Alison Hook, Director, Global Legal Market Consulting, UK

Alison joined the Law Society in January 2002. Prior to this she worked for the European Commission as Deputy Head of the European Commission Representation in the UK (1997-2001), in the Cabinet of European Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan covering a variety of trade, economic and legal issues (1993-1997) and for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1987-93). She is an economist by training and joined the Government Economic Service after studying at Edinburgh and Warwick Universities.

Andrew Berger, Counsel, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, USA

Andrew Berger has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation, licensing and commercial litigation. His clients include publishers, content creators, illustrators, filmmakers, including a 2010 Academy Award winner, advertising agencies, software developers and new media companies.

Andrew he has extensive commercial trial experience. His clients in complex commercial litigation have included a Latin American government, the Women's Professional Tennis Association and a Channel Islands investment company. Andrew has also been teaching trial practice at Hofstra Law School for the past 15 years.

Andrew is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School and is the past president of the Cornell Law Association, the alumni body representing the 9,000 graduates of that school.

Andrew was recently elected as a Trustee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Andrew serves as a co-chair of the Copyright Subcommittee of the IP Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the ABA. He is also a member of the Federal Courts Committee of the New York City Bar having completed a three-year term on the Copyright Committee. Andrew also serves a mediator in the federal and state courts.

Adam defends and prosecutes civil cases of all types, especially insurance coverage and insurance bad faith, personal injury and wrongful death, and appeals. He also evaluates claims and provides written opinions to insurers and others. He is board-certified in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) and has been asked by leading national insurer to analyze differences in jury verdict severity among all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties.

He is recognized for insurance coverage expertise in Ohio Super Lawyers 2010, 2011, and 2012 and is an active member of several associations: Akron Bar Association, Cleveland Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, DRI- the Voice of the Defense Bar, Cuyahoga Falls Chamber of Commerce, Hudson Chamber of Commerce, Lake County Bar Association, National Board of Trial Advocacy, Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, Ohio State Bar Association

Abhi Shah, CEO & Managing Director, Clutch Group, USA

Abhi Shah is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Clutch Group. In this role, Mr. Shah is responsible for overseeing all business operations and the overall strategic direction of the company.

Prior to Clutch Group, Mr. Shah worked with Mphasis, a global IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services company with over 12,000 employees. He led the sale of the company for $800 million to a leading U.S. technology services provider. Prior to MphasiS, Mr. Shah was a senior consultant at Accenture where he led multiple client engagements with Fortune 100 companies in the telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries.

In addition to his responsibilities for Clutch Group, Mr. Shah serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of Yuva Unstoppable, a 60,000-volunteer youth movement across 30 cities in India impacting over 100,000 underprivileged children in the municipal schools and slums of India. He is also the co-founder of two non-profit organizations, promoting investment and trade between the U.S. and India, and leading bi-partisan advocacy on Capitol Hill and the White House on issues of concern to the Indian American community. As part of this work, Mr. Shah helped launch the Congressional Task Force on U.S.-India Investment and Trade Relations and has led Congressional, Gubernatorial, and CEO delegations to India for talks with the Prime Minister and India's leading government and business leaders.

Mr. Shah received a BBA in Marketing with honors from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also completed the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program led by former U.S. President George H. Bush.

Mr. Shah was born and raised in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India and currently spends most of his time in New York, although he considers his residence “on a flight between New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Bangalore and Delhi” due to his persistent business travel obligations. Outside of his work with Clutch Group, he enjoys Hollywood and Bollywood movies, jet skiing, promoting political and trade relations between the U.S. and India.

Ann McCrackin, President, Black Hills IP, USA

Ann McCrackin is a patent prosecution process expert and a highly accomplished patent attorney with extensive experience in both U.S. and international patent prosecution. Before becoming President of Black Hills IP Ann was a Professor of Law and the Director of the nationally recognized Patent Prosecution and Procedure Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire School of Law). At Franklin Pierce, Ann directed the program and taught courses in advanced aspects of practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Ann has also taught dozens of continuing legal education courses and seminars on various aspects of patent process and prosecution and has edited and authored a number of legal texts on patent law. Ann is also attorney of record for several Amicus Briefs filed in patent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ann was a Shareholder at the Minneapolis patent firm Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. for eight years and now is of counsel at the firm. Ann has an undergraduate degree from Iowa State University and a law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Alok Aggarwal, Chairman & Co-founder, Evalueserve, USA

Alok is a co-founder of Evalueserve (EVS). Prior to this, Alok was the Director of Emerging Business Opportunities for IBM Research Division Worldwide. In this capacity, he headed IBM's India Research Laboratory. There he was managing a team of 55 researchers involved in the research and development of major IBM products and technologies, including those in e-commerce, supply chain management, natural user interface, speech recognition, networking software, data mining and media mining products as well as systems management.

Alok received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and his PhD in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University.

He has published over 50 research papers and 10 patents, and has received 2 Outstanding Invention Awards.

Alex Holt, Director, Legal & Business Services, Steria, UK

Alex heads the Legal & Business Services team in Steria, a major European provider of business services and technology. Steria has consistently ranked in the top tier of outsourcing providers, a position that was recognised most recently in their being awarded the "BPO Project of the Year" and retain the UK No. 1 (and European No. 3) ranking for multi-process financial BPO.

After many years as an Insurance Partner in a top 50 law firm, Alex found the escape tunnel and, having cleared the woods, ran a successful consultancy providing strategic and operational guidance to law firms. The experience gained in advising the industry on strategic growth, business innovation and efficiency initiatives led to his joining Steria in 2009. Alex’s unusual mix of both vertical and horizontal expertise brings a unique and valuable perspective to the table when discussing and assessing opportunities for law firms, chambers and in-house legal teams to outsource services.

Andrew Goodman, Executive Director of Litigation Services, QuisLex, Inc, USA

Andrew has over fourteen years of experience actively managing and supervising large, complex document reviews on antitrust, securities, commercial litigation, intellectual property and construction law matters in industries such as telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceuticals, oil/gas, healthcare, consumer products and semiconductors. He has trained multiple large teams on document review, creating privilege logs, and deposition digesting and is currently responsible for spearheading QuisLex’s litigation training programs. He also manages key substantive and administrative aspects of QuisLex’s client and vendor relationships. Andrew began his career in the LPO industry with QuisLex's subsidiary, SQ Global Solutions. Andrew received his J.D. and M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan.

Arihant Patni - Chief Executive Officer, Bodhi Global, India

Arihant Patni is an entrepreneur, corporate executive and financial advisor who has extensive experience in computer software, business development/marketing and IT infrastructure. He has worked in India, the United States and throughout Europe.

Arihant began his career at Patni Computer Systems, where he had a broad exposure to the business of the company, including consulting positions in the computer software and human resources departments, as well as being a business development and marketing executive. In the latter capacity, Arihant was part of a team dedicated to the European market and worked to increase global brand awareness for the Patni companies and products. Subsequently, Arihant worked as a Business Strategy Consultant for Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he led a finance systems strategy project for one of Fidelity's companies, involving business process analyses, systems re-design and solutions recommendations. He then worked as a Management Consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he brought his computer expertise to bear on projects relating to the enhancement the firm's electronic security tools and protocols. Arihant was Vice-President for Business Development for Raay Software, Inc., where he started the U.S. office for a European software product company operating in the healthcare space, developed the marketing campaign for the United States and conducted strategic market analysis to build brand awareness.

Dr. Akhil Prasad, Director and Head-Legal & Company Secretary, Fidelity International, India

Dr. Akhil Prasad is Director and Head of Legal at Fidelity International India (FIL India Business Services) and is based at Gurgaon. In past he has held offices as Director India Legal Affairs & Company Secretary of The Walt Disney Company India (2005 to 2007); as Senior Attorney & Company Secretary of General Motors India (2003 to 2005); and as Assistant General Manager Legal with Electrolux Kelvinator (2000 to 2002). Prior to these assignments, he has also worked with the legal teams in Modicorp Group (including Modi Xerox and Graphtech India from 1995 to 2000). Akhil has about over 15 years’ experience as an In-house Counsel.

Akhil holds a Doctorate in Commerce, is a post graduate in Law, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK. He is also a non-practicing Solicitor of England & Wales and is a member of the Law Society, UK. Akhil has been very recently nominated as the Vice – Chairman and an Advisory Board member to the Corporate Counsel Committee of the International Bar Association.

Bruce Macmillan, General Counsel, Legal Services Board (England and Wales), UK

Bruce Macmillan is General Counsel to the Legal Services Board – the new oversight regulator for the English and Welsh legal profession. Prior to joining the Legal Services Board, Bruce was Dell EMEA Senior Counsel for the Consumer, Retail and business distribution divisions. Prior to Dell Bruce was UK Head of Legal for telecoms groups Tele2, and Alpha Telecom and was in house counsel at ONdigital/ITV Digital and Cable & Wireless. Bruce started his legal career at Gouldens (now Jones Day) and also worked for SJ Berwin before moving in house. Bruce has been an active member of legal trade associations including the Commerce & Industry Group (where he was chair of the Corporate Governance Committee) and the Cisco IT lawyers forum.

Brandon Daniels, Chief Technology Officer at Clutch Group, USA

Brandon Daniels is the Chief Technology Officer of Clutch Group. In this role, Brandon is responsible for establishing and implementing the company’s technical vision and leading all aspects of the company’s technology development across all services.

Prior to Clutch Group, Brandon was the VP and Global Head of Litigation & Investigations at CPA Global, a legal services outsourcing firm. In his role at CPA Global he led the growth of the legal services business unit defining, building, and delivering innovative and award winning solutions and services for Fortune 1000 corporations. With over 300 attorneys across the US and teams in Europe and Asia he worked with clients to coordinate regulatory matters and disputes globally. He has extensive experience conducting and managing large litigation and investigation matters, including multi-million and billion dollar investigatory matters responding to the SEC, FTC and DOJ.

Brandon also has an extensive background in the management and application of legal technology. Over the last decade, working for firms such as Lexis Nexis Applied Discovery, he has focused on applying technology to legal services in order to create efficiency, increase quality, and reduce risk for corporations. He has managed the development or acquisition and implementation of knowledge management, performance tracking, data room, and litigation support software systems. He has also led the creation of facilities and technology environments that have withstood both risk and security audits from some of the largest investment banks, bioscience companies, and technology corporations in the world.

Brandon is frequently asked to speak and lecture at conferences and universities on trends in the legal market, risk and compliance needs for corporations, and the growing role of technology in the goal to mitigate risk and drive performance.

Conor R. Crowley, Esq., CIPP/US Crowley Law Office, USA

Conor R. Crowley is an internationally recognized expert in e-discovery and e-compliance.

Conor is a member of the Steering Committee for The Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Advisory Board for Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E-Discovery Institute and the Board of Advisors for BNA's Digital Discovery & e-Evidence. He is a Senior Editor of a number of The Sedona Conference’s publications including The Sedona Conference Commentary on Legal Holds and The Sedona Principles (Second Edition): Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production. Mr. Crowley leverages more than a decade of experience as an attorney and testifying expert to provide cost-effective, practical advice to corporate and law firm clients.

Christina Dixon, Owner/Member, The Dixon Law Firm, USA

Christina is managing member and defense attorney at the Dixon Law Firm, LLC in Denver, Colorado. Christina is a defense attorney licensed with the Colorado State Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Christina has successfully defended insurers and their insureds in a wide of range of cases. She regularly handles first-and third-party bad faith cases, coverage litigation, employer liability, employment practices liability insurance claims and complex cases. Christina continues to act as litigation and monitoring defense counsel for insurers involving multiple lines. She has tried twenty jury trials and ten bench trials.

Christina actively participates in professional organizations such as the American Bar Association (“ABA”), Section of Litigation. Christina currently serves as Co- Chair for the Minority Trial Lawyer Committee and recently completed a three year term as Co-Chair of the ABA Section of Litigation Trial Evidence Committee. She is currently Secretary for the Sam Cary Bar Association in Colorado. Ms. Dixon frequently serves as a hearing officer for the Colorado and Denver Bar Association’s Legal Fee Committee. She is one of the youngest attorneys selected for membership in the Colorado Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (“ABOTA”). Ms. Dixon is also a member of the Claim and Litigation Management Alliance (“CLM”).

Christina occasionally writes articles regarding trial tactics, diversity, and general law practice issues. Christina is often called upon to moderate or present on various litigation-related topics.

