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Woods is responsible for all e-discovery and forensic operations within the OGC at Raytheon. He is also a Six Sigma Expert and a member of the Sedona Conference WG1.
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J Abernethy
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| Systems Engineer |
mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.
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Pedro Acosta
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| Senior Systems/Network Engineer |
McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, L.L.C.
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Pedro has more than 10 years of experience in computer systems, client/server environments. He is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer, VMware Certified Professional and Citrix Engineer, with a focus on Disaster Recovery and Messaging (Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007), before focusing primarily in messaging and virtualization. Pedro's practice has included general consulting for Lockheed Martin IT and CGI Inc. He is part of the VMware Users Group for South Carolina, and Microsoft Exchange Users Group President for Columbia.
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John Alber
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| Strategic Technology Partner |
Bryan Cave, LLP
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John leads Bryan Cave's award-winning Client Technology group. That group develops innovative Web-based, client-facing decision support, training and client communication tools. It has also become widely known for developing leading-edge internal decision support, knowledge management and client intelligence systems for Bryan Cave.
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Andrea is responsible for strategic direction of knowledge management in Toronto, leading knowledge management initiatives and spearheading programs to capture and leverage intellectual capital. She oversees the Toronto Knowledge Management Team and leads the development and enhancement of the firm's extensive precedent and legal resources collection. Prior to becoming a knowledge management lawyer, Andrea practised corporate law with the firm for six years.
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Major General John Altenburg (USA, Retired) focuses his practice on contract litigation and international law. The scope of his practice includes corporate and governmental representation, both domestic and international, including multilateral development bank and federal agency debarment proceedings. General Altenburg served 28 years as a lawyer in the Army, where he represented the Army before Congress, numerous state and local governments, and in court in the United States and Germany. He advised, counseled, and negotiated at all levels within the Army, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice, frequently on matters of great interest to Members of Congress and the national media. He served as the Deputy Judge Advocate General for the Department of the Army from 1997 to 2001.
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Marie is responsible for planning and executing practice development initiatives and creating mechanisms to further enhance internal information sharing and knowledge management for business development purposes at the firm. Her role includes conducting in-depth research on clients, targets, industries, competition and the firm's complex transactions and matters used for all marketing materials. Marie is also the marketing department's main liaison among various service providers including for the firm's website and various research tools.
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Dan is a co-founder and Executive Vice President for SeeUnity. He brings more than 15 years of experience selling enterprise software solutions for enterprise content management, business process management and enterprise content integration. Prior to starting SeeUnity, Dan worked for Hummingbird National as an account manager and was consistently a top performer.
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Eric has over 20 years of managing law firm technology and has recently served as the Peer Group Vice President for the Mobile Remote & Wireless Peer Group. He has also served two years as a Conference Co-Chair (2006 and 2007) as well as three years as a Conference Track Chair and one year as a Volunteer City Representative for Chicago. Eric is currently serving as the Conference Liaison for the Board of Directors.
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Pat helps law firms address issues including client confidentiality, regulatory compliance and risk management. He currently co-chairs the United Kingdom's Confidentiality Working Group and chairs a regular series of peer risk discussion forums held periodically across the United States as part of the Law Firm Risk Roundtable program.
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Jerry Askew
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| Principal Consultant |
Askew Network Solutions
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Jerry is a recognized expert in legal technology. Askew Network Solutions works with firms with as few as 40 attorneys to those with as many as 3,000 attorneys. The Los Angeles-based company offers practical IT solutions that streamline time-consuming business processes, automate workflows and protect against breaches of internal confidentiality screens and ethical walls. Jerry is a frequent speaker and a published author on topics such as risk management, business process automation, network security and open source solutions.
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Peter is responsible for providing strategic technical direction to the firm and is part of the IT management team. Peter started his career at a software house developing "know-how" systems for law firms and has 20 years of IT experience.
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Bret has been serving the legal industry since 1990. He works with law firm management on strategic planning and operational topics. Bret assists with the design, planning and management of operational changes, and he assists clients with achieving sustainable cost controls, providing an effective infrastructure to support the organization, delivering on client case and budget management expectations and responding to the increased complexities of electronic billing and collections operations. Having worked with both law departments and law firms, Bret uniquely understands the intricacies of law firms and the demands of corporate clients.
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Tom helps assess technology tools that increase efficiency, streamline processes and improve productivity for Reed Smith's lawyers and clients. He was named 2005 Legal IT Innovator of the Year by the Legal IT Forum, and was featured on the cover of the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of Law Firm Inc. magazine. Tom was a member of the management team that won the CIO 100 Award in 2002 from CIO Magazine. He serves on the advisory boards of Law Technology News, Law.com, the Cal State Fullerton Knowledge Management Advisory Board and LexisNexis.
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Ash joined WilmerHale in 2008 and is responsible for Information Services, comprising knowledge and content management, library and research services, records management and information technology. He was previously the Global Chief Information Officer of EMI Music. Prior to that, Ash has served in senior management roles in telecommunications and consulting firms in Europe and the U.S.
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Thomas Barce
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| Assistant Director of Practice Support |
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
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With more than 11 years of experience, Tom offers expertise electronic discovery, document management and rapidly-evolving legal technology solutions. In his current role, he focuses on four primary disciplines: advising clients and attorneys early in the electronic discovery life cycle; managing vendor relationships and performance; managing department operations; and evaluating and implementing new strategic technologies.
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Monica Bay
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| Editor-in-Chief |
Law Technology News - Incisive Media
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Monica Bay is editor-in-chief of Law Technology News (www.lawtechnews.com); and author of The Common Scold (www.thecommonscold.com; and co-manager of EDD Update (www.eddupdate.com) blogs. Her monthly podcast, Law Technology Now, can be found at www.lawtechnologynow.com. A frequent speaker, she has been quoted in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and Southwest Spirit. She has won journalism awards from the Associated Press, American Business Media, the American Society of Business Publications Editors, the Trade Association Business Publications International, the American Bar Association, Technolawyer and Sigma Delta Chi. A member of the California bar and a rabid Yankees fan, she lives in New York City and Lakeville, Conn.
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Robert is responsible for the successful delivery of Intranet and Extranet portal solutions to all XMLAW clients. He is actively involved in day-to-day client work, particularly with Am Law 50 law firms focusing on portal visioning, strategy, needs assessment, requirements analysis and project planning. When appropriate, Robert provides technology expertise and leadership specifically around The Microsoft SharePoint Platform. Robert is a 10-year veteran in legal industry software and consulting companies. He has more than 17 years of information technology experience and has held positions with Interface Software, Inforte Corporation, and TTX Company.
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Maryanna Bell
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| Manager of IT Practice Application Services |
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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Maryanna began her law firm technology career in 1986 with the installation of her first LAN. In her current position, she manages outward facing projects and serves as an end-user advocate, giving voice to her firm's computer users and helping the IT department understand and address the concerns of those users. Maryanna is also a member of the Marketing Technology Peer Group Steering Committee and a speaker at ILTA webinars and conference sessions.
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Jane brings almost 15 years of hands-on experience in implementing collaborative client/outside counsel solutions. She is a subject matter expert in the creation and deployment of collaborative case management and e-billing solutions, specializing in global e-billing. Jane was the first employee hired by CT TyMetrix and served as its Director of Data Services. She was recently re-elected President of the LEDES Oversight Committee for the fourth time, with this current term expiring in 2012 and has been a member of the LOC Board since the organization was formed. She is the principal author of the LEDES XML E-Billing Version 2.0 (2006) and 2.1 formats (2008) intended to support global e-billing. In 2008 she led the team responsible for ILTA's E-Billing Survey of law firms and law departments, resulting in the most comprehensive analysis of legal e-billing to date.
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Gary Berger
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| Director, Technology |
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
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Gary Berger received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Western Kentucky University and his Masters of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He has over 28 years of experience in the area of information technology with over 20 years in a management capacity. Having worked as service managers for various companies, a research engineer for the American Printing House for the Blind, and in Director roles at Clemson University and Ryobi Power Tools, he is now serving in the capacity of IT Director for Ogletree Deakins where he has been for over 11 years.
His professional interests include organizational growth, security, systems development and integration, full life cycle service delivery, quality management, and process engineering.
His personal interests including reading (mostly philosophy and religion), personal awareness, and "tinkering".
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Brad specializes in corporate law departments, often focusing on the relationship between them and their outside service providers, and assists his clients in a wide range of activities from strategic planning to messaging to media relations. He is a frequent speaker and writer, often on the topic of how law departments can maximize the use of technology.
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Brad specializes in corporate law departments, often focusing on the relationship between them and their outside service providers, and assists his clients in a wide range of activities from strategic planning to messaging to media relations. He is a frequent speaker and writer, often on the topic of how law departments can maximize the use of technology.
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David specializes in energy regulation. He has served as chairman of the firm's technology committee and co-led firm initiatives on document retention policies and knowledge management.
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Brent Botta
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| Director of eDiscovery Solutions |
Guidance Software
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Brent is the eDiscovery Practice Leader for Guidance Software Inc. During his time with GSI, he has participated in almost all major eDiscovery matters from planning to actually processing data. Brent was the primary feature designer for GSI's eDiscovery Suite and still active on the future development of the product. In addition to these duties, he handles all third party eDiscovery partners and vendors. In the past, he has worked as a forensic examiner since 1997.
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Chris Boyd
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| Senior Director of Professional Services |
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC
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Chris leads the teams that recruit, develop and retain the WSGR's attorneys. He worked as a corporate attorney at WSGR, representing technology companies at all stages of development. After deciding to leave the practice of law, he led the knowledge management programs at several Internet start-ups then re-joined WSGR in November, 2001.
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Sean has been the Applications Integration Manager for the past five years, and has been with Vinson & Elkins since 1997. His focus at the firm has been on end-user desktop application development, deployment and maintenance.
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Jeffrey is former Chief Information and Knowledge Officer with a large law firm based out of Washington, DC. He has more than 24 years of experience in the field of legal automation working with geographically distributed organizations in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. on information management projects including: long range strategic planning, needs analysis, workflow management and reengineering, knowledge management, IT structure and personnel requirements, budgeting, system management/administration and complex systems design. Jeffrey also serves on the ILTA Board of Directors. He is a frequent educational speaker at regional and national user, trade shows and industry conferences.
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Maura has close to 20 years of law firm marketing and business development experience. She works collaboratively with Miller & Chevalier management to develop and execute sophisticated initiatives that advance the firm's strategic objectives. Her areas of focus include positioning and branding; business planning; client development; lateral promotion and integration; profile raising strategies at the firm and practice levels; and internal and external communications.
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As Chief Information Officer for Arnold & Porter LLP, Scott is responsible for the firm's IT and records management functions. He has worked in legal IT since 2001 and is a non-practicing attorney as well.
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As Senior Director, Enterprise & Partner Group, De'Porres leads an organization of 70 business and technology professionals for Microsoft Mid-Atlantic. Microsoft Mid-Atlantic is a $550 million business unit that helps large enterprises solve business problems through the innovative use of technology. De'Porres is also a noted speaker having represented Microsoft at major industry conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He is active in the community, working closely with at-risk youth through church and other community-based organizations.
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Julie K. Brown
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| Litigation Technology Manager |
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
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Julie manages the Litigation Technology Department, which provides in-house support, training, processing and production of e-discovery. Julie is an ILTA Litigation Support City Rep and serves on the ILTA Litigation Support Steering Committee. She also serves on the EDRM Advisory Committee, is a leader on the EDRM Evergreen project and a member of Sedona. She is certified in all Summation applications, Sanction, Doculex and LAW 5.0.
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Leslie is an attorney focused on knowledge management for litigation. With more than 10 years of experience as a software consultant and another seven years as a patent litigator, she is a member of the Weil Gotshal KM team. Leslie serves as the liaison between attorneys and developers, assists attorneys in leveraging information and work product from past matters, evaluates potential KM products and helps to prioritize KM projects.
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Peter Buck
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| Managing Director |
Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, A Thomson Reuters Business
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Peter is Baker Robbins & Company's chief technical architect for document and content systems. He specializes in document management, knowledge management, and search solutions. Peter is a principal at Baker Robbins & Company and founded the San Francisco office. He is certified on the latest technologies from Interwoven, Hummingbird, Recommind and Microsoft. In May of 2008, Peter published the article "Wikis Put Lawyers on a Collaborative Path" in Law Technology News.
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Chris is responsible for the direction and performance of Integreon delivery centers and operational teams based in the U.S. and U.K. and for the future growth of operations across Europe and the Americas. Chris joined Integreon in February 2009. Prior to joining Integreon, Chris was the COO at European law firm Osborne Clarke, where he spent 12 years operating at Board level as the firm grew its U.K. and international presence. A chartered accountant and former management consultant, Chris has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and NatWest Bank.
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Bill Burch
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| Vice President, Global Sales |
Elite, a Thomson Reuters Business
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Bill manages sales activity worldwide for all product lines including Elite and Prolaw. With over 25 years of experience in the legal industry, Bill began his career as a sales manager for Computer Consoles Inc., then a regional sales manager for The Minicomputer Company.
