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"I learnt more in 1 hour ... than I did in all the legal IT conferences I have been to in the past 5 years!" Damien MacRae www.feefiefoefirm.com |
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Philip Argy Philip Argy is an experienced commercial mediator and arbitrator, having successfully resolved hundreds of disputes, many of them highly complex involving tens of millions of dollars. He also specialises in intellectual property, science, technology, consumer, franchising and competition law. He has been a computer buff for nearly 40 years as well as being an experienced programmer. Philip left Mallesons Stephen Jaques at the end of 2007 after being with the firm for almost 32 years (24 of them as a partner). He established ArgyStar.com primarily to evangelise and implement dispute resolution strategies in the IT sector, applying the Adroit Principles, jointly promoted by the Australian Computer Society, IAMA, and the Project Management Institute. He is a director and founder of the Technology Dispute Centre and maintains his eponymous law firm. |
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An award-winning innovative Manager specialising in Transition Implementation, Change Management, ISO and Best Practice certification and aligning IT services with the strategic and operational needs of the business. Driving innovation, continually seeking excellence, achieving multiple awards and industry recognition.Offering a strong background in developing and implementing innovative solutions for professional service firms, offering consulting services to industry groups and members. |
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Nick Brestoff Nick has a Master's of Science degree and a Juris Doctorate degree at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Nick had a 38 year career as a litigator before retiring to start a second career as a data scientist. In 2015, Business Expert Press published a book for which Nick is the principal author, having written 20 of the 25 chapters. The title is "Preventing Litigation: An Early Warning System to Get Big Value Out of Big Data." He is the founder and CEO of an early startup called IntraSpexion. IntraSpexion combines a potentially game-changing idea -- that there's great value in less litigation -- with a game-changing technology, the hottest form of artificial intelligence called Deep Learning. Intraspexion uses Deep Learning to enable in-house counsel to identify the risks of potential litigation in enterprise emails before the damage is done. |
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Lyria's research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, the application of standard legal categories such as property in new socio-technical contexts, the use of technologically-specific and sui generis legal rules, and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation. Lyria is currently a Key Researcher on the Data to Decisions CRC, exploring legal and policy issues surrounding the use of data analytics for law enforcement and national security. |
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Matthew Burgess Matthew Burgess co-founded specialist firm View Legal in 2014, having been a lawyer and partner of one of Australia’s leading independent law firms for over 17 years. Matthew’s passion is helping clients successfully achieve their goals. Leveraging the skills he has developed working with SMEs, Matthew has been the catalyst for a number of innovative legal solutions for advisers and their clients, including founding Australia’s first virtual law firm; launching a platform that allows access to market leading legal content, for less than $1 a week; creating a ‘timeless’ law firm, that has abolished timesheets and provides money back guaranteed upfront fixed pricing. |
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is undertaking a PhD in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. His co-authored publications on legal informatics include: A Right to Access Implies a Right to Know: An Open Online Platform for Readability Research; Enhancing the Visualization of Law and A corpus of Australian contract language: description, profiling and analysis. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales, and a Masters of International Law from the Australian National University. He works part-time as a legal adviser to the ANU Students Association and the ANU Post-graduate & research students Association, providing free legal services to ANU students. |
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Noric Dilanchian Noric Dilanchian established Dilanchian in 2000. His prior experience as a lawyer was in national and medium sized law firms and before that with Angus & Robertson Publishers. Noric has published over 75 conference presentations, published articles, reports and industry submissions. He keeps up-to-date with developments through his very active involvement in seminars, workshops and conferences. It includes workshops which provide training and innovative approaches to make contract drafting more efficient and effective. His IP blog, Lightbulb, is a must read for all innovators. |
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Julian Ehrlich With 30 years of commercial and industrial experience in Australia, Julian has held positions in organisation and methods; sales; marketing and sales process engineering; market research and market analysis; technology forecasting; project management and web site analysis. His roles have included Asia/Pacific research director, regional director, entrepreneur, and consultant. When family circumstances interrupted his career, a part-time teaching position with the Australian School of Business at University of New South Wales led Julian to teaching and researching in the subject of negotiation. |
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Peter Franke Peter holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science, with a major in physics. He qualified as an Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorney in 1990, and is also registered to practice in New Zealand. Peter has previously held senior roles. Peter also has an active trade mark practice, having acted for major Australian and international companies. |
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Derek Giles Derek Giles was one of the founders of Swerdlove (Previously Timeframe). He has worked in legal consulting all of his professional life, living and working across Australia, New Zealand, London, the Netherlands, Toronto, and United States. Derek started with KPMG Management Consulting for Legal in Australia and has worked with Deloitte in Canada, the PC Docs group and Timesoft in Holland. |
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Simon Goodrich Simon is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Portable, a web innovation company that helps forwarding thinking organisations transform the way they work. Over the past 10 years, it’s committed to working to solve complex problems across the finance, legal, community and health sectors both here in Australia and the US.