Craig Kyle Hemphill, General Counsel - Corporate Compliance & Ethics Officer, 3i Construction, LLC, USA

Craig Kyle Hemphill is General Counsel - Corporate Compliance and Ethics Officer at 3i Construction, LLC. 3i Construction, LLC is one of the first full-service minority construction companies in the world to have established a complete construction project expertise. As a General Counsel, Craig is responsible for fulfilling 3i Construction board’s legal needs. Craig has specific industry knowledge in general corporate matters, regulatory requirements and corporate ethics/compliance concerns within energy, construction and manufacturing industries. He also has significant expertise in negotiating and structuring large-dollar construction agreements, handling professional service agreements, licensing agreements, finance and purchase agreements, software agreements and securities filings. He has a strong background in diverse corporate transactions, which effectively protect and advance the assets of 3i Construction.

Craig represents 3i Construction in the capacity of corporate counsel through his role as President and managing member of Craig Kyle Hemphill Law Offices PLLC, which services the Dallas and Houston, Texas legal markets. Prior to his role with CKHLO PLLC, he served governmental entities, international law firms, advised small to multinational corporations, represented individuals regarding general corporate matters, regulatory requirements and corporate ethics /compliance concerns within the energy, construction and manufacturing industries. Craig also served as a Federal Law Clerk to the Honorable Kenneth M. Hoyt, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas. He earned a Juris Doctor degree, Magna Cum Laude (Third in Class) from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief on the Thurgood Marshall Law Review from 1997-1999, earning Highest Honors in Appellate Litigation, Administrative Law, Federal Jurisdiction, Consumer Rights, Trial Simulation, Advanced Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.

Craig holds licenses to practice law and appear before federal and state courts. His law licenses include the privilege to appear before the United States Supreme Court, the District of Minnesota, the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas, the State Bar of Minnesota and the State Bar of Texas.

Connie Brenton, Chief of Staff/Director of Legal Operations at NetApp, USA

Ms. Brenton is the Chief of Staff and Senior Director for Legal Operations at NetApp, Inc., reporting to NetApp’s General Counsel. Ms. Brenton handles budgeting, resource planning, and organizational matters, and manages a team responsible for key operational activities, including tools (e.g., eBilling/matter management, contract management), vendor management, records management, knowledge management, training, and diversity and inclusion programs. Prior to joining NetApp, she served as the Legal Operations Director at Oracle Corporation reporting to Oracle’s G.C. Before Oracle, she served as the Chief of Staff and Senior Director for Legal Operations at Sun Microsystems reporting to Sun’s G.C. Before entering the corporate world, Ms. Brenton worked as a civil litigator. In addition to a Juris Doctor, Ms. Brenton holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Ms. Brenton is a founding member of CLOC, a bay area consortium of senior legal operations executives.

Charles Colman, Fashion and Entertainment Attorney at Charles Colman Law, PLLC and Vice Chair of Special Committee on Copyrights and New Technologies at American Bar Association (ABA), USA

Charles ("Chuck") Colman is the Fashion and Entertainment Attorney at Charles Colman Law, PLLC and a Vice Chair of Special Committee on Copyrights and New Technologies at American Bar Association. Charles started Charles Colman Law, PLLC, in January 2011 in order to provide cost-effective, industry-specific legal representation to individuals and companies in fashion, music, art, film, theater, and other creative fields.

Charles previously worked as a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where he handled cases involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, false advertising, fraud, copyright, trademark, and right of publicity, among other areas. While at Patterson Belknap, he provided pro bono legal services to fashion designers and other visual artists who could not otherwise afford representation.

Charles is active in multiple bar association committees. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Fashion Design Legislation Subcommittee at the American Bar Association, in which capacity he is responsible for evaluating legislation that would accord copyright-like protection to certain fashion designs. In August 2011, Chuck assumed the Vice Chairmanship of the ABA's Special Committee on Copyrights and New Technologies. He also recently sponsored the creation of a Fashion Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association, which held its first meeting in June 2011.

Chris Dale, Director, e-Disclosure Information Project, UK

Chris Dale qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 after reading History at Oxford. He was a litigation partner in London and then a litigation software developer and litigation support consultant before turning to commentary on electronic disclosure / discovery. He runs the e-Disclosure Information Project which disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology to lawyers and their clients, to judges, and to suppliers. He is a member of Senior Master Whitaker's Working Party which drafted the new Practice Direction and Electronic Documents Questionnaire. He writes the UK’s only authoritative and objective web site and blog on the subject and is a well-known speaker and commentator in the UK, the US and other common law jurisdictions.

David Bertschi, Partner, Bertschi Orth Smith LLP, Canada

For over 25 years David has restricted his practice to insurance disputes and related litigation. He advises insurers on coverage issues and is defence counsel on personal injury, accident benefits, property and casualty, commercial general liability, fidelity, excess and reinsurance as well as in life and disability claims. He continues to act as trial and coverage counsel on complex multi-party, multijurisdictional catastrophic losses.

David has the expertise to quickly identify key issues and fully develop appropriate defences in connection with these claims. He also provides advice to insurers and self-insured institutions on a multitude of insurance-related issues.

David is an Accredited Mediator, and as part of his practice he is actively involved in the mediation and arbitration of insurance disputes, including the representation of insurers in private and courtmandated proceedings. Whether through litigation, arbitration or mediation, David is committed to finding the most cost-effective resolution for his local, national, and international insurance and reinsurance clients.

Reflecting his substantial experience in insurance litigation, David has been invited to write and speak on complex issues of interest to insurers and self-insured corporate clients. He has spoken on such “hotbutton” topics as Catastrophic Impairment and the AMA Guides, Aggravated and Punitive Damages, Employer and Social Host Liability, Uninsured and Underinsured Liability, Forum Non-Conveniens and Transportation Law. David has also spoken at the request of the Advocate’s Society on the Art of CrossExamination and on insurance matters by the Ontario Bar Association, The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Defence Lawyers, The Federation of Defence and Corporate Counsel, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Carleton University and Ottawa University.

Diana de Mello Jungmann, Intellectual Property Program Coordinator, CNI - National Confederation of Industry, Brazil

Diana Jungmann works at the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) in Brazil as the coordinator of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Programme for Industrial Innovation. She is the author of five publications of the Programme. The initiative is a Latin American landmark involving extensive propagation of IP-related issues.

Dr Jungmann represents the CNI as a council member for the IP Brazilian Association and for the Anti-piracy National Council of the Ministry of Justice. She has a PhD from the United Kingdom, an MSc and BSc from Brazil, and executive qualifications in intellectual property and business strategy from Harvard Business School and in business and innovation management from IMD, Wharton and Duke-LSE.

Dr Jungmann is a successful inventor and has broad experience in intellectual property and innovation as a project manager, business liaison, lecturer and speaker. She has delivered the work in the United Kingdom, the United States, Brussels, Mexico, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Portugal, and in 24 Brazilian states.

David R. Cohen, Partner, Reed Smith, USA

David R. Cohen graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983. He is a litigation partner in the Pittsburgh office of Reed Smith LLP, where he leads the firm’s Records & E-Discovery Team. He is admitted to practice before courts in Pennsylvania, plus the Third, Fifth and Federal Circuits, and has been admitted pro hac vice to courts in fourteen other states, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. David has served as Special Discovery Counsel or National Discovery Counsel for a number of clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

David was principally responsible for the briefing and argument that led to the precedential cost-shifting opinion in Delta Fin. Corp. v. Morrison, 819 N.Y. S.2d 908 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2006). David has served as President of the Harvard Law School Association of Western Pennsylvania, Chair of the Technology Utilization Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and Chairman of the Litigation Technologies Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Computerization Committee. He also taught as an adjunct law school professor at Duquesne Law School and has authored technology and legal strategy articles and book chapters published in Litigation, The National Law Journal, the Tort and Insurance Law Journal, Managing Litigation Costs, The Litigation Handbook, and other legal publications.

David serves on Advisory Boards for the Advanced E-discovery Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, and Strafford Publications. He regularly serves as a presenter, conference chair or keynote speaker at numerous continuing legal education conferences throughout the country. In 2008 he was awarded a Vestige e-Discovery "Technology Champion" award.

David Talley, Global Counsel, Panasonic Electric Works Co. Ltd., Japan

David works as a Global Counsel for Panasonic Electric Works Co. Ltd. and is an expert of Strategic Planning, Development, and Implementation of Legal Services for Global Enterprise. He follows proactive and creative approach to identifying and meeting objectives, focusing on solutions that effectively balance time, quality and cost. He is expert in leveraging technologies to improve communications and deliver consistent solutions across the group. He had Advised and Counseled to the Board, Executive, and Operational Levels of the Enterprise. His goal is to develop and support the truly global enterprise.

David specializes in Group and Global Governance, Compliance and Networking; M&A; Corporate Restructuring; International Joint Ventures, Alliances, Strategic OEM Relationships; Global Agreements; Complex Negotiation.

David M. Hickey, Managing Director, American Discovery, USA

David M. Hickey is American Discovery's Managing Director. Mr. Hickey brings more than 20 years of litigation experience to American Discovery. Prior to joining American Discovery, Mr. Hickey was an equity partner at Winston & Strawn, LLP. He has first chair trial experience and has worked on a number of significant litigation and arbitration matters in the United States, Asia and the United Kingdom. Mr. Hickey has represented clients in connection with government investigations and litigated complex commercial matters including class action, franchise, trade secret, false advertising, unfair competition, contract, tort, securities, derivative, change of control, construction, oil and gas, energy, and defamation matters.

He also has extensive experience with respect to outsourcing having advised outsourcing providers throughout India and the Philippines concerning best practices and security issues. In addition to Winston, Mr. Hickey has practiced at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for more than 10 years and the U.S. Air Force. While at Winston, Mr. Hickey was a founding member of the firm's e-discovery and electronic information practice group and served as a vice-chair of the group from its inception. He has counseled a wide variety of companies on record retention programs, compliance with electronic discovery, and implementing programs to reduce risk associated with the generation and retention of electronic records. He is also a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and CLE programs on electronic discovery legal developments and best practices.

Dayanthi Samaranayake, Senior Group Manager Operations – Legal Services, WNS Global Services (Pvt) Limited, Sri Lanka

Dayanthi Samaranayake serves as Senior Group Manager Operations – Legal Services, Colombo Sri Lanka for WNS Global Services (Pvt) Limited. She heads the Legal Operations in Sri Lanka and is involved in Client Engagement, Liasing with Operations Support Units, People and Perfomance Management and ensuring delivery of Service Levels.

Dayanthi joined WNS in 2007 as Manager for a UK Residential Conveyancing Process and currently heads a High End Voice and Data Complex Process providing services to a UK based Solicitor Firm dealing with Personal Injury Claims. She also overlooks the Corporate Legal Team in Sri Lanka and supports in Business Development for Legal Services. Prior to joining WNS she served in a full services Law Firm since 2003 and has extensive exposure in multiple areas of law including Conveyancing, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law and Company Secretarial work.

Dayanthi is a Lawyer by profession and is an Attorney at Law having qualified from the Sri Lanka Law College in 2003 with Honours. She is a licensed Notary Public, Commissioner for Oaths and Company Secretary registered with the Registrar of Companies in Sri Lanka and also holds a Nationa Diploma in Human Resource Management.

Dayanthi represents WNS as a member of the Center of Excellence for Legal Services in the SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies) and has represented Sri Lanka as a Scholar at the Inter Pacific Bar Association Conference held in Sydney Australia in May 2006.

Dirk Thomas, Principal, McKool Smith, USA

Dirk Thomas is a principal in McKool Smith’s Washington, DC office. McKool Smith has more than 100 attorneys in Dallas, Austin, Marshall, New York, and Washington D.C., handling commercial, intellectual property and white collar litigation for national and international clients. The firm is recognized as one of the premier trial law firms in the United States, having earned significant courtroom victories for clients such as American Airlines, Ericsson, Electronic Data Systems, Medtronic Inc., and Sony Ericsson.

Dirk practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on cases involving computer technology, telephony and communications systems, refinery and manufacturing products and processes, and medical devices and procedures. In addition to his impressive trial record, Dirk also represents clients in appellate matters before the Federal Circuit. Prior to joining McKool Smith he was co-chair of Dewey & LeBoeuf's Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Dirk also served as lead trial counsel in a patent case against technology giant Dell on behalf of a small European computer company, Tulip Computers. That case, tried to a jury in the District of Delaware, resulted in a $49.5 million recovery for Tulip on a patent that was no longer practiced by either party.