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Damian has been in the information technology field for the past fifteen years. In 2002, he joined Taylor, Porter, Brooks and Phillips, LLP as its Network Administrator and has since become their Manager of Information Technology. Damian is responsible for all IT functions serving the firm's 180-plus users and overseeing the IT staff. Currently, he is focused on long-term IT strategies and solution implementation for the firm. Prior to joining Taylor Porter, Damian worked as the Technical Consultants Group Manager for Verma Systems. He then became the Senior Technical Engineer at Network Technology Group where he served as the technical consultant and implementation specialist on iManage migration and large scale Windows migration.
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Joe Buser
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| Director of Business Development |
Traveling Coaches, Inc.
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Joe Buser is the director of business development for Traveling Coaches. He has been with the company since 2000 and has worked with hundreds of law firms and corporate legal departments, crafting unique solutions to their educational and application integration requirements. Joe is a regular presenter at local, regional and national events for ILTA and ALA, speaking on topics ranging from continuing education to project management. Prior to joining Traveling Coaches, he was a senior consultant for The Sabre Group, managing airline IT projects for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Joe has a BBA from Texas A&M University and 23 years of information technology experience. Besides his work, Joe is passionate about his family, music, food and wine and loves to travel.
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Steve is President and CEO, BigHand, Inc. and oversees sales, distribution, installation and support of BigHand software across North America. Based out of Chicago, he is responsible for the company’s North American operations after previously managing sales across Europe and Australasia, where he helped over 500 law firms move from cassette tape or standalone systems to digital dictation workflow software. With BigHand since 1999, Steve has a wealth of experience in the technology, mobility and cost efficiency implications of voice productivity software.
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Kathrine Cain
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| Manager of Business Intelligence |
Winston & Strawn LLP
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Kate has more than 10 years of experience in legal covering a variety of roles including project manager, business analyst, support manager and technical trainer. Her current focus is experience and performance management and reporting. Kate serves as Vice President of the Project Management Peer Group and has been a frequent speaker and author.
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Evan has more than 10 years of experience in application design, development and packaged software solutions. His primary focus has been on Microsoft technologies. Evan has focused on data management with portal and content management products using Microsoft Content Management server and SharePoint 2003 and 2007. He currently leads strategy definition, architecture design and development teams for SharePoint 2007 projects.
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Bill is a hands-on CIO who likes to keep up to speed on new technology and applications that can benefit the firm for greater productivity. Among other things, he has been supporting telecom for more than 17 years and converted the firm's four offices from Avaya Definity PBX to Cisco IP Phones.
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Brigadier General David P. Carey . He has specialized in criminal and civil litigation in numerous overseas and stateside assignments. After serving as the Executive Officer for the Judge Advocate, U.S. Army, Europe, General Carey was assigned as the Staff Judge Advocate of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell. He was the Chief of the Army Litigation Division, before his assignment as the Judge Advocate for U.S. Army, Europe and Seventh Army, where he was also responsible for the delivery of legal services within the Balkans. He was promoted to brigadier general in August, 2001. General Carey is a graduate of Tulane University of New Orleans, the Ohio Northern College of Law, the Army Judge Advocate Officer Basic and Graduate Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College.
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With over 10 years consulting and technology management experience, David provides systems and infrastructure design and strategic technology planning for various sized organizations, including many leading AmLaw 100 firms. David currently leads Kraft & Kennedy's xTeams which represent the firm's various technical disciplines.
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Craig has extensive experience in the eDiscovery, enterprise software and information security industries and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. He is also a leading advocate with key industry groups like the EDRM Project, DESI and the Sedona Conference. Additionally, Craig is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.
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Yolanda has more than 20 years of experience working in law firms in a variety of capacities, and has served as the Director of Marketing at both Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and at her current firm Debevoise & Plimpton. In both firms, she has been the chief architect behind the structure of the department as well as the marketing and business development strategy and implementation.
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Marybeth oversees all accounting, finance and billing for the firm. She joined the firm in 2009. Before joining Foley, Marybeth worked as the CFO for Burns & Levinson LLP and prior to that was the VP and Corporate Controller for CRA International, an economic consulting firm. She is a member of the national and local Boston chapter of the ALA, The Treasurer's Club of Boston, ILTA and FEI.
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Henry Chace
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| Chief Information Officer |
Burns & Levinson, LLP
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Henry joined Burns & Levinson in February of 2003 and is responsible for strategic planning for information technology for the firm. Burns & Levinson is a full service firm focused in business law, litigation, intellectual property, employment law and private client services with offices in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Brigadier General Dana Chipman assumed command of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School on 7 March 2008. General Chipman’s previous assignments include Staff Judge Advocate, CENTCOM; Staff Judge Advocate, United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base; Chief Legal Advisor, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, NC; Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Benning, GA; Judge Advocate, 1st Special Operations Detachment (Airborne), Fort Bragg, NC; Senior Litigation Attorney, United States Legal Services Agency, Ballston, VA; Trial Counsel and Legal Assistance Attorney, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Germany; Executive Officer and Platoon Leader, Combat Support Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry (Mechanized), Fort Carson, CO. General Chipman is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy. He received his law degree from Stanford University in 1987. General Chipman holds an LL.M in Military Law from The Judge Advocate General’s School and has completed the resident course of instruction at the United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA, and the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS.
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Hong Choing
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| Platform Strategy Advisor |
Microsoft Corporation
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Hong is a member of the Microsoft Developer and Platform Customer team. In his role as Architect and Platform Strategy Advisor, Hong serves as trusted technology and business advisor to industry leaders from Fortune 200 companies. He is a business and IT leader with more than 18 years of business and technology implementation experience. He has worked in health and life sciences industry, financial services, and professional services organizations leading strategy and architecture groups.
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Nadia's 11 years of working at Aikins encompasses a variety of roles including Network Administrator, litigation and application support, training and project management. With e-discovery and privacy rules continually changing, Nadia is currently working to update the processes that impact the infrastructure at Aikins. As an active member of ILTA, Nadia has co-chaired the ILTA Winnipeg Golf Tournament for two years with proceeds going to various charities.
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Charles is a former barrister turned legal technology industry writer and commentator. He is the founder and publisher of the UK-based Legal Technology Insider group of newsletters and blogs. These include the American Legal Technology Insider and The Orange Rag blogs.
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David Clark
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| IT Director |
Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, P.C.
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David has been the IT Director for Jones Waldo in Salt Lake City for nine years. He has been involved with ILTA for all nine of those years. Prior to Jones Waldo, he was a legal integrator in Southern California. He enjoys socializing with all of his ILTA friends. You can checkout Dave's Blog at: https://ilta09northpacific.wordpress.com/
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Vicki has more than 25 years of experience assisting law firms and corporate legal departments with implementing process and technology related to litigation support, records management and document management. She is currently Senior Manager in the Commercial Legal Affairs department for Gilead Sciences and heads the Records Management and Discovery Response team. Prior to Gilead Sciences, Vicki was the Director of Records and Information Management Services for Pitney Bowes Legal Solutions.
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Adam is the Senior Managing Director with FTI Technology. He advises corporate and law firm clients on e-discovery compliance. Before joining FTI, Adam was a litigation partner at Weil Gotshal. He is the co-author of a legal treatise, "Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice, and the recently published ESI Handbook." Adam teaches electronic discovery at Rutgers Law School and Fordham Law School.
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Scott M. Cohen
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| Director of E-Discovery Support Services |
Winston & Strawn LLP
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Scott is responsible for all aspects of the firm's practice technology and electronic discovery operations. Throughout his 20-year career, he has worked in a consultative capacity with law firms and corporate legal departments enabling them to effectively leverage technology in all legal practice areas. Scott came to Proskauer from MetLife where he was responsible for providing general technology and litigation support services to the corporation's large and geographically dispersed legal and records departments. Prior to MetLife, Scott served as president and co-founder of Litigation Management Group, Inc., a legal technology and litigation support consulting firm.
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Jon Coleman
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| Director of Information Technology |
Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice, L.L.C.
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Jon has been in a law firm environment since 1995 in a variety of different capacities: records management, litigation project support, litigation tracking. He transitioned from these earlier responsibilities to a more technical role in the later part of 1998. Since then, the majority of his time has been spent working on the daily administration of any technology used at the firm, developing a technology strategy, planning budgets for future technology related projects and more recently, working on the technical aspects of electronic discovery projects of the firm.
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Andrew Collier
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| Director of Information Technology |
Polsinelli Shughart PC
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Drew is an 18-year veteran in the telecommunications and data services industries. As Systems Operations Manager at Shook, Hardy and Bacon, Drew oversees operational processes for telecommunications services and data center facilities for 10 offices throughout the United States and Europe. He focuses on improving customer service and ensuring a consistent, positive experience for end users while tirelessly advocating the marketing of technology as both a firm and client service.
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Hope serves as Professional Responsibility Counsel and is a member of the Office of the General Counsel at Pepper Hamilton LLP. She also spends time on educational programs for attorneys, staff and outside audiences. Hope serves as Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association Committee on Professional Guidance. She has been appointed as Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association Professional Responsibility Committee. She was appointed to the Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. In addition, Hope is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment. She has published many articles on employment law and other topics, including several articles in The Labor Lawyer. She is a trained arbitrator.
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David is a subject matter expert in staffing and recruiting legal e-discovery and executive searches. With 20 years of experience, he lectures and writes extensively on "the war for talent," focusing on legal support technologies, innovations and their impact on complex litigation and e-discovery. More than just a headhunter, David focuses on managing and developing the talent he places, building relationships and hands-on in-depth market analysis including industry trends and salary surveys.
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Janis Croft
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| Director of Knowledge and Media Services |
Nixon Peabody LLP
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Janis has worked at Nixon Peabody for more than 28 years. She has been responsible for the firm's knowledge management program for the past seven years. Her experience includes moving Nixon's portal from Plumtree to SharePoint, introducing Recommind, deploying internal collaboration tools including blogs and wikis and managing the creative department responsible for portal graphics and Web design for the firm.
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Darryl Cross
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| Vice President, Client Profitability |
LexisNexis
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Darryl visits over 300 law firms a year to collect and share best practices in law firm profitability and growth. He previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Committee member of a law firm. During his tenure, he was awarded the Marketing Partner Forum's Excellence in Marketing Award. Darryl has spoken to over 10,000 business professionals from over 100 countries. He is an internationally-known author and speaker on strategic marketing, client development, CRM and competitive intelligence.
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Shirley Crow
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| Chief Information Officer |
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
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Shirley has been involved in legal technology management since 1989, and she is ILTA's Regional Vice President for South Pacific.
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David manages the Baker Robbins & Company's Strategic Technology practice. For 18 years, he has helped law firm leaders with assessments and plans focused on cost, risk and lawyer effectiveness. He created the Law Firm Technology Scorecard to provide a fair and in-depth approach to benchmarking IT and the Law Firm Risk Register for a more comprehensive approach to risk management.
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Jerry has 25 years of law firm experience working with several financial software packages.
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Jonathan has many years of experience in application architecture, database architecture, software development, network infrastructure and project management. His particular strengths include CRM systems, extranet/intranet portals, custom application development and business process management.
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Ray Daley
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| Sr. Director Global Product Development |
LexisNexis InterAction
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With over 23 years of product development, systems analysis, design and emerging technology experience, Ray brings a broad range of knowledge and skills. Ray is responsible for evolution and maintenance of the current suite of products as well as emerging products, technical strategy and migration plan. Prior to leading the InterAction development team, he led the design of many products and most recently directed the LexisNexis new technology research department.
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Justin works for the U.S. Windows Client Marketing organization and has been with Microsoft nearly seven years, serving in various marketing, sales and technology evangelism roles. Prior to Microsoft, Justin worked for Microsoft partner companies delivering technology solutions and services to SMB and Enterprise customers across the Legal, Financial, Public Sector and Healthcare verticals.
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Jim is a 23-year veteran of IT in the legal practice with experience managing IT, library and records organizations. He has also done a wide range of project implementations including extensive voice and video conferencing design, construction and implementations. Brown Rudnick has used video conferencing extensively for 10 years to facilitate the management of a multi-location law firm, and Jim has learned a lot about maximizing ROI in the process.
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Galina is responsible for the CA Message Manager and CA Records Manager product lines. She is also recognized as a Distinguished Engineer at CA, and joined the company in 2006 with the acquisition of MDY Group International, where she served as founder and CEO. Galina is a Certified Records Manager and is recognized around the world as an expert in records management and associated technologies, including the convergence of records and document management, e-mail and physical records management, and federated records management.
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Scott David
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| PMO Manager |
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
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Scott joined Vorys in 2001. Prior to entering the legal industry, he spent seven years in the consulting industry as lead consultant and project manager specializing in networking systems. In 2006, he opened a project management office at Vorys and continues to manage it today. He is a steering committee member of ILTA's Project Management Peer Group. Scott holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute. Currently his most challenging project is managing 3-year-old triplet sons.
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Andrew has been involved with practice management systems and the professional services industry for more than 20 years. He's worked in a variety of roles within ADERANT since joining the company shortly after the release of CMS.Net in the mid 1990's.
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Janet Day
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| IT Director |
Berwin Leighton Paisner
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Janet has worked in legal IT virtually all her working life - even her MBA speciality was 'Competitive Advantage in the Legal Profession.' After working in administration at A&O, Janet set up a specialist consultancy practice looking at technology services (in their widest sense) for legal firms. She joined BLP about 12 years ago - initially as a consultant but later as their IT Director with a wide range of responsibilities. She normally says 'if it plugs into an electric socket and does not make coffee it belongs to me!' She is responsible for technology in its broadest sense, including ecommerce activities, knowledge management services and the building and infrastructure.
