Higher Productivity Increases the Bottom Line at Law Firms
Presenters:
Douglas E. Cornelius
Attorney and Member of KM Department
Goodwin Procter LLP
Doug Cornelius is a senior attorney at one of the nation's leading law firms, Goodwin Procter LLP. In addition to his real estate practice, Doug is a member of Goodwin Procter’s Knowledge Management Department. In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing tools and resources to identify, create, represent and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning across the firm. Doug coaches other attorneys and staff on using knowledge resources to facilitate the efficient and effective practice of law.
Bart Earle
Senior Consultant
Capstone Practice Systems
Bart Earle is a Senior Consultant with Capstone Practice Systems, which helps law firms, law departments, and non-profit legal services organizations plan, prepare for, and execute the development of practice systems using document assembly.
Bart has developed dozens of such systems. With 12 years of HotDocs experience, he frequently trains other developers and serves as a resource for them.
His contributions to the field also include a number of published articles and public presentations. A graduate of Boston University Law School, he practiced law for 20 years before becoming a document assembly consultant.
Valerie Connell
Product Manager, Legal Content Management
LexisNexis
Valerie Connell is the Product Manager for the Content Management group at LexisNexis, an innovative team developing new technologies for streamlining legal content management, including enterprise search, document automation and assembly, document, e-mail and records management, and collaboration products. Valerie has managed several product lines at LexisNexis, in addition to other technology companies including WordPerfect and Jurisoft. Prior to her career shift to the technology sector, Valerie worked on Capitol Hill and at a national law firm in Washington, D.C.
Gary D. Levine
President and CEO
Two Step Software, Inc.
Gary founded Two Step in 1995 following the sale of the international software company Pilot Software, Inc. where he was its General Counsel. Before Pilot, Mr. Levine was a corporate and securities attorney at Hutchins & Wheeler, prior to the 2003 merger with Nixon Peabody, and specialized in private equity and venture capital work. Mr. Levine graduated from Boston College Law School and the MIT Sloan School of Management with a concentration in Finance. He has authored numerous articles, is a frequent speaker on corporate governance and capitalization management, and is also the author of the popular blog
Capitalization Matters.