“Scaling Small Law: the Force Multipliers of Tech, Process, and Innovation” Panel

Matt Blaine is a partner at Davison, Eastman, Muñoz, Lederman & Paone and chairs the firm’s Innovation & Technology Committee where he spearheads the firm’s technological advancements.  He is passionate about cybersecurity and information governance and is frequent speaker on legal technology issues, including the practical and ethical considerations of metadata, the impact of artificial intelligence on the practice of law, championing technological change and process improvement within law firms, digital security, information governance, and addressing e-discovery issues. His practice concentrates on business law and litigation, commercial law and employment law. He also advises on transactional matters, including technology contract negotiations, business formations, acquisitions, mergers/consolidations and dissolutions.

Joshua Lenon is an attorney admitted to the New York Bar.  He studied law at St. Louis University School of Law, obtaining a Juris Doctorate and a Certificate in International and Comparative Law.  Joshua currently serves as Lawyer-in-Residence for Clio, providing legal scholarship and research skills to the leading cloud-based practice management platform from Vancouver, Canada. He’s been a guest lecturer for movements like legal hacking and legal technology at schools like MIT, Stanford, and Vanderbilt, as well as before organizations like ReinventLaw and the ABA Law Practice Futures Initiative.

Phil Rosenthal is the President and co-founder of Fastcase, a leading online legal research software company based in Washington, D.C. Phil combines his backgrounds in technology and law to bring lawyers and law librarians online legal research tools that are smarter and more intuitive.  Before founding Fastcase, Phil was an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Phil earned a B.S. in physics from Yale University, a J.D. at Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in physics for work in string cosmology at the California Institute of Technology. Phil is a member of the New York Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.

Kelly Street, Marketing Director at AttorneySync Kelly enjoys working with small companies and law firms. Her experience ranges from using traditional and online advertising, content marketing, social media, event marketing, trade show marketing, to SEO and website improvements. You can find her co-hosting (with Gyi Tsakalakis) on the Lunch Hour Legal Marketing and Clienting podcasts, where they discuss all things legal marketing. Kelly loves paddleboarding but hates winter- yet she still chooses to live in Minnesota.

Kristin Tyler is Co-Founder of LAWCLERK, where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers. She is also a 12+ year trusts and estates lawyer and partner at Garman Turner Gordon in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is committed to helping busy attorneys rethink their workflows and firmly believes that the practice of law can be rewarding despite its daily demands.