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Mel has become one of the most trusted experts in the world on confidence and motivation. With millions of followers online, Robbins is sought after by the world’s leading brands and professionals for her research-backed tools and motivation. She is a New York Times bestselling author of “The High 5 Habit,” “The 5 Second Rule,” and host of “The Mel Robbins Podcast.” Her work has been translated into 41 languages, and her female-led media company produces life-changing content with millions of books sold and billions of video views. Despite her success, Robbins remains down-to-earth and caring, and her work has changed the lives of millions worldwide.

Attendees will also get the chance to get a copy of Mel’s booked signed by Mel in-person.

As the CEO and Founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack Newton has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, privacy considerations, and benefits of running a law firm from the cloud. Under his leadership, Clio is bettering the lives and businesses of lawyers while making legal services more accessible and equitable for all through cloud-based and client-centered technology.

Jack is also the author of The Client-Centered Law Firm, a #1 bestseller that’s helping law firms thrive in today’s experience-driven era. Follow Jack on Twitter at @jack_newton for up to date commentary on technology, the legal industry, and the future of the profession.

Obi Ikeme is the founder and principal attorney at Ikeme Law LLC, a law firm focused on protecting the legacies of Immigrants and entrepreneurs in the United States. An Immigrant herself, Obi helps Immigrants and their families secure their legal status in the United States. She understands that the Immigration process is often stressful and overwhelming and strives to give her clients peace of mind while they get their green cards.

In addition to serving her clients as a traditional attorney, Obi also serves as a fractional legal counsel to corporations that require guidance on intellectual property, contracts, and employment immigration.

Obi’s expertise in immigration law is extremely valuable to corporations needing to hire foreign talent or relocate employees to the United States.

In intellectual property law, Obi helps companies protect their trademarks, copyrights, and other valuable assets. She works with businesses to develop strategies for monetizing their intellectual property and creating additional income streams.

Obi earned her education from Brigham Young University and the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She currently lives in Houston with her husband and two daughters. She is an avid foodie and loves to travel.

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I’m a personal injury lawyer specializing in catastrophic impairment law. I’m a published author of the LexisNexis Inc. book entitled, “Catastrophic Impairment Law in Canada,” a director at Head Injury Rehabilitation Ontario, the founder of the Rudder Law Group, and a vlogger on the vlog, or video blog series entitled, “Personal Injury Lawyer Tips”. My law firm won the 2022 Reisman Award for Best New Law firm, and won the 2022 CABL Advocacy Award. The Law Society of Ontario invited me to speak on the topic “Marketing your Law Firm” in a workshop style presentation at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 8th, 2023, for the 17th Solo and Small Firm Conference: Secrets for Success!

My practice is devoted to severe and catastrophic plaintiffs’ personal injury tort cases, including motor vehicle collisions, slip and falls, and assaults, as well as accident benefits and disability benefits claims.

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Angela Hayden started practicing law in Boston’s Financial District in 1999 and since then has consciously created a right sized law practice of her own, doing work she loves in a location she adores, while also coaching other professionals to create their own ideal lives.

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Pegeen Turner is the President of Legal Cloud Technology, a Raleigh, North Carolina‐based legal technology firm and a Clio Gold Certified Consultant. Pegeen has been working with law firms for more than 20 years. First, as an IT person for large and small law firms, and now as a legal technology consultant with Legal Cloud Technology. She works with small and medium‐sized firms as they start‐up as well as firms that need help updating and integrating legal technology into their firms, especially Clio. In addition, she helps firms incorporate cloud technology into their practices.

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Lee F. Taylor is an attorney and the founder of Stratus Legal Consulting. She has practiced law for twenty-five years, fifteen of those as managing partner. For the past ten years she has been a Certified Clio Consultant (CCC), helping firms use the power of Clio to optimize performance. Due to her experience she is uniquely able to understand a firm’s strengths and find solutions for their specific needs and challenges.

