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Loretta Ruppert is the Sr. Director with LexisNexis Law Firm Practice Management. Loretta brings experience as a previous business owner and legal technology consultant, a manager of professional services for a CPA firm, an accountant, and a subject matter expert for developing back-office software. Probably most relevant, she is a former law firm employee and user of law firm practice management and financial systems. Follow her @LorettaRuppert.

Susan Saltonstall Duncan is President of RainMaking Oasis, Inc., a business development and management consulting firm. She is a founding member of the Legal Marketing Association, an inductee in the LMA’s Hall of Fame and a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. In her blog, InFocus – Insights on Legal Practice Strategies and Innovations, Susan considers challenges facing the legal profession and offers remedies and approaches to address them.

Brett Owens Brett Owens is CEO and Co-Founder of Chrometa, an automatic timekeeping software product designed for solo and small firm attorneys. Follow him @brettowens.

Don Wright is is Information Systems Manager for the Association of Legal Administrators(ALA), with 30 years of experience in systems architecture and IT security.

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Marian Lee is the Director of Professional Development and Risk Management at Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and author of  Building Your Ladder: An Associate’s Guide to Success Beyond Partnership (ABA 2013). An attorney with almost 16 years of practice experience, Marian directs the firm’s professional development programs for attorneys in all offices, including orientation, in-house training, outside CLE opportunities, evaluation systems and other programs that support the professional growth of the firm’s attorneys.

Russ Haskin is the Director of Consulting at LexisNexis Redwood Analytics. Russ has been a trusted advisor to over 200 law firms across the globe ranging from small firms to several within the AmLaw 10. He is a recognized expert in matter management, alternative fee arrangements and profitability consulting. In addition, his research on legal management topics has been published by multiple journals.

Charlie Montiaglo is legal program director for Biscom, is a seasoned IT professional with more than 30 years of experience in application development, IT project management, business development, and channel and direct sales.

William Melater is a young associate attorney working at a firm focused on commercial litigation and transactional work. A self-described legal hunter and gatherer, Bill has accumulated a plethora of legal certificates and diplomas—all of which have been appropriately framed and hung behind his desk. Bill has a distaste for emails, suspenders, fake tans, paralegals who cry, sea urchins and attorneys who repeat the phrase “this is my bottom-line offer.” When irked, Bill blogs about his experiences at Attorney at Work.

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Antigone Peyton is the founder of Cloudigy Law, an Intellectual Property (IP) and technology law firm in “the cloud.” After a career in Big Law she founde her inner entrepreneur and now muses about positive disruption in the legal services marketplace. She’s an unabashed technophile and blogs about IP, elawyering, emerging tech and e-discovery issues on the Decoding IP blog. Before law, she worked as a scientist, conducting clinical and pre-clinical studies at a large medical institution. Antigone tweets a @antigonepeyton.

Carol Gerber is owner and founder of Gerber Amalgamated LLC, a legal technology consulting company devoted to helping attorneys make better use of technology in their practices. Previously, she was Director of Learning & Professional Development at Moses & Singer LLP, where she worked on new technology initiatives and numerous training programs. Carol is an attorney, admitted in New York State, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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