Leslie Richards and Francois Lassalle are members of Furia Rubel’s International Faculty, an elite group of professionals in key global markets who help law firms manage change, navigate complexity, and achieve their most critical strategic objectives. As Chief Innovation Officer of Furia Rubel Communications, Leslie has been helping marketing and design teams excel for more than 25 years. Francois is an international business leader who has held various leadership positions at Dentons, Linklaters, and the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre. For more information, visit furiarubel.com.

Roy Ginsburg, a practicing lawyer for more than 40 years, is an attorney coach and law firm consultant. He works with individual lawyers and law firms nationwide on business development, practice management, career development, and strategic and succession planning. Over the past 15 years, he has helped over 150 solo and small law firm owners across the country in all practice areas develop their succession plans. Learn more at www.royginsburg.com and www.sellyourlawpractice.com.

Susan Cohodes is a trial attorney who practiced for more than 35 years, first in Chicago and for the last 31 years in Seattle. Susan has spent her entire career fighting for injured clients. In 2024, Susan became Of Counsel to her firm and is now pursuing her passions of knitting, writing — and following her beloved Green Bay Packers around the country.

Tom Elgar is co-founder of Passle, a UK-based technology and media firm. Passle’s Thought Leadership Suite enables lawyers and law firm marketers to easily create and share content. CrossPitch AI aims to remove the friction from cross-selling in law firms by building connections between colleagues based on their shared expertise, industry focuses, or complementary practice areas. Follow Tom on LinkedIn.

Marissa S. Ronk is a partner at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell in Denver, where she represents sophisticated clients in complex commercial litigation and class and mass actions. Miles D. Orton is of counsel at WTO, representing clients in high-stakes litigation and arbitration. Miles also advises clients on the intersection of AI and legal practice, leading research on AI developments and products as a member of the firm’s technology committee. Law 360 has named WTO a  “Denver Powerhouse” for both 2024 and 2025. Since its founding in 1998, WTO lawyers have taken more than 1,100 trials and arbitrations to verdict or award, and hundreds of appeals to opinion, in 45 states and Washington, D.C.

David Arato is the founder of Lexicon Legal Content, a content marketing firm that creates SEO-optimized and consumer-focused content for law firms and digital marketing agencies throughout North America. He leverages his extensive legal and marketing expertise to help clients enhance their online presence and attract more clients. Get in touch on LinkedIn or email david@lexiconlegalcontent.com.

Gary P. Bauer is an attorney and Distinguished Professor Emeritus and visiting professor at Cooley Law School. He created the school’s “Solo By Design” program, which helps students develop business plans for starting their own practices, and served as director of the Sixty Plus Estate Planning Clinical program. He is the author of  “Hire and Retire, A Plan for a Continuing Income Stream in Retirement from any Practice” and “Solo Lawyer By Design: A Plan for Success in Any Practice,” published by the American Bar Association. Recipient ABA Solo and Small Firm Division Trainer Award and the State Bar of Michigan Outstanding Achievement Award, Prof. Bauer blogs at Solo Lawyer By Design.

David Hunter, CFP, is a certified financial planner and owner of First Light Wealth, LLC, a financial planning and wealth management firm with a unique focus on serving attorneys nationwide. David has over a decade of experience helping clients build financial plans and has been featured in publications such as Attorney at Work, Above The Law, ThinkAdvisor, MarketWatch, Financial Planning, and InvestmentNews. David also writes the popular weekly newsletter, Money Meets Law. For more about David, visit firstlightwealth.com/lawyers or connect with him on LinkedIn.

Merrilyn is the author of “Getting Clients: For Lawyers Starting Out or Starting Over.” She has been helping lawyers and law firms think differently about the business of practicing law since 1984. She is a founding member of the Legal Marketing Association, an LMA Hall of Fame inductee, and a past President of the College of Law Practice Management. Merrilyn was a founding partner of Attorney at Work. 

Julia Jimenez is a Client Success Manager at Opus 2, a leading legal software and services provider. Before joining Opus 2 in 2024, she practiced as a litigation attorney for nearly a decade.

Walter D. McCorkle is a Business Development and Marketing Technology Manager at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (@BradleyLegal). He helps build brand awareness, reputation, and strength through the use of content and social media for the 500-attorney firm.

Kathryn Lye is a B2B marketing leader who writes about modern legal workflows and practical ways attorneys can deliver more value with less stress. She focuses on approachable, tool-agnostic guidance for busy practitioners. She is director of marketing at Definely, an AI-powered legal tech company that enables lawyers to efficiently and accurately review complex contracts.

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Jill Schornack is a product strategy and portfolio management professional experienced in full product lifecycle management, new product ideation and development, and leading teams to protect core businesses and accelerate growth platforms. She is a 2025 Fastcase 50 honoree and the Vice President of Product at NetDocuments. With over 20 years of experience in legal tech, Jill has guided law firms and corporate legal departments through numerous waves of technological change and is a recognized thought leader in AI and automation innovation. She lives with her family in Minnesota, the “State of Hockey.”