Chi.

A frequent speaker, Ms. Bay has been quoted in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and Southwest Spirit magazine. She has contributed to American Bar Association books and magazines, including Law Practice Management, Student Lawyer, and Barrister.

Ms. Bay previously was based in San Francisco, where she was senior editor of ALM’s The Recorder newspaper and Counsel Connect online service. She is the editor of four ALM books, including The Price of Harassment: Rena Weeks v. Baker & McKenzie, and three guides to the California judiciary. Long active in cyberspace, she helped The Late Show with David Letterman establish its first website on America Online.

A member of the California bar and a rabid New York Yankees fan, she lives in New York City and Lakeville, Conn.

Steven J. Best is an attorney as well as a certified law office software consultant. With an educational background in law, accounting and economics, Steve consults with law firms throughout the United States on law office software as well as sophisticated practice management issues. Steve is a certified consultant on all of our software products. Steve is a graduate of Emory University School of Law and a member of the Florida and Georgia Bars. Steve is the CEO and principal trainer of Best Law Firm Solutions, Inc. He is also a certified consultant/trainer on several popular time/billing/accounting, case management, document management and document assembly software packages.

David J. Bilinsky is a Practice Management Consultant and the Practice Management Advisor for the Law Society of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and the Editor-in-Chief of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine.  He is now in his 2nd quarter century of practising law.

Dave's mission in life is to empower lawyers to anticipate the changes, realize the opportunities, face the challenges and embrace the expanding possibilities of the application of practice management concepts to the practice of law in innovative ways that provide service excellence.

Dave is a prolific writer on practice management and writes regularly for many publications in the USA and Canada. His articles have been reprinted across the globe and translated into several languages including French, Mandarin, Spanish and Portuguese.

Dave is the founder and current Chair of the Pacific Legal Technology Conference, a past Co-Chair of ABA TECHSHOW, and he has been active in an advisory role for other legal technology programs.

Dave's consulting services focus on enhancing law firm practice group profitability, strategic business planning and the application of technology to the practice of law.  Dave is a gifted international public speaker and has been called upon from Shanghai to New York City, from the Yukon to deep in the heart of Texas by law firms and legal associations to address personal productivity, technology, career satisfaction and leadership development.

You can read his blog at: www.thoughtfullaw.com and contact him at info@thoughtfullaw.com.

Toby Brown is a Client Relations Manager at Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P (www.fulbright.com). Toby’s primary objective is to provide marketing and technical support to the lawyers of the firm. In his marketing role, he develops and implements business and collateral strategies for various practice groups. In his technology role, he drives various knowledge management initiatives, including competitive intelligence, client relationship and firm expertise. Prior to joining Fulbright, Toby served as the Communications Director for the Utah State Bar (www.utahbar.org). In his tenure with the Bar, he also served as the CLE, Access to Justice and Programs Director.

Toby’s skills also allow him to provide consulting services on legal technology, legal marketing and law firm management to various bar associations, law firms and legal departments. He presents nationally on legal marketing, legal technology and law firm management topics. These presentations have been for bar associations, law firms, legal departments, law schools and paralegal programs. He has published numerous articles on these topics in various journals and publications as well. Toby has served on a number of legal service boards, bar association task forces and legal market organizations. He received the Peer Excellence Award, the President’s Award and the Anne Charles Award from the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE– www.nabenet.org). He was also the founding chair of the NABE IT Section. Toby received his BS and MS in Economics from the University of Utah.

Brett Burney is Principal of Burney Consultants LLC, and 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's Legal Technology Center, Law Technology News magazine, several ABA publications and writes a monthly legal technology column for LLRX.com. You can visit his Website at http://www.burneyconsultants.com and his blog at http://www.ediscoveryinfo.com. You can email him at burney@burneyconsultants.com.

Laura Calloway has served as the Director of the Alabama State Bar's Law Office Management Assistance Program since 1997. Before joining the State Bar to establish the program, she practiced law in Montgomery, Alabama, for 16 years as a solo practitioner and member of two small firms, concentrating her practice in residential real estate, collections, bankruptcy and family law. She is a graduate of Troy University, where she received a B.S. degree in Finance in 1976. She received her J.D. from the Jones Law Institute in December of 1980 and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in April of 1981. She is a former member of the Montgomery County Bar Association's Grievance Committee and a member of the American Bar Association, where she participates in the Law Practice Management Section and serves on the Section's Practice Management Advisor's committee. Beginning in March 2005 she will be coauthoring a regular column on financial issues for small firm practitioners in Practice Management.

Beth Chiaiese has been Foley & Lardner LLP’s National Director of Loss Prevention since 2001.  During her 28 year career, Ms. Chiaiese has worked as both a practitioner and as a consultant helping firms develop work processes and technology based on best practices in the areas of records management, conflicts of interest, new business processing, and risk management.   

