Speakers et al.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SPEAKERS, PANELISTS, & INSTRUCTORS
EMCEES & ORGANIZERS
STUDENT PRESENTERS

KEYNOTE: Daniel Yi, Senior Counsel for Special Projects and Innovation, US Department of Justice

Daniel Yi is the Senior Counsel for Innovation for the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Since 2017, Daniel has led the Division’s effort to use the design process and entrepreneurial principles to test new solutions for sticky challenges in legal practice and civil rights. He also runs Concept Lab, the Civil Rights Division’s idea incubator program.

In addition to his work with the Department, Daniel Yi also serves as a lecturer at Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches classes on legal innovation, practical problem solving, and communication design. He also serves on the board of the non-profit Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, a professional association serving those focused on transforming the business of law.

Prior to his current roles, Daniel served as the Director of DOJ’s Fair Housing Testing Program, which conducts covert investigations to uncover housing discrimination. He also spent seven years working as a trial attorney specializing in fair housing cases. In 2007, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. David F. Hamilton (S.D. Ind., now serving on the 7th Circuit). He graduated from Yale Law School in 2006 and the College of William & Mary in 2001.

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Sarah Boonin, Associate Director of Clinical Programs and Clinical Professor of Law

Sarah Boonin teaches in the areas of mental health and disability law, women's reproductive health, and legal ethics. She designed and teaches Suffolk's first Health Law Clinic. The Clinic provides students with an opportunity to hone their legal skills under close supervision through live client practice in the areas of guardianship, Social Security disability practice, and healthcare benefits. Professor Boonin and her clinical students specialize in serving clients with complex mental health needs. Professor Boonin serves as the Associate Director of Clinical Programs. She is a member of the Access to Administrative Justice Sub-Committee, which advises the Supreme Judicial Court's Access to Justice Commission.

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Amanda Brown, Founder & Executive Director, Lagniappe Law Lab

Amanda Brown is the founder and executive director of Lagniappe Law Lab, a new legal aid technology nonprofit serving Louisiana’s justice community. She is the co-chair of the Louisiana's Access to Justice Commission's technology subcommittee, and is a member of the Legal Service Corporation's Emerging Leaders Council. She is also active in the ABA, serving as the Vice Director of the YLD's Disaster Legal Services Team and as a member of the ABA Center for Innovation's Governing Council. Most recently, Amanda was a legal technology consultant for the Louisiana Bar Foundation on its statewide triage portal, the Louisiana Civil Legal Navigator. Prior to that, she served as the inaugural Microsoft NextGen Fellow for the American Bar Association's Center for Innovation, and was a disaster recovery attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services. She is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Personal Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Lagniappe Law Lab

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David Colarusso, Director of the Legal Innovation and Technology Lab, Clinical Fellow

David Colarusso is the Director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. An attorney and educator by training, he has worked as a public defender, data scientist, software engineer, and high school physics teacher. He is the author of a programming language for lawyers, QnA Markup, an award winning legal hacker, ABA Legal Rebel, and Fastcase 50 honoree. In 2017 he was named one of the ABA's top legal tweeters.

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Casey Chiappetta, Principal Associate, Research & Policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts

Casey Chiappetta conducts research on debt and evictions and manages projects related to court openness and modernization. Before joining Pew, they worked as a senior associate at the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, leading research on online dispute resolution and providing technical assistance to civil legal aid organizations about federal funding. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's in justice, law, and criminology from American University.

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Rochelle Hahn, Director of the Massachusetts Legal Aid Websites Project

Rochelle Hahn is an attorney who joined MLRI in 2005 to focus on food stamps advocacy. She now directs the Massachusetts Legal Aid Websites Project, which uses technology to increase access to justice for low-income and vulnerable Massachusetts residents. Prior to joining MLRI, she was the Executive Director of the Legal Advocacy & Resource Center (a legal services hotline), a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, a litigation associate at WilmerHale, and a federal law clerk. Rochelle serves as a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission. She graduated from New York University School of Law.

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Brittany Hill, Product Manager at Theory and Principle

Brittany Hill is a product manager at Theory and Principle, a software design and development firm that focuses on the legal industry. In her capacity as a product manager, Brittany works closely with clients and her team of designers, developers and QA engineers to deliver digital products to improve the legal experience for all. Prior to joining Theory and Principle, she worked in ecommerce and fintech.

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Thomas Innis, Principal of Gibbous Consulting & Partner at Ripples Group

Thomas Innis is the Principal of Gibbous Consulting and a Partner with the Ripples Group. He has supported public and private-sector clients across a wide range of challenging projects and industries, including health and human services, state judiciary, higher education, municipalities, and global retailers.

