SOLID Working Groups
Working Groups
Industry Thought Leaders
SOLID Working Groups offer a unique opportunity to lead, learn, and collaborate with your peers and industry thought leaders.
During SOLID 2017 in NYC, summit attendees broke out into various birds of a feather groups to converse, ask questions, and share knowledge around the most pressing issues, pain points, challenges and barriers that leaders are facing in the legal technology industry. From this collaborative work and every SOLID since, our working groups continuously evolve and sprint for 6 months and are comprised of over 80 industry thought leaders from law firms and corporations across the United States.
SOLID Working groups offer a unique opportunity to engage with your peers and colleagues in an intimate and agile way that has never existed before. Working group members have committed to a 6-month sprint toward creating a tangible work-product that will inform, instruct and inspire the community. Each group is comprised of 10-20 members, meeting every two weeks by phone to focus on a problem they are looking to solve. Working group members are able to present their public work-products at various benchmark events such as SOLID, LTNY, ILTA and CLOC over the course of the 6-month sprint.
If you are interested in sponsoring a working group, press the button below to fill out the short application form.
Legal Mavericks Cohort
Objective: The Legal Maverick’s mission is to identify 5 projects that can be quickly and easily identified, initiated and implemented by legal mavericks (eDiscovery, information governance, COO, CINO, KM, legal operations professionals) that seek to expand their – “Role – Responsibility – Authority & Resources”. Aka elevate and accelerate their careers. Aka “ Get From “Now To Next”
These projects will not require the official support of executive leadership….. But will serve to demonstrate what’s possible…. And more importantly – demonstrate the strategic thinking, capability and capacity of the “Legal Mavericks” creating and driving the “Innovation Initiative.”
Working Group Leadership
![Robert Taylor](/wp-content/uploads/bob.jpg)
Robert Taylor
Vice President, Senior Corporate Counsel (Legal Ideation & Transformation)
Liberty Mutual Insurance
![Farrah Pepper](/wp-content/uploads/farrah-pepper-new-1.jpg)
Farrah Pepper
Chief Legal Innovation Counsel
Marsh & McLennan Companies
![Jeffrey Marple](/wp-content/uploads/Jeff-Marple.jpg)
Jeffrey Marple
Director of Innovation, Corporate Legal
Liberty Mutual Insurance
![Seth Eichenholtz](/wp-content/uploads/seth.jpg)
Seth Eichenholtz
Head of Electronic Discovery
Mastercard
Defining the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) Role
Objective: In an effort to define the new and evolving CINO role more clearly, this group will evaluate the core skills, competencies, knowledge and experience it takes to be successful withinthis role. The group will highlight specifics regarding authority, responsibility and resources this position is tasked with.
Working Group Leadership
![Amol Bargaje](/wp-content/uploads/amol.jpg)
Amol Bargaje
Global Director - IT Practice and Client Solutions
Mayer Brown
![Farrah Pepper](/wp-content/uploads/farrah-pepper-new-1.jpg)
Farrah Pepper
Chief Legal Innovation Counsel
Marsh & McLennan Companies
![Ali Shahidi](/wp-content/uploads/AAMABADGAAwAAQAAAAAAAA8BAAAAJDYzY2RlMDBjLTQxYmUtNGM5Ny1hZWIzLTIyMTg2Mzk3MGZjNA.jpg)
Ali Shahidi
Chief Innovation Officer
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
![Andrea Markstrom](/wp-content/uploads/andrea-1.jpg)
Andrea Markstrom
Chief Information Officer
Blank Rome
![Camille Reynolds](/wp-content/uploads/camille.jpg)
Camille Reynolds
Senior Director of Knowledge & Innovation Delivery
Fenwick & West
![Brad Rogers](/wp-content/uploads/brad.jpg)
Brad Rogers
Chief Operations Officer and Chief of Staff for Law, Compliance, Gov't & Reg Affairs, Corp. Sec'ty
TIAA
![Kristi Anne Gedid](/wp-content/uploads/kristi.jpg)
Kristi Anne Gedid
Senior Director, Global Legal Operations
Mylan
![Brian Corbin](/wp-content/uploads/Brian-Corbin.jpg)
Brian Corbin
Executive Director, Assistant General Counsel
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
2018 PUBLIC WORKPRODUCT:
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Women to Know, and Men Too!
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Objective: The primary purpose of Women to Know is to elevate and accelerate the careers and leadership of women in the legal industry through a series of live and virtual events, peer-to-peer advocacy, coaching, collaboration and shared lessons learned. Membership is open to senior law firm leaders in government, corporate and law firm practices worldwide.
Working Group Leadership
![Allison Brecher](/wp-content/uploads/allison-brecher-1.jpg)
Allison Brecher
General Counsel
Vestwell
![Maureen Durack](/wp-content/uploads/maureen.jpg)
Maureen Durack
Director of Operations
Vedder Price, P.C.
![Martha Louks](/wp-content/uploads/martha.jpg)
Martha Louks
Director of Technology Services
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
![Miriam Smolen](/wp-content/uploads/miriam-smolen.jpg)
Miriam Smolen
Associate General Counsel
Federal Housing Finance Agency
![Sonya Judkins](/wp-content/uploads/sonya.jpg)
Sonya Judkins
Manager, Legal Discovery /Compliance
Sprint
![Elise Sandra Shore](/wp-content/uploads/elise.jpg)
Elise Sandra Shore
Special Litigation Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Office of Special Counsel
![Susan Sommers Crisp](/wp-content/uploads/susan.jpg)
Susan Sommers Crisp
Sr. Manager, Technology Innovation
King & Spalding
![Nadine Berg](/wp-content/uploads/nadine.jpg)
Nadine Berg
Director, Corporate Compliance and Legal Operations
TransCanada Pipelines
![Kenya Dixon](/wp-content/uploads/TCG-Logo-Button-Blue-Portrait-Placeholder-Small.jpg)
Kenya Dixon
Assistant Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Litigation Technology and Analysis
Federal Trade Commission
![Carrie Holt](/wp-content/uploads/carrie.jpg)
Carrie Holt
Branch Chief - Litigation Support Services
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
![Audrey Hillyard](/wp-content/uploads/audrey.jpg)
Audrey Hillyard
Manager, eDiscovery & Trial Tech Services
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP
![Alison Grounds](/wp-content/uploads/alison.jpg)
Alison Grounds
eDiscovery & Litigation Partner - Managing Director of TS eMerge
Troutman Sanders
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