Ms. Chiaiese is a frequent speaker, addressing national conferences such as the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society (ALAS).  She has also published articles and white papers for the National Law Journal, LawNet, and various ARMA publications.  Ms. Chiaiese is a co-author of Records Management in the Legal Environment, published by ARMA International in 2003, which extensively discusses the processes, technologies, and ethical concerns faced by law firm records and conflicts managers and administrators.  Ms. Chiaiese is currently a Director on the Board of ARMA International.  Ms. Chiaiese is a Certified Records Manager and holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences.

David Cohen is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of K&L Gates, where he co-chairs the firm’s e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (“e-DAT”) Practice Group.  A graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Cohen has over 20 years experience managing complex commercial litigation, focusing on document-intensive andtechnology-related issues.  He has been admitted to courts directly or pro hac vice in fourteen states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.  He obtained a landmark opinion in the Delta Funding case ordering 100% cost-shifting.  Mr. Cohen has authored many  articles and two book chapters focusing on litigation strategy and e-discovery issues, has served on and chaired several bar association committees related to litigation technology, serves on the Advisory Committee of the Georgetown Law Center e-Discovery Institute, and is a frequent presenter at CLE and in-house training programs nationwide.  He originated the “Scenes from an E-Discovery Case” vignettes used to train lawyers, paralegals, judges and mediators.  Mr. Cohen counsels numerous Fortune 500 and other companies on records management and e-Discovery issues. 

Judge Herbert Dixon is a former Chair of the National Conference of State Trial Judges.  He is co-chair of the ABA’s Judicial Division Court Technology Committee, Technology Columnist for The Judges’ Journal magazine, and Senior Judicial Advisor to William & Mary Law School’s Courtroom 21 Project.  Judge Dixon is a member of the American Law Institute – American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Technology Advisory Panel and the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. 

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. 

Nancy Duhon is a native of Lafayette, Louisiana. She attended Georgetown University and received her Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service along with a Certificate in Asian Studies in 1988. She then worked for a year at the Department of Labor on The Secretary’s Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency before becoming the office administrator for a solo/small law firm in Washington, DC for four years.

Ms. Duhon moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1993 to attend Emory University School of Law, graduating in 1996. She is admitted to practice in Georgia and Louisiana, and is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Atlanta Bar Association.

In 1994 (while still a law school student) Ms. Duhon began a technology consulting company which has provided assistance to law firms and other businesses throughout the United States. She is a Certified Consultant for Timeslips and Amicus Attorney. Ms. Duhon has been a regular CLE presenter at the Georgia Bar Annual Meeting, and the ABA TechShow. She served as a 2000-2001 Timeslips Certified Consultant Steering Committee Member, and has been selected as a Top Tier Technology Consultant by LawCommerce.com.

Carolyn Elefant is the principal attorney in her own firm, the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant in Washington D.C. (www.carolynelefant.com) founded in November 1993. Ms. Elefant’s practice focuses on civil and appellate litigation and energy regulatory and compliance/enforcement matters before courts and state and federal agencies. Elefant is co-founder of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC), the national trade association for marine renewables and is a recognized international expert on the law and regulation of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy.

In December 2002, Ms. Elefant created the acclaimed blog, MyShingle.com, the first blog devoted to issues related to solo and small firm practitioners. Ms. Elefant also co-blogs at American Law Media’s law.com Legal Blog Watch. Ms. Elefant is the author of the just released book, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be, (Decision Books 2008) which addresses why lawyers should consider starting a law firm and describes how to leverage technology to build and market a 21st century law practice.

1997 to present. United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of  Columbia.

1982‑1997. Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney=s Office for the District of  Columbia. Served in the Appellate and Civil Sections and then as Chief, Special Proceedings.  Responsible for civil and criminal litigation with particular responsibility for habeas corpus, pro se prisoner and mental health issues.

1973‑1982. Associate and then partner, Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker. Litigation practice with  particular emphasis on representation of Native American in land claims and water rights  litigation.

1969‑1973 Assistant District Attorney, New York County. Prosecutor in New York City, with  particular responsibility for organized crime and narcotic cases.

1982‑2006 Adjunct Professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center, Columbus School of  Law at Catholic University. Taught a course in Trial Advocacy and Practice

Professional Associations and Memberships: Fellow, American Bar Foundation; Master and  former President, William B. Bryant Inn of Court; former President, Indigent Civil Litigation  Fund; former President, the John Carroll Society;  former Editor in Chief, the Federal Courts Law  Review, the electronic law journal of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association;  Circuit  Director, the Federal Magistrate Judges Association

Publications: Sailing on Confused Seas: Privilege Waiver and the New Federal Rules of Civil  Procedure, 2006 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 7 (2006).

Bruce Springsteen and the Remnants of a Catholic Boyhood, 14 Widener L.J. 923 (2005).

Gatsby, Springsteen, and the Rich Young Man, 40 Catholic Lawyer 373 (2001).

Discovery: Faster and Shorter, a review of Discovery Problems and Their Solutions by Hon.  Paul W. Grimm, Charles S. Fax, and Paul Mark Sandler (Paperback) (American Bar Association  2005), 2005 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 7 (August 2005).

The Brave New World of Electronic Discovery, a review of Electronic Discovery: Law and  Practice by Adam I. Cohen and David J. Lender (Looseleaf) (Aspen Publishers, 2004), 2004 Fed.  Cts. L. Rev. 2 (Feb. 2004).

