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Afshin Behnia, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mitratech
Afshin Behnia is Mitratech’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Since joining the company in 1992, he has served in the executive positions of Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Strategy before becoming appointed President and CEO in 2004.
In 1995, Mr. Behnia focused Mitratech’s product strategy towards web-based collaborative matter management solutions for the legal market. In 1997, the result of this initiative, TeamConnect for CLMS, was named one of the top ten products in the legal industry. Subsequently, Mr. Behnia played a crucial role in developing Mitratech’s business strategy as an enterprise solution provider. Since then, Mr. Behnia has grown Mitratech and penetrated new markets such as compliance, risk management, and security.
He holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Paul Lippe, Founder and CEO, Legal OnRamp
Paul Lippe is the founder and CEO of the Legal OnRamp, a Silicon Valley based initiative founded in cooperation with Cisco Systems to improve legal quality and efficiency through collaboration, automation and process re-engineering.
Mr. Lippe is a frequent speaker on legal and operational issues, and has spoken at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, the Law Firm Leaders’ Forum, Richard Susskind's Scotland retreat on Law, the Stanford General Counsels’ Institute, the World Pension Forum, the Stanford Asia Forum and Tsinghua University (Beijing), and published in diverse periodicals such as the National (Canadian Bar Association), the ACC Docket, the American Lawyer, the San Jose Mercury News, Electronic News and Electronic Engineering Times.
Kim Bair, Senior Law Systems Analyst, Lincoln Financial Group
Kim Bair is a Senior Law Systems Analyst with Lincoln Financial Group and has been employed by the company’s legal department for 20 years. Ms. Bair is responsible for all IT-related items including system administration, day to day technology issues, training, disaster recovery, new implementations, and more.
John Barber, Legal Operations Senior Manager, Amgen
John Barber is currently Legal Operations Senior Manager at Amgen and has been with the company since 1995. He is responsible for setting the vision and strategic development for law operations, supporting over 250 staff in the Amgen Law Department. His duties include improving the law department’s business processes and implementing automated tools to create efficiencies. Mr. Barber is a native Californian from Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor's degree from UCLA in Math-Operations Research.
Louann Barnett, Founder and President, June Consulting Group
Louann Barnett is the founder and President of June Consulting Group. Ms. Barnett formed June Consulting in 2006 along with a core group of highly experienced legal technology consultants she had worked with throughout her career. Focused on providing technology assessment, selection and implementation services to Fortune 500 corporate legal departments, Ms. Barnett has led numerous e-billing and matter management implementations from product selection and benchmarking to business process review and system design.
Martin T. Biegelman, CFE and Director, Financial Integrity, Microsoft Corporation
Martin T. Biegelman, CFE, is Director of the Financial Integrity Unit at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA. He is responsible for creating and leading a worldwide fraud detection, investigation and prevention program based within Internal Audit. His group also promotes financial integrity and fiscal responsibility in a COSO framework of improved business ethics, effective internal controls and greater corporate governance. He works closely with Microsoft’s executive leadership, the Office of Legal Compliance, Internal Audit and others in protecting Microsoft from financial and reputational risk.
Mr. Biegelman is a sought after speaker on white-collar crime, corruption, security issues, fraud prevention and corporate compliance. He has written articles and co-authored texts that include: Executive Roadmap to Fraud Prevention and Internal Control: Creating a Culture of Compliance and is the author of Building a World-Class Compliance Program: Best Practices and Strategies for Success.
Mr. Biegelman has a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Golden Gate University.
Gerry Boccuti, Consulting Attorney and Litigation Support Manager, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Gerard Boccuti is a Consulting Attorney and Litigation Support Manager for the Wyeth Law Department. Mr. Boccuti is involved in the coordination of litigation support services and for developing Electronic Discovery strategies and procedures. In his consulting practice, Mr. Boccuti has provided professional services in the areas of law department work-process analysis, implementation of information technology solutions, facilitating mergers of corporate law departments; and developing electronic discovery strategies. In addition to Wyeth, other clients include Exelon Energy, Aramark, General Motors, and Pepco Energy.
