Academy for Private Practice (APP) 2015

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On October 2nd, 2015, Above the Law will host its inaugural Academy for Private Practice, a full-day conference offering practical solutions and expert insight on meeting the challenges of starting and optimizing a small law firm practice. The APP conference is designed for current small law practitioners looking to innovate and grow, as well as Biglaw attorneys aspiring to strike out on their own. Entrepreneurial law students aiming to bring value to potential employers are also welcome. The conference programming combines panel discussions and breakout sessions on subjects ranging from cybersecurity to marketing, all for CLE credit. Lunch will be served and the day will conclude with a networking cocktail reception.

Why attend?

  • Expert insight and practical solutions for small firm practice
  • Networking with peers over lunch and at our cocktail reception
  • Free CLE credit

Who should attend?

  • Biglaw attorneys aspiring to strike out on their own
  • Small law practitioners looking to innovate and grow
  • Entrepreneurial law students aiming to bring value to potential employers

APP 2015 Tickets

APP 2016

The ATL APP 2016 National Conference will be held on September 15–16, 2016 in Philadelphia.

Click here to register now
at the Super-Early Bird Rate of $49.


2016 APP Agenda
Thursday,
September 15

5–9pm
Startup Showcase + Innovation Awards
Friday,
September 16

9–5pm
Expert insights and practical solutions for lawyers building a boutique firm practice


ATL will also be hosting half-day APP programs in cities nationwide in 2016. To reserve a spot or request an APP program in your city, contact us at events@abovethelaw.com.

Agenda

8:30am Doors Open
9:00am Opening Remarks
9:05am Keynote

Ed Walters, CEO and Co-Founder of Fastcase
9:30am First Things First
CLE - NY: 1.0 Credit, Law Practice Management

From the outset, attorneys striking out on their own face an array of urgent questions. Experienced authorities will relate approaches to highly consequential matters from retaining current clients to deciding whether to take on a partner or hire staff. Learn how to leverage resources and assets you may not be aware you already possess.
10:30am Networking Break
11:00am All About Clients: Post‐New Normal Marketing and Business Development
CLE - NY: 1.0 Credit, Law Practice Management

Marketing and business development practices are evolving as rapidly as other aspects of the profession, challenging attorneys to adapt in order to remain competitive in this new landscape. Explore how to implement best practices and measure ROI for these crucial efforts at engaging and retaining clients.
12:00pm Lunch
12:15–12:45pm Luncheon Remarks by Monica Bay, CodeX: The Stanford Center For Legal Informatics
1:15pm Break The Bottleneck: Managing Workflow
CLE - NY: 1.0 Credit, Law Practice Management

It is imperative for small firm practitioners to reengineer workflow to avoid time consuming and duplicative tasks and focus on what actually matters: client service. Learn from experts how to best leverage technology to automate and streamline your processes to increase profitability, improve client relations, and decrease stress.
2:15pm Break
2:30pm Concurrent Interactive Workshops on Effective Use of Blogging and Social Media for Lawyers, Cybersecurity and eDiscovery, Research Resources
3:30am Networking Break
3:45pm Concurrent Interactive Workshops on Legal Marketplace and DIY Tools, Running the Ethical Law Office, and Technology Integration
4:45pm Closing Remarks and Networking Reception
6:00pm Event Ends


Attendees have the opportunity to earn up to 5.5 Law Practice Management CLE credits.

The APP interactive workshops are designed to be educational and encourage interaction, combining case studies and practical tips on a clearly delineated topic. Pitches are prohibited.

CLE

Above the Law is partnering with the Marino Legal Academy, an accredited Continuing Legal Education provider, to certify the Academy for Private Practice Conference for Continuing Legal Education credits. Online Registration for CLE is required. For questions about CLE and your state’s specific Continuing Legal Education rules and requirements, please call Marino Legal Academy at 1-800-562-7466.

