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George I. Rudoy
Chair of Educational Advisory Board
Director of Global Practice, Information & Knowledge Management
Shearman & Sterling LLP
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George I. Rudoy is the Director of Global Practice, Information & Knowledge Management at Shearman & Sterling LLP. Mr. Rudoy is responsible for the strategic implementation of practice specific as well as knowledge and information management solutions and services, including oversight of the Practice Support, Knowledge Management, New Matter Intake and Business Conflicts departments, Project Management Office and the firm's Information Center, worldwide. Additionally, George is responsible for advising the firm's attorneys and clients on all aspects of applied legal technology, compliance and retention of electronic records as well practice management. Previously, George held senior management positions in legal support at a number of AmLaw 100 law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
Mr. Rudoy graduated from New York University (magna cum laude). He is a seasoned veteran in the international legal support arena and a sought after speaker at legal conferences worldwide. George is a founding member of the E-Discovery Training Academy at Georgetown Law Center where he is teaching on a variety of topics. He periodically writes on a variety of legal tech topics for the main industry publications. For his work in the Practice Support area Mr. Rudoy was named the "Champion of Technology" by Law Technology News as well as the "Tech Star" and "Globally Recognized" by the United Kingdom Cititech magazine Global Tech Leaders Top 100.
Mr. Rudoy is Chair of the ALM Law & Business's Legal Tech Educational Board, Vice President of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Practice Management Peer Group, Author of the Electronic Data Discovery News and Analysis and serves on the Steering Committees and Advisory Boards of the Advanced E-Discovery Institute at Georgetown Law Center, Law Technology News and Law.com. He is an active member of the NYU Alumni Association and the Project Management Institute.
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Monica Bay
Editor-in-Chief: Law Technology News
Incisive Media
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Monica Bay has been with ALM Media, Inc. for 22 years. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News and as author of the popular legal blogs, The Common Scold (www.thecommonscold.com) and EDD Update (www.eddupdate.com)
Her magazines have won awards for editorial excellence from the American Business Media (Neal finalist); the American Society of Business Publications Editors; the Trade Association Business Publications International; and Technolawyer. She has won additional journalism awards from the Associated Press, the American Bar Association and Sigma Delta Chi.
A frequent speaker, Ms. Bay has been quoted as an industry analyst in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and Southwest Spirit magazine. She has contributed to numerous American Bar Association books and magazines, including Law Practice Management, Student Lawyer, and Barrister.
Ms. Bay previously was based in San Francisco, where she was senior editor of ALM's The Recorder newspaper and Counsel Connect online service. She is the editor of four ALM books, including The Price of Harassment: Rena Weeks v. Baker & McKenzie, and three guides to the California judiciary. Long active in cyberspace, she helped The Late Show with David Letterman establish its first website on America Online.
A member of the California Bar and a rabid Yankees fan, she lives in New York City and Lakeville, Conn.
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Craig Ball
President
Craig D. Ball, P.C
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Craig Ball, of Austin is a Board Certified Texas trial lawyer and an accredited computer forensics expert, who's dedicated his career to teaching the bench and bar about forensic technology and trial tactics. Craig hung up his trial lawyer spurs to till the soils of justice as a court-appointed special master and consultant in electronic evidence, as well as publishing and lecturing on computer forensics, emerging technologies, digital persuasion and electronic discovery. Fortunate to supervise, consult on or serve as Special Master in connection with some of the world's largest electronic discovery projects and most prominent cases, Craig also greatly values his role as an instructor in computer forensics and electronic evidence to the Department of Justice and other law enforcement and security agencies.
Craig Ball is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs throughout the United States, having delivered over 500 presentations and papers. Craig's articles on forensic technology and electronic discovery frequently appear in the national media, including in American Bar Association, ATLA and American Lawyer Media print and online publications. He also writes a multi-award winning monthly column on computer forensics and e-discovery for Law Technology News and Law.com called "Ball in your Court." Rated AV by Martindale Hubbell and named as one of the Best Lawyers in America and a Texas Superlawyer, Craig is a recipient of the Presidents' Award, the State Bar of Texas' most esteemed recognition of service to the profession.
Craig's been married to a trial lawyer for 21 years. He and Diana have two delightful teenagers and share a passion for world travel, cruising and computing.
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Diane K. Carlisle
Director, Professional Resources
ARMA International
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Diane K. Carlisle, CRM is the Director of Professional Resources for ARMA International. In this capacity, she provides direction for the development of ARMA's educational offerings and represents the association in various professional venues. In addition, she works with executive leadership in executing ARMA International's strategic plans.
Diane has over 20 years of experience in the field of records and information management and has worked for organizations in a variety of industries. Prior to ARMA, Diane held positions with Baker Robbins & Company (technology consultants to the legal industry); in the information management consulting practice at Duff & Phelps, and provided records management services to a range of public and private organizations.
Diane's primary specialties are records management strategy and policy development, the role of records management in litigation support, and the creation and application of international and national level standards. Diane is a frequent speaker/writer on records and information management topics.
