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Laura Calloway has served as the Director of the Alabama State Bar's Law Office Management Assistance Program since 1997. Before joining the State Bar to establish the program, she practiced law in Montgomery, Alabama, for 16 years as a solo practitioner and member of two small firms, concentrating her practice in residential real estate, collections, bankruptcy and family law. She is a graduate of Troy University, where she received a B.S. degree in Finance in 1976. She received her J.D. from the Jones Law Institute in December of 1980 and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in April of 1981. She is a former member of the Montgomery County Bar Association's Grievance Committee and a member of the American Bar Association, where she participates in the Law Practice Management Section and serves on the Section's Practice Management Advisor's committee. Beginning in March 2005 she will be coauthoring a regular column on financial issues for small firm practitioners in Practice Management.

Judge Herbert Dixon is co-chair of Judicial Division’s Court Technology Committee and Senior Judicial Advisor to William & Mary Law School’s Courtroom 21 Project, the world’s most technologically advanced trial and appellate courtroom. He is a member of the American Law Institute – American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Technology Advisory Panel and the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He is a former Chair of the National Conference of State Trial Judges.

Judge Dixon serves on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He is a former Presiding Judge of both the Civil Division and the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division of the court and was chair of the court’s electronic filing pilot project, which received national recognition for its success.

Judge Dixon received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University.

Debbie Foster is the founder and President of InTouch Legal. InTouch provides technology and management consulting services to law firms and legal departments throughout the US and the Caribbean. Debbie has been working with law firms and legal departments since 1995 helping to achieve greater practice efficiency. InTouch also consults with law firms on management issues, compensation planning and building incentives.

Debbie speaks regularly to local and state bar associations on several topics, including implementing software in a law firm, general law practice management issues and technology management.

Adriana Linares of LawTech Partners is a legal technology trainer based in Orlando, Florida. Until launching LawTech Partners, Adriana spent many years in the technology departments of two of Florida's largest law firms. She was charged with establishing firm-wide training programs and leading technology initiatives.

Today, Adriana travels the country delivering "tech therapy" sessions to firms of all shapes and sizes. Using her practical and personal approach to technology she helps law offices make the most of their technology investments. Throughout the year, she can be found speaking at conferences on topics such as productivity through technology, successful training techniques, law office software, mobility, and gadgets. She writes regularly for leading legal magazines and websites and hosts her own advice column on her blog, I ♥ Tech.

A Stetson University under-graduate, Adriana received a bachelors degree in Geography and later a Masters in Corporate Communication and Technology from Rollins College. Adriana speaks and trains in Spanish.

David G. Ries is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, where he practices in the areas of environmental, commercial and technology litigation. He has represented clients in a variety of technology cases and advised clients on a number of technology law issues including technology contracts, acceptable use policies, information security and privacy regulations, electronic records management, response to cyber crime, and electronic contracting. He received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1974 and his B.A. from Boston College in 1971.

Dave has frequently spoken and written on technology law issues for legal, academic and professional groups including the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Information Systems Security Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He is a contributing author to Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association 2006) and a member of the ABA Information Security Committee.

Catherine Sanders Reach is the Director at the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center. She has provided practice technology assistance for lawyers for six years with the LTRC. Prior to her work at the ABA she worked in library and information science environments for a number of years.

Ms. Reach's professional activities include articles published in Legal Information Alert, Law Technology News and GPSolo Magazine, and her continuing research on the digital library appeared in the AALL Law Library Journal. She has given presentations on the use of technology in law firms for national bar conferences, state and local bar associations and organizations such as the Association of Legal Administrators. In her articles and presentations she often references trends and statistics gleaned from the Center's annual legal technology survey.

She received a master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1997. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu, an international library and information studies honor society, and the Special Libraries Association, where she is the Director of the Legal Division. She is currently serving on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board for 2007 and on the editorial advisory board for Law Technology News.

John W. Simek is the Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a legal technology and computer forensics firm located in Fairfax, Virginia. He is an EnCase Certified forensic technologist (EnCE) who is a frequent expert witness throughout the country. He currently provides information technology support to over 150 area law firms, legal entities and corporations. Mr. Simek holds a degree in engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA in finance from Saint Joseph's University.

Mr. Simek is the co-author of   The Electronic Evidence Handbook: Forms, Guidelines and Checklists ( ABA, 2006) and of Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms ( ABA, 2006). He is a frequent author and lecturer on legal technology and electronic evidence, and co-authors the Internet law and technology newsletter Bytes in Brief and the monthly “Hot Buttons” column in Law Practice Magazine.

Paul J. Unger is a 1994 graduate of Capital University Law School.  He is an attorney and founding member of HMU Consulting, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio.  Prior to forming HMU in February of 2000, Paul was Vice President of a Columbus-based technology consulting firm.  He spent five years at Clark, Perdue, Roberts & Scott Co., L.P.A., limiting his practice to civil litigation. 

Mr. Unger now specializes in litigation technology consulting, trial presentation, document and case management software, and legal-specific software training for law firms and legal departments throughout the Midwest.  Mr. Unger is a member of The American Society of Trial Consultants, the American Bar Association, the Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association.