Renée Pastor is Founder & Wealth Manager at The Pastor Financial Group, a comprehensive financial planning and wealth management practice headquartered in New Orleans. The firm specializes in retirement planning and 401(k) account management for families and individuals nationwide. To learn more, please visit thepastorgroup.com. Follow Renée on LinkedIn and @pastorgroup

Tom Lambotte is Founder and Chief AI Simplifier at AI Simplifier, which he started in January 2025 to teach founders, CEOs and their teams to use AI strategically. His flagship, The AI Sprint for Founders, runs four weeks, four live 90-minute sessions, built on 8 AI Mindsets and 14 named thinking tools. 225 founders and 294 team members from 198 companies and 18 industries have taken it, over half in regulated industries. He founded GlobalMac IT in 2006 and wrote four books, one of them published by the American Bar Association. Connect with Tom on LinkedIn here.

Curt Brown is Co-Founder and Chief of Legal Innovation at Overture Law, where he also serves as General Counsel. In 2023, Curt was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers. He has also been recognized as a California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY Award) by The Daily Journal and Pro Bono Attorney of the Year by the USC Law School Public Interest Law Fund. Curt is a founding partner of L&F Brown, P.C. and Chief Legal Officer of BizCounsel, Inc., which provides subscription legal plans to small and growing businesses.

Joey Seeber is CEO of Level Legal, an e-discovery, managed review, and consulting company dedicated to delighting corporations and law firms through concierge service. Joey also served three terms as mayor of Tyler, Texas, and earned his J.D. from Baylor University. Follow him on LinkedIn and at @JoeySeeber.

Michael T. Murray is VP of client strategy for Veritext Legal Solutions. He stays on top of litigation technology trends and provides informative and entertaining CLE programs, educational instruction, and product demonstrations to legal professionals across the nation. Follow him on LinkedIn and @Veritext.

Lee Rosen is a globetrotting lawyer and remote-work guru, director of the Rosen Institute, a community of lawyers learning to grow their practices, and author of the popular Friday File newsletter. Lee is a recipient of the ABA James Keane Award for excellence in eLawyering. Follow him on LinkedIn and on Twitter @LeeRosen.

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Zenell B. Brown is an attorney, author and sought-after speaker and trainer on leadership and inclusion. Zenell has worn many hats during her legal career. She began as a paralegal and currently serves as a court administrator in Detroit. During the pandemic, she wrote and published “Coffee and Conversations: Inclusion and Belonging,”  a 28-minute read encouraging the legal community  to stir up good conversations and start creating inclusion where they are right now with what they have. On weekends, Zenell can be found in her studio painting and creating mixed media art for journals, cards and clothes. Follow her on LinkedIn.

Alexandra Davis is an attorney and legal industry ghostwriter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has ghostwritten and edited articles, eBooks, whitepapers, and memoirs for legal industry leaders and is the founder of Davis Legal Media, a content strategy service for the legal industry.

Laura Bagby is the Communications Director at the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (2Civility), which promotes integrity, professionalism, and civility among lawyers and judges. To learn more, click here and follow the Commission on LinkedIn.

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Donna Seyle is a blogger, writer and founder of Law Practice Strategy, a resource center for lawyers. She is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law and has 22 years of professional experience in the law in California, Hawaii and New Mexico.

Anthony Davies is Chief Revenue Officer of Forrest Solutions Legal, the dedicated legal division of leading onsite outsourcing and staffing solutions provider Forrest Solutions. He speaks frequently at industry events including ARMA, ALA Annual and the COO CFO Forum. Follow Anthony on LinkedIn, here.

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Andy Banquer, QuisLex Vice President, Corporate Solutions, is a hands-on architect and implementer of contracting improvement initiatives and support services. He has done extensive work with general counsel, commercial practice and legal ops leaders to turn strategic objectives into actionable activities. He has 20-plus years of in-house experience at HP and Agilent Technologies, providing pragmatic counseling to business clients and managing global teams. He now works closely with AI providers to integrate AI capabilities into client companies’ contracting lifecycles.