Jeff Kichaven
Jeff Kichaven is one of California’s leading mediators.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Berkley (AB Economics 1977) and an Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School (JD Cum Laude 1980).  He was a JAMS panelist before becoming one of the Founders of Professional Mediation & Arbitration.  In 2006, he was named California Lawyer Attorney of the year in ADR, and in 2007 he was honored with an invitation to teach the Master Class for Mediators for his Alma Mater, Harvard Law School.
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Ed Poll
Ed Poll dramatically improves lawyers’ revenue and profitability, while reducing his/her stress.  He’s a syndicated columnist, has written more books and created more audio products on the subject of law practice management than anyone else.  He’s a character member of the MillionDollar Consulting Hall of Fame and has taught entrepreneurship at UCLA for 30 years.  He practiced law for 25 years and managed a mid-sized law firm.  There is no one who knows more about a law practice than he does.
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Jenine Weyrauch
Attorney Jessica Dominguez was unable to be with us today as one of guest speakers and has asked her Life Coach, JENINE WEYRAUCH, to speak in her place. Jenine is known for her motivational style and practical approach. As the owner of PerVict Programs, Jenine involves herself in various facets of instructing and inspiring people to look, feel, and achieve their best. She is an accomplished author, Life Coach, Corporate Coach, Motivational Speaker and Workshop Presenter, Personal Trainer, and Group Exercise Instructor. With her energetic ability to challenge thinking and broaden perspectives, Jenine is here today to show us how we can find Work-Life Balance ~ Success without Stress.
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Gideon Grunfeld
Gideon Grunfeld is the President of Law Firm Development, which helps lawyers manage their practice more effectively and increase their profitability.  Gideon is a cum laude graduate of UC Hastings.  He was a business litigator for almost ten years, first at the LA office of Skadden Arps and then at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.  He is one of the authors of the treatise, “A California Guide to Opening and Managing A Law Office” which the state of California published earlier this year.
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Alex Lubarsky
Alex Lubarsky is a practicing California attorney and an e-discovery consultant.  He has been elected to the State Bar of California Law technology Executive Committee and reappointed four times.  He is certified in concordance, summation, case map and encase.  He teaches litigation support at various Universities and frequently speaks and writes on the subject.
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Patricia McCabe
Patricia McCabe is a solo practitioner whose specialized practice is focused on the representation of the disabled.  She practices throughout California and other jurisdictions in United States District Court and before governmental agencies, including the Social Security Administration and Veterans Administration.   She has been a solo practitioner for 12 years.  She is a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center and is admitted to the bar in California and the District of Columbia.
She is a contributing author and a member of the editorial board of the California Guide to Opening and Managing a Law Office, published by the State Bar of California, 2008.
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Elizabeth A. Moreno
Elizabeth A. Moreno has been a sole practitioner since 2002.  Her practice areas are general civil litigation, employer consulting, private mediation and arbitration.  Prior to being a sole practitioner, she had 20 years of experience in insurance defense in the area of construction defect, business, insurance bad faith employment discrimination and wrongful termination.  Ms. Moreno has tried over 50 civil trials.  She has mediated and arbitrated over 300 cases.
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Alexis Martin Neely
Alexis Martin Neely started her own law firm in August of 2003 after just three years as a lawyer working as a corporate, tax and estate planning lawyer at one of the best law firms in the country, Munger, Tolles & Olson. Very quickly, Alexis realized the traditional business model of small and solo firm lawyers was broken, not just for the lawyers, but for their clients too. Within three years, Alexis had revolutionized that broken business model and created a new model of running her law business that turned her law firm into a million dollar law business while working only a few days a week in her law office.
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Julie A. Fleming
Julie A. Fleming, J.D., A.C.C. is the founder of Life at the Bar LLC.  Following her 1993 graduation from Emory University School of Law, Julie practiced law (specializing in patient litigation) in firms ranging from two to more than 2100 lawyers.  She founded Life at the Bar LLC in 2005 and now coaches and consults with lawyers, focusing on topics such as leadership development, rainmaking, professional development, career strategy, and work/life integration.  Julie is a frequent speaker for law firms, law schools, and bar associations and publishes the free weekly email newsletter Leadership Matters for Lawyers.
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Brenda McGann
Brenda McGann is a former lawyers, legal editor and in-house legal public relations manager.  In 2003, she started her own public relations consulting company for lawyers and law firms.  As a consultant, Brenda helps lawyers establish and maintain relationships with print and broadcast media, raise their profiles as expert commentators and generate story ideas she can pitch to appropriate reporters.  Brenda also suggests ideas for bylined articles, edits the material and submits the final product to interested publications.  In addition, she places lawyers as speakers on panels and at seminars.  Client include sole practitioners, plaintiff lawyers, mediators, defense firm, legal nonprofits, and legal services companies.
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Louise Nemschoff
Louise Nemschoff is a sole practitioner of entertainment and intellectual property law, with offices in Los Angeles.  She represents a wide range of parties in domestic and international transactions in film, television, digital media (including video games, Internet and mobile), music, animation, comic books, and other publishing.  Ms. Nemschoff is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School who has been in practice for over 30 years.  She has published a number of articles and spoken extensively, both in the United States and Europe, on various aspects of copyright, trademark and entertainment law.  In addition, she sits on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF).
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Jeremy N. Miller
Jeremy N. Miller is the founder of Miller Health Law Group, APLC, a boutique law firm located in Los Angeles.  Jeremy has practiced healthcare law for 29 years.  He has been selected as a Super Lawyer by Los Angeles Magazine for the past four years.  Jeremy is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law.
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Heather M. Milligan – Moderator
Heather began her career in legal marketing in 1998, after spending 10 years working with non-profit and member service organizations. After serving in senior marketing positions with AmLaw 100 law firms, Heather is currently the Director of Marketing for Barger & Wolen LLP, a mid-sized law firm based in Los Angeles. As the firm’s first marketing director, Heather is charged with developing a comprehensive marketing and business development program. 
In May 2008, Heather launched The Legal Watercooler, a blog dedicated to the conversations surrounding the business of law. An early adopter to social networking tools, including Twitter, Heather can be followed at @heathermilligan and www.linkedin.com/in/heathermilligan.
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Victoria Pynchon
Victoria Pynchon is a mediator with ADR Services, Inc. and an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association’s Expedited Commercial Panel. She is also a member of the Distinguished Panel of Neutrals at the prestigious International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.   After twenty-four years of commercial litigation experience law firms such as Buchalter, Nemer and Hancock, Rothert (now Duane Morris) Ms. Pynchon started her own mediation and arbitration practice, Settle It Now Dispute Resolution Services.  In five years of neutral practice, Ms. Pynchon has built an international reputation as a go-to mediator for sophisticated, multi-party commercial disputes, as well as a negotiation consultant and trainer for AmLaw 100 law firms and the Fortune 500.  She has established this reputation and built her business using “social networking” platforms such as the widely read Settle It Now Negotiation and IP ADR Blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning, and, yes, even Twitter. http://www.negotiationlawblog.com/
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Adrianos Facchetti
Adrianos Facchetti is an Internet Defamation Attorney in Los Angeles and authors the California Defamation Law Blog.  You can also follow Adrianos on Twitter at @adrianos. http://www.defamationlawblog.com/
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Gordon Firemark
Gordon Firemark is a sole practitioner who practices Entertainment Law here in Los Angeles.  His practice is devoted to the representation of artists and businesses in the fields of Theatre, Independent Film, Television, Music, and New Media.

