"Legal Innovators and Entrepreneurs": 4:30 PM Eastern (1:30 PM Pacific)

The legal field is undergoing a tectonic shift. For hundreds of years, lawyers practiced law in mostly the same way. But technology, changing client expectations, and innovative new delivery models are upending how lawyers do their work. And how they add value to the world. All this means that folks entering the field right now have an unprecedented opportunity to redefine what it means to work be a lawyer or legal professional. In this interactive presentation, we will explore how the legal world is changing and how innovators and entrepreneurs are making the law better. 

Professor Joe Regalia
Co-founder of Write.law & William S. Boyd School of Law Faculty

Professor Joe Regalia graduated first in his class at the University of Michigan Law School, clerked for the U.S. District Courts and the Ninth Circuit, practiced at three AmLaw 100 firms, and is a member of the faculty at the William S. Boyd School of Law. 

He is co-founder of Write.law, a legal skills training company used by thousands of attorneys, judges, and students around the world. 

Joe's research and thought leadership focus on legal writing, technology, and innovation. He regularly leads training for elite law firms and organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, the Department of Justice, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. 

• Click here to view Joe’s complete biography.
• Click here for more information about the partnership between Phi Alpha Delta and Write.law.

Dorna Moini
CEO and co-founder, Documate

Dorna Moini is the CEO and co-founder of Documate, a no-code platform for building document automation and client-facing legal apps. Prior to starting Documate, Dorna was a litigator at Sidley Austin. There, in her pro bono practice, she worked with legal aid organizations to build a web application for domestic violence survivors to complete and file their paperwork, which led to the idea for Documate.

Dorna is on the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Emerging Leaders Council and a member of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA)'s Advisory Board. She was named an ABA Legal Rebel and a Fastcase 50 honoree. She also teaches the Legal Innovations Lab at USC Law School. 

Click here to view more on Dorna and Documate’s work.

Gabe Teninbaum 
Assistant Dean for Innovation, Strategic Initiatives and Distance Education, Professor of Legal Writing, Suffolk University Law School

Gabe Teninbaum is the Assistant Dean for Innovation, Strategic Initiatives and Distance Education, as well as a Professor of Legal Writing, at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Among other responsibilities, he leads the #1 ranked legal tech program in the nation, as ranked on multiple occasions by National Jurist Magazine and preLaw Magazine. He has also held academic appointments at Harvard (as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University), MIT (as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab) and Yale (as a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project). Teninbaum has been named to the FastCase 50, the ABA Journal Web 100, and elected a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.  He is the founder of the award-winning software company for legal education, SpacedRepetition.com, which has helped thousands of law students succeed from their first year, through the bar exam. He has been called “perhaps the most tech-savvy law professor in the nation” by the ABA Journal. 

Click here to view Gabe’s complete biography.