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Angela McFadden

Temple University Beasley School of Law

Angela McFadden is a J.D. candidate at Temple University who, as a non-traditional law student, brings with her over 25 years of professional experience in environmental regulation and enforcement. She began her career at the EPA as an inspector after graduating from the University of Washington in 1995 with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. Her managerial and non-managerial leadership positions have involved not only ensuring delivery of EPA work products but also developing and streamlining business processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government work. Angela sees opportunities for using open source code to develop applications for reducing administrative burdens on courts and improving their interactions with the public.

Heather Mitchell

Washington University in St. Louis

Heather Mitchell is a contracts analyst for Vail Resorts, specializing in project management, contract management systems, and analytics tools. Heather graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a BA in English and is now pursuing a Master of Legal Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. When not endeavoring to organize everything around her, Heather enjoys reading, watching movies, and exploring the many beautiful areas surrounding her Colorado home with her husband and their dog.

Julian Cagadas

Chicago-Kent Law

Tom Davidson

Stanford Law

Ian Deitz

Georgetown Law

Janessa Miller

North Central University (Minnesota)

Niharika Singh

Harvard University

Daniel Steyskal

Pace University

Rachel Anne Garcia

Northeastern University School of Law

Rachel Garcia is a 2L at Northeastern University School of Law. She is also a member of the Northeastern Law Review. Prior to law school Rachel graduated from Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland with a specialization in sustainability and innovation. Her goal is to work in a legal operations position after she graduates in 2021 so that she can bring her past experience and her current legal knowledge together into one career.

Robin Goldberg

University of California, Davis

Robin Goldberg is an eDiscovery Analyst at Apple where she manages discovery for all active litigation matters. Prior to joining Apple, Robin worked as an IP litigation paralegal for 11 years for big law firms in Palo Alto. She’s a current MBA student at the University of California, Davis, where she seeks to merge her background in legal technology with her business studies. Robin graduated from San Diego State University with degrees in Political Science and Spanish. She currently serves as Silicon Valley’s Women in eDiscovery Chapter Director.

Alexis Henley

Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College

Alexis Henley is a current EMBA Student at Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She currently works with a top-tier M&A team at AssuredPartners, Inc. as a Senior Corporate Paralegal and has managed the closings of over 150 transactions with an aggregate purchase price of $1B in just over six years. She is excited about joining the CLOC community and bringing her work experience and education together to forge a new path in Legal Operations.

QD Jalla

George Washington University

QD is in the second year of a JD/MBA program and hails from Georgia. After a military career in combat arms, QD began work in the non-profit sector by helping Servicemembers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress find medical treatment. Concurrent to a career in corporate law, QD aspires to found a company that provides instruction in financial literacy for young adults.

Phenix Kline

Brigham Young University, J. Ruben Clark Law School

Phenix Kline has a passion for process improvement, whether it be automating a legal request-for-proposals, or finding a faster way to fold her laundry. She recently completed an internship with Shell Oil Company’s Central Legal Operations team and plans on continuing working in legal operations post-graduation. Prior to law school, Phenix studied business management and worked in the tech industry as an organizational development consultant. She is a firm believer in data-driven decision-making and Kotter’s 8-step change management model.

Cheron Mims

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Cheron Z. Mims is a 1L law student at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law pursuing a Juris Doctor degree with a Business Enterprise Concentration. She works as a Research Assistant supporting the Law and Technology Initiative (LTI) at her institution. Having worked as a Litigation Support Technician prior to law school, she is passionate about human-centered innovation surrounding the role of attorneys and the development of objective metrics for attorney work products. Cheron is also a member of the Bartlit Center National Trial Team.

Katy Murson

California University of Pennsylvania

Katy is a Senior Project Specialist on the Global Legal Operations team at a global pharmaceutical company. Before beginning her career in legal operations Katy worked as a Paralegal at a law firm that specialized in Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability. She has received her bachelor’s degree in jurisprudence with a concentration in legal studies and is currently enrolled in the M.S. Law and Public Policy program at the California University of Pennsylvania.

Yuanyuan Zhang

University of Oklahoma College of Law

Yuanyuan Zhang, a 1L law school student in the University of Oklahoma Law School. Before she was admitted to law school in the U.S., she already practiced law in China as an associate in Dentons law firm and as an in-house manager in Beijing Jiuyo Capital Management Company, after I graduated from Renmin University of China Law School with the LLB degree and Beijing Normal University with the LLM degree, focused on Criminal Justice. It is a challenge to study American Law with her second language, but she enjoys meeting people with different backgrounds and learning different languages.