Mr. Boccuti has spoken to audiences on electronic discovery in litigation, information technology, strategic cost management, performance metrics and supplier relationships and has written several articles on corporate legal management and information management systems. Mr. Boccuti received his law degree from the Widener University School of Law and studied International Law at the University of Padua, Italy. Mr. Boccuti also has an Executive M.B.A. degree from the University of Delaware. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
David Cambria, Director of Operations, Aon Corporation
David Cambria is currently Director of Legal Operations at Aon Corporation and has over 13 years of broad experience in the legal, business, and technology arena. Prior to joining Aon, he was a Manager in Huron Consulting Group’s LBC practice, focused on managing all aspects of the Office of General Counsel. His experience includes integrating technological initiatives with legal consulting services for corporate law departments, law firms, and insurance companies. Specifically, his focus has been on business process improvement, technology assessment and planning, organizational structure analysis, electronic invoicing, time and billing, and matter management selection and implementation. Mr. Cambria has presented at various industry seminars and executive briefings as well as authored several articles for publication.
Dexter Carpenter, Assistant Director, General Law, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
A financial management professional for over 25 years, Dexter Carpenter is currently responsible for the financial operations of the General Law department of Wyeth. This includes financial analysis, cost control, spend analysis, billing operations and process re-engineering. For the past four years Mr. Carpenter has been involved in implementing and restructuring the processes and systems to track, analyze and control outside legal spend. His goal is to provide a complete electronic legal management environment that reduces cost and provides key decision-making information to the General Counsel and legal leadership team.
Kevin Clem, Director, Huron Consulting Group
Kevin Clem is a Director in Huron Consulting Group’s Legal Consulting practice. He specializes in leading corporate legal departments through change efforts integrating both process and technology. He has been with Huron since its inception in 2002 and was previously a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen.
Mr. Clem’s areas of expertise include the implementation and integration of matter management, e-billing, and document management systems and processes. He has led multiple TeamConnect projects for both domestic and global rollouts. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Pepperdine University and recently completed his MBA at NYU’s Stern School of Business with specializations in Change Management and Law & Business.
Robert Couch, Manager, Huron Consulting Group
Robert Couch has over twenty-five years experience helping organizations redesign business processes and implement significant systems, including six years in the Enterprise Contract Management space. He has worked with clients to provide business process analysis, design, implementation and training services across the areas of contracting, manufacturing, distribution, service and support in multiple industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, entertainment, medical, energy, and services.
Claudio Crisafulli, Associate Director, Corporate Information Systems, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
An information technology professional for over 18 years, Claudio Crisafulli is responsible for the global technology strategy and business applications for the Legal department at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Crisafulli has spent the last 5 years focusing on the technology issues and trends impacting corporate legal departments. He has technical expertise in legal matter management, document management, electronic billing, e-discovery and litigation support systems. Mr. Crisafulli holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration/Communications from Seton Hall University, a technical degree in Network Engineering from the Chubb Institute and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Elizabeth Davis, Vice President, CRA, International
Elizabeth Davis is Practice Leader of CRA's Legal Business Consulting practice and has been consulting in the legal marketplace for over 20 years. She helps legal departments develop strategies, models, technology and business processes that take out costs, increase productivity and improve business intelligence. She advises on traditional operational challenges as well as on cutting-edge initiatives to enhance litigation intelligence, improve early case assessment strategies and develop data mining systems to identify patterns in causation and prevent recurrence. Prior to joining CRA, Ms. Davis led the Legal Business Consulting practice of Navigant Consulting. Prior to that, she was a partner at Arthur Andersen and consulted on some of the largest securities trading disputes of the 1980s and 1990s, advised on dozens of civil and criminal litigation matters and served as CFO/COO over Andersen’s $250 million, 100-person law department. She holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago and a B.B.A. in Accounting from SMU in Dallas, Texas.
James Doty, Partner, Baker Botts and former General Counsel of the SEC
James Doty represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission in a full range of regulatory, enforcement, and compliance matters. He counsels boards of directors and audit committees on problems arising under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related issues. His clients include publicly-traded corporations, as well as investment banking and securities firms both in the United States and in other countries.
From May 1990 through 1992, Mr. Doty served as the general counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He led the independent investigation of the accounting irregularities at Freddie Mac, resulting in the report on that firm's derivative accounting, and has served as the independent consultant to the SEC in several financial-service firm contexts. In connection with these activities, he has worked closely with securities regulatory authorities in Eastern Europe, China, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Mr. Doty has been named by the Legal Times of Washington as one of the D.C. area’s “Top Ten” securities lawyers, and by Washingtonian Magazine as one of Washington’s best SEC lawyers.