He's a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law, and has a B.A. in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Oregon.  In addition to practicing law, he produces stage musicals, and teaches courses in business law and theatre producing.

He's been active on the internet since before it was called "the internet".  He's among the first attorneys to set up a website, and currently has several blogs.  He's also the producer and host of the Entertainment Law Update podcast, a monthly audio program for lawyers and professionals in the entertainment business.

Gordon’s online ID is "gfiremark" and you can find him on twitter, facebook, linkedin, and his own sites: firemark.com, theatrelawyer.com, and entertainmentlawupdate.com
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H. Scott Leviant
H. Scott Leviant is the founder, primary author and Editor-in-Chief of The Complex Litigator. Mr. Leviant is a civil litigation attorney with over 11 years of experience (over 9 as an attorney) handling complex and class action matters. Currently, Mr. Leviant is employed as a Practice Group Director at Initiative Legal Group, LLP, a firm that focuses a substantial portion of its civil litigation practice on class action litigation. Recently, Mr. Leviant was employed as a supervising associate at the rapidly expanding firm Khorrami Pollard & Abir, LLP, where he managed the class action practice group. Prior to assuming his role at KP&A, Mr. Leviant was employed as a senior associate by Arias Ozzello & Gignac LLP in Los Angeles. Before that, Mr. Leviant worked at the boutique civil litigation firm Stanbury & Fishelman, Inc., where he handled increasingly sophisticated matters, including complex commercial litigations, class actions, appellate matters and civil trials.
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Tracy Kwiker
Tracy Kwiker is the president of Pivotal Events, which specializes in producing business-related functions, from executive retreats and social affairs to educational seminars and global conferences, on behalf of professional associations, corporations, and professional service firms. As a Harvard MBA with 20 years of professional experience, Tracy’s core competency lies in the strategic, business-oriented framework she employs to maximize the return on her clients’ event investments.
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Steve Zikman
Steve Zikman is a land use and environmental attorney, and a certified mediator specializing in multi-party disputes. Mr. Zikman is on the Council of Distinguished Advisors and is a Fellow at Pepperdine University's Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution where he received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with a focus on environmental and public policy matters. He received his LL.B./J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada.  Mr. Zikman is also the founder of Zikman Collaborative Strategies, a firm dedicated to creating highly engaging strategies in the emerging fields of dialogue and deliberation, organizational effectiveness and unconferencing.  He is a graduate of Fielding Graduate University's "Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement" program.  For further information, please visit: www.zikmanlaw.com and www.zikman.com.
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