Simon serves as the Australian Ambassador for the New York-based Webby Awards, the Oscars for online, sits on the board of HISA, the digital health peak body, leading their innovation portfolio. He is an active mentor in the Melbourne University Accelerator Program, supporting innovative start ups and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Sir Zelman Cowan Centre at Victoria University, supporting innovation in the justice space. He is past National President of AIMIA, at the time the peak digital body in Australia. |
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Richard Granat Founder and president of DirectLaw Inc., received a Louis M. Brown Lifetime Achievement Award on Feb. 5 2010 from the American Bar Association. This is only the third time in three decades that the Brown award has honored an individual for lifetime achievement. Richard is founder and president of DirectLaw Inc., a virtual law firm platform that allows lawyers to deliver direct-to-client services online. He also serves as co-chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the ABA Law Practice Management Section. He has explored the use of technology to improve legal services throughout his career, and he was named a Legal Rebel by the ABA Journal in 2009. Richard is also a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar and most recently, chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the Maryland Bar Association. Richard has been involved in developing innovative legal services delivery systems for over 30 years. |
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Dr Gray practised law for about 15 years in Australia and London, and taught law for about 30 years in universities. She has researched the area of Legal Knowledge Engineering since 1984. Her LL.M. (Syd) prepared the jurisprudence necessary for the automation of the complex combinatorics of legal reasoning that applies hierarchical rules of law to particular cases. In 1997, she published her book, Artificial Legal Intelligence, in the English Applied Legal Philosophy Series; for many years she also published many international conference papers. On the basis of the Masters jurisprudence, her doctoral thesis posed the design of eGanges, a superexpert system shell. For 3 years, Dr Gray was an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Complex Systems at Charles Sturt University, following which, in 2013, she established the charity, Grays Institute, with the purpose of developing a free online library of legal superexpert systems, using eGanges (www.graysinstitute.org). |
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Xen programmed eGanges and explained its mathematics as a superexpert system in his M.Phil thesis. He used multi-valued logic for the automation of the complex combinatorics of legal reasoning; he has a major in mathematics as part of his BSc (Adv)(Hons)(Syd). Since completing his undergraduate science degree in 2000, he has taught physics at the School of Physics, University of Sydney; for many years he also has taught private students and secondary students. He is the proprietor of Grays Knowledge Engiineering and has published many international conference papers. |
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David Jacobson David Jacobson is a partner in the firm of Bright Law a specialist firm for financial services providers. The firm is an extensive user of web applications and internet technology to provide compliance, project management and other services to clients. As the resident Brisbane partner he operates a virtual office. |
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Marc Lauritsen Marc has worked in legal technology since 1984. He practiced law and supervised in legal services programs, and then served as an instructor, director of clinical programs, and a senior research associate at Harvard Law School. Marc has two undergraduate degrees from MIT and a law degree from Harvard. |
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Simon Lewis Since leaving a large Sydney law firm, he has been the principal of legal technology consulting, publishing and development businesses since 1985. Diverse experience in a range of leading edge legal technologies, including developing litigation support systems for clients such as the Singapore Judiciary and the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. Developing document automation systems and electronic collaboration systems for a range of law firms, government department, and inhouse legal departments. |
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Sue Linney Sue Linney worked in law in private practice and within corporates before moving into project management with a focus on regulation. Surveys have indicated that regulation (so often described as ‘red tape’) is one of the key inhibitors of productivity and business growth in Australia. Sue’s interest was piqued by the possibility of ‘Innovation in Regulation’ and the application of the principles and processes of innovation to the end to end regulatory process. Key to the delivery of sustainable, innovative outcomes are people and the decisions they make. With this in mind, Sue and her partner, John Linney, have established the business ‘Innovation Force’ to advise how to develop innovative ideas, develop innovative cultures and effectively deliver those critical innovative outcomes. |
