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Andrew Z. Adkins, III is a nationally recognized
expert in legal technology and the Director of the
Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida
Fredric G. Levin College of Law as well as Director,
International Center for Automated Information Research
He is the author of "Computerized Case Management
Systems: Choosing and Implementing the Right Software
for You," published by the ABA and the Legal Tech News
Columnist for Law Office Computing Magazine. He is also
the co-author of "The Y2K Resource Handbook and Planning
Guide for Lawyers." He frequently writes and publishes
articles in several legal periodicals and newsletters
and is a frequent lecturer on topics of law firm
technology. Mr. Adkins is the Chair of the
ABA TechShow 2001 Planning Committee.
University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law
PO Box 117621
Gainesville, FL 32611-7621
adkins@law.ufl.edu
www.law.ufl.edu/lti/index.html
Craig Ball is an attorney and consultant nationally
recognized both as a legal technologist and for his
trial work on behalf of injured parties. He frequently
publishes and speaks about ethics, tort law, technology,
trial advocacy techniques, computer forensics and the
Internet Currently, Mr. Ball is serving as a consulting
expert for lead plaintiffs’ counsel in the
Enron/Andersen litigation on matters of computer
forensics, data restoration and electronic discovery and
as a consulting expert or court-appointed Special Master
in computer forensics and e-discovery in other
litigation.
9795 Walden Road, Suite 102
Montgomery, TX 77356
craig@ball.net
www.craigball.com
Toby Brown is the E-Discovery Marketing Manager at
Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston TX. Prior to joining
Fulbright, Toby served as the Communications Director
for the Utah State Bar. In his tenure with the Bar, he
also served as the CLE, Access to Justice and Programs
Director. Toby is also the President of Roberts
Brown LLC. Roberts Brown provides strategic technology
and marketing consulting services. In this role, Toby
serves as a shared CIO for the
Massachusetts Bar, the
New
Hampshire Bar and the Rhode
Island Bar. Finally, Toby serves as the volunteer
CIO for the
Museum
of Utah Art and History. Toby has presented
nationally on a great variety of legal-technology
related subjects. He serves on many technology and
standards committees and previously worked as a law firm
administrator.
Fulbright Tower
1301 McKinney Suite 5100
Houston, TX 77010-3095
713 651 5516
tjbrown@fulbright.com
www.fulbright.com
Mr. Giordano spent nearly eight years at the
LexisNexis corporation (a division of publisher
Reed-Elsevier) as a consultant and instructor. There he
taught principles of electronic research to law students
and advised private attorneys, corporate counsel, judges
and a variety of law enforcement agencies and corporate
security teams on open-source intelligence (OSI). He was
the founder and team leader of the Nexis Government
Technology Task Force, responsible for technology
consulting both to internal and external customers. He
joined the newly-formed LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
in March of 2001 as a Risk Management Consultant. In
that capacity he was responsible for consulting on the
company's products and processes that assist in
conducting due diligence, Internet surveillance and
economic crime management. He has taught, as an adjunct
professor, The Law of the Internet, The Law of
Electronic Commerce and Electronic Evidence & Discovery
at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and Legal Concepts
of Criminal Fraud and Corporate Criminal Liability at
Utica College in New York. Mr. Giordano is a Business
and Legal Strategy Consultant practicing law in Los
Angeles.
giordanolaw@gmail.com
Stuart W. Hubbard has twenty-five years of experience
in the legal industry as a consultant, writer, and
educator. He is the co-founder of Lawyers Advocate,
Inc., a consulting firm and continuing legal education
provider based in Denver, Colorado that advises private
law firms and corporate legal departments on all aspects
of law office automation, management, and economics. He
counts many of the AmLaw 100 among his clients and he
has provided expert testimony on e-discovery issues in
both state and federal courts. Stuart was an
undergraduate at the University of Delaware, and
completed an MA degree and all course work toward a PhD
in communications and rhetoric at the University of
Kansas. He has also pursued additional graduate work in
computer science at North Carolina State University, and
in business at the University of Colorado. He has served
on the Board of the Denver Paralegal Institute and has
been active in the Law Practice Management Section of
the American Bar Association. He is widely published on
topics related to the application of technology to law
practice, and has presented papers at annual meetings of
the National Court Reporters Association, at various
regional and national technology conferences for legal
professionals, and at hundreds of accredited Continuing
Legal Education programs acroos the counrty. He has
published three books on the technology industry,
including "Technology and Law Practice." He is currently
the Firm-Wide E-Discovery Director for Schiff Hardin
LLP, a national law firm headquartered in Chicago,
Illinois.
