Todd H. Flaming is a trial lawyer who represents companies in commercial cases, including complex disputes over patents, trade secrets, and technology. His experience ranges from contract and tort claims to statutory claims, including patent infringement and Paragraph IV (Hatch-Waxman) litigation. He has handled trials, arbitrations, mediations, as well as class actions in courts around the country.

His clients have included Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 computer, consumer electronics, military, financial, service, and retail companies, as well as Internet and pharmaceutical startups. His patent and technical cases have involved a variety of technologies, including WLAN (Wi-Fi) standards; cellular telephones; industrial machines, such as servomotor-driven collators, inserters, and adaptive learning machines; Internet devices and software, including software robots and load balancing software; medical devices, such as biopsy needles and hemodialysis catheters; pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, such as drugs and nutritional products; opiod detoxification; automotive batteries; nuclear waste disposal; and optics and data transfer, including audio streaming and phase modulation; among others.

He is a member of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including its Trial Bar; the Eastern District of Michigan; and the Illinois State Bar. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School. He serves as a Director and has served as President and Chair of Illinois Legal Aid Online, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to using technology to provide access to justice for underserved communities. He is a co-author of three books, A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Discovery in Federal and State Courts in Illinois, A Lawyer's Guide to Computers (editor), and Web Linking Agreements. He is a frequent author and speaker on electronic discovery, including recently the 2011 Allerton Conference on electronic evidence and discovery. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News and First Business, been quoted in Business Week and the Financial Times, and featured on the cover of Chicago Lawyer magazine.

He testified before the American Bar Association's Ethics 2020 Commission on the role of ethics rules with respect to technology. He serves on the Seventh Circuit's Electronic Discovery committee. He also has served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Technology for the Litigator Committee and the Illinois State Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Technology. He will serve this year as Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Legal Technology Committee, and he is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago.

He has been recognized by his peers to be included in Best Lawyers in America from 2008 through the present.

He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he was a member of the Law Review, and his B.A. magna cum laude in 1988 from Loyola Marymount University.

Todd H. Flaming is a trial lawyer who represents companies in commercial cases, including complex disputes over patents, trade secrets, and technology. His experience ranges from contract and tort claims to statutory claims, including patent infringement and Paragraph IV (Hatch-Waxman) litigation. He has handled trials, arbitrations, mediations, as well as class actions in courts around the country.

His clients have included Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 computer, consumer electronics, military, financial, service, and retail companies, as well as Internet and pharmaceutical startups. His patent and technical cases have involved a variety of technologies, including WLAN (Wi-Fi) standards; cellular telephones; industrial machines, such as servomotor-driven collators, inserters, and adaptive learning machines; Internet devices and software, including software robots and load balancing software; medical devices, such as biopsy needles and hemodialysis catheters; pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, such as drugs and nutritional products; opiod detoxification; automotive batteries; nuclear waste disposal; and optics and data transfer, including audio streaming and phase modulation; among others.

He is a member of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including its Trial Bar; the Eastern District of Michigan; and the Illinois State Bar. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School. He serves as a Director and has served as President and Chair of Illinois Legal Aid Online, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to using technology to provide access to justice for underserved communities. He is a co-author of three books, A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Discovery in Federal and State Courts in Illinois, A Lawyer's Guide to Computers (editor), and Web Linking Agreements. He is a frequent author and speaker on electronic discovery, including recently the 2011 Allerton Conference on electronic evidence and discovery. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News and First Business, been quoted in Business Week and the Financial Times, and featured on the cover of Chicago Lawyer magazine.

He testified before the American Bar Association's Ethics 2020 Commission on the role of ethics rules with respect to technology. He serves on the Seventh Circuit's Electronic Discovery committee. He also has served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Technology for the Litigator Committee and the Illinois State Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Technology. He will serve this year as Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Legal Technology Committee, and he is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago.

He has been recognized by his peers to be included in Best Lawyers in America from 2008 through the present.

He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he was a member of the Law Review, and his B.A. magna cum laude in 1988 from Loyola Marymount University.

William L. Niro earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburg, his. J.D. at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, and his LL.M. in Environmental Law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Mr. Niro's practice at Niro, Haller & Niro in Chicago focuses primarily on trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, and related areas of the law. Mr. Niro is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association where he has served on the Association's Publications Bar Journal Editorial Board, Legal Technology Section Council and Federal Court/Civil Practice Section.

JOHN T. PHIPPS is founder of the John T. Phipps Law Offices, P.C. (www.johnphippslaw.com), in Champaign, Illinois concentrating in the areas of family law and civil litigation. Active in the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), Mr. Phipps is a past chair of the ISBA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Council, Co-Editor of the Section’s newsletter, and member of the ISBA Assembly. He was also the Chair of the ISBA Practice Transfer Committee and the Electronic Research Committee which led to the adoption of FastCase as a member benefit for the ISBA. He is Laureate of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers. He also serves on the ISBA Senior Lawyers Section Council and the ISBA Amicus Committee. Mr. Phipps received his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law and was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1965.