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Lana works for the Law Society of NSW where she is an executive member of the FLIP project team (FLIP = the Future of Law & Innovation in the Profession). She was admitted as a solicitor in 2000. She has a Masters of Law and has practised in the corporate and community sectors. |
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Rhondda Nicholas Rhondda Nicholas is the principal of Ozpropertylaw.com and Nicholas Dibb Solicitors. Rhondda is Chair of the ACT Law Society's E-Commerce Committee and has a particular interest in e-commerce and legal practice. She holds the following qualifications: BA (Hons), LLB, M Phil and Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. Nicholas Dibb Solicitors employs qualified solicitors and experienced conveyancing staff specialising in property law. |
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Stefania Passera (MA) is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, at MIND Research Group. She has a background in graphic design, with a particular interest in information design, and she has been working as a freelance designer in addition to her work at Aalto University. Her work explores how design can contribute to new multidisciplinary innovation endeavours. Her research focus is on applying visualisation and information design principles to contracts and legal information, in order to make such documents clearer, easier and more user-friendly. Stefania has been working with private and public organisations in Finland on the development of user-centered visual contract documents, combining research and practice (e.g. in Fimecc UXUS -project, and collaborating with the PRO2ACT -project and VISO -project). She is the mastermind behind the Legal Design Jam, an international series of workshops where designers and lawyers collaborate in redesigning existing legal documents in a user-centric manner. |
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Greg San Miguel Greg is a thought leader and prominent speaker and writer on corporate regulatory compliance. He has 20 years' experience as a lawyer and commercial litigator, specialising in trade practices and intellectual property. Prior to forming Law of the Jungle, Greg was a partner at the Sydney law firm, Middletons Moore & Bevins, where he led the 'Strategy & Prevention' practice group, pioneerng techniques for using law as a management tool. He was a founding member of the firm's executive management committee and is a former member of the Management Committee of the Association of Compliance Professionals in Australia. Greg has degrees in law and economics. In addition to his legal career he worked for a period in Chile in human rights and as correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and London Times. An expert in governance and training, he was recently appointed to the board of GPET Limited, the Federal Government body responsible for the education and training of GPs. |
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Shaneal Sharma Shaneal is a tech visionary and inventor of patented technology Conveyance Genius. His skillset and talent was developed early in his career in the entertainment industry based in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, where he produced, wrote and performed as a recording artist. He has scored 4 top ten global hits whilst simultaneously working on innovative software technologies. In 2011 Shaneal co-founded CPDone, a compliance and CPD platform whereby he secured a global partnership deal with Thomas Reuters. Shaneals current project, Conveyance Genius has benefited from long standing relationships that he has built over the last 2 decades. Conveyance Genius is a world first online property transfer communication platform that brings real time transparency to property transactions for buyers, sellers, real estate agents, lawyers and conveyancers. Utilising a unique visual dashboard, Conveyance Genius allows all parties involved in the property transaction process to have full visibility of exactly what they need to do for a successful settlement. The Company has a number of significant industry players signed up to use the platform and will scale the business rapidly over the next 12 months. |
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Tania Sourdin Professor Sourdin is an internationally-renowned scholar, researcher and practitioner in the conflict resolution field. She is an advanced accredited mediator in Australia and has practised around the world. Tania is the Foundation Chair and Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation (ACJI) at Monash University in Australia. She is also a Visiting Professor at Sydney University. She is recognised as a leading mediator and adjudicator and has had membership for more than a decade of the Australian Appellate Tribunal that reviews lower Administrative Tribunal decisions in Australia. Her conflict resolution practice focusses on complex dispute resolution and management and deals with toxic conflict and she is an expert with the High Conflict Institute in San Diego California. Her co owned business – Endispute Pty Ltd deals with dispute resolution in large scale commercial disputes.
