Renee Branson is a workplace well-being and trauma expert working with law firms globally. Combining 25 years in education, counseling, nonprofit leadership and as a Certified Resilience Coach (CReC), her passion and purpose is helping individuals, teams, and organizations cultivate resilience. Learn more at her website, www.reneebranson.com, and follow her on LinkedIn.

Katherine (Katie) Hollar Barnard is the managing partner of Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing, a marketing communications firm that focuses on law firms and legal services providers. A former Big Law CMO, she advises law firms and legal service providers on brand identity, marketing communications and more. She has helped lawyers start new law firms in a variety of fields, from intellectual property to mediation to insurance recovery. Follow Katie on LinkedIn.

Nada Alnajafi is an award-winning in-house attorney, blogger, author and founder of Contract Nerds. She is corporate counsel for Franklin Templeton, a Fortune 500 global financial services organization, and previously served as in-house counsel for booming startups and large OEMs. With her dynamic legal and consulting background, she is a trusted advisor, business partner, project manager, creative problem-solver and skilled negotiator. Nada is passionate about contracts and dedicates much of her free time to creating resources about contracts for lawyers including via her blog Contract Nerds, her book “Contract Redlining Etiquette,” and her LinkedIn posts.

Sergei N. Freiman is an advisor to top management of professional service firms. At awezzom, he developed proprietary integrative models that allow firms to manage organizational entropy. Attending to critical control points at nine levels of an organization, firms (for themselves and with existing resources) may reveal new capabilities. Originally from Europe, Sergei has 20 years of business development experience. Today he lives in New York City.

CosmoLex is a comprehensive software for practice management, accounting, billing, document management, and more for lawyers. An end-to-end application to help you work faster, increase efficiency and accuracy, and ensure you stay compliant. Try for free at www.cosmolex.com.

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Julia Roundtree Livingston is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager at the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism where she leads the Commission’s education and advocacy initiatives aimed at promoting DEI in Illinois’ legal and justice systems. Follow her on LinkedIn.

Yuliya LaRoe is the CEO of LeadWise Group, an award-winning leadership and business development consulting firm. For over a decade, Yuliya’s mission has been to help lawyers and leaders in law firms, in-house legal departments, and corporations to successfully manage their most critical issues: Strategy, Talent, Leadership, and  Business Development. To get in touch with Yuliya, email her at ylaroe@leadwisegroup.com and follow her on LinkedIn.

Ida O. Abbott is a leader in the field of talent management. She has enjoyed a four-decade career as a lawyer and consultant and now applies her talents to help firms improve retirement processes and to serve senior professionals as a retirement mentor and coach. The Wall Street Journal named her book “Retirement by Design” one of the best books of 2020 on retirement and aging. She is a Fellow of both the American Bar Foundation and the College of Law Practice Management. She is the author of numerous seminal books, including “The Lawyer’s Guide to Mentoring, 2nd Edition” and “Sponsoring Women: What Men Need to Know,”  and is a popular speaker. Learn more at www.IdaAbbott.com.

Raul Gastesi is co-founder of Gastesi Lopez & Mestre. Raul founded Gastesi & Associates in 1997 and, in 2019, joined forces with his partners to create Gastesi Lopez & Mestre. During his more than 35 years in private practice, he has acquired vast experience in handling commercial, real estate and municipal transaction litigation. Raul also serves as the Town/City Attorney for Miami Lakes and Doral, providing legal advice and counsel to the municipalities’ elected public and appointed officials, departments, authorities, boards and committees.

Josh Newton is an Account Executive at Opus 2, a leading legal software and services provider.

Kevin Harris is Project Manager at Orion Law Management, Inc. (@Orion_Law), a provider of financial and practice management software for law firms founded in 1985. Kevin has been at Orion for over 20 years, actively working to bring efficiency and automation to lawyers and legal staff.  Contact Kevin at kharris@orionlaw.com.

Annie Little is a lawyer career coach dedicated to helping attorneys articulate their transferable skills since founding JD Nation in 2012. She’s also the creator of the Make Your Next Move™ program for attorneys who want a practical process to find and land their ideal job. You can follow her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

McKay Ferrell is Vice President of Product Management at Assembly, a case management software provider. McKay brings over 20 years of experience in medium and large-scale organizations. He is passionate about innovation and operational excellence by providing simplified solutions to complex problems that scale. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Amy Boardman Hunt founded Muse Communications in 2016 after 30 years in legal journalism and public relations. Named one of Texas’ top legal PR firms by Texas Lawyer, Muse’s clients have included some of the largest law firms in Texas, as well as a variety of boutiques and individual attorneys. In addition to helping lawyers grow their practices, Amy is an evangelist for the gospel of self-promotion, particularly when it comes to women lawyers. She is a native Texan and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.