Thomas Dunlop, AVP Legal Services Operations, CNA Insurance
Thomas G. Dunlop is an Assistant Vice President in the Legal Services Division of the CNA Insurance Companies. His responsibilities include the management of a 22-person centralized bill review unit, oversight of CNA’s panel firms, litigation guideline and expense management, Legal Services operations, and legal vendor management and contracting. Mr. Dunlop has over 10 years of experience with litigation management and E-billing software. He has been involved in numerous legal software and workflow projects at CNA. He has been with CNA Insurance Companies for over twenty years including positions as a managing trial attorney and regional assistant vice president for staff counsel. Prior to coming to CNA he was in private practice with a concentration in commercial litigation. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his J.D. from Gonzaga University.
Lucy Fato, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Lucy Fato is the Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Prior to joining MMC in September 2005, Ms. Fato spent 14 years at Davis Polk & Wardwell, including 5 years as a partner in the Corporate Department. Ms. Fato received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.
Howard Fields, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Counsel, GE Commercial Finance
Howard Fields is the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer of General Electric Commercial Finance’s Capital Solutions business. Mr. Fields is a compliance generalist overseeing a global team that drives the compliance culture for a large global commercial leasing and finance business with over 12,000 employees. Mr. Fields is currently the Legal/Compliance M&A Integration Leader for the business. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Fields was an associate in the Stamford, CT office of Wiggin & Dana LLP, where he specialized in White-Collar Criminal Defense and Corporate Compliance. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Fields was an enforcement attorney in the New York office of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission. Mr. Fields is a 2000 graduate of Pace School of Law.
Gary Greenfield, President, Litigation Cost Management
In 1991, Gary Greenfield founded Litigation Cost Management (LCM), one of the first legal fee auditing firms in the U.S. Since then, Mr. Greenfield has consulted with companies, public agencies, institutions and law firms regarding effective litigation management and acted as an expert witness on the reasonableness of legal fees and other legal-fee related issues. He has worked on the full gamut of complex commercial litigation, including patent and other intellectual property cases, as well as environmental, securities, antitrust, unfair competition, insurance coverage, real estate and many other types of cases, testifying both for parties seeking fees and parties opposing fee requests. In addition, he has taught courses for companies and public agencies on legal bill auditing and analysis as well as on effective litigation management. Mr. Greenfield graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with distinction and from Boalt Hall Law School at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 with honors.
Dan Hamilton, Co-Founder and President, Mosaic Consulting, Inc.
Dan Hamilton is co-founder and President of Mosaic Consulting, Inc. With over fifteen years of experience in information management specific to both the private and corporate legal industry, Mr. Hamilton applies his analytical talent and leadership to improving the way information is captured and utilized. He has served as senior consultant on many matter management implementations in a wide variety of industries, providing a full range of expertise from business analysis and process re-engineering to systems configuration and training. Prior to forming Mosaic Consulting in August of 2000, Mr. Hamilton was an Implementation Consultant with Mitratech, and has worked exclusively with TeamConnect™ since that time.
Amanda Heldt, Senior Manager, Implementation Consulting, Kiersted Systems
With over 15 years of extensive industry experience as a lead technical consultant and project manager, Amanda Heldt manages system design and implementation at Kiersted / Systems. She has supported the legal and corporate security departments of top global companies, facilitating software implementation, developing custom legal matter management systems and designing and implementing advanced security management systems. Amanda expertly counsels Kiersted / Systems clients like Wal-Mart Stores and Shell Oil Co., helping them get the most out of their systems through proper configuration, maintenance and “tune-up” upgrades.
Rob Hichens, Director, Huron Consulting Group
Rob Hichens has more than 22 years of experience in Corporate IT and Consulting, with focus on the strategic and tactical utilization of technology. This extensive experience crosses multiple industries including aerospace, consumer products and financial services. Consulting expertise covers areas of Litigation Technology Solutions, Electronic Discovery, Business Process Analysis and Design. His background brings together the disparate disciplines of technology, business, and law, allowing Mr. Hichens to deliver a range of Legal Operational Consulting services.