Dirk received his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland and J.D. from George Washington University Law School. In addition to his responsibilities for McKool Smith, Dirk serves as an active member in various bar associations: American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association and Licensing Executives Society.

Donal O'Connell, Managing Director, Chawton Innovation Services Limited, UK

Donal O’Connell is the Managing Director of Chawton Innovation Services Limited. The company offers consultancy in the areas of innovation and intellectual property management. In the past year, the client base has included leading Universities, a global IP service provider, a selection of major IP Firms, a global telecoms company, a compliance firm and some global chemical companies. There has also been a global food and beverages company, a global heavy engineering company, one of the big four financial services companies, plus a variety of SMEs.

Donal graduated from NIHE Limerick (now The University of Limerick) in Ireland in 1985, with a Degree in Electronic Engineering. Donal had a long career at Nokia for 21 years and has a wide and varied experience in the wireless telecoms industry, having worked for periods in The Netherlands, UK, USA, Finland, and HK.

Donal is a former VP of R&D and Director of IP at Nokia. In the US he was manager of Nokia R&D in Texas from 1997 to 2003, growing the site from scratch by recruiting and developing more than 600 engineers and developing and launching many successful products. More recently, from 2003 to 2009, Donal was a Director of IP at Nokia and was the leader of Nokia's Patent Creation team. Donal has been a member of the Executive Board of the Eco Patent Commons initiative as well as Chair of the CPA Global Memotech IUG.

Daryl E. Shetterly, Partner, LeClairRyan, USA

Daryl Shetterly, a partner in LeClairRyan's Discovery Solutions Practice, advises businesses on issues related to the discovery of electronically stored information and compliance with state and federal rules of civil procedure and related case law. He also speaks extensively on the subject of e-discovery, including how law firms can best utilize e-discovery, the use of privilege logs in large-scale document review projects, and the effective use of search terms in e-discovery.

Daryl has managed numerous large-scale electronic discovery projects for Fortune 500 clients in a variety of civil matters, including antitrust, intellectual property, breach of contract, employment, class action and multidistrict products liability matters. He has also managed the collection and review of documents responsive to large-scale state and federal investigations. Some of these investigations have involved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Attorney General. Daryl brings experience, creativity and a passion for process to an increasingly complex and difficult area of law, while maintaining a focus on two issues most important to his clients - cost and risk.

Daryl is a contributor to the LeClairRyan electronic discovery blog, e-Discovery Myth. Follow him on Twitter @DarylShetterly.

Prior to practicing law, Daryl helped launch a technology company that provided ecommerce solutions to small and medium-size organizations.

Outside of work, Daryl serves on the board of directors for the Youth Life Foundation of Richmond, a nonprofit organization providing academic and wellness after-school and summer programs for children living in at-risk communities. The Richmond chapter is an affiliate of the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation, headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Legal Experience

• LeClairRyan, Richmond, Virginia, June 2008 – Present
• Wright Robinson Osthimer & Tatum, Richmond, Virginia, 2005 – June 2008 (merged with LeClairRyan)

Memberships and Affiliations

• Board Member, Youth Life Foundation

David L. Stanton, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, USA

Mr. Stanton is a member of the firm's Information Law and Electronic Discovery team. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the category of "Litigation: E-Discovery Nationwide" by Chambers USA, a legal guide that ranks law firms and lawyers throughout the world based on independent reviews from clients and peers. He has significant experience in all aspects of information management law and e-discovery, and is well-versed in the latest technologies needed to implement effective and comprehensive enterprise-wide programs. He serves as national e-discovery counsel for clients, working closely with in-house counsel and IT professionals, service providers and outside trial teams, to ensure e-discovery process is cost-effective and complies with the rules of civil procedure. He also regularly advises clients on information governance, records retention and disposition, as well as litigation readiness programs and litigation hold procedures.

Mr. Stanton is a partner in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's national Litigation Practice section. Through Mr. Stanton's efforts, the firm has launched PEARL, Pillsbury's E-Discovery Alliance of Resource Leaders, a collaboration of lawyers and e-discovery service providers whose mission is to replace the typical ad hoc approach to e-discovery with a reliable, single source solution that improves quality and dramatically reduces overall costs and risks. Mr. Stanton also oversees the firm's nationwide Litigation Support Department, and facilitates Pillsbury's electronic discovery activities across all offices.

Daniel H. Vaswani, Chief Counsel, Kagu9, Inc., USA

Daniel H. Vaswani is Chief Counsel at Kagu9, Inc. Kagu9 provides export, import, and international distribution services to American manufacturers and produces raw goods. As Kagu9’s lead counsel, Daniel is responsible for fulfilling Kagu9’s broad legal needs. He primarily deals with commercial transactions, including buy/sell, intellectual property licensing, and services agreements. As a company that focuses on building relationships between American companies and international buyers, Daniel understands the laws and customs of Kagu9’s buyer countries as they relate to commercial transactions and intellectual property. Daniel is responsible for Kagu9’s domestic and international privacy initiatives, copyrights and trademarks, and employment agreements. Daniel also ensures that Kagu9 is in compliance with all domestic and international regulatory provisions.

Before joining Kagu9, Daniel served as Associate Counsel at Ungerlaw P.C., D.B.A. eMinutes.com. eMinutes exclusively provides corporate governance, entity formation, maintenance, restructuring, and dissolution services. While at eMinutes, Daniel was primarily responsible for providing advice and counsel to clients seeking to form or dissolve entities. At eMinutes, Daniel formed upwards of 40 corporations and limited liability companies and assisted in the dissolution and winding-down of at least 20 entities.

Daniel obtained his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. While at Loyola, Daniel defended indigent youths in criminal proceedings as a Certified Law Student for the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy. Daniel also served as the President of the South Asian Law Student Association from 2008-2010, and served as the Law Student Liaison between the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California and law schools in the greater Los Angeles area.

Daniel obtained his B.A. in both Political Science and History with highest departmental and college honors from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Deepak Malhotra, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer and Global Counsel, Fusion Universal, UK

Deepak Malhotra is one of the most recognised international General Counsel. He currently serves as Chief Legal and Administrative Officer for a leading technology business Fusion Universal, with offices in London, Mumbai, Sydney and Tanzania. He has worked in industry since 1998, with positions at The Gillette Company, and then as Vice President for AB-InBev, one of the world's 5 largest consumer goods companies. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Constellation Brands Inc, where he was responsible for Europe and Australia. Prior to working in-house, Deepak worked for the law firms BLP and SNR Denton. Deepak has worked in the UK and Belgium.

Deepak sits on the Editorial Board of the 'Law Firm Managing Partner' journal, and is an Advisory Board member of Global Leaders in Law, and also Chairs its think-tank. This group represents 1,600 General Counsel around the world. He is also a past Chairman of the Law Society's Commerce & Industry London region, and has served on the Boards of 'Rethinking Legal Services' and the Law Society Charity. He has been recognised by the 'In-House Lawyer' journal as one of the top thoughts leaders of the legal profession and his legal team won Global Legal Team of the Year Award at the Legal Week Awards 2005.

Deepak's experience includes substantial legal outsourcing, and setting up global and European legal panels since 2005. He has been quoted extensively in the Financial Times, the Times and the legal press on outsourcing, value in legal services and pricing.

David Holme, Founder, Exigent LPO, UK

David is a ACA who had a 14 year career in the City of London with global financial institutions. He is a founder of Exigent and a main board director. Exigent was founded in 2003 and is a leading provider of LSO and LPO to leading global law firms. The business has 5 offices globally and employs some 300 staff principally in South Africa and Australia.

David Kinnear, Co-Founder & Partner, GSSOCX, USA

David is a frequent contributor, thought-leader on the role and growth of global sourcing & outsourcing methods & its emerging interaction with the corporate disciplines of Sustainability. In a voluntary capacity, David is Chair Elect and a co-Founder of The Global Sourcing Council.

Increasingly David works with companies seeking to leverage Sustainability as a means to achieve not only a "green agenda" but also a "way of doing business" that drives material cost savings, measurable process efficiencies and a sharper competitive edge.

In addition, David works closely with a portfolio of high-growth technology and services companies - helping to architect management strategy and support growth, leveraging BK's presence in New York and London.

An attorney by trade (a qualified UK Barrister), David has worked for leading law firms Masons and Linklaters in London, specializing in major construction & engineering contract management & litigation. In 1995, he relocated Credit Suisse's Banking & Support Operations into its new global headquarters, and then managed significant global outsourcing, shared sourcing and process efficiency initiatives during his subsequent tenure. Afterward, he moved to the provider side, working extensively with the UK, US, Philippines and China during his time with the Black Mountain Group and subsequently.

Dev Ganesan, President & CEO, Aptara Inc, USA

Under Dev Ganesan’s leadership, Aptara is playing a pivotal role in helping the world’s leading companies navigate and profit from today’s digital/mobile age. With innovative content technologies that deliver significant cost, quality and speed advantages, Aptara gives organizations the agility they need to adapt to a rapidly changing marketplace. As the former head of both private and publically held companies (Intelliworks, TRADOS, Advanced Communications Systems) Dev’s entrepreneurial drive and long track-record of operational and financial success has resulted in Aptara’s expansion and evolution − from a technology vendor to a solutions partner with unique expertise in the legal arena. With relationships spanning the entire production and distribution supply-chain, Aptara provides simultaneous content distribution via any device, outlet or platform.

David Kemp, Executive Director of Legal Policy, Autonomy, UK

David provides business development for Autonomy outside the USA, since March 2010. Autonomy is the US$7 billion market cap software company listed in the FTSE100, specialising in technology for corporate governance, business efficiency and corporate expansion. He works with Corporate Boards, General Counsel and Risk Managers to meet the key challenges they face in terms of empowering their institutions, protecting them and enabling them to promote their corporate business.

By profession he is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, having obtained a Masters Degree in Law from Oxford University. He has worked for 11 years as a Corporate Banker at ABN AMRO before becoming a Legal & Compliance Business Manager at ABN AMRO / RBS in 2001.

In the last decade he has created a number of influential cross-industry market groups for setting self-help regulatory bench-marks in areas such as Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering, Legal Intelligence, Records Management and other areas of Investment Banking.

David Whitney – Relationship Manager, Solicitors Regulation Authority, UK

David Whitney is a Relationship Manager in the Regulation Directorate at the SRA. With a team of 4 other managers, David is currently developing and piloting relationship management as one of a range of new supervisory techniques which the SRA may use from October 2011 following the introduction of outcomes-focused regulation.

David leads the SRA outsourcing group and is currently considering a range of outsourcing issues with a number of global and international law firms in connection with the relationship management pilot.

David is a solicitor. He trained, qualified and practised at Simmons & Simmons and subsequently at Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert specialising in commercial litigation, professional indemnity and disciplinary matters. Following a period of consulting and training work for UK Top 100 firms focusing on professional standards and compliance issues, David worked as Risk Manager at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP. He joined the SRA in May 2010.

Fernando M. Pinguelo, Partner, Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A., USA

Fernando M. Pinguelo, a Partner at Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. and co-Chair of the Response to Electronic Discovery & Information Group at the firm, is a United States-based trial lawyer who devotes his law practice to complex business lawsuits with an emphasis on how technology impacts them. Fernando has lectured internationally and written dozens of articles on the topic; and appeared on television as a legal commentator on various high-profile cases. Frenando works closely with business owners and executives to develop strategies to manage business and legal issues related to electronic documents. As an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, Mr. Pinguelo has developed and teaches a state-of-the-art course on eDiscovery and how technology impacts lawsuits. Recently, the U.S. Fulbright Program designated him a Fulbright Specialist for his work in eDiscovery; and he will guest lecture at Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil next year. Finally, Mr. Pinguelo also founded and contributes to the ABA Journal award-winning blog, eLessons Learned – Where Law, Technology, & Human Error Collide.

A former prosecutor, Fernando is experienced in all facets of litigation (trial, mediation, arbitration, and appellate) in both federal and state courts. He handles a broad spectrum of disputes including business torts, data breaches, misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright infringement, fraud, breach of non-compete covenants, and discrimination.

Fabian E. Powell Esq./MIP., Managing Member, Tanz & Powell Global, LLC., USA

Fabian E. Powell is a partner and founding member of the law firm of Tanz & Powell, LLP. Mr. Powell advises clients in the areas of bankruptcy, immigration, debt settlement and negotiation, family law, personal injury and general litigation.