Note: Attorneys registered for CLE credit will be contacted by Marino Legal Academy directly to complete the authentication process. Please be on the lookout for e-mail communications from Marino Legal Academy.

Venue

Academy for Private Practice will take place at the at the Westin Times Square located at 270 West 43rd Street, at Eighth Avenue, in New York City. The conference will be held on the 4th floor of the hotel.

Overnight accommodations are available. Click here to reserve your room and receive a 10% discount at time of booking.

Speakers & Panelists

Keynote
Ed Walters, CEO and Co-Founder, Fastcase

Ed Walters
CEO and Co-Founder
Fastcase

Ed Walters is the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, an online legal research software company based in Washington, D.C. Under Ed’s leadership, Fastcase has grown into one of the world’s largest legal publishers, currently serving more than 800,000 subscribers from around the world.

Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. and Brussels, where he advised clients such as Microsoft, Merck, SmithKline, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. His practice focused on corporate advisory work for software companies and sports leagues, and intellectual property litigation. Ed worked in the White House from 1991-1993, first in the Office of Media Affairs and then in the Office of Presidential Speechwriting.

Ed graduated from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review, and he clerked for the Hon. Emilio M. Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth and Fifth Circuits. He serves on the boards of Pro Bono Net, Public.Resource.org, Friends of Telecom Without Borders, and Salsa Labs. He teaches Law of Robots, a class about the frontiers of law and technology, at Georgetown University Law Center.


Luncheon Speaker
Monica Bay, Freelance Journalist and Consultant

Monica Bay
Freelance Journalist and Consultant
Fellow at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics

Monica Bay is a lawyer, journalist, consultant and provocateur. She is a Fellow at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and freelances for Bloomberg BNA's Big Law Business. She recently retired from ALM, where she was editor-in-chief of Law Technology News for 17 years and as senior editor at San Francisco's The Recorder for 13 years. Long active in cyberspace, she helped The Late Show with David Letterman establish its first website on AOL. She is a graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz, with honors; did graduate work in sociology and journalism at the University of Minnesota; and earned her J.D. at the University of San Francisco. A member of the California bar, Ms. Bay lives in New York City and can often be found at Yankee Stadium.


Panelists
First Things First
  • John Balestriere
    John Balestriere

    Brooklyn native John Balestriere is an entrepreneurial lawyer who tries cases, conducts investigations, and argues appeals.

    Mr. Balestriere represents company and individual clients in all kinds of complex disputes, including commercial and business matters, as well as criminal and regulatory cases from investigation through to trial or arbitration and appeal. He also represents clients in intense negotiations, and directs internal investigations into alleged misconduct within companies, institutions, and government entities.

    He works with his colleagues in joint ventures with the firm’s clients to achieve the best possible result as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Mr. Balestriere has handled street crime, white collar crime, organized crime, fraud, business tort, class action, civil rights, qui tam, defamation, and a variety of other matters across the country. He is a graduate of Monsignor Farrell High School, Columbia College, and the Yale Law School.
  • Nicole Bradick
    Nicole Bradick

    Nicole Bradick is Chief Strategy Officer at CuroLegal, a company that works with lawyers to launch and grow next-generation firms through its consulting services, operations support, and flexible staffing solutions. She was the founder and CEO of Custom Counsel, a nationwide network of freelance attorneys, which was acquired by CuroLegal in 2015.

    Nicole regularly writes and speaks about the changing legal marketplace, the evolution of the law firm business model, and the technology that allows attorneys to do their work better, faster, and cheaper. For her work in this area, she was named a 2012 ABA Journal "Legal Rebel" and was named to the Fastcase 50 list of global legal innovators in 2014.