Janice Innis-Thompson, SVP and Chief Compliance Officer, TIAA-CREF
Janice Innis-Thompson is SVP and Chief Compliance Officer for TIAA-CREF. She joined TIAA-CREF in October 2006 from Tyco International, where she was Vice President and Chief Compliance Counsel. Prior to Tyco International, Ms. Innis-Thompson worked for International Paper Company first as litigation counsel and later as International Paper’s first Chief Compliance Counsel. Ms. Innis-Thompson was a prosecutor with the United States Justice Department for six and half years where she focused on health care fraud and financial fraud matters. She also spent a year at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys as Counsel to the Director. Ms. Innis-Thompson received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
George Kiersted, President, Kiersted Systems
With an extensive background in information technology and application development, George Kiersted founded Kiersted / Systems in 1984 to provide advanced technology services to law firms and corporate legal departments in the areas of matter management, document management, discovery, and support for complex litigation. The company was one of the first on the e-discovery scene, and under Mr. Kiersted’s guidance, has continued to develop powerful new processes, leveraging the latest technology and enhancing supporting technical systems to efficiently and accurately manage the vital e-discovery practice area, forensic services and litigation holds.
Tom Lahiff, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tom Lahiff recently joined PwC from Citigroup Inc., where he was an Assistant
General Counsel in the Corporate Litigation Group. While at Citigroup, Mr.
Lahiff managed significant litigation and government investigations and worked on the firm’s response to the 2006 discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He was responsible for selecting and implementing the firm’s legal holds platform, including working with the IT and IS groups to integrate the platform with the HR database and matter management systems. He also worked on revisions to the firm’s record retention schedules and information security policy, including drafting requirements for the storage and transmission of personally identifiable information.
Mr. Lahiff is a frequent lecturer on information and records management, including the ethical, civil, and criminal issues arising in the fields of document retention and electronic discovery.
Ed Landry, Director, Legal Operations, Genworth Financial
Ed Landry is the Director of Legal Operations for the Genworth Financial legal organization. As a certified six sigma, master black belt, he is responsible for optimizing the performance and effectiveness of the legal organization by designing new processes and improving current ones. Over the past seven years, he has implemented process improvements in the following areas: litigation management, general matters/project management, corporate governance and legislation/regulation compliance and has been a corporate change agent his entire career.
Lane Leskela, Vice President of Technology Programs, OCEG
Lane Leskela is the Vice President of Technology Programs at nonprofit think tank the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (www.oceg.org). Lane is a recognized analyst in technology solutions for corporate and IT governance, risk management, and compliance processes. Prior to joining OCEG, he served as the Senior Product Marketing Director for GRC applications at Oracle Corporation. Before he joined Oracle in 2005, Lane was a Research Vice President at Gartner, Inc. At Gartner, he managed software market research, analysis, reporting and client services for enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance management and financial control and reporting.
Jay G. Martin, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Deputy General Counsel, Baker Hughes Inc.
Jay G. Martin is the Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Deputy General Counsel for Baker Hughes Incorporated (“BHI”). Prior to joining BHI, Mr. Martin was a Shareholder at Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C., a Partner at Phelps Dunbar and Andrews & Kurth, and the Assistant General Counsel of Mobil Oil Corporation’s Worldwide Exploration and Production Division in Fairfax, Virginia. Mr. Martin has also served as General Counsel of Mobil Natural Gas, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Mr. Martin holds JD, MPA and BBA degrees from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Michelle Mattei, Senior Legal Project Manager, Eisai, Inc.
Michelle Mattei, is currently the Senior Legal Project Manager for the Office of the General Counsel at Eisai Inc., in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. Ms. Mattei is involved with a number of projects within the Eisai Legal department, these include: EDMS, e-Discovery and Litigation Readiness, Matter Management and e-Billing initiatives. In addition, she works on risk mitigation issues associated with Eisai’ Business Continuity Program as well as the development of a formal Enterprise Risk Management program. Prior to joining Eisai in 2007 Michelle worked for 3 years in the legal department of Mayne (USA) Inc., an Australian, generic injectible oncology pharmaceutical company. She holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and International Business, Diploma in U.S. Legal Studies and BS in Finance and Management.
David McCann, President and Chief Executive Officer, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.
As CEO, Dave McCann is responsible for strategy and direction of this leading company in eDiscovery outsourced services and software, and is leading the company through its next phase of major growth. He has more than 20 years of high technology and services experience and prior to joining EED was senior vice president of products & strategy at FileNet, an IBM company and the leading provider of content management solutions including Email Management, Records Management and Document Management. Before FileNet, Mr. McCann served as CEO of CarParts Technologies Inc., as an EVP of worldwide operations for Continuus Software, and as SVP of product management and marketing for the $1 billion Client/Server Technologies division of Unisys.