He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston-BA (2005), University of Massachusetts School of Law Dartmouth-JD (2008) and Franklin Pierce Law Center-MIP (2010). He was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 2008, Connecticut in 2009, and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2010.

He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Norfolk Bar Association, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. He is a board member of University of Massachusetts School of Law Dartmouth Alumni Association and co-chair of the events committee.

Mr. Powell frequently appears on television and radio to discuss immigration issues that impact immigrant communities.

Fredrik Motzfeldt, CPCU, Senior Vice President, EMEA Practice Leader, Marsh Global Communications, Media & Technology Practice, UK

In his current role as the Mash EMEA CMT Practice Leader, Fredrik is responsible for technical advice and new business development within the Communications, Media & Technology sector in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Based in London, UK, Fredrik oversees the development of insurance products, risk management consulting and financing solutions for the communications, media & technology industry exposures in EMEA. He acts as an adviser to and liaison with clients and Marsh offices worldwide on a broad range of communications, media & technology industry-related issues, including specialty subjects such as cloud computing, intellectual property, open source, and non-material damage business interruption.

Gregory L. Wilkinson, Esq., In-House Counsel, ACT 1 Group, Inc., USA

Greg Wilkinson serves as In-House Counsel to the ACT 1 Group, Inc., which is the largest minority/woman-owned provider of contingent labor in North America. He is also a licensed Solicitor in the United Kingdom and handles the bulk of the ACT 1 Group’s legal needs in the U.K. and abroad.

Gregory is responsible for managing a large amount of complex transactional work. In this role, he reviews proposed service contacts between the ACT 1 Group and its customers to ensure that the ACT 1 Group obtains the most favorable terms possible while not stifling the flow of business. He is often required to negotiate directly with senior executives at Fortune 1000 companies and their attorneys. A single contract could result in tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars per year in sales.

Gregory’s experience with intellectual property (“IP”) law also supports the efforts of the organization as a major source of income comes from customers’ use of the ACT 1 Group’s proprietary software. Therefore, significant time is spent handling software licensing agreements and underlying rights.

As In-House Counsel, Gregory also oversees the litigation of a number of larger ACT 1 Group bankruptcy creditor claims. In this role, Gregory is required to manage the creditor claim from the initial filing through the final judgment. During this process, he often maintains contact with the debtor, other creditors, and their attorneys to work toward the largest possible payment of the claim.

Gregory has dealt with several of the ACT 1 Group’s corporate governance issues, with significant involvement in the creation of new start-up ventures (both foreign and domestic). This includes the creation of the corporate entity, start-up operations, and follow-up on issues. Further, he advises on ownership agreements and corporate structuring.

Gaurav Mohindra, IP Counsel at DTS, Inc., USA

Gaurav Mohindra is IP Counsel at DTS, Inc. His practice involves the procurement of IP assets. Specifically, worldwide patent and trademark prosecution. He concentrate on advising clients on complex IP issues arising in the context of corporate transactions, including mergers, standards activities, and technology transactions. He counsel clients in standalone licensing transactions involving intellectual property assets. He also have considerable experience in structuring, drafting and negotiating agreements involving various technologies, including license, collaboration, co-development, supply and manufacturing agreements.

Prior to joining DTS, Inc. Gaurav worked for Accenture as a Senior Strategy & Technology Consultant and addressed the technological needs of a diverse group of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and start-up companies. He also advised clients on a wide variety of e-commerce issues, including VOIP, application distribution and management, software development, disaster recovery, and application service provider issues. Managed teams of developers and controlled budget.

Gaurav received his JD, Intellectual Property Law from University of NH - School of Law and MS in Computer Science from DePaul University. He holds license to practice before the USPTO and serve as a member at California Bar and Illinois Bar Associations. He has expertise in digital signal processing technologies and digital supply chain business models; commercializing, monetizing, and enforcing intellectual property.

George Romanik, Principal, O'Shea Getz P.C., USA

George J. Romanik counsels clients in a full range of intellectual property matters with a focus on intellectual property portfolio development, patent prosecution and litigation, intellectual property and technology transactional and licensing matters, trademark prosecution, and trade secret protection.

George was previously Intellectual Property Counsel for the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Earlier George held the same position at UTC's subsidiary Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation and patent attorney positions at Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies Research Center, and UTC's Corporate Headquarters. During his UTC career, George managed a number of significant litigations to successful conclusions. Mr. Romanik has spoken widely at intellectual property conferences, including conferences sponsored by the American Bar Association and Frost & Sullivan. During law school, George served as Managing Editor for the Connecticut Law Review. Before attending law school, George was a process engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey and Joliet, Illinois.

Ganesh Natarajan – President and CEO, Mindcrest, USA

Ganesh, co-founder of the world’s first legal outsourcing company, has ensured Mindcrest’s position as industry leader since its inception in 2001. Under his leadership, Mindcrest has become synonymous with quality and value to lawyers in the U.S., Europe and Australia.

Throughout his career, Ganesh has acted as an advisor to several Fortune 500 companies in areas, such as market-entry strategies, capital raising activities, joint venture arrangements, strategic alliances and various commercial arrangements, including mergers and acquisitions. His vast cross-border experience and deep insight into international investment issues enabled him to guide U.S. and U.K. clients on investment propositions in India. His keen global legal acumen was instrumental in guiding several multinationals in making their India entry.

With his vast and varied experience, Ganesh has become a leading authority in the international legal industry, and has addressed many industry forums, bar associations and law schools internationally. Ganesh has an MBA from Brigham Young University in Utah and a JD from Washington University in St. Louis. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Bombay and a graduate degree in management from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. Ganesh brings close to 20 years of legal experience to Mindcrest.

Gary Hanley, Senior Vice President, Invest Northern Ireland, USA

Gary is the head of North American operations for Invest Northern Ireland, a branch of the UK government responsible for growing the economy of Northern Ireland.

Under Gary’s leadership, Northern Ireland has seen recent investments from dynamic and fast growing North American companies including CyberSource, 3Par, ByteMobile, BTI Systems, NaviNet and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

In May 2008, Gary was instrumental in the success of the historic US:Northern Ireland Economic Conference which took place in Belfast. The conference, supported by the Bush administration, was attended by Fortune 500 executives to meet with senior political figures including Gordon Brown and Brian Cowan (UK and Irish Prime Ministers). Keynote speakers included representatives from companies such as Allstate, Citi and Bombardier who are major investors in the region.

With over fifteen years experience in the ICT industry in the US, Gary has held positions of leadership in software development, IT, sales and marketing for companies such as Sun Microsystems, GTE (now Verizon) and EMC.

Howard B. Miller, Partner, Girardi Keese Lawyers, USA

Howard B. Miller specializes in the areas of patent and other intellectual property litigation, anti-trust, and general complex commercial litigation cases. Among his many successful cases, his patent cases have included outstanding results in technologies as different as cancer radiation therapy and GPS location technology for cell phones.

He also does substantial appellate practice for the firm. Recent appellate cases which he has argued include, in the Supreme Court of California: Lockheed Martin Corporation v. Superior Court, 29 Cal.4th 1096 (2003) and HLC Properties v. Superior Court, 35 Cal.4th 54 (2005); in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: Dow Chemical Co. v. Calderon, 422 F.3d 827 (9th Circ. 2005) and Abrego v. Dow, 443 F.3d 676 (9th Circ. 2006); in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: Optivus v. Ion Beam, 469 F.3d 978 (Fed.Circ. 2006); and in the California Court of Appeal: Karlsson v. Ford Motor Company, 140 Cal.App.4th 1202 (2006).

In addition to many other appellate arguments, he recently argued successfully en banc in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Montz v. Pilgrim Films (2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 9099, 98 U.S.P.Q. 2nd 1569, May 4, 2011), the leading case on Copyright Preemption not applying to California implied-in-fact contracts (the December 16, 2010 argument can be seen on YouTube under Montz v. Pilgrim). He for many years was a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, and is the immediate past president of the State Bar of California.

Hemant K Batra, Lead Partner-Kaden Boriss Legal LLP & Vice President, SAARCLAW, India

Hemant Batra is a Corporate, Business & Strategist Commercial Lawyer, whose practice is concentrated across the Globe in general, specifically in India/South Asia. He is the Managing Head-Legal, Kaden Boriss Consulting [affiliate of Kaden Boriss (UK) Ltd.], a legal/knowledge process outsourcing & legal services company engaged in undertaking assignments for both Indian and overseas clients seeking to outsource their legal, para-legal documentation & documentation management, regulatory and compliance work.

He is the elected Vice President of SAARCLAW (South Asian Association For Regional Co-operation In Law) and enjoys a quasi-diplomatic status. He has written as well as edited and published various publications and papers on various topics of commercial significance. He is a visiting Guest Speaker to various international universities and institutions. He has been associated with various literary projects undertaken by Nova Southeastern University, Florida. Until 2006, he has spoken as a Speaker at about 90 international conferences/seminars/workshops on varied topics of commercial importance. He has traveled extensively around the world.

James P. Duffy, Managing Partner, Berg and Duffy LLP, USA

Mr. Duffy is the current managing partner of the Firm, its Senior Partner, and the partner in charge of the Firm's Monaco Office that he founded in 1986. He primarily focuses on international corporate and financial transactions. He is also very active in bar association matters, currently serving as Chair of the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Duffy is a frequent author and lecturer on international legal topics.

He has been a member of the New York Bar since 1968. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law, New York City. He is also admitted to a number of Federal Courts, including the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Duffy’s early legal experience included an appointment by US Senator Jacob K. Javits, who was then the Senior Senator for New York, as Counsel and Staff Director to the Republican members of the United States Senate Committee on Small Business, Washington, DC, and service as an associate at the Wall Street law firm of Cravath Swaine & Moore in New York City. Mr. Duffy is a founding member and a past Chair of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association and a permanent member of the Section’s Executive Committee. Mr. Duffy was a founding member of Berg and Duffy, a small multi-office law firm that specialized in international business, banking, and financial transactions. He is currently engaged in private practice in New York specializing in those same areas. Mr. Duffy is active in New York State Bar Association activities and is a frequent speaker on international legal topics. He is based in New York, but, during his legal career, he has founded a number of foreign branch offices for his law firm and has lived for periods of time in Europe and Latin America in connection with the management of those offices.

Jane Lambert, Head of Chamber, NIPC Law, UK

Jane is a specialist Intellectual Property and Technology Law Counsel and Arbitrator and Mediator of IP and Technology disputes. Her mission is to bring high quality professional services within reach of those who usually need them most but can often afford them least. She is the author of "Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide for Businesses and Innovative and creative Individuals" published by Gower in March 2009

Specialties

Advising and assisting start-ups and other small businesses on legal protection of brands, designs, technology and creative works.

Jim Harlan, Senior Vice-President & General Counsel, Xtera Communications, Inc.

Jim serves as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel of Xtera Communications, Inc., a telecommunication equipment manufacturer with offices worldwide. He has spent most of his career as a lawyer in the telecommunications industry, having worked for some of the largest equipment and infrastructure suppliers in the world. Jim began his career as a patent litigator, having had the pleasure of working with (now Chief Justice) John Roberts on a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Continuing through his career, Jim has been involved with telecommunication and intellectual property legislation and policy issues in the US and abroad.

Jim has a Master’s of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, and a Law Degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Jim started his technical studies in Biochemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jason S. Zack, Associate, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; American Bar Association (ABA) Technology for the Litigator Committee (Co-Chair, New Products), Standing Committee on Technology & Information Systems (Chair, Technology Assessment), USA

Jason Zack is an associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. An active member of the American Bar Association (ABA), Jason serves as a board member on the Section of Litigation's Technology for the Litigator Committee and as Chair of Technology Assessment for the ABA's Standing Committee on Technology & Information Systems. Prior to earning his J.D., Jason worked as a behavioral science consultant, primarily engaged in jury research. As a consultant and graduate student, Jason frequently presented his findings and authored more than 20 publications. From 2007-2008, Jason served as an Arthur Littleton & H. Clayton Louderback Legal Writing Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Representative Matters

Intellectual Property:

• Representation of major stock market index creator in intellectual property litigation relating to derivative trading products based on stock market indexes.
• Representation of major toy manufacturer in various trademark issues, including TTAB proceedings, trademark searches, and trademark protection via cease-and-desist actions.
• Representation of large pharmaceutical company in various trademark issues, including TTAB proceedings, trademark searches, and trademark protection via cease-and-desist actions.