A Working Manual for Employment Lawyers, a review of Employment Evidence by Eugene K.  Hollander (James Publishing, Inc. 2003), 2003 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 3 (May 2003).

Education:

A.B. in history in honors cum laude, College of the Holy Cross

J.D. Georgetown University Law Center. Member, Board of Editors, Georgetown Law Journal 

Todd Flaming litigates complex cases involving patents and technology.  His clients have included some of the largest and most technically advanced companies in the world, including Boeing, C.R. Bard, Sun Chemical, Toshiba, Walgreens, Yahoo!, and Yamaha.  He was chosen for the 2008 Best Lawyers in America for Patent Litigation.  He has also represented cutting-edge startup companies, successfully trying and fighting challenging cases during early days of the Internet.   He is a partner with Chicago-based Schopf & Weiss LLP and an Adjunct Professor of Law at John Marshall School of Law, where he teaches courses on technology and law.  He is a well-known author and speaker, having written three books and the Illinois Bar Journal's technology column for a decade, and having been featured on NBC Nightly News.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of Illinois Legal Aid Online, a not-for-profit company aimed at using technology to enable underserved communities access to justice.  He is a 1993 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review and Law School Roundtable.  He received his Bachelor's degree from Loyola Marymount University in 1988, where he debated competitively and reached the semi-finals of the National Debate Tournament.

Debbie Foster is the founder and President of InTouch Legal based in Tampa Bay, FL. InTouch provides technology and management consulting services to law firms and legal departments throughout the US and the Caribbean. InTouch Legal provides support and training on the top legal software used in small to mid sized firms. Debbie has been working with law firms and legal departments since 1995, helping lawyers and legal support staff to achieve greater practice efficiency. InTouch also consults with law firms on management issues, compensation planning and building timekeeper incentive programs. Debbie speaks regularly to local and state bar associations and other professional organizations on wide range of topics, including implementing software in a law firm, general law practice management, and technology management. She is also the President of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants.

David Glynn is the Director of Research and Product Development for the Law Bulletin Publishing Company in Chicago. For fourteen years at Law Bulletin, Mr. Glynn has led the development and marketing of new technology products designed to benefit the legal community. Prior to joining Law Bulletin, Mr. Glynn was a legal administrator and for over 16 years maintained positions as law librarian, paralegal and docket supervisor in prestigious Chicago law firms. Mr. Glynn has substantial technology design experience and most recently led the team that launched the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Online located at http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com. Mr. Glynn has given presentations to many associations and companies including the American Bar Association, LegalTech, Association of Legal Administrators, Legal Marketing Association, National Association of Financial Crime Investigators, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, Illinois Certified Public Accountant Society and the Illinois Paralegal Association. Mr. Glynn has authored numerous articles about legal technology for legal publications and several special supplements to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and the Chicago Lawyer.

Judge Christina M. Habas was appointed to the Denver District Court in December, 2003 and is currently assigned to the Civil Division. She graduated from the University of Denver College of Law in 1982, and while in private practice, she represented various governmental entities, members of the law enforcement community, and also did significant work in employment law, civil rights law, insurance and personal injury.  She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and served as President of the Colorado Chapter in 2004. 

Judge Habas has taught with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy since 1991, and serves as Senior Faculty.  She has also been a presenter at the American Bar Association TechShow since 2005, and has been adjunct faculty with the University of Denver, teaching Advanced Trial Practice.  She has also lectured in the areas of Trial Advocacy, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Technology in the Courtroom, Employment Law, Jury Selection, Effective Motions Practice and Governmental Immunity to various groups.  

Adam Hansen currently holds the title of Manager of Information Security at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. In this role, he leads the team responsible managing risk of varying nature and scope across Firms’ 17 locations towards the protection of its business and nearly 2000 employees. His responsibilities currently include functions such as Information & System Security, Forensic & Investigative Services, Crisis Management including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Regulatory Compliance and Physical Security. Adam’s expertise is deep, broad and battle tested as a result of the 15+ years he has spent working as an employee and consultant. This experience was earned through efforts in organizations ranging in size from 5-35,000 employees with scope ranging from regional healthcare providers to national professional service companies as well as international fortune 500 financial entities. In addition to his current and past work efforts, Adam spends much time giving back to society through volunteer efforts and not-for-profit activities and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the FBI/InfraGard program and was recently appointed as the Chair of the Risk Management Peer Group in the International Legal Technology Association. Adam speaks frequently across the nation of a variety of risk related topics, enjoys researching emergent trends in risk management practices resulting in his numerous publications, has many certifications including the CISSP from ISC2 as well as from DRI, SANS, Microsoft and Cisco only to name a few. Finally, he holds a BS of Engineering from Purdue University and is in the process of concluding his MBA from Purdue as well.

Art Harrington is chair of the environmental and energy law practice group. He has more than twenty- five years of experience in environmental and more than ten years of experience in energy. He also has extensive experience in litigation relating to these practice areas and serves as mediator in environmental disputes, and has represented a number of municipalities. 