Reyner Meikle, Attorney, Litigation and Matter Management Specialist, CSC
Reyner S. Meikle, Jr. is an Attorney and a Litigation and Matter Management Specialist with Corporation Service Company®. Mr. Meikle has worked directly with Fortune 500 corporate law departments designing customized training and developing best practice guidelines to be utilized post implementation. Mr. Meikle is active in industry organizations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Delaware Valley Association of Corporate Counsel, the American Bar Association, and the Delaware State Bar Association. Mr. Meikle received his Juris Doctor with a concentration in Corporate Law from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware and has been admitted to the Delaware Bar.
Scott Mitchell, Chairman and CEO, OCEG and Chairman and CEO, DoubleDrum Capital
Scott Mitchell serves as the Chairman and CEO of a nonprofit think tank called the Open Compliance & Ethics Group. Mr. Mitchell is a recognized leader in corporate governance, risk management, compliance, ethics, eLearning and information technology. He was recently appointed to the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) Task Force and was recognized two years in a row by Business Finance Magazine as one of the “Top 60 Influencers” in corporate finance. Treasury & Risk Magazine named him to the list of “Top 100 Must Influential People in Finance” and he was recognized two years in a row by Human Resource Executive Magazine as one of the top 20 thought leaders regarding the future of human resource management.
He has delivered keynotes in several countries and has also served as a guest lecturer at a number of universities including Arizona State University, University of Michigan and Northern Illinois University.
Deidre Paknad, President and CEO, PSS Systems
Deidre Paknad is President & CEO of PSS Systems and founder of the CGOC, a corporate practitioners community focused on retention and preservation. She started the legal holds and retention policy software industry and is the innovator behind the Atlas software suite. Ms. Paknad has worked with dozens of companies to operationalize better legal holds and collections processes and to institute modern information retention practices. Deidre participates in the Sedona Conference legal holds process and legacy data working groups. Prior to PSS Systems, she launched and led several software companies and has twice been inducted into the Smithsonian Insitution for innovation (1999 and 2000). She began her career over 20 years ago in operations in complex industries after graduating from the University of California.
Patrick Oot, Director of Electronic Discovery and Senior Litigation Counsel, Verizon
Patrick Oot is Director of Electronic Discovery and Senior Litigation Counsel at Verizon in Washington, DC and is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on electronic discovery. In 2006, Mr. Oot was nominated for the Verizon Excellence Award for the successful completion of Verizon’s response to the Department of Justice’s Second Request for Documents in its acquisition of MCI. Recently, Inside Counsel Magazine named Verizon’s ediscovery team as one of the ten most innovative legal groups of 2007, the group’s second year winning the title. Currently, Mr. Oot is a member of the advisory board for The Georgetown University Law Center CLE Program’s Advanced E-discovery Institute, and The eDiscovery Institute. Mr. Oot actively participates in The Sedona Conference; focusing on best practices for selecting search and retrieval technology and e-mail management systems. He is a member of the International Legal Technology Association, and has co-chaired Martindale-Hubble’s Counsel to Counsel electronic discovery roundtables. He received both his B.A. and J.D. from Syracuse University and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Oot is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts and is also registered corporate counsel in Virginia.
Tania Otis, Systems Administrator, Textron
Tania Otis is the System Administrator for Textron’s Enterprise TeamConnect application and is responsible for the day-to-day support and administration for all TeamConnect users at Textron and its business units. Ms. Otis came to Textron in 2004 as a litigation assistant and has been promoted twice into roles with increasingly more responsibility. Prior to Textron, Ms. Otis worked as a Case Manager at the American Arbitration Association.
Michael Rasmussen, President, Corporate Integrity
Michael Rasmussen is the authority in understanding Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and collaborator on GRC issues around the world and is noted for being the first analyst to define and model the GRC market for technology and professional services. With more than 15 years of experience, Mr. Rasmussen’s objective is to assist organizations in defining GRC processes that are sustainable, consistent, efficient, and transparent.
Liz Schimmel, Discovery Manager, Halliburton Company
Liz Schimmel is currently Discovery Manager at Halliburton Company. Prior to joining Halliburton in April, 2006, Ms. Schimmel worked at EDS Corporation in the Legal Department for over 20 years. While a Senior Litigation Paralegal at EDS, she worked primarily on complex litigations involving the health care industry and government contracts, managed the matter management system for the Litigation Department and worked extensively on audit and compliance issues relating to litigation.