Commercial Litigation:

• Representation of international manufacturer of medical and electronic devices in claims related to government contracts.
• Represented architect and architectural firm in breach of contract action against a real estate developer.

He is also an active member of American Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; New York City Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; New York State Delegate to the General Assembly and ABA Young Lawyers Division.

Jeff Kichaven, Independent Mediator and Chair of the ADR Committees in the ABA Sections of Business Law and Intellectual Property Law, USA

Jeff Kichaven is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on mediation. He is a leading voice on the ways lawyers and mediators can, and must, work together to serve clients better. He has addressed audiences of lawyers in the United States, Canada, and England for six Sections of the American Bar Association (Business Law, Dispute Resolution, Family Law, Law Practice Management, Litigation and Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice). He has also addressed the Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA, the State Bar of California, the Texas Association of Mediators, the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wisconsin Association of Mediators, the California Center for Judicial Education and Research ("Judges' College"), the USC Insurance Law Institute, California Continuing Education of the Bar, the Los Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations, the national seminar series of the Negotiation Strategy Institute and many other organizations. Several of his recent articles, including the widely published "Mediation is Not for Sissies," are included on his website.

In the organized bar, Jeff is a Trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and LACBA-Dispute Resolution Services, Inc. and is a Past Chair of LACBA's ADR Section. He is also Chair of the ADR Committee in the ABA's TTIPS Section, and has served as a Member of the Governing Council of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and Chair of the ADR Committees in the ABA Sections of Business Law and Intellectual Property Law. Additionally, Jeff is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Mediation Association and a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators.

Jeff is an Honors Graduate of the Harvard Law School (J.D. Cum Laude, 1980), a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Economics, 1977), and a veteran of 15 years' of business litigation experience as a partner in Los Angeles' Alschuler, Grossman & Pines.

Jill Vacchina Dobbs, Director of Membership Services, Sourcing Interests Group, USA

Jill Vacchina Dobbs is Director of Membership Services at Sourcing Interests Group (SIG), has over 15 years of diverse financial, sales, management and legal experience. She is an attorney licensed in California and Nevada (inactive) and prior to joining SIG her private law practice focused on transactional and business law. As a business attorney, Jill focused on bringing high-quality legal services to her clients in the most cost-effective manner possible, which is the very promise at the heart of the LPO movement. Jill defines it as a movement because LPO is innovation changing the legal industry status quo for the better. SIG is a global leader in providing an ongoing forum for networking, and sharing thought leadership, innovation and “next” practices in the sourcing industry. Jill is proud to help bring the latest developments in sourcing and outsourcing to SIG members, including LPO best practices.

Jill also has over 10 years of experience sitting on non-profit boards and is Board President of the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe. Jill studied international law in Florence, Italy, holds a B.A. from UC-Santa Barbara and graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law.

Juan Pablo Sanchez Delgado, Partner, Acedo Santamarina, Mexico

Juan Pablo Sanchez is a partner of the firm in the areas of corporate law, telecommunications, air and space law, real estate and project finance, representing several domestic and foreign clients in various corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and the establishment of operations in Mexico.

Juan is actively involved in matters of air and space nations and foreign airlines and telecommunications issues.

Unviersidad studied law at Anahuac and holds a Masters degree in law from Georgetown University. Throughout 2005 he worked as Foreign Associate at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in New York City, USA.

A member of the Latin American Air Transport Association and has served as adjunct professor of corporate law in the Unviersidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

John Wotton, Vice President - The Law Society, England and Wales, UK

John Wotton has represented the EU Matters constituency on the Law Society's Council since 2007. He is also an ex officio member of the Legal Affairs and Policy Board, the Management Board, the Membership Board and the Regulatory Affairs Board of the Law Society, and chaired the Support Services Resolution Board and the Society's EU Committee.

John is a consultant to the Antitrust Practice at Allen & Overy. He was a partner from 1984 to 2007 and has advised clients on many important cases before the UK competition authorities and the European Commission. He is closely involved in the media sector, with a focus on regulation and judicial review. In utilities, energy and transport, his work has focused mainly on the water, oil, gas and rail industries.

John became a member of the Co-operation and Competition Panel for NHS-funded Services, on its establishment by the Department of Health in 2009. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Forum of BIICL.

John has been on the Law Society’s Council since September 2007 and became Vice-President at the AGM on 15 July 2010. He is due to become President in July 2011.

Jerome Kowalski, Founder, Kowalski & Associates, USA

Jerome Kowalski, a nationally recognized consultant and adviser to law firms, advises law firms on a variety of matters, including strategic planning and growth, trends in the profession, partner compensation, associate hiring, compensation systems, training and retention, alternative fee arrangements, project management, law firm mergers, opening branch offices, acquiring practice groups, merger integration, marketing and related matters.

In 1995, after thirty years of practicing law in New York with some of the nation’s largest firms Jerry Kowalski formed Kowalski & Associates in Cedarhurst, New York. Jerry Kowalski’s extensive resume includes extinguish legal work, and serving as counsel for the Government of Israel’s Departments of Defense, Department of Finance, The Bank of Israel (Israel’s Central Bank), the Government of Israel’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, El Al Israel Airlines and Clal, the second largest corporation in Israel. Jerry Kowalski also served as an adviser to Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin and Benjamin Netanyahu; as well as Minister of Finance Ya’acov Ne’eman.

Karl Schieneman, President and Founder, Review Less^SM LLC & President and Founder, Review Right, LLC, USA

Mr. Schieneman is the President and founder of Review Less, an e-discovery consulting and review organization dedicated to improving document review through better technology and workflows. He is a serial entrepreneur specializing in the legal field.

Karl is a national expert in electronic discovery and electronic records management. He is also a frequent speaker nationally on topics related to legal staffing and electronic discovery. He created ESIBytes which is the leading electronic discovery podcast in the country and before that hosted a quarterly national audio broadcast for BNA on these topics. He has spoken at conferences and written numerous articles and book chapters on this topic. He is also the creator of the 4th C Electronic Discovery Cabernet an Electronic Discovery wine modeled on the Zubulake decision and personally autographed by Laura Zubulake and Judge Scheindlin. Another tool created by Karl is Discovery Land an Electronic Discovery Modeling Board Game. Best practice game for E-Discovery process created by combining tips from over 50 national electronic discovery experts.

Kunoor Chopra, Senior Vice President, Global Legal Services, UnitedLex Corporation, USA

Kunoor Chopra is a highly experienced, U.S. attorney licensed in California and a graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She was born in Los Angeles, California and admitted to practice in California in 1998. Kunoor started LawScribe in 2004, one of the pioneer legal process outsourcing companies which was acquired by UnitedLex in November, 2010. The acquisition added global and technological capabilities to LawScribe’s litigation, corporate and intellectual property services.

Kunoor was an associate attorney with the international law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski L.L.P. and with Nossaman. Kunoor has litigated numerous multimillion dollar cases. While she was preparing these cases for trial she realized the importance of having reliable and cost effective legal support available to law firms and their clients. It was with this in mind that she formed LawScribe in 2004 with the vision of changing the way legal services would be provided.

Kunoor is a member of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, and involved in their Legal Process Outsourcing and Delhi Chapters. She is a founding member of the editorial board of the Legal Process Outsourcing Network and is on the editorial board of The Outsourcer. She is on the Board of Governors for the Organization of Legal Professionals. She is on the Board of Directors for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. She is also a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, The Indus Entrepreneurs, Women in E-Discovery, Asian Women Entrepreneurs, International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, International Legal Technology Association, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, California Minority Counsel Program, Association of Corporate Counsel, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the South Asian Bar Association. She has had a variety of articles published on Outsourcing and the Legal Profession and has been interviewed by the press as an authority in the field of Offshore Legal Process Outsourcing. Kunoor is also a recognized speaker both in the United States and abroad in the field of Legal Process Outsourcing and has been invited to speak at conferences including NASABA, NAPABA, the State Bar of California, Legal Tech in Los Angeles and New York, International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, University of California Berkley School of Law, ALM Legal Outsourcing Conferences and Association of Legal Administrators.

Leon Steinberg, Chairman, Black Hills IP, USA

Leon Steinberg chairs Black Hills IP’s board of directors. Steinberg has an extensive background in the legal support industry. Mr. Steinberg was the CEO of Intellevate, one of the world’s largest legal process outsource organizations. He was the CEO of FoundationIP, a work process and management system for intellectual property firms and legal departments. He was also a member of the CPA Global’s senior management team. Mr. Steinberg was the founder and former CEO of Meritas, the world’s second largest affiliation of law firms. Leon is a former partner at the Maslon law firm in Minneapolis. Leon was a contributing author to the American Bar Association’s Lawyers Handbook and a frequent lecturer to the University Of Michigan Institute Of Law Firm Management. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from William Mitchell College of Law.

Lalit Bhasin, President, Society of Indian Law Firms & Partner, Bhasin & Company, India

Lalit Bhasin - Born on 19th January, 1939, started Law Practice in September, 1962. He was the Chairman, Bar Council of Delhi from 1973 to 1977. At present he is the General Secretary, Bar Association of India and President, Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF). He is also the Partner of Bhasin & Company - leading law firm in India. The various awards/honours received by him include Indira Gandhi National Unity Award, 1990 Award for Excellence in Professionalism-1991, Institute of Marketing Management 1991 Intellectuals Award - "The Great Son of the Soil" Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award, 1992 Award for Distiction by International Bar Association, October 1994 at Melboune Awarded Honorary Membership of International Bar Association (only second Asian to get this honour) in 1999 National Award for Excellence -2001 by All India Lawyers Forum for Civil Liberties Award of Honour from the Prime Minister of India for Services to the Legal Profession and Commitment to the Rule of Law - December 2001. He is the author of Congress Centenary Celebrations Lawyers in the Freedom Struggle of India, Issues before the Afro Asian World, World beyond Nuclear Weapons.

Manu Kanwar, Legal Director, Head of Commercial and Corporate Affairs, Yahoo! EMEA, UK

Manu heads up legal support for Yahoo!'s commercial groups across EMEA. Prior to joining Yahoo!, where he has been for nearly 7 years, he was a senior lawyer in Osborne Clarke's London Technology and Media team. Manu is well known for his energy, entrepreneurial spirit and his proactive commercial approach. He sits on the Legal and Commercial leadership teams for Yahoo!'s EMEA's business, providing strategic and technical support to both. He has worked hard to ensure that his team members are well integrated within the Business and provide a meaningful and relevant legal service.

Manu was shortlisted for the General Counsel of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2009. He chairs the Lawyers' Forum within the IAB UK, as well advising IAB Europe and the European Interactive Advertising Association.

Mark Ross, Vice President – Legal Solutions, Integreon Managed Solutions, USA

Mark Ross is an experienced UK litigation solicitor and former partner at high profile UK law firm Underwoods Solicitors.

Mark’s involvement in legal outsourcing dates back to January 2004 when Underwoods became the first UK law firm to outsource legal work to a lower cost common law jurisdiction. Chambers Guide refers to Underwoods as “a pioneer of legal offshoring”.

Mark moved to Los Angeles in 2006 as Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at a niche LPO before joining Integreon in November 2009. He is a recognized authority and thought leader in the field of legal outsourcing. He has been published by, and interviewed for, numerous mainstream and legal publications, including the New York Times, TIME magazine, the UK Law Society Gazette, and the ABA’s Law Practice Management. He is the former Chair of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals’ Legal Outsourcing Chapter.

He is a recognized expert on the Ethics of Legal Outsourcing, and has written numerous articles and widely acclaimed White Papers dealing with the subject. He developed the first State Bar approved MCLE Ethics course, provided by a legal outsourcing company, on the ethical implications of outsourcing legal work.

Mark’s experience in the field of legal outsourcing is such that he has been invited to address the American Bar Association, UK Law Society, the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority and the International Bar Association.

He has also been invited to speak as a leading authority on legal outsourcing at conferences run by prestigious organizations including: Financial Times, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Stanford Center for the Legal Profession, Practicing Law Institute, and American Lawyer.

Matthew Knouff, Esq., General Counsel & e-discovery Counsel, CDS, USA

Matthew is an expert in the fields of eDiscovery best-practices, litigation readiness, and legal technology. He is a frequent writer and speaker on issues of eDiscovery and data security, and is a contributor to an upcoming article on Cloud Computing in the April 2011 edition of the ABA Law Journal. Matthew is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production and sits on the Board of Directors of the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Cyberspace Law Section.