Tom is a strategy management consultant with a career defined by the delicate straddle of technology and business operations. Tom has managed large and small systems, guided users through major system developments, and advised leaders on how to leverage operations and IT to accomplish strategic goals. Always taking a data-informed approach, he has designed and implemented dozens of surveys and focus groups to understand the stakeholder voice, test new ideas, and build new understanding.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy, incoming Professor of Law at Widener Delaware Law School

Diego Alcalá Laboy is a criminal defense attorney, an abolitionist, a legal tech amateur, and an incoming Professor of Law at Widener Delaware Law School. For the past 17 years, he worked as a public defender or as a court-appointed counsel in state and federal courts. In the past couple of years, he has contributed to the abolitionist movement in Puerto Rico creating an online course on the intersections of abolition and other areas, such as housing, feminism, technology, and other matters. He also built an online marketplace for lawyers, Tiago, which failed spectacularly but prompted his curiosity about how technology and law intersect. He also studies criminal law and surveillance technologies from a decolonial paradigm.

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Darrell Malone Jr. , Founder, National Police Data Coalition

Darrell Malone Jr. is a fintech engineer and technology activist from Houston, Texas. In 2017, Darrell founded the Tubman Project; an effort to develop advanced technology for public defenders. Through the project, he organized a series of hackathons that brought the technical and legal communities together to build modern solutions to chronic problems. In 2020, Darrell launched the National Police Data Coalition, an organization devoted to creating transparency for police data while engaging with the real issues of personal privacy and safety for all parties involved.

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Matthew Newsted, Associate Director of Legal Tech at Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO)

As Associate Director of Legal Tech at Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO), Matt develops and supports ILAO's guided interviews and automated form programs. With ILAO's Content Team, he also makes and maintains legal content for people without lawyers, concentrating on e-filing and other technology solutions. After getting a J.D. from DePaul College of Law, he worked for 3 years as staff attorney at Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (now Legal Aid Chicago), focusing on housing and family law. He then spent 11 years doing IT support at Northwestern University, where he earned an M.S. in Computer Information Systems.

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Dyane O'Leary, Co-Director of the Legal Innovation and Technology Concentration

Professor O’Leary’s scholarship focuses on integrating technology competence into the legal practice curriculum. She has published on topics such as artificially intelligent legal research and writing tools and designed an advanced writing class to build skills in areas such as e-discovery, research analytics, word processing for lawyers, and typography and digital design of legal documents. Professor O’Leary previously taught at Northeastern Law School and New England Law Boston. She graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University and Suffolk University Law School and practiced complex commercial and intellectual property litigation at WilmerHale, LLP in Boston.

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Andrew M. Perlman, Dean, Suffolk University Law School

Dean Andrew Perlman is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. Dean Perlman was the chief reporter of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization. He also served as the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, which produced projects and recommendations designed to improve how legal services are delivered and accessed. Most recently, he was appointed by the president of the American Bar Association to serve as the chair of the governing council of the ABA’s new Center for Innovation.

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Sheriece M. Perry, Director of Court Services and Law Libraries for the Massachusetts Trial Court's Office of Court Management

SHERIECE M. PERRY, ESQ. is the Director of Court Services and Law Libraries for the Massachusetts Trial Court's Office of Court Management. Within this position, Sheriece provides state-wide oversight of the Court Service Centers, Law Libraries and Judicial Response System. Prior to her appointment, Sheriece developed and managed the Boston Court Service Center, which was one of the first Court Service Centers to open in Massachusetts.

In addition to Sheriece's departmental responsibilities, she also works on a variety of access to justice initiatives for the self-represented litigant populations, and she serves on multiple court committees. Sheriece has led various trainings on guardianship and family law matters, and has served on number of national and local panels discussing the experience of self-represented litigant populations.

Sheriece currently serves as a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission, Commissioner on the Boston Finance Commission, Trustee on Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees, and Co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Delivery of Legal Services. Sheriece formerly served as President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. Sheriece has received numerous awards for her accomplishments in the legal community and community engagement work.

Sheriece graduated from George Washington University and Suffolk University Law School.

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Quinten Steenhuis, Practitioner-in-Residence

Quinten Steenhuis is a Practitioner-in-Residence at Suffolk Univeristy Law School in their Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. Quinten has practiced housing and eviction defense law since 2008, and has been a professional programmer and web application developer since 2001. He speaks at area law schools and blogs frequently on the topic of legal technology. He works on projects addressing social justice and access to justice with technology focusing on the topic of housing and evictions. Quinten is an active member of his local community, serving as an appointed member of the City of Cambridge's Recycling Advisory Committee, serving on the Access to Justice Commission's working group on housing through the Justice for All initiative, founding a neighborhood political action group, and serving as the long-time president of a Scrabble club in Somerville, MA. He received his B.Sc. in Logic and Computation with an additional B.Sc. in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University and J.D. from Cornell Law School.

