Mark is a global thought leader in the legal industry. He is presently the Chairman of the Advisory Board and Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate; a Distinguished Fellow at Northwestern University Law School; a regular contributor to Forbes where he has a column on the global legal marketplace; a sought-after keynote speaker; and CEO of LegalMosaic (www.legalmosaic.com), a legal business consultancy and repository for his work. His LegalMosaic blog was recently honored by the ABA as one of the 50 outstanding worldwide legal blogs in their inaugural “Web 100.” The first part of Mark’s career was devoted to the service of clients as a civil trial lawyer. He was a decorated Assistant United States Attorney; BigLaw Partner; and Founder and Managing Partner of a national litigation boutique firm. Mark personally represented 6 foreign sovereign nations and more than 60 F500 companies in “bet the company” litigation. He also served as a federally-appointed Receiver of an international aviation parts company and as outside General Counsel to three insurance companies. He was an early adopter of technology in the delivery of legal services; fixed-price-billing; working virtually; and flex-time.

Recently recognized by the ABA as a Legal Rebel, Michele is a Professor at the University of Miami School of Law, affiliated faculty in Harvard Law School's Executive Education program, and the founder of LawWithoutWalls, a multi-disciplinary, international think-tank of over 1000 lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and law and business students who collaborate to create innovations at the intersection of law, business, and technology.

She is also the co-founder and co-editor of the Compliance Elliance Journal, an open access e-journal that publishes engaging authors' works about cutting edge issues in compliance and ethics.

Through her company MoveLaw, Michele runs bespoke, experiential learning workshops and programs that have a human-centered design approach and are designed to transform how lawyers collaborate with their clients to creatively solve problems and to create culture change. ​ Michele writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation.

Her book Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity + Collaboration + Innovation in Law, published in 2018, was based in part on over 100 interviews with General Counsels at international corporations and Heads of Innovation at law firms.

Michele speaks and serves as a consultant and facilitator at law firms, legal departments, and startups on Innovation, Teaming, Collaboration, Creative Problem Solving, Human-Centered Design, Culture Creation, Compliance/Ethics, and Technology and Cross-practice, Cross-border initiatives.

Ron Friedmann has spent over two decades improving law practice and legal business operations with technology, knowledge management, legal project management, alternative resourcing, and process improvement.

As a Fireman & Company partner, Ron advises law firms and law departments on strategic and operational issues. Prior legal market positions include Integreon executive team, Mintz Levin CIO, Wilmer Cutler head of practice support, and director at two legal software companies. Ron was also a Bain & Company strategy consultant and an analyst for an economic forecasting firm. ​ Ron regularly blogs, Tweets, presents at conferences, and writes articles.

He is a Fellow and former Trustee of the College of Law Practice Management and co-organizes the leading annual private KM summit.

Jordan is a legal market analyst, consultant, and author who forecasts the impact of changing market conditions on lawyers and law firms. His website is law21.ca.

Ken Grady is an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University College of Law and a member of the LegalRnD Faculty. Ken speaks on various topics including innovation,the future of business and law, technology, and leadership.

He is the editor and principal author of The Algorithmic Society on Medium.com, named to the ABA Journal's Top 50 Blogs. He also was the editor and principal author of SeytLines, named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100.

Ken is a Fellow-Elect of the College of Law Practice Management, has been named to the Fastcase 50, and honored by the Financial Times for innovative leadership of in-house counsel/outside counsel relationships. Ken’s articles are featured in many publications globally and his views are featured in The Wall Street Journal, Crain's, The American Lawyer, Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Legal Futures, and other publications.

Ken’s career includes being CEO of SeyfarthLean Consulting, LLC; general counsel roles at Fortune 1000 corporations; executive positions in Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations; and being a partner in the multinational law firm McDermott, Will & Emery. Ken was a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel for 14 years, including its Board of Directors, and Value Challenge and Advocacy Committees.

The editor of Legal Evolution is Bill Henderson, Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law where he holds the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession.

Bill is a prolific author and lecturer on the legal market. His industry accolades include ABA Journal Legal Rebel (2009), National Law Journal 100 most influential lawyers in America (2013), and National Jurist most influential person in legal education (2014 and 2015).

Bill is also a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.

Daniel W. Linna Jr. is a Professor of Law in Residence and the Director of LegalRnD – The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law. Previously, Dan was an equity partner in the litigation department at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn. He was a member of Honigman's Automotive and Manufacturing; e-Discovery and Information Management; Commercial Transactions; and Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media groups. Dan joined Honigman after clerking for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. Before law school, he was an information technology manager, developer, and consultant.

Dan is the co-founder of and lead organizer for the Detroit and Chicago Legal Innovation & Technology meetup groups. He was named to the 2015 Fastcase 50 as a person who has charted a new course for the delivery of legal services.

Dan received his BA from the University of Michigan, received a second BA and an MA in public policy and administration from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.

Professor Katz is a scientist, technologist and law professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law - to help create lawyers for today's biggest societal challenges. Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Professor Katz's forward-thinking ideas helped to earn him acknowledgement among the Fastcase 50, an award which "recognizes 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law." He was also named to the American Bar Association Journal's "Legal Rebels," a prestigious group of change leaders in the legal profession. Professor Katz teaches Practice & Professionalism, E-Discovery, Legal Analytics, Legal Project Management + Legal Process Improvement and Civil Procedure at the Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Katz has published work in a wide variety of academic outlets, including Science, Plos One, Physica A and Artificial Intelligence & Law. In addition, his work has been published in legal journals including Emory Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy and Journal of Legal Education. His work has been highlighted in a number of media outlets, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC Radio, Wired, Vox, National Public Radio, 538, ABA Journal and The American Lawyer. Professor Katz is an external affiliated faculty at CodeX—The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. In addition to teaching and researching, Professor Katz is actively involved in the rapidly growing legal technology industry. He is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of LexPredict. He also serves as a formal and informal advisor to a number of legal tech startups. In addition, he is a member of the advisory board of NextLaw Labs - a global collaborative innovation ecosystem organized with Dentons (the world’s largest law firm).