He also coordinates the advanced eDiscovery curriculum for the Organization of Legal Professionals, and is the author of the book eDiscovery 101: A Comprehensive Primer for Attorneys Handling ESI in Litigation.

Marvin Segura, General Manager, NextLaw, Costa Rica

Marvin Segura is an experienced Costa Rican attorney, with an LL.M. from New York University and a Juris Doctor degree from UELD in Costa Rica. His experience in corporate law has been extensive, as General Consel for the biggest pharmaceutical distributor in Costa Rica, he started to acknowledge the need to develop a service that could provide to the company a lower cost service, which would give them the ability to increase the number of resources on work´s high peaks without having to increase the company´s headcount. With that in mind and by the request of a number of clients with US headquarters, he co-founded NextLaw in 2009, as the first Costa Rican LPO company, and has been exclusively dedicated since then to provide LPO services to companies located in the Americas and Europe.

Monica Winghart, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Article One Partners, USA

Monica Winghart is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Article One Partners in Palo Alto, CA where she brings more than 15 years of experience in Intellectual Property and as a member of the executive leadership team is responsible for oversight of all legal, risk management and compliance functions and is involved in corporate strategy, public policy, business development and a variety of other matters.

Prior to joining Article One, Monica was Senior Corporate Counsel for The Clorox Company, where she was Director of IP litigation, responsible for patent clearance and portfolio management, lead counsel for the three of the company's largest business units, and a part of Clorox’s M&A, licensing and transactions teams. Earlier in her legal career, Monica was an IP attorney advising on IP litigation, patent and trademark prosecution, and licensing and technology acquisitions with the firm of Brown Raysman in Los Angeles and the Thomas Kayden and Sutherland firms in Atlanta. Before attending law school, Monica worked as an engineer with Procter & Gamble and was the principle in an engineering consulting firm.

She currently serves as the Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of The Association of Corporate Counsel for 2012-2013 and is involved with several community service and pro bono projects in the San Francisco Bay area. Monica has been recognized as a leader in management and in the field of Intellectual Property.

Monica earned her JD from Tulane Law School in 1998 and received a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BS in Pulp and Paper Technology from NC State University in 1993.

Matt Meyer, Chief Executive, Taylor Vinters, UK

Matt is Taylor Vinters' chief executive and a specialist in IT projects and outsourcing. Clients quoted in Legal 500 say that he is "exceptional" and praise him for "an intuitive ability to demonstrate an appropriate level of business and technological knowledge."

Matt's first experience in IT projects came while working in Auckland for New Zealand heavyweight Bell Gully. Matt returned to the UK to join the Eversheds IT projects team. He moved to Taylor Vinters in 2005 keen to build an IT projects powerhouse outside London.

With experience in system acquisition and integration, Matt also advises on software licensing, outsourcing and business process reengineering around new technologies. He recently supported Premier Foods plc with a business critical SAP implementation.

Matt prides himself on knowing which fights to pick and working closely with clients to focus on principles before getting locked into drafting documents.

Mark Ford, Director, Knowledge Centre, Clifford Chance LLP, UK

Mark Ford began his career in 1994 as a trainee and then a solicitor in Clifford Chance's Communications, Media & Technology Group. Since then, he has spent more than 10 years at the cutting edge of innovation in legal practice. In 1999, he was part of the team that set up the firm's online services group, before establishing an R&D unit to research new technologies and their impact on the practice of law. This work led to the introduction of document assembly technology to the firm and his team spearheaded the roll-out of the tool which now encompasses more than 200 legal templates and has users in all the firm's offices. This is thought to be the most extensive implementation by any law firm of document assembly technology.

Mark is currently the Director of the Clifford Chance Knowledge Centre and has led the project since planning began four years ago. Based in the firm's Global Shared Service Centre in Delhi, the Knowledge Centre is a group of 40 offshore staff, that is expected to grow to around 60 over the next 12 months, established as a "captive LPO" operation to provide legal support services to Clifford Chance on a global basis. Last year, the Knowledge Centre worked on nearly 500 projects and handled tasks for over 20 of Clifford Chance's offices across all major practice areas.

Michael F. Corbett, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), USA

Michael F. Corbett is one of the best-known experts in the field of outsourcing and Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). IAOP is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession, with over 110,000 members and affiliates worldwide.

Mr. Corbett is also author of The Outsourcing Revolution, which John Sculley, former CEO Apple Computer calls a “clear and compelling roadmap (that) leads the reader through the systemic reinvention of work.”

Mr. Corbett speaks regularly on outsourcing as a management practice and on its impact on the global economy and global employment. In 1996, he was an expert witness on outsourcing at hearings called by Pres. Bill Clinton and, in 2002, was invited to testify before the Office of Management and Budget’s Commercial Activities Panel.

Michael Lew, Director & Head, Digital Forensics, Chio Lim Stone Forest, Singapore

Michael joined Stone Forest Corporate Advisory Pte Ltd in 2011 specialising in computer forensics, electronic discovery and legal process outsourcing. He has several years of experience in these areas in addition to litigation support, document management and investigations into fraud and corruption.

Michael had worked with a set of Chambers in Lincoln's Inn, UK, Rajah & Tann, Singapore, KPMG and Deloitte. Some of his notable work includes the setting up and management of the first legal process outsourcing centre in Southeast Asia that processed millions of discoverable documents for international clients, designing the workflow for the electronic court system for Judicial Reform in Sri Lanka (a project supported by the World Bank), analysis and design of a case management solution for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and working on one of the most high-profile computer forensics investigation in the financial services industry in 2008. Michael is a frequent trainer and speaker in the field of electronic discovery. As an avid technologist with a keen interest in electronic discovery, he is often sought after by lawyers, investigators and compliance professionals for advice on making technology works in legal and discovery processes.

Professional Memberships:

• Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiner
• Member, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialist
• Member, High Technology Crime Investigation Association
• Associate Member, Singapore Institute of Arbitrator

Mark Wyatt, CEO, Futurelex Group, UK

Mark is one of Europe's most experienced legal information publishers. Prior to becoming publisher of The European Lawyer, Mark was publisher of The Lawyer where he launched one of the first legal search engines – thelawyer.com. Mark founded multi-award winning Legal Week and launched the Legal IT magazine and the associated Legal IT Forum at Gleneagles. Mark is CEO of the Futurelex group who in addition to publishing The European Lawyer and European Lawyer reference series of comparative law books, have just launched Procurelaw.com - the first global tendering platform for legal services.

Nigel Kissack, Head, Pinsent Masons' Dispute Resolution and Litigation Team, UK

Specialising in resolving disputes for listed and institutional businesses – in the UK and internationally – he has significant experience of complex M&A disputes / warranty claims, trade and investor disputes, as well as FSA regulatory issues.

A qualified Mediator, Nigel is an expert in injunctions and emergency orders and acts as a Court appointed Supervisor of Search and Seize Orders.

He has led the development of Pinsent Masons' award winning ‘Reaching Solutions’ approach to dispute resolution. The communication, through decision trees, of quantum and strategic options adds value and optimises our service.

Orijit Das, Board Member, Association of Corporate Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel & Vice President, Genpact, UK

Orijit Das works for Genpact as their European General Counsel and is responsible for Genpact's legal affairs and Offshoring transactions out of Europe. Genpact is a leading provider of Business Services and is listed on the NYSE.

In the past Mr Das has worked as the EMEA & India - General Counsel for a large technology company and for leading international law firms like Bird & Bird, K&L Gates, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen.

Board member of ACC (which is the largest body of Corporate Counsels with over 25,000 members across the globe); In his capacity as the UK country rep he is involved in its activities in Europe.

Patrick Burke, Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel, Guidance Software, In, USA

Patrick Burke is a Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software, Inc., where he works with legal departments at major US, Canadian and European companies implementing in-house eDiscovery processes. He writes and speaks regularly on the intersection between eDiscovery law and technology, international eDiscovery and privacy/data protection.

Prior to joining Guidance, Patrick was an associate in the commercial litigation department of Linkaters, the London-based Magic Circle law firm, where he was co-head of Linklaters’ global eDiscovery working group. He has also practiced as a commercial litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He is a participant in the Sedona Conference on eDiscovery, including Working Group 6 on international electronic discovery practice. He regularly presents at -- and sometimes chairs -- the major eDiscovery conferences.

Patrick obtained his law degree from the New York University School of Law, where he was recognized for the best article or comment of the year for his article on corporate speech rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. He interned at the U.S. Justice Department and served as a Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Glenn E. Mencer. He pursued his undergraduate studies at SUNY Binghamton and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Peter Pantaleo, Partner, Joint Global Leader, Employment, Pensions and Benefits Group Chair, US Labor and Employment Group, DLA Piper, USA

Peter Pantaleo represents both domestic and international employers in labor, employment, and civil rights matters. While Mr. Pantaleo has substantial experience litigating cases before courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels, the principal focus of his practice is advising employers in complex, politically sensitive labor and employment matters. He has represented employers confronted with traditional union organization as well as corporate campaigns. Mr. Pantaleo is recognized as an authority on European Union social policy, a subject on which he has written and lectured extensively.

Mr. Pantaleo has lectured extensively at health care and hospitality conferences, including the American Federation of Health Systems Annual Conference on the emerging significance of corporate campaigns directed at investor-owned hospitals; American Gaming Congress on Title III of the ADA; and Institute of Directors on the European Union's Directives on Worker Participation Schemes. He is a member of the firm’s US Executive Committee and is the managing partner of the firm’s New York office.

In 2007, Mr. Pantaleo was inducted as a Fellow into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. The College is an independent organization that recognizes those who, by long and outstanding service, have distinguished themselves as leaders in the field of labor and employment law. Election as a Fellow is the highest recognition by one's colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication, and excellence. He has also been named a New York Super Lawyer.

In 2008, he began serving a seven-year term as a member of the City University of New York board of trustees. Governor David Paterson nominated him for the post and the New York Senate confirmed the nomination.

Percis Anklesaria – Head Quality and Training, Bodhi Global

Percis joins Bodhi with over a decade of valuable experience. She received her master's in law from Columbia University (New York) in the year 2003. She is a law graduate from Symbiosis Law College, Pune, India and a registered solicitor with the Law Society of England and Wales.

Percis has worked with a few of India’s leading law firms where she was advising and assisting clients on all aspects of international and domestic commercial transactions and on various Indian commercial laws, including foreign exchange regulations, structured "entry" routes, and negotiated joint ventures. She has headed due diligence work on potential target companies as well as companies engaged in a public issue. She has drafted/reviewed various types of transactional documentation, conveyance/lease agreements and other related documentation and has been involved in alternative dispute resolution, including international commercial arbitration, and the pre- and post-arbitral processes.

Percis has also assisted with the setting up of the Indian operations of an international law firm, including recruitment, office administration and all other corporate formalities associated with the business of the firm. She has been published in a few legal magazines in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Peter Brudenall, Partner, Lawrence Graham, UK

Peter is a specialist in technology and outsourcing law. He has over 15 years' experience in advising companies on technology procurement, the outsourcing of services, contract disputes, software development and the licensing and exploitation of intellectual property. He also advises companies on data protection, IT security, research and development agreements and distribution agreements.

He acts for both customers and suppliers, and has significant experience in acting for Indian-based outsourcing vendors.

Peter is ranked as a leading lawyer for both outsourcing and technology law in all major legal directories. Peter is recommended by Chambers UK 2011 as "knowledgeable and accommodating" for his outsourcing work and, for his IT work, is "widely respected by the market and has particular expertise in offshore transactions".

Peter is a frequent speaker on technology law and outsourcing issues, and has been widely published in legal journals in the UK and internationally.

Paul Lippe, CEO of Legal OnRamp, USA

Paul Lippe is the CEO of Legal OnRamp, the leader in legal knowledge networks to improve quality and efficiency and reduce costs of legal work. Legal OnRamp was first developed at a legal department productivity and collaboration platform for Cisco Systems, and is the first Web 2.0 system to integrate secure, private departmental platforms with a broader “walled garden” public community.

From 1992-1999, Paul Lippe was an executive at Synopsys, an electronic design automation company. During that time Synopsys grew from $63MM to $800MM in revenue. Paul was at various times Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and ran Business Development and Corporate Marketing. Synopsys is the global leader in sophisticated technology for chip design.

After leaving Synopsys, Paul became CEO of Stanford SKOLAR, a medical digital library and e-learning company sponsored by Stanford Medical School. SKOLAR was recognized as a leader in self-directed learning, with the first approved in-context learning system.