He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1972, and his Juris Doctor degree in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin. His academic honors include Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, and a member of the Wisconsin Law Review, where he also served as note and comment editor.

Barron K. Henley is an attorney, a "legal technologist" with 15 years of experience and a founding member of Henley March & Unger Consulting, Inc. He received his B.S./B.A. (marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University and is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. Mr. Henley is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and the Columbus Bar Association Law 2010 Committee. He's also a member and former Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Law Office Automation & Technology Committee. Mr. Henley is a Certified Consultant for Amicus Attorney® practice management software and a Certified Independent Consultant for HotDocs® document assembly software. Mr. Henley heads HMU's HotDocs document assembly and software training departments; and teaches CLE classes covering practice management, document management, file management, server and personal computer issues, remote access, mobile lawyering, scanning and imaging, legal paper reduction strategies, electronic case filing, Word, Excel, Outlook, WordPerfect, HotDocs document assembly, Adobe Acrobat, malpractice avoidance, and many other topics. Mr. Henley is a frequent Continuing Legal Education speaker on legal-specific technology issues throughout the U.S. for bar associations and CLE providers including the American, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo Bar Associations, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Michigan, Virginia CLE, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and many others.

Will Hornsby is counsel in the American Bar Association's Division for Legal Services, where he staffs the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. Will has written scores of articles on technology, law firm marketing and legal ethics for publications such as the National Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and the ABA Law Practice Management magazine. He authored the third edition of the ABA Law Practice Management Section book Marketing and Legal Ethics: The Boundaries of Promoting Legal Services and frequently speaks at bar association conferences.

Will is currently a chair of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Hearing Panel and an adjunct faculty member of the John Marshall Law School, where he teaches the first law school course on the professional responsibility of a technology-based law practice. In 2007, he was inducted as a fellow into the College of Law Practice Management.

Mr. Dominic Jaar is a member of the Quebec Bar and practices as commercial litigation counsel in Bell Canada’s legal department. Prior to that, Mr. Jaar 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. He has a particular interest in information management and e-discovery. Mr. Jaar has written and lectured on different aspects of litigation, mainly regarding the use of experts and technologies to manage complex litigation. Mr. Jaar is also a regular speaker at CLE conferences on E-discovery and information management (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 Sedona Canada principles. He is also in charge of the Canadian E-discovery Portal. He is a board member of the Montreal Young Bar Association and, as such, is in charge of organizing Leg@l.IT, a national conference on IT and the law. Finally, he is a blawger (dominicjaar.blogspot.com) and posts about different legal issues involving technologies, mainly e-discovery, on a weekly basis.  He also participates to a collaborative blawg (slaw.ca) which deals with legal research and technologies.

Nils Jensen is a senior litigator with the British Columbia Prosecution Service in Victoria BC.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law where he has taught evidence, trial and appellate advocacy.  He has also taught trial advocacy, criminal law and evidence in Canada’s first Inuit Law Program in Iqualuit, Nunavut.

He has been a frequent contributor to Continuing Legal Education courses, the Pacific Legal Technology Conference, Bar Admission courses and Royal Canadian Mounted Police training.

His innovative use of technology in the courtroom has gained him a reputation as a leader in the field.  He has used technology before judges and juries in cases ranging from impaired driving to major frauds and murder.

While seconded to the Court Services Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General in Victoria, he led the award winning expansion of the videoconference network, now used widely in British Columbia courts and correctional centres.  He was also the driving force behind the ground-breaking adjudication system used to resolve municipal bylaw disputes.  The project received a provincial Premier’s Award.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, and a Masters of Law from London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

He was has been an elected city alderman in Oak Bay, a suburb of Victoria since 1996.  For the past 8 years he has been chairman of the Regional Water Supply Commission.

Dennis Kennedy is a technology lawyer and legal technologist based in St. Louis, Missouri. A frequent speaker and an award-winning author with hundreds of publications, Dennis writes the legal technology column for the ABA Journal and his articles on legal technology and electronic discovery topics can be found in many print and Internet publications. His blog, DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/), is a highly-regarded resource on legal technology topics and was recently included as one of the ABA Journal's Top 100 Blawgs. He is the co-author, with Tom Mighell, of the book "The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies," to be published in the spring of 2008.

Dennis was named a Top 100 global legal technology leader in 2006 by London's CityTech magazine, and received awards as the 2001 TechnoLawyer of the Year and 2003 Contributor of the Year from TechnoLawyer.com for his role in promoting the use of technology in the practice of law. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section’s Council and is an editor and board member of the Law Practice Today webzine (http://www.lawpracticetoday.org). Dennis received his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1983 and B.A., magna cum laude, from Wabash College in 1983.

Britt Lorish Knuttgen is the President of Automated Horizons, Inc., a legal technology consulting firm which she founded in 2000.  She has extensive experience conducting training on legal specific software and specializes in tailoring custom technology solutions for law firms. She regularly speaks and writes on legal technology issues at the local, regional and national level.