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Bill Dean
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| Director of Computer Forensics |
Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, Inc.
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Bill is the Director of Computer Forensics for Sword & Shield Enterprise Security. He is a frequent speaker and published author on the topics of digital forensics and electronic discovery for numerous legal associations. Bill is a certified computer examiner, and active member of the International Society for Forensic Computer Examiners.
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Anthony has been providing business and knowledge process consulting to the legal industry since 2008. He has held CIO and senior management positions in various professional services firms, including Clifford Chance, Ernst & Young, Pillsbury Winthrop, and Winthrop Stimson. He also served 8 years as a Captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. TDCGE is currently partnered with Clifford Chance LLP in the development of a matter-centric document management system based on SharePoint 2010, the first of its kind in the legal industry. Additionally, TDCGE is engaged in several projects in the legal and education sectors, including IT operational realignment, infrastructure rebuilds, cost reduction, data center consolidations, and Business Continuity Planning. TDCGE brings value to their clients by implementing only those projects that deliver tangible benefits, are cost effective, and contribute to their competitive position.
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Bill Decker
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| Delivery Manager - Sharepoint Practice |
Hubbard One, a Thomson Reuters Business
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Bill has more than 20+ years of experience as a project manager / business analyst within the legal and financial industries. After 5 years as the IT Project Manager for Bingham McCutchen; Bill has recently joined Hubbard One at Thomson Reuters as a Delivery Manager for their SharePoint Practice. Bill will lead implementations of SharePoint based intranet, extranet and enterprise search solutions powered by their OneView software platform.
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Sean has worked with Aquipt for more than eight years and leads the business development efforts for the firm. Aquipt is a leading litigation technology service provider with a national presence.
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Cheryl Disch
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| Proposal Content & Research Manager |
Duane Morris LLP
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Cheryl is responsible for the development and maintenance of content supporting Duane Morris' business development activities, including proposals, research, business intelligence and the internal weekly newsletter. Her day-to-day activities include overseeing the proposal and research team, managing and producing qualified responses to RFPs, and identifying ways to apply new tools and technology to the collection and distribution of content, such as the firm's proposal automation and representative matters databases.
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Bob has more than 25 years of experience in providing technology consulting and management to law firms. He assists law firms in a number of areas including technology planning, technology governance, organization and staffing, records management, litigation support and business continuity planning. Bob was appointed to the prestigious fellowship in the College of Law Practice Management.
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Brian Donato
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| IT Director |
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
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Brian has worked in the field of IT for almost 25 years. With experience ranging from software developer to network architect to IT Director, he brings a broad technology background to his current position. When not thinking about Legal Technology, Brian spends his time seeking wisdom from his teenage kids (who know everything) while chasing his 2 year old
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Stephen Dooley
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| Manager of Electronic Discovery and Litigation Support |
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
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Jason Ryan Dorsey, The Gen Y Guy, is a bestselling author of four books, acclaimed speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. A well-known generational expert, Jason has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Today Show, The View, and in Fortune Magazine. His talent is teaching business and organizational leaders creative and inexpensive ways to maximize Gen Y employee performance while leading all Four Generations in the workplace. For a complete bio visit www.JasonDorsey.com.
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Faith Drewry
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| Director of Consulting Services |
EIM International
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Faith has more than 10 years of experience working with large, global law firms to translate their complex business requirements into straightforward technical solutions. With a focus on the automation of the matter life cycle, Faith is frequently called upon to analyze unique environments and is known for architecting superior solutions that improve the user experience while achieving the firms' goals of knowledge capture, leveraging existing infrastructure investments.
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Bob has over 25 years of experience in the human resources field. He spent 18 years at Xerox Corporation in a wide range of assignments including leading HR for major divisions and managing major HR functions for the corporation worldwide. He has worked extensively with senior executives to drive the achievement of aggressive goals and objectives in a variety of organizational settings. He also spent two years as Director of Human Resources for ContentGuard, Inc., a joint venture between Xerox and Microsoft. Bob has been the Chief Human Resources Officer for WilmerHale for 7 years.
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Ike has more than 12 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server, reporting and business intelligence. He began his career as an asset management consultant, working with software that deposited data into an early version of SQL. When SQL Server 7.0 was released, Ike was captivated by its new data platform features and switched his focus. Since that time, Ike has helped organizations of all sizes find solutions to data-related problems through tools provided by Microsoft.
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Jamie is the Practice Manager for the Legal Applications practice group based out of the New York office. Jamie oversees a veteran team of application integration specialists and is responsible for maintaining mindSHIFT's deep legal industry applications expertise while identifying and developing the skills and best practices required to offer the latest innovations in legal software solutions to their customers. Jamie has over 15 years experience providing technology consulting and integration services to the legal community. Jamie's diverse technical background includes Windows server and Active Directory design and deployment, LAN/WAN infrastructure engineering, network security and firewall implementation, Citrix MetaFrame for local and remote application access, Web application hosting infrastructures, desktop design and deployment, and applications packaging, provisioning and deployment. In addition, Jamie has spent years planning, deploying and maintaining enterprise applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, document management systems from Interwoven and OpenText, as well as CRM solutions from Microsoft and Interface Software.
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Gad Epstein
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| Industry Market Development Manager |
Microsoft Corporation
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Gad delivers industry solutions that help customers in the Professional Services Industry build thought leadership, shape client experiences, improve service delivery and drive practice performance.
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Chad Ergun
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| Director, Business Intelligence |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P
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Chad joined Gibson Dunn in late 2009. In his new role, Chad leads the Global Business Intelligence team with members in multiple locations covering application development, marketing technologies, KM, BI, desktop and web applications. Before joining Gibson, he was the head of Prosapia consulting, working with Fortune 500 clients providing solutions for knowledge management, business intelligence, enterprise search and portal initiatives. Between 2002-2009, he served as the Global Manager of Client and Practice Systems at White & Case LLP. In this role he was in charge of Knowledge Management inititatives, practice solutions and client applications. Before joining White & Case in 2002, he held a senior level position at Shearman & Sterling overseeing Web Technologies and Application Development. In his twelve years with the legal industry, Chad has led technology various technology projects including knowledge management initiatives, intranets, extranets, custom built internal applications, client-facing collaborative solutions, and other large scale software development projects.
Chad holds a Masters degree in Information Technology with minor in Industrial Management and Workplace Psychology. He is currently working on his PhD in Information Management focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining.
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Fernando joined Bradford & Barthel, LLP, in November, 2000. With more than 25 years of experience in the legal environment and in the information systems arena, he provides the firm with a strong combination of field and technical experience. His duties include strategic planning, system selection, and continuity planning and telecommunications. Prior to joining Bradford & Barthel, LLP, he held a position for 22 years with Knapp, Petersen and Clarke.
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John Esvelt
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| Director of Risk Management |
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
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John took on the role of Director of Risk Management after spending the previous six years working as the Director of Technology and a member of the senior management team at Fraser Milner Casgrain. He was responsible for managing all technology initiatives in the Toronto Office. John is recognized as an innovative thinker in the legal market place who focuses on providing sophisticated solutions and top customer service. He has focused much of career on improving teams through effective management and mentoring. John is a strong believer in coaching for success and has a track record that demonstrates the success of his management style.
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Dagny Evans
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| Vice President, IT & Billing |
Soundpath, a Premiere Global Services Company
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Dagny oversees all software development and billing and was previously very involved in product demos and software training. She also assisted with the day-to-day operations as well as customer relationships and retention programs. She has helped Soundpath acquire more than 50 percent of the AmLaw 100 and AmLaw 200 law firms.
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As President/CEO and Chief Software Architect at Esquire Innovations, Inc., Randall has pioneered the development and marketing of several software applications geared toward the legal market. His training and software development background has given him a thorough working knowledge of the specific problems faced by the legal industry when it comes to document production using Microsoft Office.
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Steve has been implementing business system applications for more than 20 years. He has experience in financial, procurement and customer relationship management applications.
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Pat is a senior member of the litigation support group in the Antitrust Division and the in-house expert on electronic discovery issues. He is involved in all aspects of e-discovery including training, negotiations, and software evaluation and support. Pat is also an avid runner and golfer.
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Stacey Fiorillo
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| Manager |
Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, A Thomson Reuters Business
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Stacey specializes in records management, conflicts and new business intake processes. She previously spent eight years directing the records management and conflict of interest departments for two large law firms. Stacey also worked as a project manager for a premier technology company specializing in legal software solutions for records and conflicts. She is a former lawyer who practiced in both the private and public sector as a litigator.
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Steve Fletcher
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| Chief Information Officer |
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
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Steve is a frequent speaker and author and has spent more than 27 years in law firm technology, serving in executive roles with Informatics Legal Systems and Financial Software. Prior to joining Parker Poe, he spent five years as the Director of IT and Facilities at Maples and Calder, an international firm based in the Cayman Islands.
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Judi Flournoy is the Chief Information Officer for Loeb & Loeb LLP headquartered in Los Angeles. With 16 years of leadership experience with AmLaw 100 and 250 firms, Ms. Flournoy has been both a strategic and operational director.
Ms. Flournoy is a member of the Microsoft Legal Client Advisory Board and a member of the Thomson Reuters Large Law Firm CIO Advisory Board.
Ms. Flournoy received the IT Director of the Year award for 2006 from Law Technology News and was recognized as one of the Global Top 100 CIO’s by City Tech magazine in 2006.
A frequent columnist for Law Technology News, as well as a member of the LTN Editorial Advisory Board, she has spoken at various conferences on topics ranging from Disaster Recovery to Electronic Data management.
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Kate is the ILTA InterAction Peer Group Vice President. She has been with Ropes & Gray for one year and is currently working to improve automation and user adoption. At her previous firm, Kate started from the systems initial roll out to a more sophisticated plan to get it integrated into the business development process for attorneys. Ropes & Gray is currently on version 5.5 with plans to upgrade to 5.6 pr 5.7 later this year. Kate has worked with several law firms throughout the Boston area on various software implementations and training projects. Kate is also an avid sailor and in the summer you will find her on the Charles River most nights after work.
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Julia Forbes
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| Manager of Training and Application Services |
Brown Rudnick , LLP
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Julia is the Training and Application Services Manager at Brown Rudnick. She manages six support staff in the firm's Boston, Hartford and New York offices. Julia directs and proposes training strategies and programs for technical training and evaluation of employee skills for the entire firm. Julia is also responsible for managing the helpdesk operations for all six Brown Rudnick offices.
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Matt has spent over 16 years working in systems integration and IT services predominantly for major law firms among New York, Boston and internationally.
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Amy Freese
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| Director of Information Services |
Cozen O'Connor
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Amy has been with the Cozen O'Connor since 1991, first as Technical Operations/Network Manager and for the past 11 years as Director of IS. She is responsible for all aspects of the firm's technical operations, day-to-day and project-related. Amy manages a technical staff of 35; 25 in Philadelphia and 10 in the firm's regional offices.
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Todd is a technologist with nearly a decade of experience designing and building solutions in the legal industry. He is a firm believer in accessing data from its authoritative source in order to limit data duplication. By using best practices to integrate data between disparate systems we reduce the need for customization, saving time and money.
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Ron provides outsourced knowledge and support services for lawyers. Previously, he managed practice support at WilmerHale, was CIO at Mintz, worked for two legal software companies and ran Prism Legal Consulting. Ron was also a strategy consultant at Bain & Co and an econometrician at DRI. He is a Trustee of the College of Law Practice Management and has a JD from NYU and BA from Oberlin College.
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Holly Frost
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| Deputy Assistant Director |
Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Competition
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Holly's responsibilities include managing and directing the department within the Bureau that provides technology support to investigation and litigation teams for the Bureau's active antitrust litigation docket. She plays a key role in supporting Commission initiatives on such diverse topics as e-discovery, courtroom technology, software testing and document management.
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Mary Anne Fry
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| Director of Libraries and Records |
King & Spalding LLP
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Mary Anne joined King & Spalding in 1977. Her many roles have included assisting in automating the conflicts and records systems, implementing the firm's RIM and retention policy, and serving on a team to plan and implement methods to track the firm's initiatives. She is a member of AALL and ARMA and is the outgoing Chair of the Atlanta ARMA Board.
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For more than 10 years, Patrick has been one of the leading voices on competitive intelligence, benchmarking and business development in the legal profession.
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Carol Gerber
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| Director of Learning and Professional Development |
Moses & Singer LLP
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Carol has a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a M.A. in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to actively participating in ILTA events, she is a member of the New York Word Legal Users Group and is currently the President of PLTG, the Professional Legal Trainers Group.
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Larry has worked in the legal technology field since 1987 for firms such as Kennedy Covington, Winston & Strawn, NYLife Insurance Company and Bowne Business Solutions (as IT Director for Brown & Wood). Larry was also a member of the ILTA '07 and '08 Conference Committees and currently serves as an ILTA City Representative for New York City.
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Dean brings more than a decade of e-discovery consulting and legal practice experience to his position. He is a member of The Sedona Conference (WG1), the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and teaches a series of continuing legal education courses on various e-discovery topics. He has been quoted in a number of leading industry publications including the California Lawyer, KM World and the ABA Journal.
