Alex Smith

Alex Smith is the Global Product Management Lead at iManage RAVN, which provides a suite of tools that allow firms to harness their collective knowledge. At iManage, he specializes in emerging topics such as workflow design, systems thinking, and content management. Alex’s influence in the legal tech industry goes beyond iManage, though – he is…

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Ming W. Chin

The son of Chinese immigrants, Ming W. Chin became the court’s first Chinese American justice in 1996, when he was appointed by Governor Pete Wilson. He authored more than 350 majority opinions during his time on the bench, leaving behind a distinguished judicial legacy. An early proponent of innovation, Justice Chin chaired the court’s Technology…

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Maria Hall

Alongside her schedule as a working solo attorney, Maria Hall is the director of the Los Angeles Incubator Consortium (LAIC), an organization which helps newly-minted attorneys find their footing in the challenging world of solo practice. In its six years of operation, LAIC has graduated 60 lawyers who have gone on to launch their own…

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Tonya Evans

Tonya Evans’s podcast, Tech Intersect, focuses on legal and ethical issues inherent in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the internet of things. The podcast goes beyond the law and also contains practical discussions, such as how people can learn and invest to benefit from these changes in the economy. Tonya recently joined…

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Holly Riccio

As the daughter of two librarians, law librarianship is in Holly Riccio’s professional DNA. Her role as the Director of the California Judicial Center Library follows a career spent in library and knowledge management positions in law firms. In her first few months on the job while the impact of the pandemic threatened to backlog…

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Al Hounsell

Al Hounsell knows that not every businessperson can code like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Elon Musk, but several can benefit from having custom apps for their businesses. Al’s unique background as a licensed lawyer, seasoned coder, and entrepreneur in building the culture of a startup within an established law firm led him…

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Hannah Konitshek

As a co-founder of Legal.io, Hannah Konitshek heads Business Operations & Strategy and is building new business lines through a combination of law, entrepreneurship, and technology. Under her guidance, Legal.io has brought together a diverse, global community of thousands of legal professionals that have been matched to hundreds of thousands of matters. In her past…

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Katherine Lowry

In her current role as Director of Practice Services, Katherine Lowry leads BakerHostetler’s legal research and development team: IncuBaker. This service helps lawyers and clients navigate the intersection of digital business, emerging technology, and law. She manages transformational technology initiatives, such as augmentation of legal services using AI and intelligent automation, increasing enterprise data maturity…

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Jennifer Wondracek

Jennifer Wondracek is charting a new course for the study of legal research and writing, designed to prepare law students to enter the profession practice-ready and proficient in the fast-changing world of legal technology. As the Director of the Law Library and Professor of Legal Research and Writing at Capital University Law School, Jennifer is…

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Daryl Shetterly

Daryl Shetterly is an intrapreneur with a knack for spotting, then standardizing, processes to increase the efficiency of legal services. As Director of Orrick Analytics, Daryl is disrupting from within the practice of making budgeting and forecasting decisions based on gut instinct. He’s leading the shift to standardization with data and information-sharing, and when there’s…

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