Paul Garibian is a fintech expert, entrepreneur, and executive who has spent nearly 20 years helping financial institutions drive product development, grow revenue and market share. Paul currently serves as CEO of Nota, a cloud-based fintech platform that provides business banking solutions for attorneys managing solo and small law firms. Powered by M&T Bank, Nota helps simplify and personalize business banking.

Brendan Nelson is General Manager, Legal Business Solutions (LBS) at LexisNexis. He has spent the past decade working with a variety of innovative businesses focused on how legal work gets done — from the way it is resourced (Axiom), to the processes and technologies that enable it (Factor), to the analytics that should better inform it (Knowable).  At LBS Brendan oversees Sales, Marketing, Product, Business Operations and Professional Services activity for CounselLink, InterAction, and Juris). Follow him on LinkedIn and @BrendanNelson_1 and @LexisNexisLegal on Twitter.

Brent Pelton is a partner at Pelton Graham in New York City. His practice focuses on representing employees alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its state law counterparts, employees who have been subject to sexual harassment and other forms of workplace discrimination. Brent has served as lead counsel or co-lead counsel on FLSA collective actions and other class actions against some of the largest companies in the country. He is admitted to the New York and California bars.

Scott Wilson is an award-winning communicator with Lend-Grow, a student loan refinancing marketplace. Lend-Grow provides people access to harder-to-find lenders who typically offer better rates. Scott was previously Executive Producer at an ABC affiliate in Lynchburg, Virginia. Follow him on LinkedIn and @Lend_Grow.

Dan Lear is a lawyer and legal industry gadfly and the Chief Instigator of Right Brain Law. As a practicing attorney he advised technology companies from startups to the Fortune 100. Since his transition from tech lawyer to legal technologist, Dan’s been featured or published widely in the legal industry press and spoken to at SXSW Interactive, Ignite Seattle, Georgetown University, Stanford University, ReInvent Law, and the National Conference of Bar Presidents. Most recently, Dan was the Director of Industry Relations for Avvo. Follow him @rightbrainlaw.

Lori Mihalich-Levin believes in empowering working parents. She is the founder and CEO of Mindful Return, author of “Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return to Work from Maternity Leave,” and co-host of the Parents at Work Podcast. She is mama to two wonderful red-headed boys and is a partner in the health care practice at Dentons US LLP. Her thought leadership has been featured in publications including Forbes, The Washington Post, New York Times Parenting, Thrive Global and The Huffington Post.

Lauren Smith is a principal for the National Partner Group of Parker + Lynch Legal, where she represents individual partners, counsel and groups in connection with partner hiring and office openings nationwide. Lauren also recruits attorneys at all levels for the Washington, D.C., market. Before joining Parker + Lynch, Lauren was a litigator with Venable LLP and worked as in-house counsel for a real estate company in Los Angeles. Follow her on LinkedIn and @ParkerLynch

Amy Collins is Associate Principal, Director of Design for PDR Corp., a workplace consultancy and a creative design and architecture firm that specializes in the delivery of innovative workplace design and solutions. Follow her on Instagram at PDRcorp and on LinkedIn and @PDRcorp #cooloffices.

Joshua Baron regularly consults with law firms and individual lawyers on building referral relationships. He is a criminal defense lawyer in Salt Lake City, UT, and the author of “The Business of Criminal Law.” After co-founding SB Legal in 2009, Joshua has represented hundreds of criminal defendants in state and federal court. He and his wife, Brittany, have 11 children. Connect with Joshua on LinkedIn and follow him @JoshBaron.

Briana Hulet is the Director, Legal Solutions at QuisLex, a legal services provider specializing in executing complex document review, contract management and compliance. A former Big Law litigation attorney, Briana oversees the supervision and management of client engagements, defining and implementing protocols for complex and large-scale matters. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law. Robert Coppola is the Vice President, Legal Solutions and Strategic Growth at QuisLex, where his responsibilities include operational oversight and execution, management of key client relationships, and driving strategic growth across QuisLex’s service lines. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Joshua M. Peck is CEO of Joshua Peck Legal Communications. He has worked in legal PR since 1994, as a consultant and in-house at three AmLaw 100 law firms. In 2002, Joshua co-founded Law Firm Media Professionals (LFMP), a national association of in-house and outside media and marketing professionals dedicated to improving how they deliver public relations and communications services to the outstanding law firms they serve. He can be reached at joshuam.peck@gmail.com. His video on working with the press is visible here.

Former Goodwin Procter private equity M&A, Josh is the founder of Biglaw Investor. He started his legal career with over $200,000 in debt and soon realized that paying off debt, learning the tax code and mastering retirement accounts would be a second job, whether he wanted it or not. Over the past decade, Josh has made it his mission to pass along the lessons he learned along the way to accelerate other lawyer’s journey to financial independence. He lives in Austin with his wife and son.

Alison Lupel is a Senior Account Manager of Key Accounts at Smokeball.  A former practicing attorney, real estate broker, and high school teacher she enjoys collaborating with law firms as she brainstorms ways they can increase both productivity and profitability using Smokeball.

Kimberly McTorry is a trial lawyer and managing partner of McTorry Law (www.shesmylawyer.com) in Humble, Texas. Prior to forming her own law firm, Kimberly was a prosecutor at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston. Kimberly is a graduate of Belmont University Law School,  a charter member of Belmont Law’s Board of Advocates, and a fellow of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Diversity Leadership Institute. Follow her on LinkedIn and @shes_my_lawyer on Instagram.

Susan Ethridge is a writer, editor and marketer with more than 15 years’ experience in the legal technology industry. A co-founder of OnCall Discovery, she writes blog posts and articles that explore the nuances of data and discovery management, legal marketing, and relationship nurturing.