    You can reach Nicole at nbradick@curolegal.com or on Twitter at @NicoleBradick.
  • Gaston Kroub, founding partner, Kroub
    Gaston Kroub

    Gaston Kroub is a founding partner of Kroub, Silbersher & Kolmykov PLLC, an intellectual property boutique law firm in New York City. He is also a principal at Markman Advisors LLC, which services a clientele of buyside investors interested in patent litigation situations that could impact on their investments.Gaston also writes the weekly “Beyond Biglaw” column for Above the Law, and a weekly newsletter called the "Markman Note” on patent litigation events of interest to investors for Mimesislaw.com. A registered patent attorney, he has practiced in the area of intellectual property litigation for his entire career, and spent five years as a partner at Greenberg Traurig and Locke Lord, prior to his founding of his boutique firm with his current partners. For the last three years,Gaston has been recognized in Superlawyers Magazine’s New York Edition for intellectual property litigation.
  • Rochelle D. Washington
    Rochelle D. Washington

    Rochelle Washington is the Senior Staff Attorney in the Practice Management Advisory Service (“PMAS”) of the D.C. Bar. Rochelle, along with the Assistant Director, Daniel Mills, assists lawyers with the business of starting and managing a law firm. Rochelle developed and organized the inaugural D.C. Bar all-day event, Practice 360°| A Day for Lawyers and Law Firms on May 15, 2015, which featured 20 practical seminars throughout the day taught by lawyers and legal service providers. She leads an annual 10-week program titled Successful Small Firm Practice Series: How Solo and Small Firm Lawyers Can Compete, Thrive, and Be Ethical in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Practice Management Advisory Service Committee. This 10-week program received the ABA’s Gambrell Award for Professionalism in 2015. She also leads the day-two session of the program, Basic Training and Beyond, which is offered on a monthly basis. This two-day program is sponsored by the Practice Management Advisory Service Committee and received the ABA’s Gambrell Award for Professionalism in 2011. Rochelle organizes the PMAS Small Firm Lunch and Learn Series, an ongoing program which runs two to three programs a month and covers practical topics that impact small firm lawyers. In addition, she conducts one-on-one member advisory meetings, and hosts networking opportunities for Bar members. All programs and services sponsored by the Practice Management Advisory Service are free to D.C. Bar members. Rochelle also served as a presenter on a panel for the CLE, Ethics Update: Representing the Organization, Working in the Cloud, and Using Social Media, presented by the Solo and Small Practice and Tax & Business Forums of The Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia in 2013.

    Rochelle attended Towson University for undergraduate studies and American University, Washington College of Law where she obtained her J.D. She is licensed to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia. For several years she practiced as a sole practitioner in the areas of family, bankruptcy and personal injury law. In addition, she served as a volunteer attorney providing pro bono legal services in juvenile proceedings and family cases involving domestic violence.

    In January 2013, Rochelle joined the Office of Regulation Counsel, Practice Management Advisory Service with the D.C. Bar. She can be reached at the D.C. Bar at 202-737-4700 x3217 or rwashington@dcbar.org.


All About Clients: Post‐New Normal Marketing and Business Development
  • Tim Baran
    Tim Baran

    Tim Baran, a former law library director and CLE consultant, is the content director for Rocket Matter, a legal software company, editor of the Legal Productivity blog, and host of the Rocket Academy webinar series. He works frequently with law firms to understand how they use efficiency and management techniques in the day-to-day practice of law.

    Tim is the author of A Lawyer’s Guide to Evernote and Working Remotely: A Telecommuters Guide to the Galaxy, and co-author on other publications geared towards legal technology, marketing, and productivity.

    Email: tim@rocketmatter.com | Twitter:  @tim_baran
  • Gary Ross
    Gary Ross

    Gary J. Ross founded Jackson Ross PLLC in 2013. Jackson Ross caters to the legal needs of the startup and small business community. Current Jackson Ross clients include AngelList, iClick, Premier Indoor Golf, and Smart Data Science. Prior to founding Jackson Ross, Gary worked in the corporate transactions and securities practice groups at Sidley Austin in New York, Alston & Bird in Washington DC, and Holland & Knight in Atlanta. From 2009 to 2012, Gary served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he oversaw contractors and financial agents engaged by Treasury to provide asset management and advisory services relating to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Gary received his law degree from Northwestern Law School in 2004 and his undergraduate degree from the University of Miami in 1994. Prior to attending law school, Gary worked for the Tennessee Department of Human Services.