MARY F. ANDREONI is Ethics Education Counsel for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) where she develops and implements the ARDC’s ethics education initiatives, including the ARDC Ethics Inquiry Program and the Illinois Professional Responsibility Institute, where she is also an instructor. She has authored several articles including the ARDC publication, Client Trust Account Handbook and spoken at hundreds of programs on legal ethics. Prior to joining the Commission, Ms. Andreoni was law clerk to Illinois Appellate Court Justice Mel R. Jiganti and later practiced commercial litigation with the law firm of Peterson & Ross in Chicago. While in practice, she also served as a board member on the ARDC Inquiry and Hearing Boards. Active in the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), she has served on a number of committees, and is past chair of the CBA Professional Responsibility Committee (2014-2015). Ms. Andreoni received her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law in Chicago.

Catherine Sanders Reach is Director, Law Practice Management and Technology for the Chicago Bar Association. She was the Director at the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center for over ten years, providing practice technology assistance to lawyers. Prior to her work at the CBA and ABA she worked in library and information science environments for a number of years, working at Ross and Hardies as a librarian. She received a master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1997.
Ms. Reach's professional activities include articles published in Law Practice magazine, Law Technology News and GPSolo Magazine. She has given presentations on the use of technology in law firms for national bar conferences, state and local bar associations and organizations such as the Association of Legal Administrators and the Association of American Law Schools. She served on the ABA TECHSHOW Board from 2007-2009 and is on the editorial advisory board for Law Technology News. In 2011 she was selected to be one of the inaugural Fastcase 50, celebrating 50 innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the field of law and in 2013 was nominated Fellow Elect of the College of Law Practice Management.

Michelle M. Kohut, a Chicago personal injury trial lawyer, joined the law firm of Corboy & Demetrio in 2004 and practices in all areas of personal injury law, including cases arising from automobile collisions, medical malpractice, construction negligence, premises liability, product liability and railroad negligence.

She has tried many personal injury cases to verdict and has obtained numerous multi-million dollar settlements. After two days of trial, Michelle secured a $5 million settlement where a hospital and doctor delayed the delivery of a baby, resulting in severe brain damage. Where a roofing foreman fell through a hole in a roof, fracturing his heel, she secured a settlement of $2 million on behalf of her client. She also settled a lawsuit against a hospital for $1 million when an emergency room patient was not properly treated or diagnosed.

Michelle is very active in local and national bar associations, including the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, where she serves as First Vice President. She has also served as President of Women Everywhere Partners in Service Project, Inc., a community service project which seeks to open doors to women and children in need and to expose high school girls to challenging careers in the legal profession. Michelle has also served on the Board of Directors of Heartland International Health Center, which is dedicated to improving the health of persons living in several communities of Chicago by providing affordable, quality, multilingual, and culturally competent health services.

In 2007, in recognition of her success, hard work and community involvement, she was named one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch" by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. She has also been honored with the designation of Illinois Super Lawyer, Rising Star each year since 2008.

A graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Michelle was a Judicial Law Clerk to William D. Maddux, Presiding Judge of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, prior to joining Corboy & Demetrio.

Todd H. Flaming is a trial lawyer who represents companies in commercial cases, including complex disputes over patents, trade secrets, and technology. His experience ranges from contract and tort claims to statutory claims, including patent infringement and Paragraph IV (Hatch-Waxman) litigation. He has handled trials, arbitrations, mediations, as well as class actions in courts around the country.

His clients have included Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 computer, consumer electronics, military, financial, service, and retail companies, as well as Internet and pharmaceutical startups. His patent and technical cases have involved a variety of technologies, including WLAN (Wi-Fi) standards; cellular telephones; industrial machines, such as servomotor-driven collators, inserters, and adaptive learning machines; Internet devices and software, including software robots and load balancing software; medical devices, such as biopsy needles and hemodialysis catheters; pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, such as drugs and nutritional products; opiod detoxification; automotive batteries; nuclear waste disposal; and optics and data transfer, including audio streaming and phase modulation; among others.

He is a member of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including its Trial Bar; the Eastern District of Michigan; and the Illinois State Bar. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School. He serves as a Director and has served as President and Chair of Illinois Legal Aid Online, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to using technology to provide access to justice for underserved communities. He is a co-author of three books, A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Discovery in Federal and State Courts in Illinois, A Lawyer's Guide to Computers (editor), and Web Linking Agreements. He is a frequent author and speaker on electronic discovery, including recently the 2011 Allerton Conference on electronic evidence and discovery. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News and First Business, been quoted in Business Week and the Financial Times, and featured on the cover of Chicago Lawyer magazine.

He testified before the American Bar Association's Ethics 2020 Commission on the role of ethics rules with respect to technology. He serves on the Seventh Circuit's Electronic Discovery committee. He also has served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Technology for the Litigator Committee and the Illinois State Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Technology. He will serve this year as Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Legal Technology Committee, and he is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago.

He has been recognized by his peers to be included in Best Lawyers in America from 2008 through the present.

He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he was a member of the Law Review, and his B.A. magna cum laude in 1988 from Loyola Marymount University.