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Roberta Montafia is the Chief Visionary Officer of The Legal Mocktail, a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a past president of the Legal Marketing Association and a member of the Legal Marketing Association Hall of Fame. She can be reached at Roberta@montafia.com.

Richard Hunt is a board certified business litigator with more than 30 years of experience trying a wide variety of cases. He serves as a member of the examination committee of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and manages litigation CLE for his firm, Munsch Hardt Kopf  & Harr P.C., as well as teaching individual courses in trial strategy and case management.

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Kim Proxmire is a senior strategist for Greenfield/Belser, with a background of in-house and entrepreneurial law firm marketing and brand development. With 22 years of experience as a legal marketing and brand strategy consultant, Kim brings knowledge of developing and managing strategic level marketing and business development programs to small and mid-sized law firms. Prior to consulting, she was an in-house Director of Marketing for several Midwestern law firms and corporations, including Anheuser-Busch.

Ken Broda-Bahm is a Senior Litigaton Consultant at Persuasion Strategies, and has provided research and strategic advice on several hundred cases across the country applying a doctorate in communication emphasizing the areas of legal persuasion and rhetoric. A tenured Associate Professor of Communication Studies, he is also a past President of the American Society of Trial Consultants. Dr. Broda-Bahm blogs at PersuasiveLitigator.com.

Kristin Zhivago is a revenue coach who helps entrepreneurs and CEOs increase their revenue. She is an expert on the customer’s buying process, and the author of Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy. Kristin blogs at Revenue Journal.

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Matthew Homann is the founder of LexThink, a legal innovation consultancy that delivers conferences, retreats and workshops for lawyers and other professionals who want to embrace creative ways to grow their businesses and serve their clients better. As a dynamic “innovational” speaker, Matt shares innovative pricing strategies, creative marketing techniques, cutting-edge ideas from other industries and professions and proven customer service principles. Matt blogs at the award-winning “the [non]billable hour,” where he shares innovative ways for lawyers and other professionals be better at what they do.

Tom Kane is the president of Kane Consulting, Inc. and author of the Legal Marketing Blog. A former practicing attorney, he has more than 25 years of experience assisting lawyers with their marketing and business development strategies, and individual coaching needs.

Toby Brown is the Director of Pricing for law firm Vinson & Elkins, where he works with firm partners and clients in developing successful alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). Toby presents and publishes nationally on legal technology, marketing and law firm management. He received the Peer Excellence Award, the President’s Award and the Anne Charles Award from the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE). He maintains the ABA award-winning 3 Geeks and a Law Blog with two colleagues, is active on Twitter as @gnawledge and can be found here on LinkedIn.

Ellen Ostrow is the founding principal of Lawyers Life Coach LLC, a firm specializing in leadership, career, business development and work/life integration coaching for attorneys and consultation to legal employers. Since 1998, Ellen has been known for her work helping women attorneys overcome barriers to advancement and coaching all lawyers to achieve career success without compromising the quality of their lives. Her Ph.D. in psychology enables Ellen to bring a unique depth of understanding of human behavior to her coaching. She attained her coaching certification from the MentorCoach™ program, in which she now serves as a member of the faculty.

Dwight Sholes is an independent digital direct marketing consultant. Sholes LLC helps clients develop and execute targeted online marketing campaigns that build brands and drive ROI, with particular focus on email marketing for the travel industry. He is a member of the invitation-only email organization Only Influencers and co-chair of the DMA’s Email Experience Council Cross-Channel Marketing Roundtable. Dwight is a frequent speaker at industry conferences in the United States and abroad, and recently conducted an email marketing workshop for online travel companies in Mumbai, India.

Jeffrey Morgan has more than 25 years of experience working with professional service firms on branding, marketing communications, business development and website strategy. He is a Principal with Moiré Marketing Partners, a strategic branding and communications agency specializing in the success of professional service firms. He can be reached at jmorgan@moiremarketing.com or (562) 425-7600.

Carey Ransom is an Internet marketer and software entrepreneur. He is currently CEO of RealPractice, a leading cloud-based client development and practice management software platform. Carey is a frequent speaker on legal technology topics and an active blogger and social media participant. He has written for ABA Law Practice Today, ILTA Peer to Peer and California Bar magazine.