Todd Hutchison is an international bestselling author, global business consultant, and a behavioural and project management specialist. He works with the Balfour Meagher law firm located in Perth, Western Australia.

He holds adjunct positions with Edith Cowan University and Curtin University, and also teaches in MBA programs.

Todd was the inaugural Fellow of the Project Management Institute (PMI) in Australia, and formally resided on the international Board of Directors of PMI, as well as the National Chairman of the Australian PMI Council, and WA PMI Chapter President. He has been recognised as a pre-eminent business leader by WA Business News, a leading business mentor in Asia Pacific by Millionaire Books, and was recognised in the Top 101 Industry Experts specialising in project management.

Todd was the first person to complete a degree in legal project management worldwide.  He also has an MBA and a Master of Commerce (Information Systems), studies law and is progressing a PhD in organisational and project performance.   He is also qualified in engineering, contract management, training and professional coaching. Relating to project management, he has an Advanced Diploma in Project Management,  a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Master Project Director (MPD), a Master Project Coach (MPC), and a Legal Project Practitioner (LPP).

Antony Smith  is a solicitor by training with post-graduate level qualifications in law, project management and computing.  Antony is a member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM), and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

He is Prince II qualified (Practitioner level) and a Legal Project Practitioner (LPP).  He has enjoyed project based roles at Pinsent Masons, School of Law Kings College London, Berrymans Lace Mawer and Axxia / LexisNexis, where he spent just over 10 years in the role of Strategic Project Manager.  Antony started his commercial career during the first wave of legal AI as a legal expert system developer.

Antony has since successfully managed project support for complex international commercial disputes, the use of computers in courtrooms and the implementation of practice management and workflow systems in a wide range of law firms.  Antony has been called a ‘completion expert’ and during his career he has implemented many legal support projects which have been innovative and strategically important to the sponsoring organisation.

Antony is the founder of Legal Project Management Limited.

Anna Marra is a consultant and trainer in planning and management of strategic, operational and legal projects for law firms and corporate legal services departments. Passionate about people and rights, she graduated from the University of Studies of Milan and she joined the Varese Bar Association in 2004.

Due to her interest in international relations, she progressed a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Institute of International Policy Studies in Milan (ISPI-Milan) and carried out her first collaborative experiences in organizations such as the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London and the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations (UNDCP) in Vienna.

She has been contributing to the development of educational and legislative actions on ethics and corruption prevention as the Executive Director of the Italian Chapter of Transparency International, publishing manuals such as “L’etica aziendale”, “Ethics and performance in the Public Administration” and “Ethics and sport”, in which it deepens the relationship between social and criminal / administrative responsibility of organizations and their economic results.

She have been living in Spain since 2006, dedicating herself with enthusiasm especially to the consultancy of legal projects. She graduated in the Strategic Project Management Program by the Instituto de Empresa (IE), and wanted to merge her legal knowledge with project methodologies, proposing an innovative approach in the management of legal issues and becoming a benchmark in Legal Project Management.

Author of the book “Legal Project Management: techniques to innovate in the legal market” and of the Blog “Lawyer and Project Manager” (Lawyerpress), she is the Director of LPM Programs at Law School of Instituto de Empresa and Associate Professor of Cloister.

Caitlin “Cat” Moon is a fifth generation lawyer and spent 18 years working with start-ups as a legal and strategic counselor. From these clients, she learned the process and benefits of agile project management and radically transformed the profitability and efficiency of her own practice by integrating these principles into her workflow.

In 2010, she began training and consulting with legal professionals to implement legal project management and agile workflows into a variety of legal settings.

Understanding that effective change management and a focus on user-centered design of implementation are crucial to successful adoption of LPM, Cat’s expertise is in the relational side of LPM training. Cat has a masters in communication and extensive experience in using human-centered design thinking in the design and implementation of project management in legal settings.

Cat is Director of Innovation Design at Vanderbilt Law School, where she designs the JD innovation curriculum and teaches human-centered design, law as a business, legal operations, and technology courses such as blockchain and smart contracts.

She also serves as founder and director of the PoLI Institute, Vanderbilt Law’s platform for executive education training, including legal project management, to practising legal professionals.

Larry Bridgesmith J.D., is CEO of LPM Alignment and  Legal Alignment LLC and listed as one of America’s Best Lawyers, among the Leading Lawyers for American Businesses and SuperLawyer.

He is a member of the International Academy of Mediators and of the Dispute Resolution Section Council of the American Bar Association.  Larry has served in management roles for boutique and mid-sized law firms throughout his career.

He founded the Lipscomb University’s Institute for Conflict Management and served as its inaugural Executive Director. He coordinates the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt School of Law.

Larry holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certificate and is an adjunct professor in legal project management, conflict management and mediation at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Belmont University Massey Graduate School of Business, The Nashville School of Law and the Albany Medical School Alden March Institute for Biomedical Ethics.

In 2013, Larry was awarded the Grayfred Gray Award for Public Service in Mediation by the Coalition for Mediation Awareness in Tennessee.  His practice in facilitation and training in organizational change management has taken him across the country and around the world.

Together with Adel ElMissery, Larry co-founded LegalAlignment LLC to provide legal project management services and technology support through DASH, an artificially intelligent legal productivity management technology which provides interoperability with a lawyer’s preferred set of legaltech support tools.