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Casey Berman is head of strategy for a San Francisco-based technology company, investment banker and former in-house counsel. He is also the founder of Leave Law Behind, a blog and community that focuses on helping unhappy attorneys leave the law.

Sayre Happich is the Assistant Director of Communications and Social Media Manager at The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), where she has been since 2004. Sayre manages BASF’s website, monthly newspaper, bimonthly e-newsletters and BASF’s public relations efforts. She also heads up the organization’s social media efforts.

Mary Pat Benz is an attorney in solo practice in Chicago, where she focuses on attorney discipline and professional responsibility matters, policyholder insurance coverage litigation, appeals and alternative dispute resolution. With more than 30 years in practice, she is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, teaching trial practice. Previously Mary Pat was a litigation partner at Winston & Strawn; Quinlan & Crisham; and Phelan Pope & John.

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Tom Mighell is the author of The iPad in One Hour for Lawyers and the related blog iPad4Lawyers. A Senior Consultant with Contoural, Inc., he helps companies and in-house counsel with records management and electronic discovery issues. He is 2011-2012 Chair of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, and served as Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2008. He is the co-author of The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, and co-presenter of The Kennedy-Mighell Report Podcast on the Legal Talk Network. Tom blogs at Inter Alia: A Legal Technology Blog.

Steven T. Taylor is an award-winning journalist living in Portland, Oregon, who has written about the legal profession for more than 15 years. He’s also had more than 750 editorials, essays and other works published by more than 60 organizations and publications, including The Nation, The Washington Post, Public Citizen, ABA Law Practice and Of Counsel. He is a full professor at Oregon College of Art and Craft, where he teaches non-fiction writing, and a performance artist who explores socio-political issues in a medium he calls “journalistic theater.”

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Bruce W. Marcus is acknowledged as a visionary and advocate for marketing and business development as a professional function within professional services firms. Marcus, author of several books and editor of The Marcus Letter on Professional Services Marketing, passed away in December 2014. His writings include Client at the Core (John Wiley & Sons) and Professional Services Marketing 3.0 (Bay Street Group). In 2015, the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM) creating the Bruce W. Marcus Lifetime Fellowship Member program.