Ms. Knuttgen is a Certified Solution Provider for Nuance products, including Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  She is also a President’s Circle Consultant for the Tabs3® and PracticeMaster® product line, providing assistance to firms in all aspects of legal accounting, time and billing, and practice management.  Additionally, Ms. Knuttgen is certified in Amicus Attorney, Worldox, LexisNexis Back Office Powered by PCLaw and LexisNexis HotDocs.  She regularly provides consulting, installation, customization and training for clients throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.

In January, Bill joined Bingham McCutchen LLP as the Sr. Applications Manager. He recently served as the Network Services Manager at Goodwin Procter LLP.  Bill and his team were responsible for all server hardware and operating systems, datacenter operations, network security, LAN/WLAN/WAN, messaging and other applications. Key projects include datacenter centralization and co-location, implementation of an MPLS WAN and server consolidation (predominately through virtualization). Prior to Goodwin he was with GBC in Northbrook, IL, and Matthew Bender & Co. in Albany, NY.

Carole is the President of Internet For Lawyers (IFL), an Internet research training company. She is co-author of two books: The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (published by the A.B.A's LPM section) and The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet (published by IFL Press) and has also authored numerous articles. She is a nationally recognized speaker who has presented at: the Annual meetings of the ABA and the California State Bar; ABA Tech Show; and hundreds of state and local bar associations, companies, and law firms over the past 9 years.

Carole practiced law in California and spent many years as a law librarian, focusing on online legal, investigative, and business research. Carole serves on the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section’s Executive Council and its Publishing Board. She is past chair of the California State Bar’s Law Practice Management and Technology Section’s Executive Board and is now a Special Advisor to the Board.

Adriana Linares of LawTech Partnersis a legal technology trainer based in Orlando, Florida. Until launching LawTech Partners, Adriana spent many years in the technology departments of two of Florida's largest law firms. She was charged with establishing firm-wide training programs and leading technology initiatives.

Today, Adriana travels the country delivering "tech therapy" sessions to firms of all shapes and sizes. Using her practical and personal approach to technology she helps law offices make the most of their technology investments. Throughout the year, she can be found speaking at conferences on topics such as productivity through technology, successful training techniques, law office software, mobility, and gadgets. She writes regularly for leading legal magazines and websites and hosts her own advice column on her blog, I ♥ Tech.

A Stetson University under-graduate, Adriana received a bachelors degree in Geography and later a Masters in Corporate Communication and Technology from Rollins College. Adriana speaks and trains in Spanish.

Past Legal Secretary turned consultant, Allan Mackenzie has trained legal and for support professionals in the U.S, Europe, The Middle East, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. Following a distinguished career as Lead Training Specialist for Microsoft Corporation’s Product Support Services division and Software Analyst for Wang Laboratories, Inc., Allan hung out his shingle as an independent consultant specializing in workflow automation for the legal community. Past editor for the Microsoft Knowledgebase, he continues to author and edit articles and technical books published worldwide. Most recently Allan has lead sessions for the American Bar Association, the International Legal Technology Association, the National Association of Legal Secretaries, the National Paralegal Association, the Association of Legal Administrators, and acted as advisor/instructor to the faculty at the University of Phoenix. Educated at Rutgers University, The University of North Texas and Microsoft University, Allan continues to teach and consult on the marriage of workflow and technology to law firms and legal departments across the country.

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.

A general practitioner in Montrose, Colorado, his practice focuses on real estate and business matters, transactions and litigation. He received his law degree from the University of Montana in 1986. He wrote the book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Adobe Acrobat, published by the American Bar Association. David writes and speaks frequently on the use of information technology in the practice of law.

 

 

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 and legal technology, and has published the Internet Legal Research Weekly newsletter since 2000 and the Internet research and technology blog Inter Alia (www.inter-alia.net) since 2002. Tom has been a member of the ABA s Law Practice Management Section since 2003, and has served on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board for four years and the LPM Section Council for two years. He currently serves as Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2008.

Tom is a co-author, along with Dennis Kennedy, of The Lawyer s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, soon to be published by the American Bar Association. He is also a co-author of the ABA s Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms, and is a regular contributor to Law Practice Magazine, Law Practice Today e-zine, and state and local bar publications. Tom received both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

John Montaña is a principal if the PelliGroup, formerly Cunningham and Montaña, Inc., a records and information management consulting firm based in Reston Virginia.  In this capacity he advises corporations, law firms and non-profit organizations on records and information management.  His work has included analysis and advice on a wide variety of records and information management issues, including records retention scheduling, advice on the legality of various information storage media, regulatory compliance, litigation and discovery, and other matters likely to impact information management considerations; as well as analysis, critique and modification of practices, policies and procedures, and retention schedules developed by others and start-to-finish development of records retention schedules, records management policies and procedures.  He is widely recognized as one of the foremost records management experts in the country.

Mr. Montaña has published three books on records management issues, as well as dozens of articles for magazines and professional journals, and is an active seminar speaker on records management topics.

He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver.