Rudolph Schreyer, First Vice President, Office of General Counsel Technical Operations, Merrill Lynch
Rudy Schreyer is a First Vice President in charge of Legal and Technical Operations in the Business Management Group of OGC. He is responsible for overseeing the technology governance process and spending for OGC, technology strategy, the OGC portal, matter management, document management, reporting and various other administrative and technical projects. Mr. Schreyer has been with the firm for 15 years having worked in Corporate Audit, International Marketing and OGC. He has been with OGC for 5 years.
Michael Stevens, Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group
Michael Stevens is a Managing Director for Huron Consulting Group with more than 17 years experience providing operational and technology consulting services to leading corporations and law firms. His particular expertise lies in the areas of operational and business process improvements, contract management, matter management, document management, and e-billing.
Michael J. Sullivan, U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
Since September 2006, Mr. Sullivan has been the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, dividing his time between Boston and Washington, D.C. On March 21, 2007, President Bush nominated Mr. Sullivan for the position permanently and he is awaiting Senate confirmation. In 2001, Michael J. Sullivan was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Mr. Sullivan directs offices in Boston, Worcester and Springfield, comprising approximately 200 attorneys and support staff. His priorities include terrorism, healthcare fraud, gang and gun violence reduction, drug trafficking, organized crime and public corruption, just to name a few. Mr. Sullivan formed the District’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, in partnership with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies across the Commonwealth, to combat and prevent future terrorist attacks. He also created a new unit devoted to computer hacking/high technology crimes and another devoted to health care fraud. His office is recognized as one of the leaders in the country in the joint civil and criminal investigation and prosecution of health care fraud cases and particularly pharmaceutical cases, and has, to date, achieved resolutions with recoveries in excess of $3 billion.
Libby Troughton, Senior Manager, Legal IT, The Home Depot
Libby Troughton is Senior Manager for Legal IT at The Home Depot. In this capacity, Ms. Troughton directed a multi-year, multi-million dollar project for the custom development and deployment of web-based matter management solution for the legal and compliance departments and 110+ outside counsel law firms; including interfaces to electronic billing, third party claims administrator system, litigation support and content management. As a result, The Home Depot legal department better collaborates and communicates with outside counsel and has been able to reduce litigation costs by 10.3%. Mrs. Troughton has been recognized for her efforts to improve legal department operations with the 2005 Law Technology News Visionary Award for the Most Innovative Use of Technology in a Law Department.
Aaron Van Nice, Director, Operations, Baxter International, Inc.
Aaron Van Nice, CPA is currently Director, Operations for the Baxter International Inc. Law Department. In his current role, he is responsible for managing legal technology strategy and governance processes, operational and communication processes including vendor management, operational budgets, the law department’s professional development program, project management, and strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Baxter, he spent four years as the Director of Legal Operations for Merrill Lynch & Co. Previously, he spent nearly five years at Deloitte, primarily consulting to Fortune 1000 law departments. Aaron Van Nice attended the University of Iowa, has a BBA in Finance and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mark Zirulnik, Managing Attorney, Selective Insurance
Mr. Zirulnik joined Romando, Tucker, Zirulnik & Sherlock in 1988, and concentrated in Selective Insurance's staff counsel program for Workers' Compensation. As Managing Attorney, his responsibilities include direction of the Worker's Compensation staff and of all legal files in the State of New Jersey. In this capacity he fosters a seamless relationship with business units, a third party administrator, training and development, claims, underwriting and corporate departments. He personally appears in court to aggressively defend complex litigation, including cases before the Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court. He has served as past-chairman of the Workers' Compensation committee for the NJ Defense Association. He is a member of the NJ Bar's Workers’ Compensation Executive Committee since 1980, and a member of the NJ Bar’s Staff Counsel Executive Committee dedicated to continuing legal education. He has been a member of ACCA. He exercises an active role in the field of Insurance Defense work and Worker's Compensation Law, continuing to lecture biannually for the ICLE. He has addressed the National Business Institute and the NJ Defense Association. He has authored articles for the NJ Law Journal, the NJ State Bar Workers' Compensation and the NJ Defense Association Newsletters, and was inducted into the "Inns of Court" in 1996 as a "Master of the Bench.”
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