Mark Schwartz

Program Manager, Justice Group
One Legal, LLC

As Program Manager for One Legal’s Justice Group, Mark is responsible for the direction, coordination and implementation of new and existing court eFiling and eService projects.

He has over 35 years of experience in the legal support profession and did his first court filing at the age of 13. He is a former president and legislative chairman of the California Association of Legal Support Professionals and is a recipient of its highest honor, The Bert Rosenthal Memorial Award, for furthering and fostering the legal support profession.

Mark is a paralegal and is a subject matter expert on California service of process statutes and case law and California Rules of Court regarding eFiling and eService. He is also one of the developers of the CALSPro Certified Process Server program.

David Nill

Founder, President and CEO
Rapid Legal, Inc.

Three decades later, David still fervently believes; good is never good enough. Guided by his company's mission to propel the legal industry forward through web-based technology, David is determined to transform the legal landscape. Whether he's collecting feedback from customers, tweaking Rapid Legal's portal to streamline the ordering process or driving legislative change for the benefit of courts, law firms, and litigants; one thing's for sure, you'll always find David thinking of ways to harness the power of technology to simplify the lives of legal professionals.

Alan Carlson

Court Executive Officer
Orange County Superior Court

Alan Carlson has over 37 years of experience working in state and local justice systems across the country and internationally. He currently serves as the chief executive officer of the Orange County Superior Court, one of the largest state trials courts in the country. His duties include clerk of court, court administrator, and jury commissioner. He previously served as the CEO in San Francisco Superior Court, the executive officer and jury commissioner in Monterey Superior Court, and the assistant executive officer and jury commissioner in Alameda Superior Court. Other positions held included president of the Justice Management Institute (JMI), director of court services in the California Administrative Office of the Courts, and staff attorney of the National Center for State Courts. Mr. Carlson holds a JD degree from Hastings College of Law and a BS degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Snorri Ogata

Chief Information Officer
Superior Court of CA, Los Angeles County

Snorri Ogata is the Chief Information Officer for the Los Angeles County Superior Court where he is responsible for the Court’s overall information technology efforts in support of 530 judicial officers, 4,500 employees and 40 locations. He joined the Court as the CIO in January 2014. Most recently Snorri was the CIO for the Orange County (CA) Superior Court and has over 30 years of IT experience in a variety of industries. Snorri is also on the Board of Directors for the Court Information Technology Officer Consortium and chairs the CITOC Education Sub-committee.

Casey Kennedy

Director of Information Services
Texas Office of Court Administration

Casey Kennedy guides a staff that provides direct IT services to the Supreme Court of Texas, Court of Criminal Appeals, the 14 intermediate appellate courts, and 5 judicial branch agencies.

Mr. Kennedy is also the lead OCA staff for the Judicial Committee on Information Technology, or JCIT. The committee is appointed by the Supreme Court and makes recommendations and sets standards for court technology in Texas. He is currently on the executive board of the Court Information Technology Officer Consortium, a national organization of Court IT professionals, and last year placed first in the court technology “geek-off” competition at the national Court Technology Conference. He holds a BA in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin.

Jim McMillan

Principle Court Technology Consultant
National Center for State Courts

Jim McMillan joined the National Center for State Courts in October 1990 and currently serves as a Principle Court Technology Consultant.

Mr. McMillan is senior faculty for the Institute for Court Management, and has provided technical assistance for trial and appellate courts and administrative offices in all 50 states in the USA. Notable consulting projects include the United States Supreme Court, Arkansas, and Massachusetts Supreme Court, and statewide court automation projects with Rhode Island, Maine, New Jersey, and South Carolina.

Internationally, Mr. McMillan has provided expertise to courts in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bahamas, Croatia, Egypt, Trinidad & Tobago, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal.

As Director of the Court Technology Laboratory for eleven years he was the co-recipient of the Howell Heflin Outstanding Project Award from the State Justice Institute and was co-founder of Courtroom 21 with the College of William and Mary School of Law.

He is co-author of A Guidebook for Electronic Court Filing and a contributing author to Caseflow Management: The Heart of Court Management in the New Millennium.

Mike Dores

President
Mike Dores Investigations

Mike is a licensed investigation agency that specializes in low-cost, high volume skiptracing. Mike Dores Investigations' clients are primarily collection agencies, debt buyers, collection attorneys, private investigators and process serving companies.

Mike has been a licensed Private Investigator since 1981. He has personally conducted over 50,000 skiptrace assignments. Based on his need to inexpensively and quickly locate people, Mike was one of the first to make public records available on CD-ROM. In 1991 he formed Merlin Information Services for the purpose of distributing public records on CD-ROM to collection agencies and investigators. This new access to low-cost data, searchable in ways never before possible, revolutionized how collection agencies and investigators did skiptracing. In 1997, Merlin expanded to offering national databases on the Internet.

Mike sold Merlin in July, 2012 and opened Mike Dores Investigations in April 2013. Mike Dores Investigations, much like Mike’s original investigation agency, specializes in high volume skiptracing and location of place of employment and bank accounts. Mike Dores Investigations also has a team of skiptracers that specialize in difficult to locate individuals. Mike currently supervises 15,000 – 20,000 place of employment and skiptrace assignments each month.

Mike has conducted dozens of one-hour to three-hour skiptracing seminars over the years and regularly speaks at PI, Collections and Attorney Service conferences.

Neil Caddell

Manager–Specialized Risk, Licensed Investigator
TransUnion

Neil has worked as a Licensed Private Investigator for over 20 years in Florida and New York, and has extensive management experience in his field. He has served on major investigations and insurance boards, and is a member of TALI, FALI and many other country-wide investigator groups.

Amanda DuPont

Thomson Reuters Public Records Product Specialist

Amanda DuPont has over 16 years of professional experience in the legal industry and is a highly experienced investigative researcher and speaker. She is a licensed attorney and practiced law in Minneapolis for over eight years where she represented businesses in all types of legal advising roles – from class action litigation work to contracts and negotiations. Since joining Thomson Reuters in 2006, she has held roles in the company’s Sales and Account Management division where she has worked with every segment of Thomson Reuters’ customer base on investigative/research based solutions from small law firms to global law firms to corporations to government agencies. In her current role as Public Records Product Specialist, Amanda works closely with both corporate commercial customers as well as Thomson Reuters New Product Development team to help develop innovative solutions in the public records arena, including Thomson Reuters’ flagship product CLEAR. Amanda holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law. Amanda is based out of Minneapolis, MN.

Robert Scott

California Licensed P.I.
Founder and CEO
Skip Smasher, Inc.

Robert Scott is a Los Angeles-based licensed private investigator, author, and information entrepreneur. He is the creator and CEO of SkipSmasher.com, one of the top skiptracing/investigative data websites in the United States. Started in 2004, Skip Smasher is the only top data service that is currently owned and operated by a licensed private investigator.

He also operates several open source websites for investigation including BlackBookOnline.info -- a top free public records search engine that maintains over 35,000 free lookups and is used by nearly 3 million people per year.

Prior to launching Skip Smasher, he worked as a private investigator specializing in difficult locates and wrote the best-selling reference books "The Investigator's Little Black Book" and "The Skiptracer’s Little Black Book".