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Sally R. Gonzalez
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| Senior Director |
Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, A Thomson Reuters Business
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Sally has over 25 years of experience bringing business and IT together in strategic planning and implementation of complex, information-intensive systems that require tight integration of people, process and technology. She is recognized as a leading expert in knowledge management and strategic planning for the legal services industry. Sally speaks regularly at industry and educational conferences and has numerous articles published in the legal trade press.
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Marc Grant
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| Associate Director |
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
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Marc has worked for Bracewell & Giuliani LLP for eight years and is responsible for the management and guidance of the network and desktop teams. During his tenure with the firm, Marc's primary focus has been on systems implementation, upgrades and migrations for systems including directory services, messaging, server / desktop / application deployment, remote access, virtualization, security, data center management and business continuity / disaster recovery.
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Bill joined Hogan & Hartson in 1998 and has been Chief Information Officer since 2003.
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Corby has been involved in legal technology training for more than 11 years. In his prior life, he taught writing and literature while earning a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz. Corby is the founder of the Bay Area Legal Trainers Organization (BALTO) and serves on ILTA's User Support and Training steering committee.
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Mark is founder and CEO of nScaled Inc. and has over 15 years of experience in software, business development and marketing. Previously a co-founder of Workshare in the UK, he came to the USA to lead a market entry strategy from inception. Setting up offices in San Francisco and New York he drove revenue to over $20m in annual sales with over 6,000 customers and 95% of the largest law firms worldwide. Mark originally hails from South Africa and earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree at University of Natal majoring in Economics and Marketing.
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Mike is a founding member of Verdict Systems, LLC (now Sanction Solutions), a subsidiary of Alexander Gallo Holdings. In addition to managing the daily operations, he provides management oversight for all trial support projects. Mike has supported a variety of high-profile cases ranging from securities class actions to personal injury/medical malpractice to capital murder trials.
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Donna has been the Network Manager at Vedder Price for more than 29 years. Her background is in network management, database management and security management. Donna manages the firm's large DM database and document repository; the extremely large Groupwise e-mail system, the increasingly growing VMWare environment and the firm's Cisco infrastructure. Donna is actively involved with ILTA, currently serving as the Midwest RVP.
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After 25 years of successful management in the legal and consulting industries, Jo Haraf founded Haraf Professional Services LLC - a consultancy dedicated to assisting professional services firms recognize immediate and long-term benefits from improved staff, project and IT portfolio management. In addition, Jo helps companies supporting the legal community to better understand and serve their customers.
Prior to Haraf Professional Services LLC, Jo served as Chief Information Officer at Morrison & Foerster LLP responsible for Information Technology, Library, Records, Conflicts/New Business and Litigation Docket. In addition, Jo was the firm’s Director of the Project Management Office and Chief Privacy Officer.
Jo is a regular speaker and author; she is honored to serve on the Editorial Board of Law Technology News. She earned an MBA at the University of Rhode Island and a BS in Business and Computer Science from Northern Illinois University.
In 2009, Jo co-authored ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN LEGAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (Thomson Reuters) addressing project and portfolio management in law firms. Jo’s successful ILTA conference presentation BUSINESS DOGMA – BE TOP DOG AT YOUR FIRM (www.BusinessDogma.com) has evolved into a business management book inspired by our canine companions. Non-fiction/humor agents are invited to call or write at any time!
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Tony is a Senior Analyst, Learning Systems at Bryan Cave LLP. He has contributed to several ILTA publications, webinars and conference sessions regarding training and user support, elearning, applications, and leadership. He serves on the steering committee for the User Support Peer Group.
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Tony is the Business Director for Greenberg Traurig's northern Virginia office. He has a combined 26 years of military and civilian law firm leadership experience. Tony was a Marine Corps Drill Instructor and later a Chief Warrant Officer and Legal Administrator in the Staff Judge Advocate Division, serving in several Marine Corps law offices world-wide. Through his military and civilian experience, Tony has developed several successful techniques for motivating and coaching people, even in these difficult times.
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Ruth Hauswirth
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| Director of Practice Services and Professional Development |
Cooley LLP
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Ruth is a senior attorney in the Cooley Godward Kronish Litigation Department, and she oversees Cooley's Practice Services and Professional Development departments. She developed and now manages Cooley's electronic discovery resources and focuses on the strategic use of technology solutions for complex litigation matters, including document retention, management, preservation, collection, review and production in compliance with a variety of regulatory and jurisdictional areas. Ruth is also responsible for the firm's Professional Development department. She oversees Cooley's training programs including "Cooley College" for new attorneys and advanced seminars, skills workshops and multidisciplinary programs in specific practice groups and disciplines.
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Ronald J. Hedges
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| Former United States Magistrate Judge in the District of New Jersey |
Ronald J. Hedges, LLC
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Ron is an arbitator, mediator and special master. He was a U.S. Magistrate Judge from 1986 to 2007 and also a member of the boards of advisors of The Sedona Conference, Advanced E-Discovery and Corporate Counsel Institutes of Georgetown University Law Center. Ron is adjunct faculty at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Charlotte Herring
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| Chief, Information Technology Division |
The US Judge Advocate General's Corps
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LTC Herring assumed duty as the Chief, Information Technology Division, U.S. Army, OTJAG, in July 2007. In addition, she is a Certified Knowledge Manager, and presented at the both the KM2010 and Open Government Innovations Conferences in DC. She co-leads the KM workgroup drafting the strategic plan/governance policy for Knowledge Management and the Mission Media policy for the U.S. Army JAGC. Previously, she served as the Command Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Human Resources Command (HRC) advising both the Commander, HRC and The Adjutant General (TAG) of the US Army. In this capacity, she provided daily advice to the Casualty and Memorial Operations Center (CMAOC) and the Army Wounded Warrior Program (AW2.) She served as the Chief, Foreign Torts Branch, U.S. Army Claims Service (USARCS) from 2003 - 2005 where she initiated the original Iraqi claims program. From 2001 -2003, she served as the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Hunter Army Airfield Legal Center, 3d ID (Mech.) From January to June, 2003, she deployed with the 3d ID (Mech) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom where she served as first the OIC of the 3d ID Rear legal cell and then the 3d ID Main legal cell.
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Pam Hill
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| Managing Director |
Hyperion Global Partners
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Pamela has more than 24 years of experience in BC/DR planning, the last 14 years focused exclusively on law firms. She has participated in developing more than 90 BC plans in law firms and has participated in many successful recoveries.
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David Hobbie
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| Litigation Knowledge Manager |
Goodwin Procter LLP
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David's mission is to enhance search, knowledge sharing and collaboration among the litigators at his firm. He brings a strong understanding of the theory of knowledge management and secure social collaboration, as well as extensive experience as a practicing litigator. David is a frequent speaker and has published numerous articles. His specialties include knowledge management, Enterprise 2.0, wikis, social networking, enterprise search, e-mail management and change management.
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Connie is responsible for overseeing the firm's technology budget, strategy, planning and implementation. Possessing more than 20 years of exerience championing the use of information technology to improve client relationships and achieve competitive advantage, Connie directs the firm's client-focused technology strategy. Connie was named IT Director of the Year in 2008 by Law Technology News. She led the successful integration of Powell Goldstein's IT into Bryan Cave and the delivery of a new SharePoint-based intranet. Before joining Bryan Cave in 2002, Connie was the owner and managing director of a company she co-founded to provide strategic consulting and capital to early stage information technology ventures.
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Lorey joined Akin Gump in April, 2007 as it Chief Information Officer. His previous positions have included Director, Program Management Office, U.S.Treasury; Partner, KPMG; Managing Director, Aon Group; and Representative to the Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland. He was educated in Vancouver and Seattle, where he undertook his M.A. and Ph.D studies at the University of Washington.
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Mark has worked for ten years as a project manager, the last five in the legal industry. He is the acting coordinator of DLA Piper's Project Management Office (PMO). His department is focused mainly on IT projects, but does reach out to assist many other areas of the business with projects. Mark is an active member of ILTA's Project Management Peer Group Steering Committee. He holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute as well as an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
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Deborah has a personal passion for CRM technology. She consults nationwide with law firms and corporate legal departments as they plan and implement complex CRM projects that support their business development strategies. She works closely with marketing, IT and attorneys to design effective programs for each firm.
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A consultant on content management systems and other legal integrations for more than 10 years, Jeanne has more than 20 years of in-house legal experience combined with the last 12 years in consulting across the U.S. As head of the Professional Services group at Onward, Jeanne leads a group of highly talented engineers, all with substantial legal experience in software, training and custom development.
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Lance Hood
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| Vice President, Product Marketing |
Epok, Inc.
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Lance is Vice President of Product Marketing for Epok Inc. He has been instrumental in directing Epok's SharePoint product line, which is now installed across a range of industries including as legal services, healthcare, military, consulting and manufacturing. Lance has been involved in defining cross-organizational, business-to-business software products for the past 12 years targeted at healthcare, financial services and government markets.
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Timothy J. Hooks
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| Director of Information Technology |
Chester Willcox and Saxbe LLP
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Prior to joining Chester Willcox & Saxbe, Tim served 11 years as network administrator for Kegler Brown Hill and Ritter. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Prior to work in the legal industry, Tim spent 15 years in the restaurant industry.
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In his 25+ year career, Doug has spoken at ILTA events and other national, state and local technology conferences including Microsoft's World Wide Partner conference. He is the founder of Handshake Software, Inc. Previously he was CEO of MeltingPoint Ltd. U.K. and MeltingPoint Inc., a venture-capital backed company, where he led the expansion of the product line and major sales success to W.H. Smith and others. He was COO/President of CMS/Data, a subsidiary of a publicly traded company. He created a turn-around strategy and, in three years, led the company to an increase in revenues in excess of 500% and record profits through expansion into six new vertical markets and fourteen new countries. He has had prior experience as the Senior VP Product Development & Marketing at another publicly traded software company and has been involved in technology consulting, product development and software start-ups during his twenty-five plus year business career.
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Mary's 20-year career at Lane Powell began in IT, switched to finance and accounting management and then back to IT as CIO five years ago. She attended her first ILTA meeting in 1985 and has served the organization in many capacities since including speaker, VCR, RVP, Co-Chair for two years, multiple conference committees and a short tenure on the Board of Directors. Her experience in the legal industry spans nearly 26 years.
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For more than five years, Don has played an integral role within ADERANT. He is currently responsible for all sales activities and marketing efforts around the world. He has more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise application software business and relevant experience includes senior management positions at Epicor (formerly Platinum Software Corporation), Sage (formerly Best Software, Inc.), Accruent, Mindarrow Systems, Inc. and Talisma.
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Chris has been working in the legal technology industry for 15 years. He is responsible for all facets of IT from strategic planning to implementation and day-to-day support. Chris also oversees Records and Facilities Management, and works closely with the firm's Marketing Director and Firm Administrator. Chris has been an active member of ILTA since joining in 2000.
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Eric Hunter
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| Director of Knowledge Management |
Bradford & Barthel, LLP
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Eric is the Director of Knowledge Management at Bradford & Barthel, LLP, where he is currently integrating a cloud-hosted collaboration platform. His focus is in strategic and tactical intelligence, knowledge management and technology.
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Thad shares his time between the McGlinchey Stafford's New Orleans and Houston offices. For the past two decades, he has managed various technology initiatives such as the development of an online banking system for a regional financial institution to leading McGlinchey Stafford's disaster recovery following hurricane Katrina. Today, Thad oversees the development and implementation of strategies necessary to achieve the firm's technological and business goals.
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Eyal has more than 15 years of experience consulting legal and intellectual property business communities. His practice is focused on helping clients manage the business of law. Eyal is a leading expert in operational, process, organization and technology management issues. With specialties in best practice reviews and the design and implementation of enterprise-wide information programs, he works with AmLaw 200 and Global 1000 organizations to address operational and execution challenges.
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Dominic is an e-discovery and legal technology expert. He has recently been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (www.ccct-cctj.ca). Dominic speaks throughout North America (www.ledjit.com/conferences/) and is a prolific writer on many legal and technology issues. He is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on electronic information.
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Jennifer has over 15 years experience working in various areas of the technology industry. Most recently, she has focused in specialized areas of infrastructure security, including Network Access Control, 802.1X and Wireless Security technologies.
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Thad is IntApp's Chief Technology Officer, responsible for overseeing the company's overall product and technology strategy. He is the architect of IntApp's application integration, risk management and time capture solutions. Thad is an expert in legal software applications and IT environments and has worked with many large and mid-sized law firms in the U.S. and U.K. to address business process optimization, data governance and confidentiality management challenges.
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Tom Jones
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| Director, Product Marketing |
ADERANT
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Tom earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of financial management and analysis systems. Prior to joining ADERANT, Tom worked as an independent computer consultant and system developer, founding companies in Santa Barbara, the Czech Republic and San Francisco.
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Greg Kaple
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| Senior Partner |
Integrated Management Services, Inc.
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Sherry is responsible for innovation at Microsystems and works closely with clients on best practice document workflows and migration strategies. She has more than 25 years of experience in authoring technologies. Sherry developed binary conversion and document reuse best practices for Word V6/95/97/2000/2002/2003/2007 in use today by the world's largest law firms and life sciences companies. She has led or assisted more than 400 document migration projects, and is working with leading law firms and life sciences companies as they move to the 2007 Office system and XML.
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Christopher is the founder and Principal of Aurora North Software, a consulting firm providing BPM consulting, and IT implementation and development services to law firms. With 11 years experience in the IT industry, he has consulted with some of the nation's top law firms and government agencies.