    Gary teaches Continuing Legal Education programs on securities law and startup fundraising, and is a frequent speaker on ethics for solo and small firm practitioners. Gary has been quoted in articles in the New York Times and the Associated Press. Gary writes a weekly column for Above the Law on the transition from Biglaw associate to “SmallLaw” Attorney/Administrator/Marketer/Gofer.
  • Bruce Stachenfeld
    Bruce Stachenfeld

    Bruce Stachenfeld is one of the nation’s preeminent real estate attorneys. He is a founding partner of the Firm, the founder of the Firm’s high-profile Real Estate Practice Group, and he also acts as the Firm’s Managing Partner. Mr. Stachenfeld is known to be one of the most “connected” real estate lawyers throughout the worldwide real estate community. He is also a thought leader in both the law firm and real estate worlds.

    As a lawyer, Mr. Stachenfeld has over 30 years of real estate law experience encompassing tens of billions of dollars of real estate transactions of all kinds. As a real estate lawyer, Mr. Stachenfeld distinguishes himself by seeking out areas of real estate law that are more difficult and in which he and his team can provide particular value. In this vein:

    · Mr. Stachenfeld is particularly known also for representing clients in partnerships, limited liability companies and other co-venture situations. Indeed, Mr. Stachenfeld and the partners who have worked with him for many years have developed one of the premier real estate joint venture practices in New York City. This includes representing institutional investors, operators, and platform, strategic and other investors in U.S. and cross-border international transactions.

    · Mr. Stachenfeld, and his real estate team, are particularly known for representing clients in co-venture transactions (including platform transactions and programmatic, preferred equity, common equity and other corporate real estate type transactions).

    Mr. Stachenfeld has also represented clients in bankruptcies, workouts and insolvencies in each of the real estate downturns of the past 30 years. Mr. Stachenfeld applied his real estate expertise in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s to numerous bankruptcy, insolvency and workout matters by working in close conjunction with the bankruptcy departments of Latham & Watkins and Mayer Brown during his tenures at those law firms. Additionally, Mr. Stachenfeld commenced his career with a one-year stint as a litigation attorney. Finally, Mr. Stachenfeld rounded himself out by spending time as in-house general counsel for a shopping center development company. Hopefully it is not an overstatement to describe Mr. Stachenfeld as the “perfect lawyer” for a distressed real estate situation.

    Mr. Stachenfeld’s reputation includes tenacious representation of his clients, brilliant creative “outside-the-box” thinking, and deeply caring for his clients’ welfare and success. He is known to be a lawyer who absolutely loves his clients and will go to extraordinary lengths to support them and help them succeed.

    Mr. Stachenfeld has evolved into an attorney who is “connected” to many of the major players in the real estate world (including not only clients but adversary attorneys a well). These contacts enable him to provide critical assistance to his clients in achieving success in their transactions. This includes everything from finding the ”money” or the right “operating partner” or other connection for a deal to reaching across the table to find common ground with adversaries with whom he has deliberately cultivated friendly relationships.

    As an “amateur real estate philosopher”, Mr. Stachenfeld is able to provide invaluable insights to his clients in his core passion of helping his clients build their businesses. Periodically he sits down with each of his clients to brainstorm how to assist them in making their real estate businesses more successful. Due to the breadth of Mr. Stachenfeld’s “connected-ness” in the real estate world, he is often able to provide invaluable insights.

    It is largely for these reasons that Mr. Stachenfeld was selected to The Commercial Observer’s Power 100 Reader’s Poll List in 2013 (along with his partner, Terri Adler) naming the most powerful people in New York real estate. Indeed, Mr. Stachenfeld and his co-founding partner, Terri Adler (known as “Bruce’N’Terri”) create a dynamic duo of one of the “best” real estate lawyers in NYC and one of the “most connected” real estate lawyers in NYC – a combination that can help a client achieve virtually any goal in the real estate world.

