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2021 LAW EAME Regional Meeting
Speaker Biographies
Giles Watson
GILESWATSON
Giles Watson helps law practices realise their potential
through coaching, consultancy and tailored professional
development. He specialises in client-facing challenges such
as positioning and strategy, pricing, marketing & business
development, customer experience & client service.
Prior to setting up his own consultancy in 2015, he managed
the Practice management Course at Queensland Law
Society, ran a practice management quality mark scheme for
the Law Society of England and Wales, and was a business development manager for
three London law firms.
Giles has a degree in Politics, a Masters in Marketing and an MBA. He lectures on costs
communication at the QUT Legal Practice Course, and on 'Dynamic strategy and
disruptive innovation' for Kaplan Business school's MBA course.
Jonathan Middleburgh
Edge International
Jonathan Middleburgh consults on human capital issues
and coaches senior legal talent in both law firms and legal
departments. A former practicing lawyer, he is also trained
as an organizational psychologist, Jonathan has a wide
range of experience helping law firms and legal
departments to develop their senior legal talent so as to
maximize business outcomes.
Gerry Riskin, B. Com, LLB, P. Admin
Edge International
Gerry Riskin is an internationally recognized lawyer,
author and management consultant. He was managing
partner of a law firm in Canada and Hong Kong, and is
the author of The Successful Lawyer, Creating The
Marketing Mindset, Herding Cats and beyond KNOWING.
Gerry resides in Anguilla BWI and serves law firm clients
globally.
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Edward Walters
Fastcase
Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase, a legal publishing
company based (during non-pandemic times) in
Washington, D.C. Fastcase is one of the world’s fastest-
growing legal publishers, serving more than 1.1 million
subscribers from around the world.
Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington &
Burling, in Washington D.C. and Brussels, where he advised
Microsoft, Merck, SmithKline, the Business Software
Alliance, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. His practice
focused on corporate advisory work for software companies and sports leagues, and
intellectual property litigation.
Camilla Andersen
University of Western Australia, School of Law
Dr Camilla Baasch Andersen is Professor of International
Commercial Law at University of Western Australia. She is a
Trade Law Expert for UNCITRAL and a member of the core
group of the Pro-Active Think Tank. She has written
extensively on the CISG, international commerce, pro-active
approaches to law and comparative commercial law. She
works closely with business, government and academia in
pursuit of improving legal solutions, recently on her new
project on Comic Book Contracting and the visualisation of
law (see www.comicbookcontracts.com). For more details
visit: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/camilla-andersen.
Robert de Rooy
Creative Contracts (Pty) Ltd
Robert de Rooy is a commercial lawyer and the developer of
Comic Contracts, the world’s first fully illustrated contract.
He is the founder of Creative Contracts (Pty) Ltd. The
purpose of the company is to afford low-literate people the
dignity of autonomously understanding the contracts they
sign. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, where he tries to
balance his work and family life with some cycling and
surfing.
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Speaker Biographies
Peter Corner
Alternative Contracting
A historian by training, Peter Corner took an interest in
Comic Contracts from the beginning due to the way the use
of images recalled contracts from an earlier age. Upon
seeing parties interested in Comic Contracts being turned
away by his wife, Professor Camilla Anderson due to
restrictions on her time, Peter decided to see how fast and
how affordable the contract creating process could be
made. And then was borne Alternative Contracting.
Working on visualizing contracts is a fascinating process
and funnily my historical background, absorbing masses of information and distilling
that information into a few key points, is proving a key part of the process.
Steven Roberts
One IT Services
Steven Roberts started his engineering career in the United
Kingdom after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in
Computing, specialising in networks and communications.
Steven has called Australia home since 2002 and after nearly
a decade working in large organisations, including service
delivery to the Northern Territory Government, Steven
started One IT Services in 2010. Steven’s business has
more than quadrupled in size during a period that has seen
the greatest change in the cyber-threat landscape. One IT
Services has been at the forefront of IT service delivery for over ten years and Steven
has provided cybersecurity consultation to businesses of all levels and sizes while also
advising on multiple IT Risk Committees. Additionally, Steven has built One IT Services
as a premium MSP which is now the largest IT Service Provider to the legal industry in
the NT.
Lawrence Tan
Eldan Law, LLP
Lawrence Tan is a founding partner of our member firm,
Eldan Law, LLP in Singapore. Lawrence is certified with the
Singapore Mediation Centre ("SMC"), Singapore
International Mediation Institute (“SIMI”), International
Mediation Institute (“IMI”) and as a Mediation Advocate.
He is a Principal Mediator and Trainer of Mediation in
multiple countries.
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Deborah McMurray
Content Pilot
Deborah McMurray is the founder, CEO and Strategy
Architect of Content Pilot. She has three decades of service
to the legal marketing community, including being the former
head of two large law firm marketing departments and
holding many national roles in the Legal Marketing
Association. McMurray was inducted into the Legal
Marketing Association (LMA) Hall of Fame in 2008 and as a
Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management in 2007;
as well as on the inaugural list of National Law Journal’s
“2013 Top 50 Legal Business Trailblazers & Pioneers” and included in LawDragon’s Top
100 Legal Consultants since the list was started. McMurray has also co-authored
several books published by the American Bar Association Law Practice Management
Division, with the latest being, “The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet,
4th edition.”
Michael Blachly
Gray Reed & McGraw, LLP
Michael Blachly is the Chief Marketing Officer of our
Houston, Texas member firm, Gray Reed, a full-service,
Texas law firm with approximately 150 attorneys. Michael
brings more than 20 years of experience in corporate
marketing, business development and corporate
communications primarily centered on driving business in
the professional services sector. Michael provides Gray
Reed strategic direction on the firm’s business development
and marketing initiatives and leads a team responsible for
business development, marketing/ branding, marketing
technology, creative production, research, public relations, and events. He is a founding
member of the Legal Marketing Association's Texas Chapter, served as President of
LMA's Southwest Region and has held numerous leadership positions within LMA. He
was recognized by LMA as the first recipient of the LMA Southwest Region President’s
Award. Michael is also a passionate photographer and has pursued the hobby for most
of his life. To view Michael's photography portfolio, go to www.michaelblachly.com.
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