Kevin D. Ashley is an expert on computer modeling of legal reasoning and cyberspace legal issues. He has reported his research in conference proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Law, and the Cognitive Science Society. He has also published in journals such as IEEE Expert, International Journal of Man/Machine Studies, and Journal of Artificial Intelligence and the Law, of which he is a member of the editorial board. Professor Ashley is a Principal Investigator of a number of National Science Foundation grants to study reasoning with cases in law and professional ethics. Professor Ashley is also author of Modeling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals (MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1990).

 

 

Jonathan Askin is an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School. He is a sought-after expert in the field of Internet law, he played a key role in the tech task force of President Barack Obama’s election campaign. He has also served as president and general counsel for the Association for Local Telecommunications Services and was a senior attorney at the Federal Communications Commission.

 

 

Núria Casellas is an Assistant Professor at the Public Law and Political Science Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and researcher at the Institute of Law and Technology (UAB, Spain). She is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Legal Information Institute, at Cornell University Law School (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, MEC/Fulbright 2010-2012). A Her main research explores the use of computation legal ontologies and the deployment of Linked Legal Data for legal practice and knowledge management. She has recently published the book “Legal Ontology Engineering”.

 

 

Elizabeth Chambliss  is a Professor of Law at New York Law School and a Co-Director at the Center for Professional Values and Practice.  Elizabeth Chambliss specializes in the empirical study of the legal profession, focusing on the organization and regulation of U.S. lawyers and the effects of globalization on the U.S. legal services market. Her most recent project focuses on the future of U.S. legal education, and the emergence of new organizational models for law schools in the U.S. and abroad. 

 

 

Dan Dabney is Senior Director for Taxonomies and Subject Access Research at Thomson/West. He is in charge of the revision and updating of West's legacy taxonomies, including the Key Number System and KeySearch. He has a B.A. from St. John's College in Santa Fe, a J.D. from the University of New Mexico, and M.L.I.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

 

Larry Farmer is a professor of law at the Brigham Young University school of Law. He is a recipient of the Marion G. Romney professorship, developed and directed the Computer-Assisted Practice System (CAPS) project with Professor Stan Neeleman at the J. Reuben Clark Law School from 1982-1987. CAPS and a derivative application, HotDocs, helped to establish the widespread use of computer-based practices system applications in the legal profession.

 

 

Fernando Galindo is a Professor at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. He is the author of more than 140 publications. Editor and coeditor of the books: Advances in Electronic Government (2000), E-Government: Legal, Technical and Pedagogical Aspects (2003), Electronic Government (Special Issue of the International Review of Law Computers & Technology, 2004) and Gobierno, derecho y tecnología: las actividades de los poderes públicos (2006) and the director of the LEFIS Series.

 

 

Monica Goyal is a Toronto-based lawyer and a softwarenology entrepreneur who founded My Legal Briefcase, a legal software company.  After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Waterloo (as a Dean’s List Scholar), Monica attended Stanford University where she earned her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. It was at Stanford that she acted as a research assistant to Mark Levoy and Mark Horowitz and worked on the Stanford Multi-Camera Array. She also holds a law degree from the University of Toronto.

 

 

Professor Goodenough is a prohessor of law at Vermont Law School. His research and writing focuses on the the intersection of law, economics, finance, media, technology, neuroscience and behavioral biology.He is an authority in several emerging areas of law and an expert in the impact of digital technology on law, with a particular emphasis on using the internet to create digital business organizations and to improve the support provided by law for innovation and entrepreneurship generally. A pioneer in Neurolaw, he has participated in experiments using fMRI brain scanning techniques to explore the neurological basis of moral reasoning in conjunction with Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of London.

 

 

Richard Granat is the founder SmartLegalForms, Inc., DirectLaw, Inc., and Granat Legal Services, P.C ., one of the first virtual law firms in the US offering unbundled legal services online. He is also Co-Chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the American Bar Association, was named as one of 50  “Legal Rebels” by the American Bar Association Journal in 2009, and has received the Louis M. Brown Lifetime Achievement Award in Innovation in the Delivery of Legal Services from the ABA. He has taught “Computer Applications and the Law” and “Law Practice Management” at University of Maryland School of Law.

 

 

Dan Hunter is the Director of Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School. He is an expert in internet law, intellectual property, and artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law. He regularly publishes on issues dealing with the intersection of computers and law, including papers dealing with the regulation of virtual worlds, the use of artificial intelligence in law, and high technology aspects of intellectual property. 

 

 

David Johnson is a Visiting Professor of Law at New York Law School and faculty member of the Institute of Information Law and Policy. He recently retired as a partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and is devoting substantial time to the development of new types of “graphical groupware” software products. Examples of some of his recent work can be seen at http://dotank.nyls.edu. 

 

 

 

 

Dan Katz is an Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Director of ReInvent Law: A Law Laboratory Devoted to Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship at Michigan State University College of Law. His wide variety of academic interests include positive legal theory, quantitative modeling of litigation and jurisprudence, and the impact of information technology on the market for legal services.

 

 

Stephanie Kimbro, MA, JD, is the Director of the North Carolina branch of Burton Law LLC, a virtual law firm offering online unbundled and traditional full-service representation.  She is the recipient of the 2009 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering and the author of Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online, ABA, October, 2010, Limited Scope Legal Services: Unbundling and the Self-Help Client, ABA, March 2012 and the forthcoming, Lawyers' Guide to Online Marketing Tools, ABA 2013. She is also the co-founder of Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC (VLOTech), which was acquired by Total Attorneys in the fall of 2009. Kimbro is developing a fall 2012 online badge program in digital lawyering for the Univ. of Dayton School of Law and has taught law school courses on unbundling and virtual law practice.