Ray Morgovan is a successful Project Manager providing expertise in training development, skills assessment, software training, and software upgrades to law firms and in-house legal departments.  Key engagements have been completed for Shartsis Friese LLP, San Francisco CA, Cades Schutte LLP, Honolulu HI, Fowler White Boggs Banker P.A., Tampa FL, Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo CA, Outrigger Enterprises, Honolulu HI, and Rackspace.com, San Antonio TX.

Previously, Mr. Morgovan was Director of Placement and Alumni Services for Heald Colleges, and produced annual educational conferences for Heald educators exploring different teaching modalities as they pertain to adult education.  Additional, Mr. Morgovan created the Heald Planner for Students©, a time management system assuring student success in school and beyond.

Bob Moss is currently Chair of the Law Practice Management Institute, Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Law Practice Management and Technology Committee, and a member of the CBA Continuing Legal Education Committee. He previously served as a member of the Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Technology.

A former civil litigator Bob Moss spent 23 years as a State District Judge in Dallas, Texas. In 1993 Moss became President of Advanced Paperless Technology Associates, Inc. a litigation technology and legal consulting firm. The same year he also became a Mediator for civil and family cases. Today Bob is semi-retired but continues to consult as a Legal Technologist on a part time basis and is the volunteer Practice Management Advisor for the Chicago Bar Association.

Ph B. - Psych Northwestern University
J.D. I.I.T.Chicago Kent College of Law
Licensed to practice in state and federal courts in Illinois and Texas.
Certification : Certified Document Imaging Architech - Computing Technology Industry Association

Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., is the President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a computer forensics and legal technology firm located in Fairfax, Virginia.  Ms. Nelson graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978 and has been in private practice ever since, now concentrating exclusively in electronic evidence law.  Ms. Nelson is a past President of the Fairfax Bar Association, a Director of the Fairfax Law Foundation and serves as  Chair of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Publishing Board and as a member of ARMA’s E-Discovery Advisory Group. She is also a graduate of Leadership Fairfax, is a past chair of the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW and serves on the Virginia State Bar governing Council, on its Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board and as Chair of the Virginia State Bar Technology in the Practice of Law Committee. She is a co-author of The Electronic Evidence and Discovery Handbook: Forms, Checklists and Guidelines (American Bar Association, 2006) and Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association, 2006). She is a frequent author and speaker on legal technology and electronic evidence throughout the country.

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He is a New England native who graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 with a BA in Political Science. After attending law school for one year at The University of Notre Dame, Tom returned to Baltimore and undertook a career as a paralegal specializing in complex litigation. His initial exposure to a document intensive case came several years later when he assisted several public interest firms in Boston with a class action voting rights suit brought on behalf of patients at state hospitals. Over the years he has worked on 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, trial presentation systems and, most recently, electronic discovery. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and is also a member of the advisory board of the national American Lawyer Media LegalTech conferences. He is also a member of the American Bar Foundation and the Governing Council of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA. 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. Sometime over the past 18 years, Tom also found time to return to law school and earn a law degree. He and his son, Seamus, the philosopher king of Bellingham WA, hope someday to have their own float in the Krewe of Tucks Mardi Gras parade in which they ride every year, down the Mississippi down in New Orleans, where Tom now resides.

Kevin O’Keefe is president and founder of LexBlog, the leading provider of professional marketing blogs to the legal profession ( www.lexblog.com).

Kevin was a trial lawyer for 17 years, successfully marketing his law firm via the Internet in such a positive way that USA Today said “If he isn't careful, he may wind up giving lawyers a good name.”

He founded Prairielaw.com, the leading online law community for consumers and small businesspeople, later acquired by LexisNexis and now incorporated into Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com. Kevin then served as a VP of Business Development of LexisNexis' Martindale-Hubbell.

As an attorney, he was a sustaining member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and a board member of his state's trial lawyers association.

Kevin’s blog, Real Lawyers Have Blogs (kevin.lexblog.com), is the leading source of information on the use of Blogs and RSS for the marketing of law firms.

Bruce A. Olson, is a shareholder in the Milwaukee based law firm of Davis & Kuelthau, S.C., working from its Milwaukee and Green Bay offices. He is a trial lawyer concentrating his trial practice in the areas of commercial litigation, employment litigation, personal injury litigation, product liability litigation, environmental litigation and insurance defense. He is AV rated in Martindale-Hubbell, and is a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist, having been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocates in 1997 and re-certified in 2002. He has tried over sixty jury trials to verdict in either the Federal District Courts or the Circuit Courts of Wisconsin, and has handled appeals, including oral argument, at the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Bruce is a co-author of "The Electronic Evidence and Discovery Handbook: Forms, Checklists and Guidelines" published by the Law Practice Managment Section of the American Bar Association.  Bruce is also a nationally recognized legal technologist focusing primarily on the areas of e-Discovery and litigation technology. He was the recipient of the prestigious "TechnoLawyer of the Year 2002", awarded by the TechnoLawyer Community. He was Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2004, and served on the TECHSHOW Board of Directors for a number of years. He has been a frequent speaker at the ABA TECHSHOW, and at various LegalTech presentations and State Bar sponsored presentations throughout the United States. He has published articles in Law Office Computing, Law Technology News, Law Firm Governance, and other national publications.  Bruce is also a member of the newly established e-Discovery Advisory Group (EDAG) of  ARMA International.  Prior to joining Davis & Kuelthau, S.C. Mr. Olson was President of ONLAW Trial Technologies, LLC, a legal technology consulting service and the managing member of Olson Law Group, LLC.  

