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Presenter/Moderator
Kunoor Chopra
Co-founder and VP Legal Services
Elevate
Kunoor Chopra, a California attorney, is Co-founder and current VP of Legal Services at Elevate. She has transformed the legal industry by creating expert led, software powered solutions that provide effective and efficient options to obtain, manage, and perform legal services. Kunoor is a recognized authority in the legal industry on topics related to women in entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, legal outsourcing, right sourcing and optimization of legal work. She is a Fellow and on the Board of Trustees of the College of Law Practice Management and on the CLOC DEIB Council. She also co-chairs the South Asian Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Section and is on the Advisory Board of World Commerce & Contracting.
Keynote Speaker
Bridget M. McCormack
President and CEO
American Arbitration Association - International Centre for Dispute Resolution
Bridget M. McCormack is the president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association®–International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (AAA-ICDR®), the preeminent global provider of alternative dispute resolution services. She assumed this role in February 2023, bringing deep experience in judicial leadership, court administration, and legal scholarship, along with a strong record of advocacy for innovation and technology in dispute resolution.
A widely respected thought leader and sought-after speaker on the future of law, McCormack writes and speaks frequently on access to justice, alternative dispute resolution, innovation, and AI. Her 2024 essay in the ABA’s AI volume, “Who’s Law Is It Anyway,” reflects her optimistic and pragmatic perspective of GenAI. In 2025, she delivered keynote addresses at the Legal Value Network Annual Conference, Tel Aviv Arbitration Week, and McKinsey’s Americas Data and AI Summit.
Her leadership has been widely recognized, including the 2025 Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award, the 2023 Sunshine Award from the Michigan Press Association, the 2023 Rebuilding Justice Award from the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), and honors from Michigan Lawyers Weekly and The Detroit News. Before joining the AAA-ICDR, McCormack was Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, where she led groundbreaking efforts to expand access to justice, including launching the nation’s first statewide online dispute resolution platform and a statewide eviction diversion program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
McCormack serves on the Council of the American Law Institute (ALI) and holds leadership and advisory roles with prominent legal, arbitration, and AI organizations and initiatives, including IAALS, Washington University’s AI Initiative, the American Review of International Arbitration, the AI Council of the National Center for State Courts, the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, and AccessLex Institute. She previously served on the founding steering committee of Duke Law School’s Responsible AI in Legal Services (RAILS) initiative. She also serves as Strategic Advisor to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Future of the Profession Initiative, Chair of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and member of the ABA Center for Innovation’s Governing Board. She is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a special advisor to the ABA Task Force on AI, and a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. She earned her law degree from NYU and previously taught at Yale and the University of Michigan Law Schools. McCormack is married to Steven Croley, Ford Motor Company’s general counsel and chief policy officer. They have four adult children.
Presenter/Moderator
Amber Moren
Senior Antitrust Compliance Lawyer
Cargill
Amber Moren is a Senior Antitrust Compliance Lawyer at Cargill. Amber is an accomplished business lawyer with in-house, law firm, government, and clerkship experience. At Cargill, Amber manages Cargill’s obligations arising from a U.S. Department of Justice consent decree and provides strategic antitrust advice on matters such as class action litigations and M&A transactions. In prior roles, Amber served as general counsel to various business units at 3M Company, was a litigator at Fredrikson and Byron, served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and clerked for Judge Diana Murphy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Amber earned a JD from Yale Law School and a BA in Economics and French from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.​
Presenter/Moderator
Michael Okerlund
Chief Executive Officer
Cloud Court
Michael Okerlund is a Cloud Court co-founder and serves as CEO. He started his career as a patent litigation attorney litigating for and against some of the largest companies in the world. He then moved in-house to serve as the general counsel of several public and private companies. A veteran of hundreds of litigation cases, he's developed strong opinions regarding how technology can radically improve the way attorneys prepare for, take and defend depositions.
Presenter/Moderator
Damien Riehl
VP, Solutions Champion
vLex
Damien Riehl is a lawyer and technologist with experience in complex litigation, digital forensics, and software development. A lawyer since 2002 and coder since 1985, Damien clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations, and has built AI-backed legal software.
Co-Chair of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles, he is helping recommend changes to Minnesota statutes, rules, and policies — all related to connected and autonomous vehicles. Damien is Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association's AI Committee, which oversees an AI Sandbox to promote Access to Justice (A2J).
At SALI, the legal data standard, Damien built and greatly expanded the taxonomy of over 18,000 legal tags that matter, helping the legal industry's development of Generative AI, analytics, and interoperability.
At vLex Group — which includes Fastcase, NextChapter, and Docket Alarm — Damien helps lead the design, development, and expansion of various products, integrating AI-backed technologies (e.g., GPT) into a billion-document dataset from 100+ countries, all to improve legal workflows.
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“This guy [Damien] rocks!” - Elon Musk