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"The gig is great for networkers in law + IT. There is no annual conference I look forward to more." Noric Dilanchian |
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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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Andrew Andreyev Commercial Director of Zumesoft Solutions Pty Ltd, the software developer of Zumedocs, an online service to create Australian Estate Planning, Trust, Superannuation and Company documents., has primary responsibility for the document content and commercial direction of Zumedocs. Since joining Zumesoft, Andrew has overseen the refocusing of the Zumedocs Platform around the specific document assembly needs of the professional services sector. Andrew is the principal of Andreyev Legal, following roles within several large national legal practices, as well as an executive role within Macquarie Bank. Andrew is a founding director of the ASX listed biomedical company Austofix Group Limited, as well as a non-executive director of a chain of 25 furniture stores across Australia and New Zealand. |
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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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Leonie Chapman Leonie has over a decade of legal experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry, working both in private practice and as senior in-house lawyer supporting non-bank lenders and large financial institutions. After completing a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce in Adelaide, she moved to Sydney to practice law and complete her Master of Laws. While working at Macquarie Bank Limited as Associate Director and in-house counsel for six years, she identified that there was a real need for simple and affordable online legal advice for Australian businesses. With this in mind, she co-founded LAWYAL Solicitors, an incorporated legal practice that offers quality and affordable legal advice online for Australian banking and financial institutions, companies and small-to-medium enterprises. |
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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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Adrian Dayton Adrian is helping global firms like Dorsey & Whitney to develop and implement social media strategy. In the past year he has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Entreprenuer.com, Fast Company Magazine, the ABA Journal, Above the Law, and by over 100 law blogs. His book, Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition has been published internationally by the ARK Group in conjunction with Managing Partner Magazine. |
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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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Julian Fenwick JJulian Fenwick is the CEO of Governance Risk & Compliance Solutions. Julian is responsible for overseeing the general management and strategic direction of the company. GRC Solutions is the recognised leader in the online compliance training market in the Australasian region and has helped hundreds of companies navigate complex legal and regulatory environments and build resilient organisational cultures. The company publishes a broad range of legal compliance, risk management and ethics training courses designed for Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and an expanding number of jurisdictions around the world. Julian is a regular presenter in Australia and Asia at on legal technology, legal compliance training and marketing professional services. Julian also holds an Masters of Business Administration from the University of Sydney and has also completed the AICD Companies Directors Course. |
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Stevie Ghiassi Stevie is the Co-Founder of Sydney based startup Legaler. With a focus on user-friendly and innovative technology, Legaler is on a mission to improve access to justice and the delivery of legal services. Legaler is a simpler and smarter way for lawyers and clients to connect through a secure cloud-based mobile and web platform and is the only dedicated communication channel designed specifically for the legal industry with it’s matter-centric indexing of correspondence, video chat, messaging, document management and scheduling. Legaler also acts as a powerful team communication tool for law firms, helping them be more productive and organised. Prior to Legaler, Stevie was fortunate to travel the world playing tennis and went on to establish a number of successful businesses in a range of industries including retail and manufacturing, hospitality and merchandising. In recent years he has focused on building technological solutions and platforms for a better world. |
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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. Swerdlove provides specialist consulting and IT services to professional service firms in the use of their information systems. It has 21 skilled consultants, with offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Boston, Tallahassee and Wellington and support an international client base. |
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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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Peter Holt Peter Holt is the Manager, Legal and Policy within the ePlanning Branch of the Department of Planning and Infrastructure (now Planning and Environment). His role there is to develop the necessary legal and policy frameworks to support the New South Wales Government’s ePlanning program. He has worked for the Department and its predecessors since 2004. Prior to that he was a policy officer with the Environmental Defender's Office. Peter is an accredited specialist in Local Government and Planning Law. |
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Jason Harrop Jason is founder of Plutext, which specializes in integrating Microsoft Word and Word documents into a firm's business systems. Plutext's main product enables real-time co-editing in Word. Plutext also sponsors the docx4j open source library . Plutext is Jason's second start up. Previously he was co-founder and CTO of SpeedLegal (now Exari), a document assembly vendor. Jason was a practicing lawyer in the 90's, and has also done stints in IT at IBM, the Victorian Government, and Telstra. |