Paul is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. He is married to Nancy White Lippe and they have 4 children. When not on the Ramp, Paul splits his time between Concord MA, Moffett Field, CA, Blue River, CO, the Acela and Virgin America.

Paul O'Hare, Commercial Technology Partner, Kemp Little LLP & Representative for National Outsourcing Association, UK

Paul is a partner in the commercial technology department, and head of the outsourcing practice, at Kemp Little, one of the UK's leading technology-focused law firms. Paul has specialised in outsourcing since qualification in 1998, and has over 10 years experience in the area. He is recognised for his outsourcing expertise by leading legal directories, including Chambers, Legal 500, and PLC Which Lawyer.

Paul regularly acts for suppliers and customers on IT, business process, HR and knowledge process outsourcing transactions, across a range of industry sectors including consumer electronics, consumer goods, engineering, financial services, communications and professional services.

Paul has acted for a number of leading outsourcing service providers, and together with his team, he advises 1 in 10 of the FTSE 100 companies on their sourcing and outsourcing transactions. He has been instructed by several of the UK's top ten law firms on their outsourcing transactions, including their IT, BP and (more recently) legal process outsourcing projects. Having acted for a range of suppliers and customers over the past 10 years, Paul has strong links with representatives from all parts of the outsourcing industry, including suppliers, customers, and sourcing advisors.

Phyllis T. Turner-Brim, Esq., Chief IP Counsel, Intellectual Ventures, USA

Phyllis T. Turner-Brim is Chief IP Counsel in the Invention Law Group and a member of the IP Senior Leadership Team at Intellectual Ventures (IV) headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. In this role, Ms. Turner-Brim manages and coordinates the work of a team of licensing attorneys responsible for developing patent asset licensing case materials.

Prior to joining IV, Ms. Turner-Brim had dual legal and business roles as IP Counsel and Director of RFID Strategy and Licensing at Intermec Technologies Corporation. In her legal role as IP Counsel, Phyllis had responsibility for managing and providing a full spectrum of intellectual property services and related legal counseling. In her business role as Director of RFID Strategy and Licensing, Ms. Turner-Brim had the general management responsibility for Intermec’s RFID business

Ms Turner-Brim has also the positions of Associated General Counsel – IP at Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, Assistant General Counsel, IP at Wal-mart Stores Inc., IP Attorney at BP, and Associate Attorney at McAndrews, Held and Malloy Ltd. Prior to pursuing a career in the law, Ms. Turner-Brim held technical Management positions at General Electric Co. and Procter and Gamble Co.

Ms. Turner-Brim is a 1993 graduate of the University of Cincinnati Law School, and a 1986 honors graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S. Chemical Engineering). She has served as a lecturer/presenter on several topics including, developing business focused licensing programs, diversity in the law, recruitment and retention of minorities and women in technical professions, chemical patent drafting, IP strategy development, career development and personal risk taking.

Pankaj Parnami, Founder Director, Global Outsourcing Association of Lawyers (GOAL), USA

Pankaj is the Founder Director of Excellect KPO Consultants LLC, USA (KPOC) and Global Outsourcing Association of Lawyers (GOAL).

Global Outsourcing Association of Lawyers (GOAL) is set up to promote the welfare, interests, education, and professional development of all attorneys involved in today’s legal industry specific to the legal outsourcing. As the Founder Director at GOAL, Pankaj intends to foster an informed dialogue on LPO related important topics through webinars, web conferences, networking sessions, meeting programs, workshops, seminars and worldwide LPO events/conferences.

His expertise encompasses various aspects of the legal outsourcing business—including strategy development, operations management, creating sales and marketing strategies, to name a few—and he has been responsible for facilitating hundreds of strategic alliances between LPO vendors and law firms in the US, UK, and other buyer markets. His intricate knowledge of the LPO industry is such that the Government of Mauritius has invited him multiple times to address its industry leaders on diverse issues such as Building up the LPO Industry in Mauritius; Doing KPO Business in Africa; etc.

Pankaj holds an MBA degree with concentrations in Marketing and Finance from IMI, Belgium. He is also a Fellow Company Secretary from Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Ross S. Delston, Attorney at Law and Founder, GlobalAML.com, USA

Ross S. Delston is an attorney, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and former U.S. banking regulator (FDIC) with over 35 years of experience in the financial services sector. As the founder of GlobalAML.com, an anti-money laundering compliance consulting firm with a global perspective, Ross has spoken on and been quoted on CPO issues relating to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) on numerous occasions. Recent engagements include: Acting as an expert witness on AML issues in a series of civil cases; conducting independent AML audits for a publicly held company; and reviewing the effectiveness of the AML/CFT framework of a major offshore financial center (OFC).

Ross has been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund since 1997 and has participated in the AML/CFT assessments of nine OFCs, most recently Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2010). He has also been a consultant to the World Bank since 1998 on systemic crisis, banking supervision, and resolutions issues in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is the co-author of “Reaching Beyond Banks: How to Target Trade-Based Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (2009) and is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Banking Regulation (London). Ross has been widely quoted, in publications such as the American Banker, Dow Jones Newswires, Money Laundering Bulletin (London), Moneylaundering.com News, and the Nikkei (Tokyo). Ross has spoken on AML/CFT and banking issues at conferences throughout the world, including Aruba, Belgrade, Colombo, Dalian, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, London, Minsk, Niamey, Podgorica, Vienna and Zagreb. For more information, please see www.linkedin.com/in/rossdelston.

Robert Liddiard, Legal Director, Exigent LPO, UK

Robert Liddiard is a Legal Director at Exigent LPO. Before joining Exigent, Robert was a solicitor for an international law firm headquartered in London. Practising in London and Shanghai, Robert worked on corporate and commercial transactions for many household names.

Robert is part of the Exigent legal team, working onshore with law firms and corporates to scope and implement bespoke LPO solutions across a range of practice areas. Robert has managed successful LPO projects for blue chip companies and a number of firms, ranging from top international practices to medium sized regional partnerships.

Richard Reade, Assistant General Counsel - International at Weight Watchers, UK

Richard manages the International Operations Unit, and works as part of the international legal team reporting to Weight Watchers HQ in New York, with a primary focus on legal work outside the Americas. Prior to this Richard served ISS World, UK as General Counsel. Where he established and built the UK legal function and set up the first UK legal team. Richard has assisted in global ISS legal policies - particularly in contractual risk management. In 2008 the UK business nominated him Senior Manager of the Year.

Watchers International, Inc. (NYSE:WTW) is a Fortune 500 company and the world's leading provider of weight management services, functioning globally through a network of company-owned and franchise operations. In any given week, approximately 1.3 million members attend almost 50,000 Weight Watchers meetings around the world. Members receive group support and learn about healthy eating patterns, behaviour modification and physical activity.

Weight Watchers makes a significant contribution to the science and evidence base for healthy weight management; having published 61 original scientific publications to date.

Richard's management experience includes advising on companywide employee engagement initiatives; advising on and implementing strength based leadership programmes; and change management during other projects. He occasionally assists the College of Law in London on educational issues involving the legal profession and sits on an editorial board for LBC Wise Counsel, legal management consultants. He also sits on the Law Society of England and Wales' International Issues Committee.

Richard Given, Legal Director, Cisco's Emerging Markets Theatre, UK

Richard is Legal Director for Cisco’s Emerging Markets Theatre whose turnover is ~$4Billion p.a.. Richard drives effective decision-making in the theatre - a key role is approving complex business opportunities alongside other key stakeholders within Cisco. Richard leads a legal team of 15 across 10 locations and 10 time zones advising, guiding and protecting CISCO’s business, often in challenging environments. He is expected to deliver this at a lower expense/bookings ratio each year. Consequently he regularly re-works the way legal services are provided, challenging all pre-conceptions.

Richard is an alumni of Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer and Cambridge University. He is married to a fabulous garden designer (shameless plug:www.bellagardens.co.uk) & is blessed with 2 young (boisterous) children as well as a 1965 Type 2 Split Screen campervan, the last of which reminds him regularly that faster is not always better!

Rahul Shah, AVP & Head – LPO Practice, Infosys, India

Rahul has over 16 years of outsourcing, consulting and business management experience across wide variety of domains including energy and commodity trading and risk management, Knowledge process outsourcing and Legal Process Outsourcing. He currently heads the LPO Practice in Infosys. Prior to handling the LPO Practice, Rahul has played multiple roles within Infosys in the last decade that he has spent with Infosys. Rahul has written and published widely in international journals and publications and has spoken in international forums across wide variety of topics relating to outsourcing. Rahul is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an Electronics Engineer from IT-BHU, Benares.

Reina D'costa, In House Solicitor, Corporate and Legal Compliance Department, Zee, UK

Reina D’costa has 9 years of UK PQE and over 3 years of initial overseas experience as a dual qualified solicitor now based in the UK . Her ties are with one of the top emerging markets (India) while she specialises in managing all aspects of commercial , business, IP/entertainment/media, advertising, marketing, employment, immigration and company secretarial work for the European Head office of a Multinational South Asian Media Group as Sole General Counsel.

As Ofcom Compliance officer for a multinational media Group she has successfully developed effective links of communication with regulatory bodies and acquired licences in television and radio. She has also been responsible for entry into the radio sector and the launch on the Greater London multiplex, Sky, analogue and the internet platforms and advised and guided the group through their successful launch into Russia and the CIS.

Launched in 1995, Zee Network, UK was the first South Asian Entertainment Network of its kind. Since then it has grown in popularity and become synonymous with South Asian entertainment. Zee has continually entertained and engages audiences with a unique blend of high-quality, localised and innovative programming. It also offers the world’s largest Hindi film library, with an option of English and French subtitles. Worldwide Zee reaches 71 million households across 168 countries and 500 million viewers through a global entertainment network

Robert E. Lutz, Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles and Chair of the ABA’s International Trade in Legal Services Task Forces (ITILS), USA

Robert E. Lutz, Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles and Chair of the ABA’s International Trade in Legal Services Task Forces (ITILS). As Chair of the ABA’s International Trade in Legal Services Task Forces (ITILS) for three years, Robert E. Lutz led the U.S. legal profession’s efforts to liberalize access of U.S. lawyers to the practice of law in other countries and to give foreign lawyers access to the practice of law in the United States. He has chaired the International Law Sections of the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He was co-founder of the California State Bar Section of International Law.

Professor Lutz serves on the State Department Advisory Committee on International Law and on the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Dispute Resolution. An experienced international arbitrator, he has also served on NAFTA and US-Canada Free Trade Agreement arbitration panels. He is the author or editor of several books and many book chapters and articles on international law, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of The International Lawyer, the ABA Section of International Law flagship publication, and as a member of the editorial advisory boards of close to a dozen international law journals.

Lutz began his legal career as a judicial clerk to Chief Judge Edward Schwartz of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, and practiced law with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and as Deputy Regional Counsel for the Federal Energy Regulatory Administration.

Rajiv Yadav, Ph.D., Esq. Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Sybron Dental Specialties, USA

Rajiv is the senior Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Sybron Dental Specialties. Dr. Yadav is responsible for all intellectual property matters related to Sybrons’ core business, which include implants, endodontics, restorative dentistry, and orthodontic markets. On the medical side, in conjunction with dental, high-quality infection prevention and magnification/illumination products for the healthcare professional. Prior to Sybron, he participated as the senior IP counsel and lead associate in several patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. He has also counseled clients on a variety of intellectual property matters and carried out extensive patent prosecution for a large university’s medical school. He graduated from Southwestern University School of Law and has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Santa Barbara.

His broad area of interests are: Intellectual property law, patent law, patent prosecution, patent litigation, licensing, patent licensing, confidentiality agreements, intellectual property transactions, biotechnology patent prosecution, medical device patent prosecution, chemical patent prosecution, copyright law and trademark law

Robert Cantrell, IP Strategist, Think IP Strategy, USA

Robert is an IP Strategist, MBA, author on business and military strategy, and a professional shark photographer. He is on the faculty of Patent Resources Group, where he teaches Patent Strategy for Business.

Robert is the founder of Center For Advantage, a provider of tools for strategy, innovation, and sales workshops, training, and problem solving.

Robert Cantrell helps clients to develop and optimize their intellectual property strategies, and to integrate intellectual property strategy into business strategy as a whole.

