Marc Lauritsen, author of The Lawyer’s Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools and president of Capstone Practice Systems, is a lawyer and educator with over twenty-five years of pioneering leadership in advanced legal software. He earned two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the J.D. from Harvard Law School.

After practicing and supervising in legal aid offices, Marc returned to Harvard as a fieldwork instructor, director of clinical programs, and a senior research associate. He directed Project PERICLES, Harvard’s first major research program in law and computers. He founded Capstone Practice Systems in 1998. In 2000-2001 Marc was “chief e-legal officer” at AmeriCounsel.com. He founded Legal Systematics in 2003 and All About Choice in 2006.

Capstone builds systems for some of the world’s top law firms and departments, and is also energetically involved in pathbreaking projects on behalf of nonprofit legal organizations, such as LawHelp Interactive, which has delivered close to a million smart forms for free to low-income people and their advocates. Legal Systematics offers ready-to-use drafting systems, hosted document assembly environments, and tools for developers. All About Choice is fielding an online system for collaborative deliberation about important decisions using interactive visualization and crowd sourcing techniques.

Marc has lectured and published widely on the uses and implications of information technology in the legal profession. He is on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and Law and the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. He has trained hundreds of lawyers in the development and use of knowledge-based systems.

Marc co-originated the international SubTech conferences that began at Salzburg in 1990 and that continue to draw thought leaders every two years for rich exchanges about the technology of law in the context of legal education. He is a past director of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and co-chair of the American Bar Association's eLawyering Task Force.

Judge Limon began his legal career in 1973 as a staff attorney for the Massachusetts Defenders Commitee, served as Court Specialist at the Committee on Criminal Justice, and was the first Executive Director of the Judicial Conduct Committee. As an Assistant Attorney General, he selected and tried the first cases under the Mass. Civil Rights Act of 1979, and later became the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau in the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. Before his appointment to the Juvenile Court bench in 1994 he was Chief Legal Counsel to the Massachusetts Attoney General.

Konstantin Linnik is a partner in Intellectual Property Department of Nutter McClennen Fish LLP. He works with biotech, pharma and other life sciences companies in strategic counseling, building and leveraging patent portfolios, competitive analysis, product design and development, licensing and negotiations, due diligence and IP audits, and patent enforcement and litigation. Before joining Nutter, Dr. Linnik was Senior Corporate Counsel at Pfizer, where he was lead patent counsel for Pfizer research units located in Cambridge, Massachusetts Dusseldorf, Germany and Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Linnik is active in the Boston legal community and currently co-chairs the Biotechnology Committee of the Boston Patent Law Association.

Gregory Massing is the Executive Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service. Prior to his appointment as executive director, Mr. Massing served from February 2007 through December 2011 as the General Counsel of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, the Massachusetts Cabinet department charged with oversight of matters of law enforcement, criminal justice, and public safety. From 1993 to 2005, as both an assistant district attorney and assistant attorney general specializing in appeals, Mr. Massing represented the Commonwealth in criminal justice matters at all levels of the federal and state courts. He was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone. In addition to his public service experience, Mr. Massing practiced law at two Boston law firms, Laredo Smith, LLP, and Ropes Gray. He is the author of numerous articles on criminal justice matters, as well as a former editor, author, and consultant on high school civics and government textbooks. Mr. Massing is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an articles editor on the Virginia Law Review, and of the University of California at Berkeley.