Adam I. Cohen, CISSP, CEH, is a Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group LLC in New York. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and former practicing attorney who for more than 20 years has advised clients on the intersection of technology and law, including cybersecurity, electronic discovery, and information governance. Adam has authored several books and his work has been cited in several landmark federal court opinions. He has served as a court-appointed neutral eDiscovery expert in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and is an active member in professional organizations and educational institutions.

Michelle Thurber Czapski is a partner in Bodman PLC's Detroit and Troy, Michigan offices. Ms. Czapski is a commercial litigator with specialties in complex commercial cases, insurance litigation, and the defense of class actions. She is the current Vice Chair of the Commercial Litigation Committee, and is a member of the DRI Center for Law and Public Policy and the Class Action Task Force. Ms. Czapski is a frequent speaker and author on commercial and insurance litigation topics.

Donald (Don) A. Daugherty, Jr. is a shareholder in Godfrey & Kahn's Milwaukee, WI office. His practice includes representing manufacturers, IT companies and their customers, health care providers and systems, insurers, and financial institutions. Mr. Daugherty received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from Northwestern University Law School. He clerked for the Honorable Roger J. Miner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Daugherty serves on the Governor's Judicial Selection Advisory Committee and is Vice President of the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association. He has been consistently recognized as among the "Best Lawyers in American" and Wisconsin's "Superlawyers."

The Honorable Stephanie Dawkins Davis is a U.S. Magistrate Judge. She began her career in products liability and commercial litigation at Dickinson, Wright PLLC. She left private practice to join the U.S. Attorney's Office, E.D. Michigan in 1997, where she served in both the civil and criminal divisions. She prosecuted cases at both the trial and appellate levels, and spent time as a deputy unit chief, high intensity drug trafficking area liaison and the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney before her joining the bench in January 2016. Her career honors include the State bar of Michigan naming her a 2015 Champion of Justice. She is a 1992 graduate of Washington University School of Law and a 1989 graduate of the Wichita State University.

Liam E. Felsen is an Associate with Frost Brown Todd LLC in Louisville, Kentucky, where he practices primarily in commercial litigation, products liability, and insurance defense. Liam's commercial litigation practice focuses primarily on complex business disputes, and he has experience with large-scale traditional and electronic document discovery. Liam can be reached at lfelsen@fbtlaw.com.

Charles T. Frazier, Jr.is a partner in the Dallas office of Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend, LLP, an appellate boutique. Certified in civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, his practice in trial and appellate courts focuses on complex business litigation, insurance-related disputes, and professional-liability claims, including successfully arguing before the Supreme Court of the United States. He is also a long-time member of the DRI Appellate Advocacy Committee, and currently chairs its Appellate Rules Subcommittee.

Jeffrey S. Gard is a lawyer focusing on criminal defense, civil litigation and marijuana business matters. He has litigated hundreds of cases, many through trial, in both state and federal courts. Jeff is an adviser to local, state and federal government to develop legal policy and to enact marijuana statutes and regulations. Jeff's vast experience allows him to teach other attorneys across the country about the constantly changing marijuana legal landscape

Heidi G. Goebel is a founder and the managing partner of Goebel Anderson in Salt Lake City, Utah which is a majority female owned firm. She focuses on commercial litigation and product liability and has a knack for dealing with unusually difficult people and problems. She serves as regional counsel for several corporations. She is a Top 100 Super Lawyer for the Mountain States region, and is recognized as Utah's Legal Elite. She is also a member of Mensa.

Salina M. Hamilton is an Associate in Dickinson Wright PLLC's Detroit office. Salina primarily practices in areas of commercial and business litigation, focusing especially on large-scale eDiscovery management. Salina can be reached at shamilton@dickinson-wright.com.

John P. Heil, Jr. joined Heyl Royster in 2007 after serving for eleven years with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. John handles matters in the firm's Peoria and Chicago offices. He focuses his practice on business and commercial litigation, complex civil rights litigation, the representation of insurance carriers in liability coverage disputes, and the defense of catastrophic tort claims. John is a Vice-Chair of the firm's Business and Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Chair of the Drone Law Practice Group.

Kristin P. Herber serves as Senior Counsel, Litigation, for Under Armour, Inc., where she manages the company's global litigation portfolio, provides advice on pre-litigation issues, and reports to the company's internal and external accounting teams regarding risk and appropriate accruals for pending litigation. Due to the nature of her role in the legal department, Ms. Herber is frequently called upon to advise on issues involving attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine.

Travis D. Lenkner is a Managing Director of Burford Capital. In 2013, Mr. Lenkner helped launch Gerchen Keller Capital, which was acquired by Burford in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Counsel at The Boeing Company and a litigation and appellate attorney in the New York and Washington offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Mr. Lenkner served as a law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Sean M. Marotta is a senior associate with Hogan Lovells' Appellate and Supreme Court practice. Sean has briefed and argued personal-jurisdiction cases in the Colorado Supreme Court, Texas Court of Appeals, New York Appellate Division, Federal Circuit, and elsewhere. He is also among counsel for petitioner in the pending Supreme Court personal-jurisdiction case Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court. Sean is a graduate of the William & Mary Law School and clerked for New Jersey Appellate Division judge Jane Grall.