    In addition, as an industry thought leader, Mr. Stachenfeld (i) writes a bi-weekly column for AboveTheLaw.com entitled “Reinventing the Law Business”, which is dedicated to innovative strategies in the legal world; (ii) gives the annual keynote speech at IMN’s US Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing Forum each year; and (iii) lectures on such topics as the importance of attracting, training and retaining “talent” as the critical ingredient for a successful real estate law firm or real estate business.

    Prior to founding Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, Mr. Stachenfeld was a partner in Shapiro, Shapses, Block & Stachenfeld LLP. Before that, he practiced at Latham & Watkins, Mayer Brown and Shea & Gould.

    Mr. Stachenfeld received his B.S., summa cum laude, from Tufts University in 1979; and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1983. Mr. Stachenfeld is admitted to practice in New York.


Break the Bottleneck: Managing Workflow
  • Nicole Black
    Nicole Black

    Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and the Legal Technology Evangelist at MyCase.com, a law practice management software company. She is the author of Cloud Computing for Lawyers (2012) and co-authored Social Media: The Next Frontier (2010), both published by the American Bar Association. She also co-authors Criminal Law in New York, a Thomson West treatise. She writes a weekly column for The Daily Record and has authored numerous articles and regularly speaks at conferences regarding the intersection of law, mobile computing and Internet-based technology.
  • Jared Correia
    Jared Correia

    Jared D. Correia, Esq. is the Assistant Director and Senior Law Practice Advisor at LOMAP.

    Before joining LOMAP, Jared managed CLE publications and the Casemaker research engine for the Massachusetts Bar Association. He has also been a practicing lawyer, in small firms, where he mostly focused on personal injury, real estate and disability law. Jared is a frequent speaker for local, regional and national lawyers’ groups.

    He is a regular contributor to local and national legal publications, including Attorney at Work, where his monthly column, "Managing," appears. Jared is the author of the American Bar Association publication Twitter in One Hour for Lawyers. He is the co-host of the "Legal Toolkit" podcast on Legal Talk Network, and is featured on a quarterly podcast at Solo Practice University. Jared presented at ABA TECHSHOW 2013, on remote access and social media marketing.

    He enjoys country music and chocolate candies featuring caramel, especially Rolos. He respects Ron Swanson.
  • Carolyn Elefant
    Carolyn Elefant

    Carolyn Elefant is a lawyer in Washington D.C. with an energy regulatory practice and also a national author and speaker on solo and small firm law practice. In December 2002, Carolyn launched the blog, MyShingle.com - the longest running and most comprehensive blog on solo and small firm practice. Carolyn is also author of Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be and co-author ofSocial Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier. Carolyn has advised hundreds of law school graduates and practicing lawyers on starting and growing a successful law practice. Above all, Carolyn is on a mission to ensure that in these changing times, solo and small firm practice remains a sustainable and viable career path for lawyers.
  • Jennifer Ellis
    Jennifer Ellis

    Jennifer Ellis is a legal ethics attorney with the Philadelphia firm of Lowenthal & Abrams, PC. A frequent author and speaker, both in Pennsylvania and nationally, Jennifer lectures and writes on issues including social media, legal ethics, and technology for law firms. Jennifer wrote the book, WordPress in One Hour for Lawyers and the chapter on social media for the American Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide. Find her online at lowenthalabrams.com, jlellis.net, and on Twitter @jle_jd.