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Deb Himsel
Programming Coordinator
International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)
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Deb Himsel, Programming Coordinator for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), has spent over 15 years in the Legal IT industry. She works closely with ILTA's Peer Groups and local ILTA volunteers, to facilitate multi-city educational sessions as well as Peer Group sponsored educational roadshows. Prior to coming on board with ILTA, Deb was CIO of a 85 attorney law firm in Indianapolis, as well as serving as the Great Lakes RVP for nearly six years.
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Dawson Horn, III, Esq.
Senior Litigation Counsel
Tyco International (US) Inc.
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Dawson Horn, III is Senior Litigation Counsel at Tyco International where he is responsible, among other things, for developing and implement the Tyco ediscovery program. He is a frequent speaker on ediscovery topics. Prior to Tyco, he was Assistant General Counsel at Altria Corporate Services, Inc ("Altria") in New York, New York. He was at Altria for seven years and his primary responsibilities have been in the areas of product liability and civil RICO litigation. He managed Altria's defense in the multi-billion dollar RICO law suit by the Department of Justice against the major U.S. cigarette companies. In that capacity he managed a major dispute involving ediscovery.
Prior to joining Altria, Mr. Horn worked as an in-house attorney for, UnitedAuto Group (New York, New York), Campbell Soup Company (Camden, New Jersey) and Scott Paper Company (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He began his career as a litigation associate with Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). These experiences have given him an extensive background in transactional and litigation matters.
Mr. Horn received his A.B. degree from Duke University in 1978 and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1983. He is admitted to practice before the state courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its related Federal courts.
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Michelle Mahoney
Director of Applied Legal Technology
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
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Michelle is Mallesons' Applied Legal Technology Director who heads up this international practice support group. Michelle's technical and paralegal team provide dispute and litigation support, transaction, merger and acquisition support, contract management and other "client facing" services using legal technologies and expertise. Michelle has managed, designed and implemented technology driven approaches for some of the largest litigious and corporate matters in Australia.
Michelle is renown for providing understandable advice which is characterised by her pragmatic approach and her depth of experience, with her legal career commencing in 1985. Today Michelle has a global reputation for her strategic skills in combining law, technology and corporate information to achieve highly effective results for her clients.
Michelle has been involved in the development of a number of first to market commercial products, as well as leading the way with implementing many innovative technologies and approaches. Mallesons' leading fully integrated in-house e-discovery service has been designed and lead by Michelle.
Michelle is a highly regarded individual in the industry, recently recognised in the Global Tech Leaders Top 100 as a "world class legal tech law firm leader", and regularly speaks at international conferences. Additionally Michelle has been awarded the title of Associate Fellow (AFAIM) through the Australian Institute of Management. In 2006 and 2007 Michelle was on the drafting committee which released the e-litigation Practice Note (No 1 of 2007) in the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia.
Michelle is the first Australian to be on a Peer Group Steering Committee for the International Legal Technology Association. In addition Michelle is the only non-UK full member of the UK industry body LiST and the only resident Australian member of LiST. Michelle serves on a number of Advisory Boards. Michelle's appointment to these boards has been as the first and only Australian representative. The Advisory Boards include: Law Technology News Editorial Board; the LegalTech Advisory Board; and the Thomson Litigation Consulting Board.
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Bill Onwusah
Litigation Support Manager
Hogan Lovells International LLP
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Bill Onwusah has worked in the UK legal industry for over 20 years starting as a paralegal and becoming an IT specialist. Bill is the Manager of the Litigation Support Department of Lovells, an International law firm.
Along the way, he has worked on some of the largest matters in the UK, many of which were firsts in their own right, including the first UK cases to use IT in court and the largest civil litigation in the world at the time. He also worked on mass tort cases including Benzodiazepines and the HIV/Blood Transfusion litigation. He served on the original committee that set up the ORSA Protocol and was a founding member of LiST.
In the IT sphere, he has implemented a range of systems including Marketing, Human Resources, Document and Case Management, as well as training on PowerPoint and MS Project.
He joined Lovells in 1999. The Litigation Support Team's primary role is to advise and assist lawyers in the appropriate use of information technology in the litigation process from its inception to the courtroom. The primary Litigation Support tool is Ringtail. Other software in use include Concordance and Introspect.
The department has also taken major roles in the advancement of the use of technology in wider areas including courtroom technology and the use of hyperlinked documentation in the Litigation process.
Bill Onwusah is also a regular contributor to the major legal journals and he has published over 50 articles in publications as diverse as The Lawyer, New Law Journal, Solicitors Journal, Computer Weekly, LTN and Practical Parenting! He has also been a technology speaker at The Law Society and Panel member at the Ringtail International User Group Conference and the West LegalWorks eDisclosure forum.
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Patrick Oot
Director of Electronic Discovery & Senior Litigation Counsel
Verizon Legal Department
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Peggy Wechsler
Program Director
International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)
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Peggy Wechsler is the Program Director for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). She is responsible for managing and directing the educational and networking programs for ILTA, including the annual educational conference, local meetings, peer group events and general programming. Peggy also acts as the vendor liaison, managing vendor relationships and vendor participation at ILTA's annual conference. Prior to joining ILTA in 1999, Peggy was the Manager of Information Systems for 18 years at a San Antonio-based law firm.
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