Douglas H. Meal is a Partner at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston, MA. Doug co-leads the firm's privacy and data security practice. As the lead outside lawyer handling data security breach claims made against Target, Neiman Marcus, The Home Depot, Supervalu, Sony, Heartland Payment Systems, The TJX Companies, Hannaford Brothers, Aldo, Genesco, Hilton Hotels, and Wyndham Hotels—among many others—Doug has become the national leader in defending companies that suffer significant data security breaches involving consumer information against the ensuing claims and regulatory investigations.

Paul M. Mersino's Trade Secret expertise includes defending against the first ex parte seizure application in the nation under the DTSA, obtaining the first Temporary Restraining Order under the DTSA in Michigan, and handling trade secret matters throughout the nation. His publications include: New Law's Message to Business: Protect Trade Secrets; Understanding the New Defend Trade Secrets Act; and New Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016: Some Things Old, Some Things New, and How Courts Have Already Begun to Apply It.

Michael (Mike) R. Pennington is a partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984, Mike helped establish and still chairs his firm's class action practice. He currently defends a variety of insurance, financial services, and consumer class actions all over the country. He also chairs DRI's Class Action Task Force and DRI's Commercial Litigation Class Actions SLG, and has co-authored many amicus briefs for DRI on important class action issues.

Allyson J. Petersen is an attorney with the Minneapolis-based Nilan Johnson Lewis, where she defends clients in product liability matters, including cybersecurity risks involved in using new technologies and emerging law. Allyson can be reached at apetersen@nilanjohnson.com.

E. Todd Presnell is a partner in the Nashville office of Bradley Arant Boult Cumming LLP. Licensed in Tennessee and Georgia, he concentrates his practice in business tort litigation, trade secrets and non-compete litigation, employment litigation, and product liability litigation. Mr. Presnell is a former Chair of DRI's Young Lawyers Committee and currently serves on DRI's Law Institute. Mr. Presnell has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 2008-2012, and was named by SuperLawyers as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Tennessee.

The Honorable Dennis M. Robinson, Jr. was an active member of DRI while he was in private practice. The Governor of Maryland recently appointed him to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland. Prior to his appointment in November of 2016, he handled a wide variety of business litigation matters, including class actions, contract disputes, employment law, real estate litigation, environmental matters, and civil rights litigation. He was also an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Jon A. Schroeder is an Area Vice President of Surety at Arthur J. Gallagher, located in Rolling Meadows, IL. He has 19 years of surety underwriting and brokering experience. In that time, he has facilitated the surety needs for some of the country's largest corporations that are routinely involved in complex litigation and court proceedings. Jon is an active participant in the National Association of Surety Bond Producers, the Construction Financial Managers Association, and several other local boards.

Brittany M. Schultz is an attorney in Ford's Office of the General Counsel. Brittany joined Ford after a career as a trial lawyer and partner at the Dykema firm in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She has tried numerous cases to verdict. Brittany attended the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Psychology. She attended the Wayne State University law School achieving her law degree in 2001. She will share Ford Motor Company's experiences with challenging personal jurisdiction in several cases since SCOTUS issued the Walden and Bauman decisions.

Christopher T. Sheean is a partner at Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP in its Chicago office, where he practices in commercial, products liability and intellectual property litigation. He currently serves as Chair of DRI's Commercial Litigation Committee, and is a frequent author and lecturer on products liability, class actions, trade secrets and unfair competition for various publications. Chris is also chair of his firm's Class Action Practice Group. As lead trial counsel, Chris has handled trials throughout the country. Chris is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School where he teaches trial advocacy.

Dwight W. Stone II is a partner in Miles & Stockbridge P.C.'s Baltimore office. Dwight's practice includes products liability and class action defense, toxic tort and environmental claims, insurance coverage disputes, and other complex business disputes. He regularly represents clients before the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). He has been repeatedly named one of the "Top 100 Maryland Lawyers" in Maryland Super Lawyers, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for Class Actions/Mass Torts - Defendants, Commercial Litigation and Insurance Law. Dwight is Program Chair for the 2017 DRI Business Litigation Seminar.

Michelle M. Wahl is a Partner at Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP and is Vice Chair of the firm's Entertainment and Media Practice Group and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation and Transactional Services Practice Group. Her copyright and trademark practice focuses on intellectual property prosecution and related transactions, as well as corporate counseling and innovative corporate solutions to address clients' respective needs. Michelle further provides comprehensive representation in the drafting and negotiating of various entertainment-related contracts and licenses.

David A. Wheeler is a partner at Chapman Spingola where he focuses his practice on cyber-security and information privacy, eCommerce, information technology, and intellectual property. Prior to Chapman Spingola, David was a software engineer for a large Department of Defense contractor and a currency trader. David has authored a number of articles on cyber-security and data breaches and has given presentations on these issues throughout the United States. David is actively involved in a number of philanthropic causes including the Legal Prep Academy and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.