Joe Crank

University of Colorado Law School

Joel Crank is a rising second-year law student at the University of Colorado Law school. He recently graduated from Colorado State University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Business Finance. Joel has helped run his family real estate business and worked on a two-person team that created a small business consulting firm. He is particularly interested in the efficiency of corporate legal departments and small businesses’ accessibility to legal counsel. In his free time, Joel enjoys reading, spending time outdoors, and playing hockey.

Genevieve Antono

Harvard Law School

Syed Nayef Andrabi

Santa Clara University School of Law

Nayef is a second-year law student at Santa Clara Law and currently work part-time with Oracle’s Legal Operations team as an extern. He moved to the Bay area from Toronto, Canada where he built my business acumen by working in IT sales and then as a start-up founder of a web-based service platform. Legal Operations is an exciting and growing field, and Nayef looks forward to learning more from his peers at the CLOC 2019 Vegas Institute.

Jonathan Boyarsky

Boston College Law School

Jonathan Boyarsky is a rising 2L at Boston College Law School who recently graduated from Northeastern University where he studied Industrial Engineering. He has always desired to improve the efficiency of whatever endeavor he is a part of. He seeks to merge his interest in technology, software, and engineering with his legal studies. He is fascinated in how to improve the efficiency and profitability of law firms and other legal organizations by applying lean concepts, workflow analysis, and statistical methods.

John Crawshaw Jr

University of Florida – Hough Graduate School of Business

John Crawshaw is a Senior Business Systems Analyst with PNC Financial Services. He has been supporting over 140 attorneys in PNC’s legal operations department for a little over two years. His main areas of focus include e-billing, matter management, business process improvement, new technology implementation, and analytics. Prior to entering the legal operations landscape, John held roles in strategy, customer experience, and inventory management.

Jennifer Hamdorf

Mount Mercy University

Jennifer Hamdorf is a current MBA student at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, IA. She works as the Contracts & Legal Operations Manager at Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a firm that partners with colleges and nonprofit organizations to help them enroll their classes, graduate their students, and engage their donors. As a life-long learner, Jennifer enjoys working in the fast-paced Legal Operations environment because it is constantly evolving–ensuring that she will never be bored! Jennifer lives in Cedar Rapids with her husband Ryan and 2 rescue pups, Goose and Banksy.

Rachel Hileman

Duquesne University School of Law

Rachel is an experienced Global Legal Operations Lead with success in managing a team and daily legal operations projects for a highly diversified global pharmaceutical company. Prior to working in Legal Operations, Rachel worked as a Paralegal at a mid-sized firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania specializing in Business Law, Estates and Trusts, and School and Municipal Law. Rachel received her Paralegal Certification from Duquesne University and currently attends Duquesne University School of Law’s Evening Program. Rachel hopes to continue managing in-house legal department operations while driving the evolution of legal services through her continued education and involvement with CLOC.

Neil Jackson

American University Washington College of Law

Neil Jackson is a Public Policy Analyst in the Law Department at State Farm, a position he has held since April 2014. Prior to that, he worked in the Human Resources Department. At State Farm, Neil volunteers as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of State Farm Federal Credit Union and is a champion of diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the legal profession as a member of the Law Department’s D&I Committee. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science, and he is currently enrolled in the evening program at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. He is originally from north central Wisconsin.

Jacob Kovacs-Goodman

Harvard Law School

Jacob is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. He formerly taught at a high school, bartended, and worked on Google’s Online Legal Operations Team. At Google, he was responsible for issues related to government requests for user data. He studied Classics at Stanford and grew up in California.

Christopher Lange

American University Washington College of Law

Christopher Lange is a rising 3L at American University Washington College of Law. Christopher is originally from Texas and California and attended the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in media studies. Christopher is a Veteran of the United States Air Force where he served as a Bioenvironmental Engineer. Post his military service, Christopher continued a career of public service and worked for members of Congress and the United States Department of State. Christopher is pursuing a law degree to impact marginalized communities who otherwise might not have a seat at the table. Christopher is honored to continue the work and mission of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium in his future legal career.