Joseph is an innovator and early adopter of all things computer related. His primary bent is around the future of law and legal technology. He also focuses on several fields including machine learning, mobile, security, cryptocurrency, and robotics (drone technology).

Joseph founded wapUcom, LLP, consulting with companies in web and wireless development. As a side project DC WiFi was created to help create a web of open wireless WiFi access points across cities and educate people about wireless security.

Currently he is with Thomson Reuters Legal managing a team of Technical Client Managers for both the Large Law and Government divisions. Joseph serves the top law firms in the world consulting on legal trends and customizing Thomson Reuters legal technology solutions for enhanced workflows. He graduated from Providence College with a BA in Economics and Sociology and holds a Masters in eCommerce and MBA from the University of Maryland, University College.

You can connect with Joseph at JoeTechnologist.com or JosephRaczynski.com or @joerazz

Ian has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, building security, information governance and records management software products for the enterprise. Ian is currently head of product management for iManage, responsible for a suite of security and information governance products for professional service firms.

As Littler's Chief Knowledge Officer, Scott Rechtschaffen leads the firm's effort to provide innovative client services by integrating new technologies and work processes and enabling attorneys and clients to access the collective knowledge and experience of the firm's over 1,500 attorneys. He combines over 25 years of experience representing companies in every area of labor and employment law with a broad understanding of technology to help the firm's attorneys and their clients in tailoring unique solutions that enhance the firm’s ability to deliver legal information and legal services to its clients.

Scott heads the firm’s Knowledge Management Department, a team of 50+ professionals including dedicated, full-time knowledge management attorneys along with technologists, legal research specialists and writers, content administrators and a training/video production team. The KM Team supports the firm's clients and attorneys, practice groups and major firm initiatives.

Scott is the co-founder of ComplianceHR, an innovative joint venture launched in 2015 by Littler and Neota Logic, a legal software company. ComplianceHR leverages Littler’s unparalleled experience and knowledge of employment law with the power of Neota Logic’s expert systems to provide a transformative suite of online compliance solutions for HR and legal professionals.
Previously, Scott served as Senior Vice President of Learning for ELT, the nation's premier provider of on-line employment law training services. He founded the Littler Learning Group, a division of Littler that provides innovative compliance training solutions worldwide.

For his achievements in knowledge management, Scott has been awarded the Distinguished Peer Award as KM Champion of the Year by the International Legal Technology Association. In 2014, he was named to the Fastcase 50, an annual compilation, "honoring the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders” and the Financial Times named Scott among the ten most innovative lawyers in North America. In the same year, he was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, a peer-nominated honor bestowed on law practice management specialists, "who consistently exemplify the highest professional standards and achievements" over at least a 10-year period. That year, he also received an Innovator Award from The Recorder legal newspaper and the following year The Recorder awarded him for being a Serial Innovator.

Heather Reid is the Senior Director of Marketing at DLA Piper. She manages the development and deployment of global marketing and business development projects - with a critical eye on data-driven results and success. She enjoys partnering with other marketing, sales, administrative and executive team members to achieve innovative business objectives and goals and has the ability to gain trust quickly and adjust communication techniques to different audiences. One of her team's major projects in recent years includes leveraging Big Data and a predictive analytics model to service and grow law firm clients. Heather also helped develop the strategic direction of Marketing Central – a centralized, administrative marketing function located in DLA Piper’s Global Service Center in Tampa, Florida.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherreid/
Twitter: @haustinreid

At Bryan Cave, Scott focuses on firm-wide expertise and experience retrieval and the integration of machine learning and expert systems into the practice of law. A "reformed lawyer," Scott held various practitioner and supervisory assignments over 23 years in the US Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps and retired as the JAG Corps' first chief knowledge officer. He has presented at ILTA on the topics of enterprise social networks, after action reviews, gamification of business functions, and immersive virtual environment technology.

Judye Carter Releford is Director of Client Development, N.A. for BigHand Inc. She received a B.A degree in Communications from Pepperdine University and a M.A. in Management from University of Phoenix.

It was during Judye's early years working in law firms that she discovered a love for automating document production, and in college, a passion for teaching. As a natural multitasker, automating repetitive tasks and producing high-quality work was her mission. While teaching Professional Development courses at Glendale Community College, Judye recognized the unique challenge facing law firms migrating to Microsoft Word and the need for efficient training methods.