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Ursula is a lawyer, business owner and director. Ursula co-founded LegalVision to provide high-quality fixed-fee legal services online, help excellent lawyers do fulfilling flexible work, and to make a difference to businesses across Australia. Ursula has international corporate law and financial services experience. She has worked closely with senior management in the US, Asia and Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Law, a Bachelor of Science, and a Masters of Law and Management. Ursula uses her knowledge and experience to assist startups and SMEs with the business law to launch, grow and achieve their vision. Ursula is active in the business community. She writes for national publications, has been interviewed for TV, radio and print media, speaks at industry events and assists several organisations that support entrepreneurs. |
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Karen Lee Karen holds a Master of Law and Management and specialises in banking and financial services law and legal knowledge management, and is the General Editor of the Australian Banking Finance Law Bulletin. Karen’s legal consulting practice, Legal Know-How, provides expert advice to firms and businesses on risk management, legal and business process improvement, legal documentation, regulatory compliance and knowledge management. She specialises in PPS Law and also had a recent focus on compliance with consumer credit and privacy legislation. Karen has been heavily involved in PPS law reform since 2008 and has advised government bodies, major banks and large corporates on the operation and application of PPS legislation. |
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Therese Linton is an Adjunct Lecturer and Unit Study Coordinator for Sydney University’s prestigious Masters of Project Management and The College of Law. Therese regularly works with both internal and external counsels on the delivery of the legal components of major business programmes, including – financial services product design, contract negotiation for major software and service purchases, interpretations of the impacts of regulatory reforms and the development of remediation programmes for enforceable undertakings. Therese wrote Australia’s first book on Legal Project Management whish was published by LexisNexis in December 2014. Her first book on Project Management Essentials was published in March 2014. |
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David is a corporate lawyer with over 10 years of transactional experience gained primarily with top-tier firms in Sydney and London. He is a principal of forward-thinking law firm Fluency Legal (www.fluencylegal.com.au), and the founder and managing director of FluentDocs (www.fluentdocs.com.au). FluentDocs is a cutting-edge system for creating customised legal documents online, with proprietary technology that enables the automation of even highly complex legal documents. David has a passion for innovation and is committed to leading the technological revolution that will bring new efficiencies to the global legal industry. |
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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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Darryl Mountain is a lawyer and document assembly software consultant who recently has relocated from Vancouver to Sydney. Darryl is an active participant in the eLawyering Task Force of the American Bar Association, which examines and responds to the ways in which the practice of law is changing in the Internet age. He has written a number of popular journal articles on legal technology topics, including disruptive innovations in law. He writes a column for slaw.ca, Canada's online legal magazine, and continues to work on projects involving legal document automation and the Internet. |
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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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Anna Ronkainen Anna Ronkainen is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of TrademarkNow. It provides an intelligent web-based trademark management platform that is used by enterprise companies, law firms and branding agencies for instant trademark search and watch results. She has been described as an artificial intelligence and law scholar doing research at the intersection of IP law, cognition and vague norms, with over 15 years of experience in linguistic software development |
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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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Sean is a solicitor specialising in e-commerce and innovation. Prior to establishing ZipID's founding team in 2013, Sean has held senior legal roles at Clayton Utz, Amazon.com and Wotif.com. Sean is passionate about the value of legal simplification and customer-centric strategies to modern business.
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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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Craig Spink Invaulta was founded in 2005 by founder and Managing Director Craig Spink. Craig has been a succession and commercial lawyer approximately 10 years and is currently Principal of Spink Legal a boutique estate and commercial law firm in Brisbane. Craig’s experience in estate planning and administration and many years of established relationships with accountants and financial planners has led to the creation of the Invaulta product. Since 2010 Invaulta have partnered with KND Web Developers to develop the Invaulta concept into a leading edge software application for legal, accounting and financial planning firms. |
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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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Harry Surden Harry is a professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder Colorado. As a former software engineer, his research focuses on the intersection of technology and law. He teaches, researches and writes about intellectual property law – especially patent law and copyright law, legal informatics and legal automation (including machine learning and other artificial intelligence approaches), and information privacy law. |
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