 

 

Renee Knake is the Co-Founder & Co-Director at ReInvent Law, a Law Laboratory Devoted to Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. She is also an Associate Professor of Law & Co-Director, Kelley Institute of Ethics and the Legal Profession at Michigan State University College of Law.

 

 

Marc Lauritsen is the president of Capstone Practice Systems, and a lawyer and educator with over twenty years of pioneering leadership in advanced legal software. He earned two degrees from MIT and the J.D. from Harvard Law School. After practicing and supervising in legal aid offices, Marc returned to Harvard as a fieldwork instructor, director of clinical programs, and a senior research associate. He directed Project Pericles, Harvard’s first major research program in law and computers.

 

 

Paul Lippe is the founder and CEO of the Legal OnRamp, a Silicon Valley-based initiative founded in cooperation with Cisco Systems to improve legal quality and efficiency through collaboration, automation and process re-engineering. Lippe formerly was an executive at the electronic design automation company Synopsys and later was CEO of Stanford SKOLAR, a medical digital library and e-learning company sponsored by Stanford Medical School.

 

 

James Lunsford is the  Applications Development Manager at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.

 

 

Phil Malone a professor of law at Harvard Law School and a Clinical Co-Director and Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include Cyberlaw, Online Speech and Anonymity, Antitrust and Innovation, Electronic Discovery and Technology in Litigation, Computer Forensics and Digital Evidence, Digital IP and New Media. 

 

 

Kingsley Martin is the Owner of KIIAC LLC, a company with the goal of developing advanced legal software to assist lawyers in fully realizing the benefits of information technology. The name stands for Knowledge Information Innovation and Consulting. Kingsley has been at the forefront of technology innovation in the legal practice. He has 25 years of experience in practice of law, software design and development, strategy and management.

 

 

John Mayer is the Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.

 

 

 Michael Mills is the CEO of Neota Logic Inc. Neota Logic delivers the knowledge of experts in an operationally useful form—as expert systems that can be consulted interactively online or embedded directly in business systems.

 

 

Kevin Mulcahy is Neota Logic’s Director of Customer Support & Training. This last year Kevin Mulcahy, worked with students at Georgetown law and New York Law School as they learned about this innovative approach to legal services and legal education, and created their own legal expert systems.

 

 

Attorney John Murdock is a Member of Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC, a law firm in Nashville, TN. As a lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee, attorney Murdock serves Davidson County, as well as clients throughout Tennessee.

 

 

Carole Post is an Executive Vice President at New York Law School and serves as its first Chief Strategy Officer. She was formerly the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and New York City's Chief Information Officer (CIO). She was appointed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on December 30, 2009 and assumed the official position on January 19, 2010. She is the first woman to have held this office at the City of New York. She resigned from DoITT to take the position at New York Law School in April 2012. 

 

 

Daniel Poulin is the chair on legal information at the University of Montréal. His areas of interest include cyberlaw, legal information systems and the computerization of legal processed.

 

 

LaVern A. Pritchard is founder of Pritchard Law Webs and publisher of LawMoose. He is is Minnesota's legal web technology pioneer, with experience designing and building hypertext sytems for law practice and legal knowledge publishing dating back to the late 1980's, before the World Wide Web existed. He also holds a license to practice law in Minnesota, and is the co-founder and moderator of the Minnesota State Bar Association's SoloSmall electronic discussion list.

 

 

Brock Rutter is a Lecturer in Law at Vermont Law School, a Interactive pro-se assistance program builder at Vermont Judiciary and a Research Assistant at Berkman Center. His research at the Berkman Center focuses on: Technology use by lawyers / computers performing legal functions,Teaching of law and technology, Technology and corporate governance, and Cloud computing.

 

 

David Schnurman is the founder of two e-learning companies, Lawline.com, the leading provider of online Continuing Legal Education in the country and TrueNYC.com, an online website that features video interviews and advice from entrepreneurs. He is a passionate entrepreneur whose primary focus is creating a collaborative environment where individuals can actively learn and share their knowledge.

 

 

Erich Schweighofer is  a Professor of Legal Informatics, International Law and European  Law & Head of the Centre of Legal Informatics at the University of Vienna (http://rechtsinformatik.univie.ac.at). He has over twenty years experience of funded research in legal informatics. He holds degrees in law, informatics, economics and international relations.

 

 

Ron Staudt is a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Access to Justice & Technology at  IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a fellow, board member and vice president of the College of Law Practice Management, a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section's E-Lawyering Task Force, a member of the advisory council of the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and a member of the ABA TechShow 2006 Planning Board.

 

 

Louise G. Trubek is an Emerita Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Louise is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale Law School. Louise is an active scholar and teacher in the fields of health law, public interest law, and regulation and governance. She is publishing three articles in 2011. The recent articles are: "Improving Cancer Outcomes Through Strong Networks and Regulatory Frameworks: Lessons from the United States and the European Union" Journal of Health Care Law and Policy spring 2011 (with others); Public Interest Law: Facing the Problems of Maturity, University of Arkansas/Little Rock Law Review 2011; New Roles to Solve Old Problems: Lawyering for Ordinary people in Today's Context" New York Law Journal 2011(with Marsha Mansfield). 

 

 

Vern R. Walker Professor of Law and Director of the Research Laboratory for Law, Logic and Technology at Hofstra University School of Law. Professor Walker has a doctorate in philosophy, with specialization in knowledge theory, artificial intelligence, deductive and inductive logic, and the conceptual foundations and methodologies of the sciences. 

 

           Richard Wright, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
 

Richard Wright is a professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Wright's teaching and research focus on domestic and comparative tort law, jurisprudence, law and economics, and law and artificial intelligence. His published work appears in several international collections of leading scholarship on tort law and legal philosophy.