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Nicole Siino, Business Analyst at KP Labs

Nicole Siino is a Business Analyst at KP Labs and primarily serves corporate legal clients by analyzing requirements and proposing technology-enabled business improvements on no code and low code solutions. She is 2018 Suffolk University Law School graduate where she was a Legal Innovation & Technology Fellow within the Juvenile Defender Clinic. Through that program, Nicole developed a website application that housed a master list of criminal justice resources in the Boston area. She went on to expand that website application to all of Massachusetts as a year-long NextGen Fellow through the American Bar Association. Nicole then continued working at the intersection of the law and technology as a Consultant at Fireman & Company where she served as lead Business Analyst focusing on the user experience & adoption for enterprise-wide technology implementations at mid-large sized law firms.

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Becky Slogeris, Presidential Innovation Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and Office for Access to Justice

Becky Slogeris is a social impact designer and design justice advocate. She is currently a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and Office for Access to Justice. Her work is focused on leveraging human-centered design methods and mindsets to ensure that DOJ's touch points with the public are accessible, equitable, and easy to use. She has a BFA in Graphic Design and MA in Social Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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Gabriel Teninbaum, Director of the Institute on Legal Innovation and Technology & Professor of Legal Writing

Gabe Teninbaum is a professor and legal technologist at Suffolk University Law School. He serves as Director of the Institute on Legal Innovation & Technology (“LIT”), the LIT Concentration (akin to an undergraduate major), and the LIT Certificate (an online program for legal professionals). During his time at Suffolk Law, he has taught more than 10 different courses (including classes held in Hungary, Sweden, and at MIT) and published more than 30 law review pieces and other articles. In addition to his work at Suffolk Law, Prof. Teninbaum has also - simultaneously - held appointments as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.

He is the founder of an educational technology startup, SpacedRepetition.com, which was named one of the Top 20 Legal IT Innovations in the world by ALM/Legal Week Intelligence; is a former trial attorney at Sugarman in Boston; and, before law school, protected dozens of dignitaries – including two sitting U.S. presidents—while serving as an Operations Support Technician in the U.S. Secret Service.

He has been named to the FastCase 50, which "honors the law's smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders,” and called “perhaps the most tech-savvy law professor in the country” by the ABA Journal, which named him to the Web100 (the top 100 legal professionals to follow on social media).

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Bryce Willey, Clinical Fellow Suffolk University Law School

Bryce is a clinical fellow with the Suffolk LIT Lab, working on e-filing and developing usable, easy-to-make court forms. Bryce graduated from Rice University with a dual BS in Computer Science and BA in Visual and Dramatic Arts in 2017, and with a MS in Computer Science in 2018, working in the KavrakiLab. He previously worked at Realtime Robotics as a Motion Planning Software Engineer, and was a Political Data Fellow with Bluebonnet Data, organizing data and technology efforts on downballot campaigns. He is active in dotbike, a biking advocacy group in Dorchester, and Code for Boston.

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 Alphabetical List (Student Presenters)

Regis J. Acosta, LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School

Regis Joseph Acosta is currently a 3L at Suffolk University Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester, where he studied English, Economics, and Computer Science. Through his involvement in the Health Law Clinic, Regis is an SJC Rule 3:03 Student Attorney, where he works primarily with Guardianship cases. He has also developed and given presentations on Guardianship and its alternatives to health care professionals in Massachusetts. As a LIT Fellow in the Legal Innovation and Technology Clinic, Regis has assisted in automating the Late Docketing Statement for the Appellate Court, worked on a similarity program that compared jury pattern instructions across jurisdictions, and conducted Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) audits. Currently, Regis is working on a WCAG guided checklist and reference document to make it easier for future fellows to conduct WCAG audits.

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Elicia M. Inman, LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School

Elicia M. Inman is a 3L at Suffolk University Law School. Prior to law school, Elicia graduated from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University with a B.A. in Policy Studies and Political Science. She is a Law Clerk at Sawin Law, P.C., where she assists the firm in practice areas including family law, probate, and estate planning. She is also Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:03 Student-Attorney in the Family Advocacy Clinic and serves as a LIT Fellow in Suffolk's Legal Innovations and Technology Fellowship.

As a LIT Fellow, Elicia has built an online divorce tool that offers a questionnaire to help spouses file for an uncontested divorce by providing court-ready documents to download with no legal background. Her tool aims to inform spouses of all the necessary documents for their case and fill them out following the Massachusetts standards without a lawyer.