Robert has written a number of articles and papers on intellectual property. This includes his recently published book, Outpacing the Competition: Patent-Based Business Strategy (Robert Cantrell: Wiley 2009). This book blends patent strategy, business strategy, and classical strategy into a comprehensive whole, with the overall theme that those businesses capable of proficiently assessing their situations, deciding on courses of action, and taking action, win most competitive contests.

Robert is a part of the strategy conversation in the Washington D.C. area, and that has kept him attune to the latest ideas on the topic. Several of his written works are in use at the national and service war colleges as well as in the intellectual property field to include the top selling book Understanding Sun Tzu on the Art of War. Robert enjoys the opportunity to cross-pollinate ideas from his and other fields, and then to provide the insight gained as a way for his clients to build competitive advantage.

Steven C. Bennett, Partner, Jones Day, USA

Steve Bennett's practice at Jones Day focuses on domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, including cases involving bankruptcy, construction, corporate, energy, insurance, intellectual property, privacy and data security, and other disputes.

Steve is chair of the Firm's e-Discovery Committee and an active member of the Firm's construction practice team. He co-founded the Sedona Conference Working Group on International E-Discovery. He teaches a course on conflicts of law at Hofstra Law School and co-teaches a course on advanced civil procedure (e-discovery) at New York Law School. He is a qualified arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the CPR Institute. Steve serves as hearing officer pursuant to the consent decree in the Civil RICO case of United States v. Local 14-14B, IUOE (E.D.N.Y.) and served two terms as election officer in the case of United States v. District Council of Carpenters (S.D.N.Y.). He taught arbitration law at Brooklyn Law School for nine years.

Steve regularly speaks to a wide array of groups for CLE and other purposes. He has written more than 150 articles on a variety of topics. His book, Arbitration: Essential Concepts (ALM) was published in 2002. His book, A Privacy Primer for Corporate Counsel(Aspatore/West) was published in 2009.

Steve writes a continuing column, "Arbitration," with Professor Samuel Estreicher, which has appeared in the New York Law Journalsince 2004, and his column, "Computer Law," has appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal since 2009. He blogs occasionally in the "Thinkernet" series at InternetEvolution.com and at NLJ.com.

Shekhar Chitnis, Founder, CEO and President, Chisk Inc., USA

Shekhar Chitnis is the Founder, CEO and President of Chisk Inc. and Chitnis Consulting Inc, CEO of NexGen Power Group, Inc. and Managing Director of Commercial Electric Vehicles U.K. He also sits on Boards of various companies in US and India.

British born, naturalized citizen of the USA, Shekhar is of Indian origin. Besides the USA, he has worked extensively in Europe and Asia, particularly in UK, Germany, India, China, S. Korea and Japan. He has been in USA for about 30 years, India for about 15 years, UK for 5 years and Japan for 4 years. His business experience ranges from Fortune 5 to start-up companies; domestic to global markets; consumer to industrial products; goods and services; as well as import and export.

Shekhar specializes in Group and Global Governance, Compliance and Networking, M&A, Corporate Restructuring, International Joint Ventures, Alliances, Strategic OEM Relationships, Global Agreements and Complex Negotiation. His present business focus is three areas — Management Consulting, Emerging Energy Technologies and the Indian Market.

Shekhar is a sought after speaker at business conferences and has spoken at Caltech-MIT Forum, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, USC, Japan Business Council, UCI, UCLA, Tech BIZ, TIE, LARTA and Doordarshan in India.

Dr Sanjeev Gemawat, Vice President – Legal & Secretarial, DLF Rentco Group and DLF Holdings, India

Sanjeev joined DLF Group in August 2007 as Vice President – Legal & Secretarial and currently looks after legal, secretarial & regulatory affairs of DLF Rentco Group and DLF Holdings. He also heads the Compliance Task Force, which is responsible for ensuring legal & regulatory compliances for all projects of the Group. Besides, he is the Director on the Board of various DLF Group companies including Joint Venture companies.

DLF Rentco Group is a part of DLF Group and is responsible for the development and construction of commercial complexes, offices, utilities, services, malls and retail businesses pan India. The Group has a distinction of developing commercial projects, retail/malls and office spaces that are at par with the best in the world.

DLF Holdings Group (DLF Holdings) is the DLF’s arm for non real-estate investments which include inter alia integrated hospitality development, clubs, recreational facilities, golf resorts, convention centres, metro project, insurance, fit-out projects and so on.

Stephen P. Younger, President, New York State Bar Association, USA

New York attorney Stephen P. Younger took office on June 1, 2010 as the 113th president of the 77,000-member New York State Bar Association. Younger is a partner of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP.

Active in the State Bar since 1983, Younger most recently served as president-elect and chaired the House of Delegates and the President’s Committee on Access to Justice. He served as past chair of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, and is past chair of the section’s Securities Litigation Committee and Pro Bono and Public Interest Committee. He is a fellow of The New York Bar Foundation.

Younger graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1977, and earned his law degree magna cum laude from Albany Law School in 1982. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; District of Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; and U.S. Tax Court.

Suman Naresh, Chief Executive Officer, International Strategy Group, LLC, USA

Suman Naresh is a member of the English Bar and a former law professor at Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, and Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. He has practiced, lectured and published extensively in the field of intellectual property, with a special focus on its international aspects. He is currently the founding CEO of International Strategy Group, LLC (“ISG”), a company established in 2005 and based in Long Beach, California, with a subsidiary company and back offices in Delhi and Mumbai in India.

ISG provides specialized LPO services, focused principally upon the needs of IP practitioners in law firms and corporate legal departments. It functions as a “Complete IP Back Office” for such practitioners, providing them with assistance on an as-needed basis with docketing, searches, drafting of patents and transactional documents, filing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications worldwide, preparing and submitting Information Disclosure Statements, recording assignments and licenses, and maintaining patent and trademark portfolios through renewals and the payment of annuities. ISG operates on a paperless, 24/7 basis, using secure VPNs for communications and storing its clients’ IP data in a robust, password-protected and fully cloud-based system, that its clients can access anytime and from anywhere in the world.

Scott Hansen, Partner at Fulwider Patton LLP and Member at Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, USA

Scott Hansen is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Fulwider Patton LLP. His practice includes domestic and international patent and trademark strategy, prosecution, opinions, licensing, ip due diligence, trade secret, digital media, Internet law and right of privacy issues. He has litigated intellectual property matters in several states.

Scott works in a range of technologies extending from medical devices to the entertainment industry to the Internet. Scott's approach is pragmatic, emphasizing good business sense. He strives to be efficient, responsive, and cost-effective. Major corporations, investors, high-profile inventors, start-up companies, and many excellent businesses with a need for top-flight intellectual property work have sought his counsel./p>

Scott received his B.S. with majors in Political Science and Applied Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. He earned an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987, and graduated cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in 1992.

Varun Mehta, Director, Clutch Group, LLC, USA

Varun is a director for client services and corporate marketing at Clutch Group. Currently, Varun leads engagement teams for major financial services, software/IT and life sciences Fortune 500 companies that work with Clutch Group.

During his time at Clutch, Varun has led workflow overhaul, process improvement and cost savings initiatives for the legal departments of several major Fortune 50 corporations. These efforts have saved legal departments nearly $15 million since inception of the engagements and led to greater efficiencies among key stakeholders in the respective organizations.

In addition, Varun has managed global internal investigations relating to channel relationships, internal fraud, and bribery for several major Fortune 50 corporations.

Prior to joining Clutch Group, Varun served in the New Business Development & Technology Assessment department at Johnson & Johnson Corporation. In addition, Varun was founder and President of the Future Leaders Council, a grass roots organization promoting leadership, social responbility and political engagement for Indian American youth. In this role, Varun managed 25 chapters with over 5000 members.

Varun holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University.

Vince Neicho, Litigation Support Manager, Allen & Overy LLP, UK

Vince is Litigation Support Manager at Allen & Overy and is a recognised expert in the field of e-disclosure and document management. He has 35 years of experience at Allen & Overy and is responsible for document management across the litigation department globally.

He also manages the department's paralegals and Litigation Support team and is an Administrator of the firm's Litigation Support system, Ringtail Caseroom. On a global basis, he is actively involved in advising clients on disclosure obligations, preservation, retrieval and organisation of their documents and data to facilitate reviews for disclosure and investigatory purposes. He also has vast experience on the execution of search and seize orders. Vince is a founder member of LiST (Litigation Support Technology) Group and has a particular interest in the development of e-disclosure, the use of electronic documents and the consequent challenges posed to the litigator, both in England and Wales and globally.

Vince is recognised in the market and he is actively shaping the future law on e-disclosure. By way of example, he is a member, by invitation, of the Working Group assembled by Senior Master and Queen's Remembrancer, Master Whitaker, that has drafted an e-disclosure Questionnaire to form part of the disclosure process and also a new Practice Direction governing the e-disclosure process. In addition, Vince's paragraph on e-disclosure was included as a quote in the Preliminary Report of Lord Justice Jackson's Review on Costs and he assisted Lord Justice Jackson with aspects of the chapter on disclosure in the Final Report. He has also addressed judges at one of their conferences on the practicalities of e-disclosure and is a regular speaker on the subject, addressing audiences in London, Brussels, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Wallace W. Dietz , Partner, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, USA

Wallace Dietz joined Bass, Berry & Sims PLC in 1983 and has been a Member since 1989. He previously served as chair of the Litigation Practice Area and as the litigation representative on the firm's Executive Committee and currently serves as co-chair of the Internal Investigations and Government Enforcement Group. Wallace focuses his practice on complex business and commercial litigation, including cases involving shareholder class action litigation, business torts, trade secrets, internal investigations, banking and commercial law, breach of contract/warranty claims, healthcare law and mergers and acquisitions. He represents a wide range of business and individual clients in state and federal court, in mediation and arbitration and in pre-litigation dispute resolution. Wallace is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, the 2008 Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition and has been named one of Tennessee's leading litigation lawyers since 2003 by Chambers USA.

Wallace is active in civic and political affairs. He is past president and chair of Nashville Pro Bono, Inc. and served as board chair at Martha O'Bryan, Inc. a Section 501(c)(3) community organization. He formerly served on the board of the Nashville Bar Association and the Nashville District of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). He is currently an Elder at First Presbyterian Church.

William Belt, Team Leader of the Discovery Solutions Practice Team, LeClairRyan, USA

William is the Team Leader of the Discovery Solutions Practice team at LeClairRyan. His team provides technology and legal advice to help clients comply with court rules governing electronic discovery in small, medium and large cases that involve electronic discovery. William has worked on large electronic discovery projects in numerous mass tort and complex commercial cases including the Exxon Valdez, MTBE, EMF, Latex Gloves, and Medical Insurance Hospital Discount litigation, as well as intellectual property and employment cases. William has also helped clients respond to FTC, SEC and Department of Justice investigations.

William Belt provides guidance to clients preparing electronic and document retention policies as well as litigation hold policies. He has developed policies and practices that comply with document retention rules and regulations, privacy and security laws, and the 2006 Supreme Court rules governing electronic discovery. Prior to joining the Discovery Solutions Group, he worked with a team of attorneys as national coordinating trial counsel in EMF litigation, latex medical glove litigation, and MTBE litigation. William was recognized by the National Law Journal, the flagship publication of the Litigation Services Network, as defense counsel for one of the "Top 10 Defense Wins for 2002", and was recognized by the American Bar Association for his work on the Exxon Valdez litigation.

William B. Bierce, Co – Founder, Bierce & Kenerson P.C., USA

Bill Bierce practices outsourcing, corporate and international business law as a founding principal of Bierce & Kenerson, P.C., an award-winning law firm in outsourcing, human capital management and international business. He advises on legal and tax issues in strategic business alliances, intercompany services among affiliates, business process management, captives, the regulation of sourcing of global services and the contingent workforce. He has advised international law firms on partnership structure and strategy, in the face of the opportunities and challenges posed by global sourcing and global services.

Bill is recognized as a thought leader, innovative transactional lawyer and prolific author in legal and regulatory issues in global services. Bill is Editor-in-Chief of the e-newsletter, Outsourcing Law & Business Journal™ and the Google #1-rated website www.outsourcing-law.com.

He serves as a Board Member of The Global Sourcing Council, a non-profit that promotes sustainability practices in global sourcing, and the American Foreign Law Association. As an adjunct professor, he has taught legal and tax aspects of international business to MBA students.

Bi-lingual in English and French and conversant in legal Spanish, he holds law diplomas from NYU School of Law and University of Grenoble.