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Margot graduated in 1986 and was then appointed Associate to the Hon Justice Gaudron of the High Court. Margot's postgraduate research at Yale focussed on epistemology and law, and she held academic positions in the UK and Australia before practicing at the Bar for 7 years, then holding appointment as a Magistrate for 8 years. Margot's academic interest in legal problem solving merged with the practical challenges of maintaining quality and consistency in the legal decision making process in the face of the significant expansions in the complexity and volume of law over the last 40 years. This was the genesis of her development of a software program, Neural Net Decision Systems, which allows the replication of a high level legal experts decision system which is made available to contextualise the decision process of a less experienced legal user. The prototype of the program will be launched at the conference. |
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Experienced senior data analyst in both the legal services, and the banking and financial services industries.
Code Legal specializes in the Analysis and Development services for the Legal and Banking Industry. |
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Warwick Walsh Warwick is the founder of Lawcadia, a Brisbane-based start-up that provides procurement tools for companies to manage their outsourced legal work. The key issues for companies that Lawcadia addresses is a lack of transparency over legal spend and ensuring accountability for the pricing that lawyers quote. Warwick is a senior corporate lawyer who has worked across a number of markets including Australia, Europe, and Asia. Warwick founded Lawcadia after experiencing first-hand a number of issues that companies have when working with lawyers and recognising the inefficiencies associated with many aspects of the legal industry. |
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Andrew Wing is the Business Solutions Manager for InfoTrack. Andrew is responsible for the integration of 3rd party Practice Management systems into the InfoTrack platform. A software developer by trade, Andrew has over 10 years’ experience building software for the legal market. Andrew is passionate about the interconnectedness of systems, may you never have to re-key another piece of data again! |
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Dominic is a thought leader in Australian legal disruption and was recently recognised as winner of the Australian Legal Innovation index. Prior to joining LawPath, Dominic was a corporate lawyer at Minter Ellison Lawyers, Australia. Dominic has also spent time at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) as a criminal solicitor and at the International Court of Justice. |
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Heuristics Australia Pty Ltd is a specialist electrical and control systems consultancy. Areas of specialisation include intelligent decision support systems for utilities operations, large scale SCADA for power, gas and water transmission and distribution, ICT program management and consultancy |
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John Zeleznikow has conducted research and taught in universities around the world for forty years. He is the author of 3 research monographs, 65 refereed journal articles and over 200 refereed conference articles. John has also won over $A 7 million in competitive research grants. In 2005, he and a former PhD student Dr. Emilia Bellucci won their heat of ABC television's New Inventors program for software that assists divorcing couples to negotiate their disputes. Over the past twenty years, Professor Zeleznikow has focussed on how Artificial Intelligence can be used to enhance decision-making. Specific examples have been created in the domains of law, negotiation and sport. His research findings have been utilised by law and mediation firms, Victoria Legal aid, Relationships Australia Queensland, Victorian Institute of Sport, Australian Institute of Sport and Relationships Australia Victoria. |
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