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Ana P. Morrissette, LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School

Ana Pawlowicz Morrissette is a 3L at Suffolk University Law School. Prior to law school, Ana graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.S. in Biology. She is a Law Clerk at Lando & Anastasi, LLP, where she assists the firm in patent law. Ana serves as the Chief Note Editor for the Journal of Health and Biomedical law. She is also Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:03 Student-Attorney in the Accelerator Clinic and serves as a LIT Fellow in Suffolk's Legal Innovations and Technology Fellowship. In her spare time, Ana loves to dance and is a member of the company Danceworks Boston.

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Kajol Raju, LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School

Kajol Raju is a current 3L at Suffolk University Law School. She received her B.A. from the University of California Santa Barbara. Her legal interests are Human Rights Law and International Law along with Legal Innovation and Technology. Kajol is currently a SJC Rule 3:03 certified Student Attorney with the Human Rights and Indigenous People's Clinic and is one of the L.I.T. Fellows at Suffolk Law. This is an inaugural collaboration between the Human Rights and Indigenous People's Clinic and with the L.I.T. Lab. The focus is on bringing legal innovation to local Tribal Groups in the New England area in order to help build a more streamlined and accessible Tribal Court system. Kajol's project aims to create and establish an electronic filing system for a local Tribe. This past year she has been working on automating legal forms for the Tribal Courts first electronic filing system, which in turn will help increase accessibility and efficiency for both the Tribal Members and the Tribal Court.

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Nini D. Sprinkle, LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School

Nini Sprinkle is currently a 3L AJD student at Suffolk University Law School. She received both her Master’s Degree in Education and Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies, with a Specialization in Creative Writing (thesis: Arbitrary Minds) from Lesley University. Her legal interests are in Family Law, Legal Innovation and Technology, Special Education Law, Labor Law and Employment Law. Nini Sprinkle is currently serving as the Assistant Director for Compliance (Special Education) at Boston Public Schools; she is an SJC Rule 3:03 Student Attorney in the Family Advocacy Clinic and a Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT) Fellow. She serves on the Executive Board as a Student Affairs Liaison for the Black Law Students Association (BLSA Suffolk Law Chapter) and serves as a mentor for Progress to Success. Additionally, she is a member of Phi Alpha Delta (Frankfurter Chapter), OutLaw, Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA), Women of Color Law Students Association (WOCLSA), Women’s Law Association (WLA), Legal Innovation and Technology Student Association (LITSA), Child and Family Law Association (CAFLA), and Parents in Law Association (PILA). Above all and most importantly, she is a mother to two young children, Ariah (6) and Cameron(1), supported by her loving husband, Rafael.

As a LIT Fellow, noting the complexities and roadblocks that pro se individuals face trying to navigate the legal system when filing for divorce, Nini has worked to create and automate both a Separation Agreement and Parenting Time Agreement, which pro se individuals can use to generate court-ready documents to be filed as part of a divorce proceeding in Massachusetts. Nini has partnered with Elicia to incorporate these forms as part of an online divorce tool targeted at helping spouses file for an uncontested divorce in Massachusetts.

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Jessica Vandervort, LIT Lab Member, Suffolk University Law School

Jessica Vandervort is a current 2L at Suffolk University Law School. She received her B.A. in History with a minor in Speech-Language Pathology from Gordon College, in Wenham, MA. While Jessica hopes to eventually have a career in Academia, serving as a professor, her interests in law are focused on Accessibility, Innovation and Technology, and Religious Freedom.

At Suffolk, Jessica is a student in the Accelerator-to-Practice program, and the Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT) Lab. She has served as a Research Assistant, and recently published an article through Modern Lawyer, on Well-being in the Legal Profession. In the LIT Lab, Jessica has worked to automate the Massachusetts Trial Courts Request for Reasonable Accommodations, and to update the ADA Accommodations coordinator directory for use in Suffolk's court forms.

Jessica hopes to continue to provide open doors for conversations about both well-being and accessibility in the legal profession., this tool also has accompanying guides that provide step-by-step guidance on how to submit a FOIA Request with each agency and the Immigration Court.

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Kavya Verma, LIT Fellow, Suffolk University Law School

Kavya Verma is a 3L in the Suffolk Law Immigration Clinic. Kavya has worked this year on creating a tool using QnA Markup for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund that helps individuals identify whether they need to submit a FOIA Request with ICE, CBP, USCIS, and the EOIR. Once individuals have determined which agencies they may need to submit FOIA Requests to, this tool also has accompanying guides that provide step-by-step guidance on how to submit a FOIA Request with each agency and the Immigration Court.

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