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Lisa's previous roles include Practice Automation Manager with Hunton & Williams, Knowledge Manager with LeBoeuf Lamb and Intranet Development Manager for Hogan & Hartson, LLP. She also spent seven years providing legal technology consulting services with Potomac Consulting Group and Project Performance Corporation. She is a contributing writer for Practice Innovations newsletter and speaks frequently on knowledge management.
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Rob Kerr
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| Director of Networking and Information Management Services |
eSentio Technologies
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Robert has more 20 years of IT experience in the information management industry providing technical and project management support services to corporations, governmental agencies and law firms. He has extensive experience in e-mail and records management and is a subject matter expert for information management, e-mail and records management, enterprise search, litigation support and e-discovery, enterprise network infrastructure, and business continuity planning.
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David is a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in its Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation groups. He was one of the founders of the firm's E-Discovery and Data Management Team and as national e-discovery counsel represents his clients regarding both strategic and tactical e-discovery issues as well as information management choices. David is a member of both Working Group 1 and Working Group 6 of the Sedona Conference.
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As Senior Vice President, Laura oversees Epiq Document Review Solutions. She has more than 17 years of legal experience. Prior to joining Epiq, Laura was Senior Corporate Counsel and Managing Director of the Discovery Response Team at Pfizer, Inc. Prior to Pfizer, she was an Associate at Kaye Scholer LLP in New York and an Attorney for Texaco Inc. in White Plains, NY. Laura is an attorney licensed to practice in New York and Connecticut, a member of Sedona Working Group 1 and EDRM Working Groups, a board member of EDRM Advisory Board, a member and advisor of Corporate E-Discovery Forum and a co-chair of Thomson/West Legal Works E-Discovery Conference. She has authored articles on various discovery issues for Law Technology News, Inside Litigation and Corporate Counsel magazine and is a frequent national speaker on discovery issues.
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Cristopher's practice areas include litigation; e-discovery; Internet communications and data protection; and privacy and security technology litigation.
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Shawn Knight
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| Director of New Business Intake & Records |
Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P.
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Shawn has been the Director of New Business Intake and Records at Vinson & Elkins since early 2005. Prior to that, she was the firm's New Business Intake Manager for two years and has been in the legal profession since 1992.
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Warren is primarily responsible for designing solutions that address law firm issues related to client confidentiality, regulatory compliance and risk management. He has more than 12 years of legal industry experience, serving as a Practice Manager at Open Text Corporation and IT Manager at Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette LLP.
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Chris Kraft
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| Manager, Product Services |
Hubbard One, a Thomson Reuters Business
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Joan is a business leader and manager of global product environmental and safety compliance, sustainability, and supply chain social and environmental accountability programs at Microsoft Corporation. Her former career as an attorney spans private practice as a partner representing energy, transportation and real estate clients and work in-house at Microsoft Corporation, American Airlines, Inc. and Pacific Gas & Electric Company. Her work is featured in the book Saving the World at Work by Tim Sanders.
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Peter Krakaur
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| Chief Knowledge Officer |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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Peter uses his legal and technical background to develop resources that allow the firm to leverage its collective experience - people, work product and practice - and to deliver the highest quality of legal service to the firm's clients.
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Fred Krebs
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| President |
Association of Corporate Counsel
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Fred is the President of ACC, the leading association for in-house counsel with more than 24,000 members from over 8,000 law departments in 80 countries.
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Ryan has held various sales, marketing and business development positions during his 15 year career. Since 2002 he has been involved in "spend management" software, first with his own startup, and then in "legal spend management" with companies like DataCert, Integration Appliance and his recent appointment as VP, Sales for eBillingHub. Ryan has been involved in numerous panels and has written white papers and articles relating to the issues and costs associated with legal e-billing.
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Joyce was formerly Vice-President at Perfect Access Speer where she managed a broad range of services. Whether helping clients plan for technology projects, creating training plans that impact productivity or developing courseware that users really use, Joyce brings enthusiasm and a commitment to excellence to each of her projects. Her SmartStart programs for Office 2007 have helped more than 40 firms plan for their 2007 projects.
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Joanne Lane
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| Director - eDiscovery Strategy and Litigation Support |
MetLife
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Joanne is Co-Chair of the company's eDiscovery Council and serves on many committees related to litigation technology and electronic discovery. She has been an active member of the practice support and legal technology community for 14 years, with 17 years of law firm experience before making the switch to corporate life almost two years ago. She holds leadership positions in professional organizations (including ILTA), has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars, and received the Betsy Ann Reynolds Award for Excellence in Litigation Support.
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With over a dozen years in IT and knowledge earned from the ground-up by hands-on experience combined with and excellent business education, Kent has architected and built some of the earliest dot-com communities at TechRepublic.com/CNET, worked for world-class software companies like Autodesk, helped lead the development of new business lines at one of the fastest growing Web technology agencies in the United States, SolutionSet, and worked for a leading cloud computing IaaS startup, Joyent most recently. Kent is CTO and co-founder of Legal Cloud, virtual data centers for law firms.
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Jim is a visiting professor at Stony Brook University's Business School. He is the former Executive Director of Milbank Tweed in N.Y. and has had more than 25 years of experience in private law firm management.
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Craig Larson
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| Director, Litigation Product Development |
West, a Thomson Reuters Business
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Since 2006, Craig has worked on litigation workflow product development and the integration of LiveNote with West litigation initiatives. Craig has over seven years of product development experience at West, including integration technology and KeyCite initiatives. He started his career in the editorial division editing treatises, practice books, and statutes.
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Darryl has been in legal IT for 10 years, with 12 years of law firm experience before becoming an IT professional.
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Kerri has more than 10 years of legal accounting experience. Prior to her current position, she worked for Miller & Chevalier and Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, where she helped maximize the usage and benefits of their accounting software packages. She furthered that knowledge by taking a position as a client relations manager for Thomson Elite.
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John Lee
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| Industry Marketing Director |
Open Text Corporation
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John has held his current position since January, 2009. Prior to that, he worked as the Legal Solutions product manager and a pre-sales engineer for Hummingbird. John's experience in the legal industry extends back several years as an employee in New York area law firms and as a consultant for a New Jersey-based systems integrator, specializing in enterprise software specific to law firms.
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A legal training veteran, Char is a co-founder and principal of Traveling Coaches, Inc., a training, applications integration and consulting company. Heading up the team of talented trainers, curriculum developers, eLearning authors and skills assessment consultants, Char continues to provide an unparalleled standard of training products and services to hundreds of law firms throughout the country.
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Thirteen years ago, Gerald was introduced to the world of network computing and project management. During that time Gerald has worked as an IT and project management consultant while earning the PMP, MCSE, CQIA and the ITIL foundation certification. He has also earned a Certification in PM and business intelligence from University of California, Berkeley.
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Peter is the Director of Global Technology at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he has worked since 2006. He is responsible for the firm's technology strategy, planning and implementation, oversees applications and user support, business systems, infrastructure and operations, security and development.
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Dean Leung
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| IT Networks & Operations Director |
Holland & Knight
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Dean joined Holland & Knight as the IT Networks & Operations Director in 2010 and has been in legal IT for 11 years. He received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and holds several IT designations including Citrix's CCA as well as Microsoft's MCSE and was formerly a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Dean has 16 years of IT experience in industries including education, consulting and manufacturing and has written white papers on virtualization, business continuity, as well as voice and data communications. He is also active in the community at UBC as a Convocation Senator and is a member of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Industry Advisory Council.
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Karen has over 20 years of experience in managing law firm technology initiatives including leading a legal technology consulting practice and directing the technology function at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge.
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Steven runs Seattle-based Lexician, helping law firms and departments derive maximum value and obtain rapid ROI from technology and operations investments. He was formerly Senior Director of Microsoft Legal's Information Systems Department. Steven has been a technology, project, and business professional for more than 25 years, including many years specializing in the legal industry.
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Rhonda Lewis
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| Senior Systems Application Analyst |
Balch & Bingham LLP
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Rhonda has been in the technology development and management field for over 24 years with 19 years in legal, and currently employed at the law firm of Balch & Bingham as Senior Systems Application Analyst. Her responsibilities are DM and SQL database administration, project management and software support and implementation. She has been an active ILTA member for many years, serving as a CR for the Birmingham region and Open Text Peer Group Vice President.
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Peter is responsible for setting the overall direction and strategy for EIM, which serves the legal and corporate legal communities. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Peter's current focus includes strategic planning and business analysis for some of the world's largest corporations and law firms. He is a respected member of the ECM community and is a widely-recognized technology speaker.
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Matt currently leads the Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.'s Virtualization xTeam which is focused in the area of server and desktop virtualization, capacity planning and associated management tools. He has been published on the topic of virtualization in both Law Technology News and the ALA's New York chapter newsletter as well as presented on virtualization at previous ILTA conferences.
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Adriana is a legal technology trainer and consultant. Through her company, LawTech Partners, Adriana delivers "tech therapy" sessions to law firms across the country. Comprised of a passionate and experienced consulting team, LawTech Partners offers technology assessments, implementations and training.
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David joined the firm in 2002 and in his 21 years in the legal industry, he has acted in several capacities, including director of information systems, applications manager, client services manager, paralegal and geographic information systems programmer for Voting Rights Act litigation. David also lectures across the United States on the issues of electronic discovery and preservation methodologies. He is a participant and featured speaker of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), Sedona Conference, and LegalTech.
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Keith is a well-regarded expert in the area of legal information management. He has been involved in the legal information management for more than 17 years. He has served in numerous capacities including as paralegal, lawyer, IT director in a law firm and technology consultant to law firms.
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Larry is a lifelong Philadelphian who has worked in the information technology field for more than 40 years. Larry has had management responsibility for more than 30 of those years, and this includes 20 years as the technology leader in three different organizations and industries, including financial services, behavioral healthcare and legal services.
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Duane Lites
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| Director, Litigation Support |
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
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Duane has over 22 years of litigation support experience and has spent 13 of those managing litigation support departments in several large law firms. He is responsible for coordinating all litigation support technology services for the firm's attorneys, paralegals and support staff. He works with the firm's management team to create and implement a strategy for the litigation support department that focuses on quality work product, customer care and leading edge technology solutions. He is the owner/moderator of the National Litigation Support Listserv with over 9,200 members worldwide, a member of the ILTA Litigation Support Peer Group Steering Committee, and a member of the Litigation Support Today Editorial Board.
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Natalie Loeb is the founder and lead consultant of Loeb Consulting Group, LLC (www.loebconsultinggroup.com). Natalie is an executive coach and facilitator with over twenty years experience in employee relations, training program design and facilitation and executive coaching. Clients include top tier legal services firms and other large and mid sized organizations placing a priority on leadership development and using respectful and skillful communication to enhance diverse work cultures and inspire collaboration. Natalie's experience as a member of the Human Resources team at the international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City, provided the foundation for launching her consulting business in 1988. As the lead coach and facilitator, Natalie offers unique and creative coaching and training methods to her clients to support the development of skills and strategies to manage change, transition to management roles and transform to effective leaders.
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During his 15 years in the industry, Michael has helped firms deploy and manage e-mail and document management solutions, install VoIP, evaluate and apply network infrastructure upgrades as well as implement and host specialized applications.
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Prior to going in-house, Rachel was the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Greenfield/Belser, the leading design firm for the legal industry, and was a veteran of Legal Times newspaper. She is the author of It's All About Who Knows Whom, published in the March 2008 of ILTA's Marketing Technologies White Paper. She has also written on collaboration between the marketing and library functions within law firms to create competitive intelligence programs in an article Evolve, Evolve, Evolve, in AALL's PLL Perspectives magazine, Fall 2008 issue. With her husband Robert, she co-authored the LMA's white paper on sustainability, How Green is My Law Firm in 2009.
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Mike has over 25 years of technology experience, having worked in the oil and gas, engineering, telecommunications and legal industries. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Oregon State University and a Master's degree in Information Systems from George Washington University.
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Cecil is a recognized thought leader in the area of electronic discovery and speaks and publishes on a wide variety of e-discovery topics including document review, document retention, data accessibility and international e-discovery. He is an active member of the Sedona Conference and teaches the only university-level e-discovery certification course in the country at California State University in Fullerton. Cecil serves as national coordinating e-discovery counsel to several Fortune 500 companies.
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Cindy oversees the Legal Document Processing Center and Global Product Development Information Center at General Motors. She has spent the majority of her career in law firms developing and deploying technology for the litigation support activities in a variety of specialties.
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Mark has spent the last 17 years in legal IT at Kegler, Brown. He's been an active member of ILTA over the past several years and is currently the Vice President of ILTA's Open Source Peer Group. He speaks and writes frequently on legal technology.
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Hal Marcus
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iCyte
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As Chief Business Development Officer for iCyte, Inc., Hal leads sales, marketing and product strategies for the industry leader in web research management, annotation, and archiving. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and former IP and antitrust litigator at New York's Mudge Rose, Hal has held roles at Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, LiveNote, WordWave, and Law.com, as well as being a frequent industry speaker and published author on legal technologies.
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Browning 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 and meeting 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. He is a frequent and internationally-known teacher and lecturer on various topics including electronic discovery and computer technology.