Workshops
  • Jeff Bennion
    Jeff Bennion

    Jeff Bennion is Of Counsel at Estey & Bomberger, LLP, a firm specializing in catastrophic injury and mass torts. He has participated in approximately 30 jury trials, securing outstanding outcomes for his clients. He has managed many large e-discovery projects in complex litigation and mass torts cases. His technical expertise and dedication to his clients won him the San Diego Attorney Journal Rising Star award in December 2013, the San Diego Daily Transcript Top Young Attorney award in 2012, and the San Diego Business Journal Best of the Bar in 2015. In 2014, Jeff was a top 25 semi-finalist for the San Diego Daily Transcript Top Attorney award in two categories – personal injury and corporate litigation.

    In 2014, Jeff was appointed to the Executive Committee for the State Bar of California Law Practice Management and Technology section, where he serves on the education subcommittee and the electronic newsletter subcommittee to provide guidance to California attorneys on how to run their practices more efficiently using technology.

    Jeff is also one of the columnists for the legal news website Above the Law, where he has a weekly column on legal technology.
  • Susan Cartier Liebel
    Susan Cartier Liebel

    Susan Cartier Liebel is the Founder and CEO of Solo Practice University®, the only online educational and professional networking community for lawyers and law students who want to create and grow their solo/small firm practices.

    Susan is a lawyer-turned entrepreneur, entrepreneur mentor for LawWithoutWalls.org, member of the advisory board for the innovative Suffolk School of Law - Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation, an attorney who started her own successful practice right out of law school, adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law for eight years teaching law students how to open their own practices, a sought-after speaker, columnist, and has contributed to numerous legal publications and books offering both practical knowledge and inspiration.

    Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+.
  • Jeena Cho
    Jeena Cho

    Jeena Cho is co-founder of JC Law Group PC, a bankruptcy law firm in San Francisco, CA. She is also the author of the upcoming American Bar Association book, The Anxious Lawyer: An 8-Week Guide to a Happier, Saner Law Practice Using Meditation, as well as How to Manage Your Law Office with LexisNexis. She offers training programs on using mindfulness and meditation to reduce stress while increasing focus and productivity. She’s the co-host of the Resilient Lawyer podcast. You can reach her at smile@theanxiouslawyer.com or on Twitter at @jeena_cho.
  • Claude Ducloux
    Claude Ducloux

    Claude Ducloux brings 40 years of experience to the legal community as an attorney with a focus on Civil Trials, Business Formation, Transactions, Trials and Appeals, Mediation and Arbitration. With his knowledge and expertise, Mr. Decloux brings a unique and informative perspective in the area of Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Claude served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Texas Center of Legal Ethics and Professionalism for two years, and has written extensively on legal ethics issues.

    Over the years, Claude has authored, co-authored and appeared in numerous ethics training videos for lawyers on issues as diverse as office management, conflicts of interest, and grievance prosecution and defense. Claude’s passion for practicing law and educating attorneys earned him many professional honors, including The Gene Cavin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Continuing Education.

    Among other ventures, Claude serves as an industry liaison to LawPay, the preferred payment solution for attorneys. Designed specifically for the legal industry, LawPay offers a secure and convenient tool for receiving credit card payments. LawPay has the ability to correctly separate earned and unearned payments, protecting your firm from commingling client funds. LawPay works in partnership with over 90 bar associations across the country, including the American Bar Association, to ensure our program is up-to-date and in compliance.
  • Roe Frazier
    Roe Frazier

    Roe Frazer, a lawyer, technology innovator, 9990 skier, and casual golfer, heads up Cicayda.. Roe is committed to technology innovation in ediscovery and discovery: to produce a cloud platform that creates efficiencies in every law firm, and for every litigation attorney via modern and affordable technology. Roe believes that the chief aim of discovery technology should be to find critical facts rapidly and to enhance the lifestyle of litigators and litigation support professionals.