Rick Patterson is the Director of Security for Sidley Austin LLP. He oversees the IT Security, Physical Security, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Programs.  Rick has a Master’s of Science from DePaul University in Computer, Network and Information Security and a Bachelors of Arts from California State University, Fullerton, in Criminal Justice.

Rick spent 8 years as a Special Agent with the US Secret Service specializing in Electronic Crime Investigations and Computer Forensics, and is a certified Forensic Examiner.  Rick was one of the founding members of the Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force.  Prior to the Secret Service, Rick spent 5 year as a Special Agent with the US Army Criminal Investigative Division managing their Financial Crimes Program for the Fort Lee Resident Agency, Richmond, VA.

Lara Pearson is the Leader of the Law Office of Lara Pearson, Ltd. (“LOLP”), which is located on the north east shore of Lake Tahoe.  LOLP is a socially and environmentally conscious law firm that focuses exclusively on intellectual property law.  LOLP handles issues involving trademarks, copyrights and rights of publicity and privacy, specifically,  IP registration, transfers, ownership disputes, infringement and litigation.  LOLP primarily serves three communities – the LOHAS community (those living Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), the Tahoe regional community, and the live music community.  LOLP is a member of Co-Op America and 1% for the Planet, for which Lara serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors.  Lara also serves on the Advisory Board of Rock the Earth.  LOLP donates legal services to several non-profit organizations, including 1% for the Planet, Rock the Earth, Conservation Value, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and HeadCount.

Attorney Nerino Petro is the Practice Management Advisor for the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Practice411™ Law Office Management Assistance Program. The mission of Practice411™ is to help attorneys operate their offices more effectively and efficiently. Licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin, Mr. Petro uses his 16 years of legal practice experience and 12 years of experience being CEO/Senior Legal Technologist for CenCom Legal Technologies which he founded in 1994, to help Wisconsin lawyers and their staff deal with the practice management issues facing them.

He is a member of the ABA GP, Solo and Small Firm Division Technology Committee and serves on the GP|Solo Magazine Technology & Practice Guide Board. Mr. Petro is the ABA LPM Magazine Product Watch columnist as well as being a regular contributor to local, state and national publications. He provides information on legal technology, practice management and items of interest to lawyers on his blawg at www.compujurist.com .

Bio Dan Pinnington (dan.pinnington@lawpro.ca) is Director, practicePRO at the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO) in Toronto (www.lawpro.ca). practicePRO (www.practicepro.ca) is 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.

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 Falls area law firm. He has advanced technology skills, and for several years also held the Manager of Information Systems position at his firm.

Dan is a prolific writer and speaker on risk management, technology and law practice management issues. He is a veteran of hundreds of presentations at CLE programs and conferences all over North America.

Dan is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.

Dan is very active in the ABA's Law Practice Management Section. He was Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007 and writes a monthly column for the Section’s Law Practice Magazine. One of those columns won the 2007 Edge Award for Best Regular Column. He Editor-in-Chief of the Law Practice Today Webzine (www.lawpracticetoday.org), and a member of the Practice Management Advisors Task Force. He has contributed chapters to several books published by the ABA LPM Section.

Through a variety of roles Dan has and continues to actively participate in the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations. He is currently a Member at Large on the CBA’s National Sections Council and is NSC Liaison to the CBA CLE Committee. He is a Past Chair of the CBA’s Law Practice Management and Technology Section, and remains on the executive. He sits on sits on the OBA’s Main CLE Committee, is on the executives of the OBA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice and LPM Sections, and is a past Chair of the OBA Technology Committee.

Dan is very busy at home as well as he and his wife Elizabeth have 5 children under the age of eleven.

Catherine Sanders Reach has provided practice technology assistance for lawyers for seven years with the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center and currently serves as its Director.  Ms. Reach has a masters' degree in library and information science from the University of Alabama. She has written articles for local and national legal publications, co-authors a blog called Site-tation, and has given presentations on the use of technology in law  practice across the country. She is currently serving on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board for 2008 and on the editorial advisory board for Law Technology News and Law.com’s LegalTech.

Jeffrey E. Richardson is a partner in the New Orleans office of Adams and Reese, LLP, a firm with almost 300 attorneys in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.  He has served on the firm’s Technology Committee for many years and has been very involved with his firm’s disaster recovery planning, both before and after Katrina.  He is also the Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Technology Committee.

Mr. Richardson's practice areas include class action and complex litigation, products liability litigation, personal injury litigation, constitutional litigation and legal ethics. He has represented defendants in numerous complex cases involving allegations of product defects, fraud, discrimination and negligence. For example, when the city of New Orleans became the first municipality in the United States to sue the gun industry, Mr. Richardson played a leading role on the team that successfully defended the gun manufacturers, culminating in the Louisiana Supreme Court rejecting the lawsuit. Morial v. Smith & Wesson Corp., et al., 785 So. 2d 1 (La.), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 951 (2001). Additionally, Mr. Richardson has had the opportunity to serve as visiting in-house counsel for a Fortune 25 company in New York City, working on complex class action and tort cases in numerous jurisdictions. 