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Bruce is responsible for strategic planning and managing the daily operations of the Litigation Support Departments. Bruce develops and implements firm policies and procedures, as well as firmwide training programs on all aspects of litigation support. In addition, he provides technical advise to clients and attorneys on e-discovery collections and records retention requirements, prepares data management and compliance policies, and designs and implements litigation and practice support databases, image retrieval systems and other applications. Bruce also holds a Certification as an Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMP).
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Dora Martinez
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| Director of Project Management Office |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
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Dora has over 20 years of experience working in IT with more than 10 of those years concentrated in the legal field. In 2007, she was promoted to Director of Project Management and got the opportunity to implement a formal PMO at Sheppard Mullin. During the past two years, her team has concentrated on developing and implementing project management policies and procedures and deploying the collaborative tools needed to support project processes while simultaneously managing multiple IT projects.
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Leah performs migration consulting, project management and training services. She has worked in the legal field for more than 20 years, specializing in migration services and application development. Leah has been with Payne Consulting Group for the past 10 years.
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Randi is the Executive Director of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) where she is responsible for oversight of all operational aspects of the professional association. Prior to her employment with ILTA, Randi held technology management positions in law firms in Austin, Texas, and served in volunteer leadership roles within ILTA for many years. A member of the American Society of Association Executives and the Texas Society of Association Executives, she has spoken and written on topics related to leadership development and association management topics.
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Mike McBride
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| Litigation Support Manager |
Bricker & Eckler LLP
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Mike has worked in the technology field for more than 10 years, first as a one-man IT shop for a small not-for-profit and eventually moving into litigation support for the past three years. He's been using his personal blog as a way to connect with peers and share ideas since 2001, and he continues to use a variety of social networking tools to enhance his own professional development.
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Scott has more than 18 years of leasing experience. He was a founder and manager of the U.S. Bank: Oliver-Allen's Legal Services Group. Scott's group leased to more than 250 law firms nationwide. He has established leasing partnerships with more than 100 law firms. Scott specializes in law firm technology leasing and is an avid supporter and a speaker of ALA, ILTA, and other legal educational associations. He is published in Law Firm Inc.
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Steve has more than 23 years of experience in the legal technology industry, from developer to CIO. He is currently focused on how SharePoint can be used by law firms as a business solution for their intranet, extranet and Internet needs.
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Whit McIsaac, a legal application technologist with more than 25 years of law office technology experience, has been directly involved in more than 800 case & financial management and CRM system installations. A frequent lecturer in the field of law office technology, Mr. McIsaac is President and CEO of Atlanta-based Client Profiles, Inc., a leading provider of practice management and CRM applications and technology services for the legal profession. Over the past several years, Mr. McIsaac has collaborated closely with Microsoft to develop the Microsoft CRM4Legal application, and in 2009, Client Profiles was named Microsoft Dynamics Professional Services Partner of the Year. He can be reached at WMcIsaac@ClientProfiles.com.
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James McKenna
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| Senior Manager of Infrastructure |
Morrison & Foerster LLP
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Jim is responsible for his firm's network, desktop, messaging, telephony, practice specific technology, extranets, and evaluation of new technology, services, and vendors. He has been with Morrison & Foerster for nine years. He is an award winner of Law Technology News Most Innovative Use of Legal Technology for 2006. He has 19 years of experience in user support, marketing, training and project management. He is the Executive Vice President of ILTA.
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Debbie is currently serving as ILTA's Mid-America Regional Vice President. She has also served the organization as Chair of the Summation Special Interest Group and as a member of the Conference Site Selection Committee, ILTA's Nominating Committee, conference speaker and contributor to Peer to Peer.
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A.J. is a Senior Technology Solutions Professional for Microsoft, specializing in the application of business intelligence (BI) technologies for enterprise customers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. He joined Microsoft in 2006 as part of its acquisition of ProClarity, a BI vendor whose technology has made its way into Microsoft's latest Corporate Performance Management (CPM) offering - Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. A.J. has been engaged in the BI arena for more than 14 years, serving in varied roles (engineering, project management, developer management, database administration and pre-sales). He is a popular speaker who has presented on a variety of BI sub-topics (including OLAP, data warehousing, analytics, reporting, performance management and ETL).
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Beau Mersereau
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| Director of Applications, Development and Support |
Fish & Richardson P.C.
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Beau leads the application and development team in all aspects of intranet, extranet, database and applications development at Fish & Richardson P.C. He also directs the desktop support and training teams at FR. He was the former IT Director at Sutin, Thayer & Browne before leaving to start his own consulting company, Plexix LLC, and a former project leader at ProLaw Software.
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Bill Mertes
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| Director, Software Engineering Practice |
Olenick & Associates
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Bill is an Associate and Director of the Software Engineering Practice for Olenick & Associates. Previously, he held various technology leadership roles for over 20 years at Winston & Strawn LLP. He has been an active member of ILTA, including serving as the 2007/2008 Conference Co-Chair. Bill is also a board member of the LEDES Oversight Committee. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from DePaul University and is an Eagle Scout.
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Martin Metz
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| Director of Information Technology |
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
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Daniel maintains a diverse litigation practice primarily focusing on international and cross-border matters. He has familiarity with recurring issues in international and cross-border litigation and arbitration, including subject matter and personal jurisdiction, the doctrine of forum non conveniens, forum selection agreements, choice of law, international comity, cross-border discovery and the recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements, arbitral awards and foreign judgments.
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Michael started programming database conversions for the legal industry in 1998 and has expanded into several areas of customization since then. Prior to joining AAC, Michael was with ADERANT and served in various roles including conversion programmer, trainer, project manager, and manager of the conversions department. During a short hiatus from the legal industry, he had the opportunity to work on several data warehousing implementation projects in the insurance industry, gaining additional experience and techniques in managing and operating a smooth data migration project.
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David is ILTA’s Regional Vice President for the South Atlantic Region and has more than 15 years of experience in IT, including more than 12 years in legal IT. He is responsible for strategic, technical and operational management for Burr & Forman’s eight offices. His technical skills include multiple MCSE and CNE certifications, and he has expertise and has spoken on topics such as business continuity, WAN optimization, and project management and has presented at ILTA, CAWorld, Interop and others. David has also contributed articles to publications such as BizTech, Peer to Peer and other trade journals.
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Sandy Mikita
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| Information Support Manager |
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
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Brad Miller
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| Director of Marketing Technology |
Blank Rome LLP
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Brad is responsible for the strategic direction of Blank Rome's marketing and business development systems and e-marketing initiatives. His knowledge in this area is extensive, with experience implementing ERM and CRM systems, CRM dashboards, opportunity tracking systems, pitch and proposal generation tools, e-marketing products and numerous websites. Brad currently leads a team of six dedicated professionals challenged with streamlining technology and systems to ensure timely delivery of the firm's marketing services.
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Rudy Moliere
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| Records Manager |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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Col. Morris is about to retire from 30 years commissioned service. He spent the last 27 years as an active component judge advocate and most recently as Chief Prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions.
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Pat has established project offices in two large Toronto firms. She focuses on document and knowledge management systems and the impact these tools have on the practice of law. Pat has spoken at several ILTA-sponsored events including the annual conference and she is currently Vice President of the Autonomy iManage Peer Group.
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Rebecca Morrison
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| Director of Litigation Support Services |
Williams & Connolly LLP
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In her current position, Rebecca is responsible for several practice support functions: litigation support, paralegals and special project attorneys/contract attorneys. Prior to joining Williams & Connolly, she was an associate at Winston & Strawn where her practice focused primarily on antitrust government investigations and litigation.
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Rees is a veteran consultant to general counsel and legal department managers and the host of LawDepartmentManagementBlog.com.
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For the past six years, Tom has been responsible for all aspects of collection, preservation, discovery and production of documents and data in support of the office of General Counsel. Previously, he worked for Summation and CaseVault for 5 years, and 19 years in law firms as a litigation paralegal and litigation support manager.
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Major General Mike Nardotti (U.S. Army, Retired) represents clients on a broad range of defense, national security and other significant issues at all levels across the Department of Defense and other federal agencies and on matters of special interest to members of Congress. He also serves as co-chair of the firm’s Litigation Department. A decorated combat veteran, General Nardotti served for more than 28 years on active duty as a soldier and lawyer. He was The Judge Advocate General – the senior military lawyer in the Army – from 1993 to 1997, advising military and civilian leaders on sensitive, complex and highly-visible legal and policy issues of importance to the Department of Defense, Congress and the media.
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Gerard Neiditsch
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| Executive Director, Business Integration & Technology |
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
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Gerard heads up the Technology, Know How and Applied Legal Technology teams at leading Australasian law firm Mallesons. His teams' focus is on enhancing the delivery of legal services and deepening client relationships through the use of technology.
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David Nevala
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| Information Systems Administrator |
Lukins & Annis PS
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Dave has served LawNet and ILTA as Open Source Peer Group Vice President, served on the ILTA Conference Committee, has been a frequent contributor to various publications and white papers, and has been a frequent speaker at various conferences and events.
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Son Nguyen
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| Manager of Software Development |
Fish & Richardson P.C.
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Son joined Fish & Richardson P.C. in 2003 and is the Manager of Software Development. His law firm was awarded Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm by Law Technology News in 2008 for their OutLaw product, which was developed in house by Son and his team.
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Prior to Mayer Brown LLP, Howard spent 17 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was a partner in their consulting business. His experience has focused on bringing innovative business solutions to a variety of organizations both as a consultant and internal business leader. Howard is also a member of the both the IEEE and ACM.
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Ivo has been involved in legal technology since 1994 when he joined Davies and has held his current position since 2000. He oversees a group of very talented people responsible for the daily IT operations as well as the strategic direction of the firm's technology. Ivo has served on two previous ILTA Conference Committees and is a member of the Risk Management Peer Group's Steering Committee.
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Jim is immigration attorney with over 20 years of experience with many Japanese and German corporate clients. His goal is to help foreign people live and work in the U.S. Jim has appeared on CNN and Bloomberg News television and on many radio programs discussing immigration law, and he given seminars to many business organizations on immigration topics.
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Glenn O'Brien
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| E-Discovery Portfolio Manager |
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
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Glenn is responsible for managing all systems and procedures related to e-discovery. He held prior positions at Liberty Mutual as a paralegal, business analyst, and project manager in various legal functions. Before joining Liberty, Glenn was a paralegal at two Boston-based law firms. Glenn holds a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
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Tim O'Brien
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| Financial Systems Manager |
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
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Tim is the Elite administrator at as well as the primary resource for financial reporting.
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Dan O'Day
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| Senior Director of Product Management |
Elite, a Thomson Reuters Business
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As head of the product management department, Dan is responsible for the future direction and roadmap for Elite's Enterprise and 3E product lines. Dan has been at Elite for more than 14 years and practiced law before joining Elite. His experience brings a unique combination of legal experience and technical talent to the product development process.
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Keven is the CEO of LexBlog, Inc. and a recognized leader on the use of blogs and other social media for law firm practice development.
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Joe B. Oates
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| Chief Information Officer |
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP
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Joe has been with Wright, Lindsey & Jennings for almost eight years. He manages the IM and Audio Visual Departments and handles the technology for the Litigation Support Department. His previous experience was with Xerox Corp. as a Network Systems Analyst and is retired from the Arkansas Air National Guard where he was the Commander of the 189th Communications Flight.
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Patrick Oot
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| Co-founder & General Counsel |
The eDiscovery Institute
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Mary's responsibilities include providing guidance to practice-specific knowledge-sharing tools, along with significant involvement in marketing and business development processes. Prior to her tenure at Akin Gump, Mary was a litigation attorney.
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Todd Partridge
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| Vice President, NA & APAC ECM Portfolio |
Open Text Corporation
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Chris coordinates the services and technologies offered by KPMG's evidence and discovery management team from KPMG's Cypress Technology Center (CTEC). Chris is also the global coordinating partner for Forensic Technology Services.
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Donna is the CEO of PayneGroup. She was the recipient of the first ever Consultant of the Year award given by Law Technology News, and the Lex Proficio award for lifetime service advancement of legal software and publishing. She is a frequent speaker at legal and technical conferences worldwide and has spoken to Congressional committees, the Senate, and at international judicial conferences on the subject of metadata and preventing accidental disclosure. For two years, Donna wrote the Test Drive column for Law Technology and she is a frequent contributor to international publications on technology. Payne is currently on a 26-city tour focusing on Microsoft Office 2010 and is recognized as an expert on the subject. She has authored 12 books on Microsoft Office and is currently working on a book on 2010 along with a humorous business book to add to the collection. Before starting PayneGroup Donna worked at Fortune 500 companies as well in government. DonnaPayne@payneconsulting.com or on Twitter at @Donna_Payne.
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Jarmila has been the Accounting Manager at Hoskin & Harcourt LLP for the past 11 of her 19 years at the firm. She played a major role in the implementation of various projects during the past 10 years and is heavily involved in project budgeting. Jarmila earned a Ph.D in Mathematics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and received her Certified Management Accountant designation in Canada.
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Sergey has been with Ropes & Gray since 2005, joining the firm with the merger with Fish & Neave. In his current capacity, Sergey is responsible for a large variety of multi-tier applications for the firm such as SQL, Elite, iManage, LegalKey and InterAction. He has 12 years of experience in the legal IT vertical, having been involved in programming, litigation support and system administration.