    Previously, Roe was the CEO of CaseLogistix, now a flagship offering of Thomson Reuters. Roe was named a “Global Top 100 Legal Technology Thought Leader” by City Tech Magazine, London U.K., and featured in the “President’s Corner” of Law & Technology News. Roe was an Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist (2014) per the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and the Entrepreneur Center. An early adopter of technology for his law practice, Roe was in private law practice trying cases from 1985 to 2003, being selected as Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the Year (Mississippi) in 1993. At Samford University’s Cumberland Law School (Class of 1985) he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Cumberland Law Review, Co-Captain of the National Moot Court team, and a member of The Order of Barristers. He is a 1982 graduate of Wake Forest University.
  • Heather John Esq.
    Heather John Esq.

    Heather John is the CEO and Co-Founder of LawGo. A former startup and venture capital attorney, Heather started her career at the world’s largest law firm, Dentons, in her hometown of Toronto, Canada but saw opportunity in the dramatic changes the legal market was undergoing. She started her own technology law practice in Toronto in 2010 as a young attorney and swiftly expanded to New York City, building her practice to over 100 clients on 5 continents before founding LawGo in August 2014. While getting her law practice off the ground, she saw many other attorneys starting their own practices and struggling with many of the same issues she was and so she started a support and networking group called The Gutsy Lawyer that operated for two years in Toronto and New York.

    LawGo is an angel-backed, consumer-facing legal services platform based in NYC. Its mission is to provide regular Americans with access to outstanding small business and personal legal services. LawGo empowers consumers by allowing them to purchase legal services at fixed fees on demand, and allows lawyers in solo and small practice to focus on what they do best: practice law. LawGo is further leading the future of consumer legal services by developing intelligent algorithmic tools directly accessible by consumers.
  • Joshua Lenon
    Joshua Lenon

    Joshua Lenon is an attorney admitted to the New York Bar.  He studied law at St.Louis University School of Law, obtaining a Juris Doctorate and a Certificate in International and Comparative Law.  During this time, Joshua clerked for the Missouri Attorney General, helping prosecute discrimination claims on behalf of Missouri citizens.

    Joshua also studied European Union Law at the University of Georgia School of Law's Brussels Legal Seminar.

    Joshua has since helped legal practitioners improve their services, working for Thomson Reuters' publishing departments in both the United States and Canada.

    Joshua currently serves as Lawyer-in-Residence for Clio, providing legal scholarship and research skills to the leading cloud-based practice management platform.
  • Elie Mystal
    Elie Mystal

    Elie Mystal joined ATL in 2008 by winning the ATL Idol Contest. Prior to joining ATL, Elie wrote about politics and popular culture at City Hall News and the New York Press. Elie received a degree in Government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was formerly a litigator at Debevoise & Plimpton but quit the legal profession to pursue a career as an online provocateur. He's written editorials for the New York Daily News and the New York Times, and he has appeared on both MSNBC and Fox News without having to lie about his politics to either news organization.
  • Lisa Solomon
    Lisa Solomon

    Lisa Solomon was one of the first lawyers to recognize and take advantage of the technological advances that make outsourcing legal research and writing services practical and profitable for law firms of all sizes. Through Lisa Solomon, Esq. Legal Research & Writing, she assists attorneys with all their legal research and writing needs, including preparing and arguing appeals and drafting dispositive motions and trial memoranda. Through Legal Research & Writing Pro, she shows other lawyers how to start and run successful practices as contract (freelance) attorneys and teaches lawyers in all practice areas how to write more persuasive briefs.

    Lisa is the author of many published articles about appellate practice and procedure, and has also writte​n extensively about the fie​ld of contract lawyering. A nationally-known speaker, she frequently presents continuing legal education courses about legal writing and contract lawyering. Her chapter, Choosing the Right Legal Research Tool for Your Firm, is included in the Pocket Guide to Starting a Law Firm, a forthcoming book published by MyCase.

    Follow Lisa on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Advisory Board

Jeff Bennion, Law Office of Jeff Bennion, eDiscovery Consultant
Nicole Bradick, Chief Strategy Officer, CuroLegal
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Susan Cartier Liebel, Solo Practice University
Jeena Cho, Co‐Founder, JC Law Group