Mr. Richardson also has extensive experience defending clients in complex class action cases with multiple defendants. He has served as court-appointed Liaison Counsel for Defendants in several cases in Louisiana state and federal courts in which the plaintiffs have sought statewide and nationwide class certification. For example, in a proposed nationwide class action against the CCA treated wood industry, Mr. Richardson served as Liaison Counsel for Defendants and played a leading role on the defense team that defended removal of the litigation to federal court and defeated class certification. Ardoin v. Stine Lumber Co., et al., 298 F.Supp.2d 422 (W.D. La. 2003); Ardoin v. Stine Lumber Co., et al., 220 F.R.D. 459 (W.D. La. 2004).

Mr. Richardson is a New Orleans native. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Emory University, summa cum laude, and his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude. 

David G. Ries is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, where he practices in the areas of environmental, commercial and technology litigation. He has represented clients in a variety of technology cases and advised clients on a number of technology law issues including technology contracts, acceptable use policies, information security and privacy regulations, electronic records management, response to cyber crime, and electronic contracting. He received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1974 and his B.A. from Boston College in 1971.

Dave has frequently spoken and written on technology law issues for legal, academic and professional groups including the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Information Systems Security Association, Carnegie Mellon University and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He is a contributing author to Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association 2006) and a member of the ABA Information Security Committee.

Mark Rosch is the Vice-President of Internet For Lawyers (IFL), an Internet research training company. He is co-author of two books: The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (published by the A.B.A's LPM section) and The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet (published by IFL Press) and has also authored numerous articles. He is a nationally recognized speaker who has presented at: the Annual meetings of the ABA and the California State Bar; ABA Tech Show; and hundreds of state and local bar associations, companies, and law firms over the past 9 years.

As Vice President of IFL, Mark Rosch is the developer and manager of the company’s Web site. He is also the Editor of IFL’s newsletter. Mark writes and speaks about how to use the Internet for research and marketing, and also speaks on how the legal community can use technology. Mark serves on the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section’s Education Committee and is a member of the Association of Continuing Legal Education.

Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC.ORG) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He currently chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is the former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. He is editor of Privacy and Human Rights and The Privacy Law Sourcebook, and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove and Paul Schwartz) of Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing 2007). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the recipient of several awards including the  World Technology Award in Law. A tournament chess player, Marc won the 2007 Washington, DC Chess Championship.

Craig Roy has over (11) years of experience in the legal industry as a Director of I.T. overseeing help desk, network administration, computer training, application programming and analysis, litigation support and records management for Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. (125 attorney Central Florida firm).  He is a member of the firm’s Technology, Administrative, Records Retention and Health & Safety Committees.

Craig has been a contributor in the drafting and implementation of policies for electronic communication, business continuity, disaster recovery, backup, retention, archive and replication of the firm’s electronic and physical records, as well as the design and implementation of applications, systems and technology-based workflows to automate and reduce overhead on administrative tasks and fixed-fee legal work.  Craig has also been instrumental in the evolution of the litigation practice in the use of computer-based litigation support systems (hosted and in-house solutions) and as a technical liaison in the intricacies of eDiscovery for the firm.

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.

John W. Simek is the Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a legal technology and computer forensics firm located in Fairfax, Virginia. He is an EnCase Certified forensic technologist (EnCE) who is a frequent expert witness throughout the country. He currently provides information technology support to over 150 area law firms, legal entities and corporations. Mr. Simek holds a degree in engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA in finance from Saint Joseph's University.

Mr. Simek is the co-author of   The Electronic Evidence Handbook: Forms, Guidelines and Checklists ( ABA, 2006) and of Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms ( ABA, 2006). He is a frequent author and lecturer on legal technology and electronic evidence, and co-authors the Internet law and technology newsletter Bytes in Brief and the monthly “Hot Buttons” column in Law Practice Magazine.

Greg Siskind is a partner with Siskind Susser Bland and has been practicing immigration law since 1990. In 1994, he created www.visalaw.com , the first immigration law firm web site in the world and is the editor of Siskind’s Immigration Bulletin, a newsletter that is distributed to more than 40,000 subscribers each week. He was also the creator of the first law firm blog when his online journal debuted in 1997. Long known as an expert on Internet marketing, he has been interviewed on the subject by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post and National Public Radio. In 2000, he was recognized by Law Practice Magazine as one of five pioneers in law practice management and in 2003, his work on web sites led to his becoming the first immigration lawyer ever photographed for the cover of the Am erican Bar Association Journal. In 2007, he was inducted in to the College of Law Practice Management.

side from writing on law office technology, Greg has written books on immigration law and has drafted various laws that have been incorporated in to the Immigration and Nationality Act. He has been named for the last several years by Chambers and Partners as one of the top 25 immigration lawyers in the United States.

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