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Mechelle is a former United States Navy Veteran and Global Strategic Sourcing Manager with a unique perspective on legal issues. Her background in lean manufacturing and practical process improvement allows her to navigate complex legal issues in family law, mediation, and law firm consulting. With a settlement-focused approach, she helps clients resolve disputes with less fighting, less time in court, and more money in their pocket. Mechelle is a dynamic and engaging speaker, passionate about sharing her knowledge and empowering others to take control of their legal challenges. Her unique perspective, expertise, and passion make her a sought-after speaker, inspiring audiences to approach legal issues in a more efficient and effective way.

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Billie Tarascio is a serial entrepreneur, author, and law firm rebel. She is the owner of Modern Law, I DO Over, Win Without Law School and Modern Law Practice. Her law firm is a six time winner of the law firm 500 fastest growing firms in the United States and she is a frequent speaker on business of law and modern marketing for law firms.

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With her unique background spanning VC, law, behavioral science, and change design, Maya Markovich delivers technology, process, and business growth services worldwide. For nearly 6 years she launched and scaled industry-first Nextlaw Labs/Nextlaw Ventures at Dentons, the world’s largest firm, delivering next-generation technology, process client and business growth services across the globe. Maya is currently justice tech executive in residence at Village Capital and executive director at the nonprofit Justice Technology Association, a nonprofit trade association supporting startups building solutions for a fairer legal system. She also advises multiple high-growth startups, investor and venture funds, and consults on legal department and law firm innovation and transformation initiatives, building future-proof methodologies and tech to advance the legal industry, its clients and consumers via achievable, sustainable and scalable
design and implementation.

In 2020 Maya was named one of five “Influential Women of Legal Tech” by ILTA, a “Woman Leading Legal Tech” by The Technolawgist in 2019, and an ABA Legal Technology Resource Center “Woman of Legal Tech 2018” for her work in designing, promoting, and driving the future of the legal industry around the globe.

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Sonja Ebron is a PhD electrical engineer and former college professor with a background in utilities and artificial intelligence. She has represented herself in court numerous times. As CEO at Courtroom5, Sonja has made it her personal mission to empower people to represent themselves effectively in court. She serves on the board of Responsive Law, a national advocacy organization focused on the rights of legal consumers, and on the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation, the nation’s primary funding source for legal aid programs. She is a founding member of the Justice Technology Association, a trade organization for direct-to-consumer legal tech companies and nonprofits.

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Jodi Ann Donato is a solo practitioner in East Islip (Long Island), New York where she predominantly practices in the area of Matrimonial and Family Law. She also serves as a District Court Small Claims Arbitrator. She is a Director of the Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association; a Delegate to the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York; and she just finished a three year term as a Manager and Secretary of the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Charity Foundation. She has 3 adult children (one of whom is a NYS Court Officer) and 2 beautiful granddaughters with a 3rd grandchild expected in Feb. 2021.

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Tyler Roberts is an attorney and Co-Founder of NOMOS Marketing. He discovered a passion for entrepreneurship and legal technology after working at several early stage startups and later reporting on legal trends as an editor for three law-related magazine titles. Tyler is an avid content creator and loves helping clients bring their visions to life through storytelling and design.

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Prior to entering the legal field, Alia had a career working for multiple startup companies as a web developer and software engineer. Alia’s law practice focuses on all manner of transactional representation for creatives, professionals, technologists and entrepreneurs, including legal advisory, corporate governance, agreement review and negotiation, acquisition of rights, and licensing transactions. Her deep knowledge of the publishing, legal, and technology industries has allowed her to serve clients of all sizes on transactional matters for the last twelve years of legal practice.

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Stephen Kaufman serves as Chief Architect in the Microsoft Customer Success Unit Team and brings 30 years of consulting experience across some of our largest enterprise customers.

