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Robert Ambrogi

Publisher, LawSites/LawNext

Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists’ roundtable, Legaltech Week. He is also cofounder of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Nicole Black

Head of SME and External Education, MyCase

Nicole Black is a Rochester, N.Y., attorney, author and journalist, and SME and external education director at MyCase, legal practice management software. She is a nationally recognized author, journalist, and speaker on legal technology topics. She is the author of the book, Cloud Computing for Lawyers (2012), and co-author of the book, Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier (2010), both published by the American Bar Association. She also co-authors "Criminal Law in New York," a Thomson Reuters treatise. She writes regular columns for Above the Law, ABA Journal, and The Daily Record, has authored hundreds of articles for other publications, and regularly speaks at conferences regarding the intersection of law and emerging technologies. She is an ABA Legal Rebel, and is listed on the Fastcase 50 and ABA LTRC Women in Legal Tech.

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Jeffrey Schoenberger

Senior Consultant, Affinity Consulting Group

Jeffrey R. Schoenberger is an attorney and senior consultant for Affinity Consulting. Jeffrey specializes in practice management advisory services, including content development, CLE presentations, and member consultations. He is also Affinity’s designated Apple expert.

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John Heckman

President, Heckman Consulting

I founded Heckman Consulting as a pure solo in 1997. Recently I have dealt primarily with document management/Worldox. I am a member of the World Software consultants’ advisory board, the “Inner Circle.” My book, Worldox in One Hour for Lawyers, published by the ABA, is now in its third edition.

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Document Management
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Marc Lauritsen

President, Capstone Practice Systems

Marc Lauritsen is a Massachusetts lawyer and educator with an extensive background in practice, teaching, management, and research. He helps people work more effectively through knowledge systems. He has taught at five law schools.

Expertise
Document Automation
Expert Systems
Decision Support
Social media

Geoffrey Heffernan

Founder, O'Heffernan LLC

Geoffrey Heffernan is an attorney and the founder of O'Heffernan LLC, a New York law practice. He previously worked in-house on energy trading contracts for more than a decade. He is a demanding end user of information technology.

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Tom O'Connor

Director, Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center

Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. Tom’s consulting experience is primarily in complex litigation matters where he has worked with firms of all sizes, including on behalf of the plaintiffs in the BP litigation. He has also been appointed as a technical consultant by various federal and state courts on cases dealing with large amounts of electronic evidence.

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E-discovery
Litigation
Small Firm/Solo
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Clare Bilobrk

Topic Specialist, Vable

After 25 years managing legal library and information services, I switched careers and opted for a flexible life in the legal tech/SaaS market. I enjoy sharing ideas with information professionals through the Vable blog, our social media accounts, as well as speaking at conferences and webinars.

Expertise
Library and Information Management
Legal Research
Current Awareness
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Barron Henley

Partner, Affinity Consulting Group

Barron K. Henley, Esq. is one of the founding partners of Affinity Consulting Group, a legal technology consulting firm focused on automating and streamlining law firms and legal departments. Mr. Henley heads Affinity’s document assembly/automation and software training departments. He is also an expert in launching new law firms, overhauling existing firms, and documenting and re-engineering law firm processes.

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Bart Earle

Vice President, Capstone Practice Systems

Bart Earle, vice president, is a programmer and technology consultant with a 23-year history of private legal practice. He has done intensive work in document automation since 1996. Bart is a graduate of Boston University Law School.

Expertise
Document Assembly
Document Automation
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Ezequiel Braun Pellegrini

CEO, Brevity

I am a lawyer turned entrepreneur based in Argentina. It was 2020 when I left my practice to launch Brevity, a legal entity management company. Firm believer of life-long learning, the need to #makelawbetter and the power of technology to advance lawyers, clients and the underserved.

Expertise
Future of Work
Entrepreneurial Law
Access to Justice
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Michael Quartararo

President, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists

Mike Quartararo is the President of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), a veteran of the legal services industry and author of the book Project Management in Electronic Discovery.

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E-Discovery
Information Governance
Project Management
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Serena Wellen

Senior Director of Product Management, LexisNexis North America

Serena Wellen is Senior Director of Product Management for LexisNexis North America. Her portfolio includes AI-enabled workflow tools, analytics, and advanced search capabilities. She leads multidisciplinary teams focused on applying machine learning, and other advanced technologies to solve common customer problems.

Expertise
Litigation Analytics
Brief Drafting and Analysis
Matter Management
Chatbots/Legal Bots
Expert Systems and Decision Automation
Data Visualization
App Development
Workflow Automation
Legal Research
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Jason Broughton

Chief Design Officer, LexisNexis

Jason Broughton is chief design officer at LexisNexis. He is responsible for driving the company-wide product design and research functions while overseeing global digital marketing and e-commerce.

Jason joined LexisNexis from Zappos.com, an Amazon company, where he led UX, analytics, and creative services through a period of peak NPS and record profit. Prior to Zappos, Jason led global design at Active Network, a multinational SaaS platform.

Earlier in his career he designed the original interface for the Wayback Machine, Yahoo Website of the Year, and helped the Library of Congress with its first web archive. He worked for Stanford University to advance the use of technology in online learning. As an early employee of Amazon, he spent many years designing products; notably for Alexa and A9. While at Amazon he pioneered search and browser technologies core to how the web works today.

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Cate Giordano

Founder & Legal Tech Writer, CML Digital Marketing

Cate Giordano founded CML Digital Marketing, LLC in 2021. She has over 15 years of experience in the legal field as a paralegal, marketer, and writer. Cate is passionate about helping law firms run their best business with tech solutions.

Expertise
Law Practice Management
Law Firm Marketing
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Nathan Cemenska

Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions

Nathan Cemenska, JD/MBA, is the Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions. He previously worked in management consultancy helping GCs improve law department performance and has prior experience as a legal operations business analyst.

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Abhishek Mittal

Global Head of Data Analytics and Operational Excellence at Wolters Kluwer

Abhishek Mittal is the Global Head of Data Analytics and Operational Excellence at Wolters Kluwer, where he is Responsible for driving business transformation and new product innovation.

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Cheryl Wilson Griffin

Principal Consultant, Legal Tech Consultants

Cheryl is a strategic consultant with more than 20 years’ experience leading innovation in the legal tech space. She helps high-growth companies scale their technologies, talent, and tactics to realize their most ambitious goals.

Expertise
Innovation
Strategic Operations
Leadership
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Lance Eliot

Founder & CEO, Techbrium, Inc.

Dr. Lance Eliot is a globally recognized expert in AI and law and serves as a Stanford Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, a joint affiliation of the Stanford Law School and the Stanford Computer Science Department. His popular Forbes column has amassed ove 6.8+ million views.

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AI and Law
AI-based Legal Tech
AI Regulations
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Esosa C. Ohonba

Founder, Layman, Ltd.

Esosa Ohonba is changemaker, litigator, academic, and law student at New York University School of Law. Esosa is uniquely interested in access to justice, civil rights, and justice tech. Esosa can be found providing supportive housing services to his two-year-old cat Pablo.

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