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Elizabeth Kincaid Barnes practices family and personal injury law with Barnes & Garrett PC in Virginia Beach. She has a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and a law degree from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. She is a member of The Virginia Bar Association, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Virginia Women Attorneys Association, and American Bar Association.

F. Hayden Codding has practiced in the land use section of the Fairfax County Attorney’s Office since 2001. He previously practiced with Codding & Codding. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia (1992) and a law degree from the University of Miami (1995). He served on the Fairfax Bar Association Technology Committee from 2002 to 2004.

Ann Kiley Crenshaw is a partner with Kaufman & Canoles PC in Virginia Beach. She focuses on land use, zoning, real estate and title insurance. She represents the Second Judicial Circuit on the Virginia State Bar Council and is an ex officio member of the Litigation Section Board of Governors. She has a bachelor’s degree from Sweet Briar College and a law degree from the College of William and Mary. She has been on the Technology and Law Committee since 1999.

Alan S. Goldberg, Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law, McLean, focuses on business and tax law, health care, and information technology. He holds an AB in history from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York; a JD from Boston College Law School; and an LLM (Taxation) from Boston University School of Law. He is a Past President and Inaugural Fellow of the American Health Lawyers Association and was editor of "The Computer Wizard," a law and computer technology column published by the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section magazine. He is Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Health Law Section of the Virginia State Bar; a member of the Council of the Health Law Section of the Virginia Bar Association; and a member of the Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee of the District of Columbia Bar.

Gail Kimberly Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College and a law degree from Boston College.

Fredric Lederer is director of the Center for Legal and Court Technology Project at the College of William and Mary School of Law. He also is chancellor of the school and a law professor. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Polytechnic institute of New York, a juris doctor degree from Columbia University, and a master of laws degree from the University of Virginia. Among the courses he teaches is “Electronic Discovery and Data Seizures” and “Trial Advocacy: Technology Augmented.”

W. Everett Lupton is a litigator with Rutter Mills LLP in Norfolk. He practices in the area of personal injury, including Federal Employer Liability Act admiralty/ maritime and railroad litigation in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. He serves as an adjunct professor at Old Dominion University, and adjunct faculty at Tidewater Community College, and has written multiple articles for various publications.

Sharon D. Nelson graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978 and has been in private practice ever since. Her primary practice area is electronic discovery law. She is the past President of the Fairfax Bar Association, a Director of the Fairfax Law Foundation, and past chair of the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW Board. She was appointed Chair of the ABA Law Practice Management Publications Board and currently serves on the Governing Council of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section. She is a member of ARMA's E-Discovery Advisory Board, the ABA's Advisory Panel, the governing Council of the Virginia State Bar, and a graduate of Leadership Fairfax. She also serves on the Virginia State Bar Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board and the Virginia State Bar Committee on Technology and the Practice of Law. She is also a member of the Planning Board of the Pacific Legal Technology Conference, the American Bar Association (ABA), the Virginia Bar, the Virginia Bar Association, Fairfax Bar Association, and Women in Technology.

J. Michael Powell participated in the Supreme Court of Virginia’s case management and financial management projects in the 1990s, when he served as president of the Virginia Court Clerk’s Association. From 1973 to 1995, he was clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison, one of the initial sites for the Land Records Indexing and Information system. He now practices with Berry & Early in Madison, with a general practice focusing on estate planning.

Blackwell N. Shelley Jr. has a civil litigation practice with Shelley & Schulte PC in Richmond. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a law degree from Washington and Lee University. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar sections on Trusts and Estates and Bankruptcy, the Richmond Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and the Judicial Conference of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Paul B. Terpak is a shareholder with Blankingship & Keith PC in Fairfax. His practice focuses on eminent domain and real estate litigation. He is a past president of the Fairfax Bar Association and a past chair of the Virginia State Bar’s Fifth District Committee and Committee on Lawyer Discipline. He serves on the executive committee of Virginia CLE. He received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

The Honorable Clifford R. Weckstein has been a judge in Roanoke City Circuit Court since 1987. He was an original member of the steering committee of the VSB Technology Task Force and has since served continuously on the Special Committee on Law and Technology and its predecessors. He is the first chair of the Judicial Conference of Virginia’s Technology Committee. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the College of William and Mary.