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Ellen has held senior leadership positions for several large international firms and has more than 25 years of legal management and operational experience. She began her career as a legal assistant and became a leader in advocating litigation support solutions for large document collections. She spent 10 years in-house at a Fortune 500 chemical and healthcare company in Wilmington, Delaware and led initiatives for a legal assistant program and in-house litigation support capabilities. At a large litigation firm in Washington, D.C., Ellen developed a litigation support center. As the vice president of operations at Casecentral.com, she was a member of the management team of an emerging technology service provider.
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Mary Pat is a founding member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model Project, a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars and a published author of various articles as well as a chapter on Electronic Discovery for the Fourth Edition of the California Civil Discovery Practice.
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Dale Qualls
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| Director of Information Technology |
Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP
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Dale has been with Pattishall, McAuliffe since 1998 and uses OSS daily in the operations of the firm's technology environment. Dale has been in the IT fields for more than 20 years and holds technical certifications from both Novell and Microsoft.
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Lance Rea
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| Chief Information Officer |
Davis & Gilbert LLP
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Lance has 15 years of experience in IT, including seven years as a consultant in legal technology. He is currently on the Open Source Steering Committee for ILTA. He is also a member of the Advisory boards for ASA Schools, New York and Monitoring Forge.
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Brenton Reeves
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| Legal Administrator |
The US Judge Advocate General's Corps
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Cathy is the Executive Director of Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP (MC&B), a 100-attorney New York litigation firm. She has been with MCB since 1997 and is responsible for finance, technology and human resources. Prior to joining MC&B, Cathy was Vice President and Director of Administration for the Legal Department of Chase Manhattan Bank. Cathy has been a member of ILTA for over 15 years and has held a variety of positions within ILTA, from Conference Co-chair to National President; most recently serving on ILTA's Board of Directors, She is on the Board of the LEDES Oversight Committee (LOC) and is an active member of the ALA. Cathy has been a speaker at a number of ILTA conferences, Legal Tech meetings, National Law Journal seminars and other legal and technology industry meetings. She is also active in her community, where she serves as a Trustee of the local Library.
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Rachelle oversees the firm's knowledge management, litigation support and library teams. This role not only calls on her technology skills, but as a former practicing attorney, she acts as an intermediary between the firm’s attorneys and its IT organization. Accordingly, her role is to develop and implement Sheppard Mullin's knowledge management initiatives across all offices and practice groups, leveraging the firm's knowledge and experience to enhance client service. She is also charged with ensuring that technology projects meet the needs and requirements of clients, attorneys and staff. Additionally, Rachelle is heavily involved in the firm's electronic discovery and document retention initiatives, as well as the day-to-day operations of her litigation support team.
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Judye is the VP of Client Experiences at Esquire Innovations, Inc. She has 25 years of experience in various training roles spanning customer training, technical support and software implementation services for small to large law firms. She frequently consults with law firms on their training staffing, education and "train the trainer" scenarios.
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As a product manager at Microsystems, Kim is responsible for assisting in the design and development of new products as well as the support of existing products. Prior to becoming a product manager 2.5 years ago, she served as a member of Microsystems' Solutions Center team for three years. As a member of this team, she supported clients in "triaging" Word issues and problem documents.
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Dave Rigali
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| Manager of Information Technology |
Thompson Coburn LLP
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Dave has 17 years experience working with law firm technology, including nine years in a senior position for several Am Law 200 law firms. His focus at Thompson Coburn includes heading up client technology services (including e-discovery and litigation support) and several information management and governance initiatives. He is a frequent speaker, has written several articles and is active on a number of ILTA e-groups. Dave is completing his third term on the ILTA Board of Directors.
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Bob has been providing technology as a service since 1986 and specifically for mission critical litigation events since 1997. His current projects at Aquipt include development of new services to drive down and capture IT costs for the highly variable and unpredictable demands of matter specific data.
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Jeffrey has been working with law firms for the past 20 years designing and delivering learning strategies. Currently the President of EncoreTech, he works with top law firms and training departments around on the country on maximizing the value of their training and support dollar. Jeffrey holds a B.A. degree from Depaul University and an M.A. from New York University.
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Ayelette is responsible for the development and implementation of the firm’s technology-based knowledge management systems. She leverages her experience practicing law and her understanding of technology inside and outside the legal industry to design efficient knowledge management solutions that enable attorneys and clients to benefit from the firm’s collective knowledge and experience. Prior to joining Littler, Ayelette was Practice Resources Attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where she oversaw the development, analysis and maintenance of firmwide knowledge management and practice resources.
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Don is an EVP and co-Practice Group leader for the Business Strategy Execution Practice at Project Leadership Associates (PLA), a national provider of business strategy and technology services to the legal industry. Don has over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, strategy execution and financial management, both in corporate roles and as a consultant with large enterprises and law firms. He is a frequent speaker and author on the topics of strategy and mergers and is co-author of After the Merger, published through McGraw-Hill.
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Jason Robman
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| Director of Legal Solutions and Corporate Counsel |
Recommind
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Carlos is a technology leader who is results-driven and delivers services that have a positive impact in an organization's bottom line. At Nexsen Pruet, he is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining day-to-day operations of the firm's network and security infrastructure. During his career, Carlos has focused his efforts on leveraging IP networks in order to enhance internal processes, telecommunications and network security; while delivering valuable tools to increase productivity and enhance the impact of technology on business processes. Carlos also holds leadership roles at organisations such as the IT Counsel of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, and the Carolinas Cisco Users Group.
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David Rohde
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| Director |
Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, A Thomson Reuters Business
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David has more than 12 years of experience, both as a courtroom litigator and in legal technology project management. Before joining Baker Robbins, he was Senior Counsel for IT at the New York City Law Department. David received his LLM in Trade Regulation/Innovation from New York University School of Law.
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Scott Rolf
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| Director of Information Technology |
Tucker Ellis & West, LLP
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Scott previously worked for Compuware as a Senior Network Engineering Consultant. He has been in IT since 1990 and is a member of the steering committee for ILTA's Open Source Peer Group.
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John Roman
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| Director of Litigation Technology Services |
Nixon Peabody LLP
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John is a litigation partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office who represents clients around the globe in an array of antitrust and litigation matters. His practice also involves counseling clients on trade regulation, trademark and commercial issues. John is chair of the firm's e-discovery and electronic information practice group. John lectures across the country on the issues of electronic discovery and record retention programs. He is a participant in the Sedona Conference on Best Practices for Electronic Discovery and Records Management. John also is an advisory board member of the Georgetown University Law Center Continuing Legal Education E-Discovery Institute, Lexis-Nexis, Surety, Inc. and Electronic Evidence, Inc.
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Christopher is the Director of Deployment and Adoption for Microsoft Corporation, part of the U.S. Enterprise & Partner Group. In this capacity, he works with senior product and marketing managers to help customers deploy and realize value from their software investments. Christopher also supports Microsoft Partners and field sales teams, engaging with customers to share industry trends and advise on infrastructure and business productivity optimization. You can follow his blog at www.DeployAdopt.com.
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Jeffrey Rovner
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| Managing Director for Information |
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
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Jeffrey directs the worldwide information functions for his firm, including IT, knowledge management, library, practice support and records.
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George I. Rudoy
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| Director, Global Practice Technology & Information Services |
Shearman & Sterling, LLP
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George is responsible for the strategic implementation of practice specific and information management solutions and services, including oversight of the Practice Technology Support Group and the firm's Information Center, worldwide. Additionally, George is responsible for advising the firm’s attorneys and clients on all aspects of applied legal technology. Previously, he held management positions in legal support at a number of AmLaw 100 law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. He is a seasoned veteran in the international legal support arena and a sought-after speaker at legal conferences worldwide. George periodically writes on a variety of legal tech topics for the main industry publications and was named 2008 "Champion of Technology by Law Technology News, “2006 Globally Recognized” and “Tech Star 2007” in Cititech magazine’s Global Tech Leaders Top 100. He is Chair of the ALM Law & Business’s Legal Tech Educational Board, Vice President of ILTA’s Practice Management Peer Group, author of the Electronic Data Discovery News and Analysis and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Advanced E-Discovery Institute at Georgetown Law Center, Law Technology News and Law.com. He is an active member of the NYU Alumni Association and the Project Management Institute.
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Joy Heath Rush
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| Enterprise Multimedia Services Manager |
Sidley Austin LLP
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Joy is responsible for the training, support and asset management functions firmwide. Currently, Joy is a Past- President of ILTA. She served two prior terms on the Board and was previously Microsoft Special Interest Group Chair. Joy was named IT Champion of the Year for 2008 by Law Technology News and was previously recognized for World Class Leadership by Legal IT (UK).
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Michael Russell
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| Strategic Legal Technologist |
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
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David leads T4G's Business Intelligence (BI) practice, delivering applications and processes that accelerate analytics, reporting and planning. He provides both strategic and tactical leadership to T4G's clients looking to shape or fully leverage their investment in analytic applications. His practice encompasses all aspects of BI projects including BI strategy, dashboard design, benchmarking/metrics management and application development.
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Ahsun provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies, such as network design and administration, enterprise directory design and implementation, enterprise management systems design and implementation, infrastructure, storage, messaging, remote access and document management. He is also experienced in desktop design and integration of a wide range of law office applications. Ahsun has extensive experience of law firm operations as he has consulted for many of the AMLAW top 20 firms, to which he has provided strategic guidance to in areas such as business continuity/disaster recovery, systems consolidation and IT organizational restructuring.
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Ed is a sales and marketing executive with a proven ability to generate revenue growth in service organizations. As CMO for Duane Morris, he was responsible for all marketing and business development initiatives. Under his leadership, Duane Morris was named the best marketed law firm in the United States by American Lawyer Media. He was recognized as "Marketing Director of the Year" in the 2007 Hubbard One Excellence in Legal Marketing Awards. Ed brings over 25 years of experience in branding, media, CRM and client development from Andersen, AT Kearney/EDS and IBM.
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Eileen is responsible for overseeing the architecture and creation of Microsystems software tools. Eileen is a proven leader and accomplished software development professional who has guided the architecture and creation of Microsystems software tools as Vice President of Product Development. She has created an enthusiastic, highly-motivated development team at Microsystems, which has consistently delivered superior product results, including DocXtools, DocXamine, DocXchange, D3 (Dynamic Document Drafting) and Legal TemplatesPlus. Eileen is well-versed in technology and practical in her approach to building products; she credits her success at Microsystems to the use of product management processes combined with pragmatic prototyping.
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Erik Schmidt
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| Manager of Product Marketing & Business Development for eDOCS |
Open Text Corporation
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Erik has 12 years of experience with legal solutions in both corporate and law firm enviroment as both IT operations and as a vendor, with particular expertise in risk management solutions for law firms.
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Risa Schwartz
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| Knowledge Manager | Head of Knowledge Management, Legal |
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Risa is Cisco's Head of Knowledge Management, Legal. Her mandate is to set the knowledge management (KM) strategy and create resources that allow each Cisco legal professional to access the institutional knowledge of the entire department. Prior to joining Cisco, Risa was Manager of Knowledge Management at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She is an attorney who practiced law prior to joining the ranks of KM professionals. She is a frequent speaker and author on both law firm and law department KM issues. Risa is a founder of a newly-formed consortium of legal department KM professionals.
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Kirk has been with Bracewell Giuliani since 1992 and has more than 23 years of IT experience. His IT team consists of more than 50 people, including network engineers, web developers, litigation support, help desk and trainers. Kirk has participated in Texas State Bar Technology Committee projects since 2002. He also serves as ILTA's Regional Vice President for the South Central Region.
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Alexandra has more than 15 years of experience in marketing, business development, fundraising and strategic planning for law firms, entrepreneurial businesses, international organizations and non-profits.
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David is an associate in the trial section of Bracewell & Giuliani's New York office. His litigation practice focuses on internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense and general commercial litigation. David joined the firm after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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David Sheetz
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| Director of Technology |
Townsend and Townsend and Crew, L.L.P.
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David has been with Townsend, a firm specializing in intellectual property, for 13 years. During the past several years, the firm has made significant investments in technology. He has been a speaker at ALA, LMA and local ILTA events.
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Brad maintains strong customer relationships, establishes product strategy and manages product lifecycles for total client solutions. With 15 years in legal markets alone, Brad consulted on strategic technology planning for law firms and others. Previously, he served as CIO/CTO of Troutman Sanders, Powell Goldstein, and Ice Miller. He directed information management including IT, practice support, library services, conflicts and records management.
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Jeri Oglesby Sires
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| Training and Special Projects Coordinator |
Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn, P.C.
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Jeri is responsible for developing and delivering all technical training as well as working on various projects involving firm technology and helping practice groups find ways to increase efficiency and productivity. Jeri is responsible for creating and launching HunterMaclean University and a firm mentor program within the last year. Prior to her position at HunterMaclean, she was an independent technology trainer and consultant for 15 years.
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Steve has over 20 years of IT experience and has been involved in legal technology for over 17 years. Steve has been a speaker at ILTA conferences, ALA regional meetings and Legal Tech. He has served on several ILTA conference committees and has co-chaired the 2005 and 2006 ILTA conference events. Steve was the ILTA New York Regional Vice President and is currently serving as the RVP Liaision on the Board of Directors.
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David has more than 20 years experience in finance, with a concentration in the real estate, human resource consulting and law firm industries. He is the current President for the ADERANT Peer Group of ILTA. At Ford & Harrison, he uses the most current version of ADERANT Expert 7.5, ExpertImage, and continues to implement the eBilling Hub system to assist with the growing number of clients that require electronic billing of attorney services.