He works with our largest customers to help them understand and utilize the cloud covering AI and App Dev as well as portfolio assessments to specific application architecture, design, development, and delivery.

He is a public speaker and has appeared at a variety of industry conferences nationally and internationally (both public as well as internal Microsoft conferences) over the years discussing AI, application development, integration and cloud computing strategies as well as a variety of other related topics.  Stephen is also a published author with three books as well as a number of whitepapers and other published content.

In addition, he is a board-certified Distinguished Architect (CITA-D – IASA Global) and continues to work with IASA mentoring and creating content.

Alison Demelis runs Enterprise Sales Canada and has quickly become a pivotal member of the LinkedIn Family. Prior to this, Alison was part of GroupM operating in a dual role as both the Director of Marketing and the Director of New Business for MediaCom Canada. During her tenor with MediaCom, they saw a significant move from ranking #10 to #3 and she oversaw the wins for such accounts as OLG, LCBO, Sunwing and Ministry of Health and Coca Cola.

During her professional career, Alison has worked with every media discipline and has full media model fluency. Alison held the title of Director, National Sales at Cue Digital and Group Manager, The Mix – at Bell Media (formerly Astral Media) for over 10 years. This multi-channel strategy division permitted Alison a unique understanding of Digital, OOH, radio, and television to create multiplatform solutions for clients when most companies were still working in siloed environments.

Alison says that her proudest career accomplishments are when she creates partnerships and works with clients holistically to aid in the best business outcomes for their success. In her spare time Alison works with many charitable organizations and advisory boards and is the most happy when with her significant other and her kids.

After leading marketing efforts for Avvo, Conrad Saam founded Mockingbird, an online marketing agency focused exclusively on legal. Conrad is the author of the ABA’s Own the Map, The FindLaw Jailbreak Guide, and co-host of Lunch Hour Legal Marketing with Gyi Tsakalakis, a Google Small Business Advisor, and has held positions for various ABA’s Practice Management marketing committees.

A semi-professional bridge arsonist, Conrad enjoys publishing Cease and Desist letters from unscrupulous legal marketing vendors. He once bought the keyword, “mesothelioma lawyer” for $4.76. Conrad is the proud owner of Zippy, the first and only chicken to be awarded the Lawyers of Distinction Top 10% Award, which recognizes lawyers duped into buying a $700 annual subscription to a plaque.

Natalie Anne Knowlton is the Founder of Access to Justice Ventures, LLC, empowering entrepreneurs who are developing scalable access to justice solutions. She formerly served as a Regulatory Advisor and the Director of Special Projects at IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. She is committed to bringing deep empathy to the court users’ experience and in pursuit of that goal employs legal and empirical research and analysis, facilitates collaboration among stakeholders, and engages in national outreach and advocacy.

Knowlton is in the 2023 class of American Bar Association (ABA) Legal Rebels, and she is listed among the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s 2022 Women of Legal Tech. She sits on the Justice Technology Association Board of Advisors, was a judge for the American Legal Technology Awards (2021-2022; Access to Justice), and co-founded the Denver chapter of Legal Hackers.

April is a Co-Founder at NOMOS Marketing. An entrepreneur at heart, she is passionate about nurturing business relationships and creating systems that deliver excellent client service for both NOMOS Marketing and its clients. When she is not knee-deep in a new project or client campaign, you can find her in her vegetable garden listening to the latest episode of How I Built This.

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Nefra MacDonald is a legal technology and wellness speaker who, as the Senior Manager of Strategic Engagement at Clio, works with bar associations and other legal organizations to help lawyers succeed in their practices. With over a decade of experience in the legal industry, Nefra understands the pain points that affect law firms, and she uses her expertise to help lawyers streamline processes and run a better business. Nefra is passionate about bringing a practical lens to each one of her presentations, so each attendee leaves with a takeaway that can improve their day-to-day. She has been a speaker at the Clio Cloud Conference, ABA TECHSHOW, and many other legal conferences across North America.