Judye has worked with the Create product (formerly known as iCreate), since 1997. Following the acquisition of Esquire Innovations in 2014, Judye has become an integral part of the BigHand team where she enjoys participating in international business development efforts and delivering training via weekly webinars. Judye’s articles on document automation and training have been published in LegalTech Newsletter, The Legal Secretary, ALA, law.com, among others.

Rachelle Rennagel brings a distinctive blend of legal, business and technology knowledge to her counseling of clients in electronic discovery, information governance, and data privacy and security.

As Special Counsel in Pillsbury's Litigation practice, Rachelle possesses a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of technology, and has a proven track record of assisting clients in leveraging technology and process to reduce information management and discovery costs and risks.

Rachelle counsels clients on data and information technology issues—from data governance and disposition, litigation readiness and hold procedures, defensible document review methodologies and all aspects of eDiscovery, enabling technologies, and data privacy and security issues.

Recent Matters
Served as a director at a global legal services company where she supported and developed a growing portfolio of eDiscovery, case management and knowledge management technologies and services.

Served as eDiscovery Counsel and Global Director of Research & Information Services at an AMLAW 10 firm, overseeing the firm's global litigation support and research departments.

Served as the Chief Knowledge Officer for an AMLAW100 firm, where she led teams of eDiscovery, knowledge professionals, developers and engineers in devising and implementing technology and information management solutions across the organization.

Warren Rheaume represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property and technology disputes. In more than 30 years of practice, he has litigated and tried a wide variety of matters, including patent, copyright, trademark, noncompetition, and trade secret cases. Warren represents clients from a diverse group of industries, including computer hardware and software, cloud computing, online content, aviation, consumer retailing, and medical devices.

In addition to his civil litigation work, he maintains an active mediation practice serving as the neutral in state and federal cases. Warren is also a member of DWT’s Breach Response Team (dwt.com/IncidentResponse). Prior to coming to Davis Wright in 2008, Warren was a partner at Heller Ehrman, and before that, at Foster, Pepper & Shefelman.

Warren is married with four sons. He and his wife enjoy scuba diving and aviation.

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Member Liaison - San Francisco East Bay

Ben Rusch is a Vice President at Consilio.

He is responsible for all managed review projects in Europe and Asia as well as leading the European and Asian recruitment teams.

Ben studied law at the University of Oxford where he won the Sir Adrian Boult scholarship 6 times in a row. He is admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales.

Prior to joining Consilio, he worked as an Associate for some of the world’s leading law firms. He qualified as a Solicitor with Herbert Smith (London) where he joined their Equity Capital Markets department upon qualification. He also worked as an Associate in the EU & Competition department of Ashurst in Brussels and as an Associate in the EU & Competition group of King & Wood Mallesons in London.

Ben has extensive experience in EU merger control and advised clients in the U.K., Taiwan, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, South Africa, Greece and Brazil on complex mergers across a wide range of industries. Cases before the European Commission include Case No COMP/M.5180 – Manitowoc/Enodis; Case No COMP/M.4966 – Cinven/Coor Management Services; Case No COMP/M.5051 – APW/GMG/EMAP; and Case No COMP/M.4961 – Cookson/Foseco.

While in private practice, Ben also dealt with multiple cartel investigations and was part of the legal team which, in the context of a worldwide, multi-authority cartel investigation, worked on one of the most high-profile leniency applications to date.

Ben set up competition law compliance programmes for two of the largest companies in Europe and advised non-EU law firms on EU leniency procedure. Ben also has a strong interest in risk arbitrage and advised 19 of the world’s largest hedge funds on risk arbitrage, EU merger control procedure and statistical modelling in an antitrust context.

Ben speaks fluent English, German and French as well as basic Greek.

Joy was recently appointed as Interim CEO at ILTA to lead the organization and the professional staff, while serving members, business partners and key constituents. She has spent her entire career supporting lawyers and technologists in the practice of law, and has deep familiarity with the complexities ILTA member firms and organizations face. Her prior role was with Litéra Microsystems as VP of Client Development for 4 years, after spending 28 years in a variety of IT and management roles at the prestigious international law firm Sidley Austin LLP.

With more than 30 years of experience, Joy is passionate about applying technology to the business problems of law firms. In addition to her law firm and vendor roles, Joy has a long history of volunteering in the legal technology community, having served as board member and president of three different legal technology peer groups, including ILTA.