William Melater is a young associate attorney working at a firm focused on commercial litigation and transactional work. A self-described legal hunter and gatherer, Bill has accumulated a plethora of legal certificates and diplomas—all of which have been appropriately framed and hung behind his desk. Bill has a distaste for emails, suspenders, fake tans, paralegals who cry, sea urchins and attorneys who repeat the phrase “this is my bottom-line offer.” When irked, Bill blogs about his experiences at Attorney at Work.

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Antigone Peyton is the founder of Cloudigy Law, an Intellectual Property (IP) and technology law firm in “the cloud.” After a career in Big Law she founde her inner entrepreneur and now muses about positive disruption in the legal services marketplace. She’s an unabashed technophile and blogs about IP, elawyering, emerging tech and e-discovery issues on the Decoding IP blog. Before law, she worked as a scientist, conducting clinical and pre-clinical studies at a large medical institution. Antigone tweets a @antigonepeyton.

Carol Gerber is owner and founder of Gerber Amalgamated LLC, a legal technology consulting company devoted to helping attorneys make better use of technology in their practices. Previously, she was Director of Learning & Professional Development at Moses & Singer LLP, where she worked on new technology initiatives and numerous training programs. Carol is an attorney, admitted in New York State, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Allan Colman is CEO of the Closers Group, a legal sales and business development training consultant and a motivational speaker. For more than two decades, he has helped law firms generate revenue. By listening to and synthesizing how in-house counsel and business executives make decisions, he has brought in millions of new business and built legal business development structures that continue to perform. Colman is the author of Own the Zone: Dominate the Competition (2012), and co-author of Lead Like a Boss (2013).  You can reach him at acolman@closersgroup.com.

Josh King is the General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development of Avvo, Inc., the largest legally related Q&A website where consumers get their questions answered by a community of rated attorneys. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

Jeffrey Taylor is an attorney in Oklahoma City, focusing on personal injury, small business litigation and immigration issues. He is the author of the The Droid Lawyer blog, which gives tips and tricks for lawyers using Android devices in their law practice.

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Rian Gauvreau is the co-founder and COO of Clio, a leading cloud-based practice management system for small and mid-sized law firms. Rian has more than 10 years experience working in the legal technology industry, and enjoys helping legal professionals become more efficient through the use of cloud-based technology.

Chris Crowley is a motivational speaker and the coauthor of the New York Times best-sellers Younger Next Year and Younger Next Year for Women. His third book, Thinner This Year, is soon to be released. Chris spends a great deal of time traveling the country, lecturing on the revolution in aging, which has been his great passion for the past 10 years. Read more about Chris and his books at www.youngernextyear.com, or go really nuts and ask him to come talk to your firm.

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Ashley Hallene is a solo practitioner specializing in Oil and Gas Law, Title Examination, and Oil and Gas Leasing in Houston. She blogs about technology practice tips at www.hallenelaw.com and is an active member of the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division. She writes on technology and practice management for GPSolo magazine, the GPSOLO eReport, Young Lawyer Newsletter and TechnoLawyer.

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