lawyersadvocate@msn.com
www.schiffhardin.com
Attorney Larry Johnson is President of
Legal Technology Group, Inc., a company
composed of lawyer technologists providing expert
litigation support services to trial lawyers and digital
data audit and risk management services for corporate
counsel. He is also a shareholder in E-Discovery Law
Group, LLC, a law firm that conducts electronic
discovery for law firms as associated co-counsel. Prior
to forming LTG, Larry was Director of Electronic
Discovery Services for Fios, Inc., the e-discovery
company located in Portland, Oregon and, before that, a
consultant to Seattle-based Computer Forensics, Inc.,
advising businesses on electronic data security and law
firms on devising strategies for the discovery and use
of electronic evidence.
8505 129th Ave. SE
Newcastle, WA 98056
larrygj@eskimo.com
www.legaltechnologygroup.com
www.e-discoverylaw.com
Atty.
Ross Kodner is the President and founder of
MicroLaw, Inc., a
20+ year old Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based legal technology
consultancy and turnkey legal automation system
provider. He is a 1986 graduate of Marquette University
Law School where he was a member of the Law Review and
both a St. Thomas More Scholar and Milwaukee Lawyer
Scholar. He also received an American Jurisprudence
Award in Unfair Trade Practices.
Ross was honored as the “Legal Technology Consultant
of the Year 1999, " a lifetime achievement award by The
Technolawyer, Inc. The
Technolawyer
is the largest legal technology online discussion
service in the U.S. with nearly 5000 subscribers. He was
also honored as the “Technolawyer Contributor of the
Year” for 2001 and repeated again for 2002.
He is a very active member of the ABA and its Law
Practice Management Section, having served an
unprecedented four terms as Chair of its Computer and
Technology Division. He also served as a member of the
ABA
TECHSHOW 1998, 1999, 2000 Executive Planning Boards.
He served again on the Executive Board for ABA TECHSHOW
2001 where was responsible for the most-attended
General/Solo & Small Firm Track. He Co-Chairs the CLE
planning at all U.S.
LegalTech conferences (New York and Los Angeles
events each year). He is an active member of the ABA's
General Practice/Solo & Small Firm Section serving as a
Technology Board member as well as an Editorial Board
member of the “Technology & Practice Guide” magazine.
MicroLaw, Inc.
2320 W Camden Rd.
Glendale, WI 53209
rkodner@microlaw.com
www.microlaw.com
Attorney Browning Marean is a partner at
California-based
DLA Piper. His practice focuses on
Complex Business Litigation, Technology Matters,
Professional Responsibility, Knowledge Management and
Browning is a well known legal technologist who is in
constant demand as a speaker at national e-discovery
conferences.
401 B Street, Suite 1700
San Diego, California 92101-4297
browningmarean@dlapiper.com
http://www.dlapiper.com/browning_marean/
George Socha is an attorney and consultant with
extensive experience in electronic discovery, data
manipulation and information management in litigation
and investigations. He is a frequent speaker and writer
on the effective use of technology to support and
enhance the practice of law and is often called as an
expert witness on issues relating to automated
litigation support and electronic discovery.
Socha Consulting LLC
1374 Lincoln Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota
55105 651.690.1739
george@sochaconsulting.com
www.sochaconsulting.com
Rest in Peace, Jim. We'll miss you.
James Keane was a nationally known expert on
litigation support systems. A former Assistant Attorney
General of Maryland, former National Director of Legal
Information Systems and Associate General Counsel at
Arthur Young & Company (Now Ernst & Young.). He
was also
the author of
Litigation Support Systems, An Attorney's
Guide, 2nd Edition and the was the Chair of the ABA ‘s E-Lawyering
Initiative. As an integral part of the Advisory Board as
well as a good friend, Jim will be sorely missed.
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