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Kathy Smith
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| Systems Administrator |
Nixon & Vanderhye, PC
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Nate has been with MVS for more than 10 years and works on many projects including home improvement and open source software. He would like to learn to fly his hot air balloon.
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Jennifer is a founding member of The Legal Marketing Association: Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter, and served as the 2008 Chapter President. She also serves as Executive Co-Editor of Strategies, the legal marketing journal and is an active member of the Association of Legal Administrators and the American Marketing Association.
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Robert is responsible for all aspects of technology planning, implementation and support at the firm. Robert designed and implemented an all thin-client, Citrix environment providing support for both internal and remote users. Prior to joining the firm, Robert spent 17 years as a consultant providing technology support for law firms in the Washington, DC area.
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Jim is the CEO of Pivot Group. Pivot Group is an Information Security and Data Privacy audit and assessment firm (www.pivotgroup.net).
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Michelle manages Bracewell & Giuliani's firm-wide training needs from their Austin office. She has worked for Texas law firms since high school in various positions, always ending up helping and training people. For the past 13 years, she has been providing training and desktop support and finds that understanding the demands on her users, the work they do and speaking their language helps tremendously.
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Venky joined Stikeman Elliott LLP as Director, Technology in 1998. He has worked as a technology professional since 1986 and has been working in the legal industry for more than 15 years. Venky has served as the head of Technology Special Interest Group of Toronto Law Office Management Association (TLOMA) and is a member of Open Text CIO Legal Advisory Group.
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Prior to Morrison Mahoney, Jenn was the IT Director at Donovan Hatem LLP. Jenn is the Social Networking Coordinator for ILTA '09. She is the author of "Leading Geeks," a blog focusing on best practices for leading technologists (http://leadinggeeks.blogspot.com). You can find her on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter (as @jennsteele).
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Jim Stewart
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| US Sales Director |
PensEra Knowledge Technologies
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Byron is an expert in helping people enhance their emotional intelligence skills. He has delivered more than 200 presentations and facilitated more than 50 customized programs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australia. He is published in The Corporate Board Journal, Global CEO, Training Today and Performance Improvement. His first book, SMART EMOTIONS For Busy Business People, was published in 2008.
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Jeff Suhr
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| Business Intelligence Specialist |
Data Fusion Technologies, Inc.
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Jeffrey has 15 years of legal/financial systems experience. He is involved in the management, marketing and consulting areas of the Data Fusion's IntelliStat product offering. Jeffrey maintains in-depth data mining skills which enable information to be gathered from a number of Legal Practice Management Applications (Elite, Aderant, Javelan) while also possessing a fundamental understanding of general law firm business analysis and accounting practices.
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Candy has 20 years of experience in the IT arena. Prior to making the move to legal IT, she managed international ERP deployments for a professional services firm. At Jones Day, Candy is responsible for development, integration, support and deployment of practice facing applications for the firm's offices in North America, Europe and Asia. She has led several large scale initiatives, including the migration from Docs to Interwoven and more recently the Office 97 to 2003 upgrade.
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Major General Clyde "Butch" Tate serves as the Deputy Judge Advocate General and Commander of United States Army Legal Services Agency. He also serves as the Chief Information Officer and Chairmen of the Information Technology Investment Review Board for the U.S. Army JAG Corps. General Tate graduated from the University of Kansas in 1979, receiving a commission through R.O.T.C. as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He deferred entry to active duty and entered the University of Kansas School of Law, graduating in 1982. In 2005, he completed his assignment as Staff Judge Advocate for III Armored Corps and Fort Hood, Texas, which included an assignment as the Staff Judge Advocate, Multi-National Corps - Iraq.
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Maritta Terrell
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| Trainer & Help Desk Specialist |
Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C.
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Maritta has been a word processor, legal secretary, office manager and IT manager in law firms over 25 years and brings various perspectives to her work. Maritta is also the International Legal Technology Association's City Representative in Austin, as well as a member of the ILTA User Support Steering Committee. She enjoys meeting other people involved in law firm technology and learning from each of them.
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Patrick has been at Shearman & Sterling since 2003. Prior to joining Shearman, he spent almost 20 years in the entertainment industry as a manager specializing in international projects and ERP systems. At Shearman, Patrick has managed various projects including the international deployments of human resources systems and VoIP telephony.
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Mohit is responsible for the strategic direction, sales, marketing and other day-to-day operations of the Legal Solutions Group. He was the co-founder of LegalKEY Technologies, Inc. Mohit has more than 15 years of software development experience and has helped AmLaw clients enhance their compliance operations.
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Norm Thomas
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| Industry Market Development Director |
Microsoft Corporation
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Norm Thomas is the Director for Business Development in Microsoft’s Professional Services Industry Solutions, a team established to drive mutually beneficial relationships between Microsoft and the world’s best application, consulting, system integrator and technology providers in the Enterprise IT marketplace for Professional Services firms. Norm joined Microsoft in 1996 leading tools development and training support in the Enterprise Customer Organization and later became Enterprise Sales Strategy Program Manager for the Worldwide Enterprise Group. He was later promoted to Worldwide Director of Operations for Microsoft Consulting Services. In all of those capacities, Norm was responsible for coordinating training programs, process and tool deployments and strategy coordination for Microsoft’s enterprise businesses.
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Ceyda has more than 15 years of experience in the legal industry. Her unique perspective comes from having worked both for law firms and for a litigation support vendor. She is an active member of many litigation support organizations, including the ILTA '09 Conference Planning Committee and the Litigation Support Steering Committee. Ceyda frequently guest lectures at various colleges and conferences on best practices and litigation technology trends.
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Matthew J Todd
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| Managing Director, Information & Research Services |
WilmerHale
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Matt is a recognized expert in knowledge management, information technology, business analysis, deployment and change management. His experience as an attorney as well as technology industry leader has allowed him to direct project teams in knowledge management for large law firms in the U.S. and abroad.
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Dale Trexler
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| Command Legal Administrator |
The US Judge Advocate General's Corps
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Dale serves as the Command Legal Administrator for the United States Army Forces Command, a position he has held for two years. He graduated from Excelsior College in 2009, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Criminal Justice, and is a graduate of the Warrant Officer Staff and Senior Staff Course. Chief Trexler entered the Army in 1986, and became a Legal Administrator in 1996 serving in a variety of positions which includes deploying to Operation Enduring Freedom with 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and Senior Legal Administrator, The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. He is an eight-time participant in the annual ILTA Conference.
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John offers clients more than 20 years of experience in business and technology management. He has assisted numerous law firms in successfully establishing and executing data center and disaster recovery strategies. Prior to becoming a consultant, John served as Chief Operating Officer and as Director of Technology within the legal field. He is a regular speaker on management and technology strategies and has presented to ILTA, LegalTech, ABA Techshow, the American Corporate Counsel Association and various vendor and regional conferences.
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James Tuvell
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| Director of Knowledge Services |
Fox Rothschild LLP
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Jim has acted as project manager and architect for many enterprise level projects including the firm's SharePoint 2007 deployment, WestKM deployment, enterprise taxonomy creation and many other firm projects. He received his B.A. in History from Rutgers University, an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University and an M.S. in Information Systems also from Drexel University.
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Monica has 20 years of experience in client service, business development and marketing, primarily in the professional services industry including law firms, Big 4 accounting, and systems integration and management consulting firms. She focuses on corralling the resources of the firm to drive business development efforts in her practice group, particularly gathering relevant experience in support of client growth initiatives. She has a B.A. from Auburn University and an M.B.A. from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
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John has been working with marketing technology and InterAction for more than 10 years. At Latham, John designed and managed the InterAction rollout to 20 offices and more than 2,000 users over an 18-month period. In the past, John has also coordinated the InterAction users groups in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Gene is responsible for the firm's technology infrastructure and for the delivery of technology services and litigation support to King & Spalding offices worldwide. He has 20 years of experience in information technology and consulting and holds a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Management of Technology, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Charlene has been with Morrison & Foerster LLP since 2000. She currently manages both Firm Wide Records and the IT Administrative Systems teams. During her tenure at MoFo, she has implemented a records system that currently contains 9 million e-mail and other electronic documents. She has been past president of both the Golden Gate and Silicon Valley Chapters of ARMA and is currently the Vice President for the Records Management Peer Group of ILTA.
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Honora has worked in the legal vertical for three decades with focuses on application evaluation and implementation, and user training and support. She speaks frequently for ILTA, ALA and other organizations. She's been with Perkins Coie for 10 years (currently as a business analyst) and has served as Vice President of ILTA's User Support Peer Group for six years. She also serves on the boards of organizations supporting women in technology, hunger mitigation in Seattle and the arts.
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Alston Walker
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| National Manager, Litigation Support |
Fish & Richardson P.C.
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Alston provides in-house consulting services to F&R's attorneys and paralegals. He is responsible for communicating with firm leadership regarding the direction of litigation technology, promoting the use of litigation technology and managing the Litigation Technology and Support Services Department. He is a member of the Executive board of ECALSM and The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production.
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Kermit Wallace
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| Director of Information Technology |
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
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Kermit has more than 20 years of experience in IT operations and project management in law firms, brokerage and financial services firms, commercial software companies and city government. He has a track record of improving efficiencies in the key areas of technology delivery by challenging and inspiring those who work with and for him.
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Charlotte is the Manager of Technology Services for Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton in Los Angeles. Prior to employment with Sheppard Mullin, Charlotte was the owner of Excelle Training Solutions, providing computer training, documentation and software implementation services to more than 75 law firms and corporate legal departments across the country.
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James Watkins
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| Director of Operators, Trial Technologies |
Kroll Ontrack
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Christian has worked for Farella Braun + Martel for five years. He is known in his eight-person IT Department as the "go-to" man for solutions to complex problems. Christian enjoys working in the IT legal industry because of the pervasive intelligence and creativity of his fellows.
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Peter heads up the Technology, Know How and Project Services Technology teams at Australasian law firm Minter Ellison. Minter Ellison's work on the development of technology platforms was acknowledged when the firm won the Innovative Use of Technology Award at the 2009 ALB Australasian Law Awards.
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Keith Wewe
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| Director of Client Service and Growth |
Content Pilot LLC
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Keith is the chief relationship agent at Content Pilot and works side-by-side with internal firm resources to successfully implement their website, branding and identity solutions and proposal center. Keith brings the added expertise of continuing relationships with clients by developing strategic initiatives to best leverage their investments in line with their marketing and business development activities.
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Meredith is based in the Memphis office of Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowtiz, and serves as a staff attorney in knowledge management and technology-related issues. Meredith is an accomplished presenter for national and local functions in addition to contributing to many articles and white papers. She is a member of the Association of Women Attorneys and the American, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations.
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Bill Wilshire
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| VP and Managing Director, CRM Analytics |
LexisNexis InterAction
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Bill's extensive career at LexisNexis includes development and launch of LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage, integrated tools for law firm management. He managed the Front Office suite of products globally and was a market planner for small law, state/local government markets in Florida. Prior, Bill had various marketing, planning and operations roles with TXU and consulted with Bain & Company.
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Craig joined Winthrop & Weinstine in 1997. Craig is the Director of Information Technology with extensive experience in managing effective, flexible and user-friendly technology systems. At Winthrop & Weinstine, Craig focuses on managing all aspects of technology initiatives at the firm, including providing proactive and efficient applications to better serve staff, attorneys and clients in their technology needs. He is also responsible for ensuring the strength, security and stability of the technology systems.
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Dana has more than 11 years of experience in the legal industry. She primarily manages technology implementation and process change projects, but has also managed facility and business development projects. Her strength is in mobilizing teams to work together over an extended timeframe.
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Carl is a long-time participant in the Chicago legal community. His daily responsibilities include any host of concerns ranging from storage-related matters to messaging infrastructure and other server based technologies. The addition of an operational role assisting the litigation technologies has helped expand the ability of his operational areas to inform and influence the role of litigation support for Mayer Brown.
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Scott brings over 20 years of finance experience in the legal industry. He has written articles which appeared in Law Technology News and Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and has been a speaker at previous ILTA conferences. Scott sits on the board of the LEDES Oversight Committee.
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Paul C. Wittekind
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| Director of Information Technology Services |
Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
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Paul has coordinated the strategic and tactical aspects of Porzio's technology platform since 1993. He is responsible not only for internal technology initiatives but also for coordinating the firm's efforts to strengthen its client relationships through improved technological integration.
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Susan is the founder of Wortzman Nickle Professional Corporation. Her practice focuses on providing e-discovery advice and litigation management support to law firms and corporations. Susan was formerly a partner in one of Canada's leading litigation firms. She has delivered lectures and written seminal papers concerning e-discovery and its impact on litigation. Susan has chaired and participated in professional committees that have developed provincial and national guidelines for e-discovery. She is a member of the Advocates' Society and the E-Discovery Task Force SubCommittee in Ontario. She is the Chair of the Sedona Canada Working Group which has developed national guidelines for e-discovery in Canada.
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Brian leads Microsoft's industry efforts working with professional service firms including consulting firms, accounting, building service and law firms. He manages industry relationships, partnering, marketing initiatives, technology planning and solution development. Brian has a background in product development, marketing, management consulting and investment banking. At Microsoft, he has managed business development teams, international marketing programs and corporate growth-strategy development.
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