Justice Gerald N. Allbright obtained his law degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1970 and, until his appointment in 1995 to the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench, practiced almost exclusively in the area of criminal law. He served as the President of the Law Society of Saskatchewan in 1981-82, and also as the President of the Saskatchewan Trial Lawyers Association. He received his Q.C. designation in 1981. Justice Allbright is currently one of the two administrative judges of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench, serving as the Northern Administrator for the Court, and is chambered in Saskatoon.

Andrea Belanger is currently the Head Librarian at the Office of the Judge Advocate General at the Department of National Defense in Ottawa. She completed her MLIS degree at the University of Western Ontario from 2001–2003 and has previously worked within the Library and Archives Division at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Dennis Berezowsky is the Local Registrar in Saskatoon of the Queen’s Bench General Division and the Family Law Division. He is also the District Administrator for the Federal Court of Canada.

Honourable John C. Bouck practiced law in Vancouver until he was appointed a trial judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1974. He sat as a trial judge in Vancouver until he retired in 1996. John Bouck is a prolific author. He was the co-author of Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions (CRIMJI), Civil Jury Instructions (CIVJI), British Columbia Annual Practice (The White Book), and British Columbia Annual Criminal Practice (BCACP). In 2006 his published a book entitled Exploding the Myths: An insider's look at Canada’s justice systems (Juriliber). He continues to publish via his blog BoucksLawBlog.com.

Bryan Bulloch, RVM is the Director of Sheriff Security Operations with the Department of the Solicitor General and Public Security in Alberta. He manages the Sheriffs program providing security for the Courts, the Judiciary, and prisoner escorts through out the Province. Prior to taking this position in 2005, he was the Director of Protection Services where his team provides physical and technical security advice and recommendations to all Government of Alberta Departments, Boards and Agencies. Bryan joined the Alberta Government in 1997 after a 26-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For 8 years, he was in charge of the RCMP VIP Security Section in Alberta affording protection for the Canadian executive, Internationally Protected Persons and members of the international Royal Families. Mr. Bulloch has been awarded the Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in 2005, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal with Bronze Clasp and Star, the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canada, the Alberta Centennial Medal and the Alberta Police Medal.

Anne Campbell is Manager of Specialized Legal Publications for Canada Law Book, where she has worked in various roles since 1989. Anne began her career with CLB as a proofreader. She then moved on to the positions of Assistant Production Editor in Law Reports (where she worked primarily on the Dominion Law Reports and Canadian Criminal Cases) and later Production Editor in the Textbook Department. Anne presently oversees the Law Reports and Summaries groups, as well as the Specialized Legal Publications group dealing with Corporate & Commercial and Labour & Employment Law. Anne graduated from the University of Toronto in 1989 with an Honours B.A. in English.

Gregg Cochlan is a leadership coach and performance management consultant. He is founder and president of thinc, Corporate Change Architect, a proud affiliate of The Pacific Institute, a Seattle-based educational and coaching company that provides critical thinking skills that enable individuals and organizations to increase their overall effectiveness Gregg is also cofounder of The Strategic Intelligence Group, which guides corporations and boards in the process of gathering information relevant to their organization, and then shows them how to translate that information into knowledge that helps them to more accurately predict potential or likely future events and scenarios. His latest book is Love Leadership: What the World Needs Now (New Voices Press, 2008).

Richard W. Danyliuk, Q.C. is partner in McDougall Gauley LLP. His practice area is primarily civil litigation. Most recently he has been counsel on a number of class actions, as well as appearing for an Intervener in the Supreme Court of Canada on Monsanto v. Schmeiser. Two recent class actions have an environmental law focus: defending the putative class action suit by organic farmers against Monsanto and Bayer; and prosecuting a putative class action by farmers and landowners against government entities regarding an irrigation system. Rick is currently an elected Bencher and is President of the Law Society of Saskatchewan for 2008. He thinks he is funny; many differ.

Gary Dickson, Q.C. was appointed Saskatchewan’s first full-time Information and Privacy Commissioner effective November 1, 2003. He practiced law in Calgary, Alberta for 23 years. He then served as the Member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly for Calgary Buffalo from 1992 to 2001. From 2001 until his Saskatchewan appointment he worked exclusively in the areas of privacy and access to information. He was directly involved in the creation, enactment and implementation of public and private sectors privacy laws in the province of Alberta.

Andrea Engels is Director of Finance at Goodmans LLP, a Canadian law firm with about 200 lawyers and offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Andrea joined Goodmans in 1998 and is responsible for the financial services for the firm. Since joining Goodmans in 1998 Andrea has lead the firm through many changes in administrative applications, including converting the firm’s accounting software in 2001, replacing the cost recovery system in 2006, developing an in house purchase order system and numerous workflow forms and processes.
Andrea received her Bachelor of Commerce and Finance from the University of Toronto in 1986 and received her Chartered Accountant designation in 1988. Prior to joining the Goodmans she held various senior financial roles at a public Canadian retailer. She is a member of the Canadian and Ontario Institutes of Chartered Accountants, ILTA - International Legal Technology Association and the Toronto Law Office Management Association.

Darlene Fichter is the Data Library Coodinator at the University of Saskatchewan. She has managed several library web site and digital library projects. Darlene is happiest when she’s testing out new technologies and their applications for library and library users. She is particularly interested in the area of human computer interactions and designing positive user experiences.

Cynthia Flamm has been involved in international education for thirty-five years, first as a student and then as a teacher. A graduate of Georgetown University in languages and linguistics, and of the School for International Training with an M.A.T. in TESL and French, she has lived and either studied or worked in France, Germany, England, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, and Tajikistan. For the past 23 years she has been a faculty member at Boston University’s Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, specializing in business English and legal English. She has taught in their LLM Orientation program for 5 years and in the Legal English for Practitioners program for the past two years. Her interests include legal education, materials development, and cross-cultural communications. Most recently, she has been involved in an international legal writing project.

Penny Hazelton is the Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services at the University of Washington School of Law, where she has been the Law Library Director since 1985. Previous employers were Lewis and Clark Law School, the University of Maine and the US Supreme Court. Managing a library staff of 32 and computing staff of 9, teaching legal research, working as the faculty business manager for the school's law reviews, and directing the Law Librarianship Program at the University of Washington Information School keep Penny very busy. Penny is the general editor of Specialized Legal Research and wrote two chapters for the Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook, 3rd. She has served as President of AALL and on numerous committees and task forces. Currently she is the Chair-Elect for the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law Libraries. Serving on ABA Site evaluation teams is a special pleasure since Penny likes to bring home lots of good, new ideas.

Joel A. Hesje, Q.C. is a partner with McKercher LLP in Saskatoon. His practice focuses on commercial litigation and insolvency. Joel was named Commission Counsel to the Commission of Inquiry Into Matters Relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild, held in 2003/04. He is the current President of the Saskatchewan Legal Education Society Incorporated (SKLESI).

Douglas C. Hodson, Q.C. is a partner with MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP in Saskatoon. Doug’s practice focus is on general corporate and commercial litigation, but he also has significant experience with shareholder disputes, professional liability and tax litigation. In 2004 Doug was appointed counsel to the Commission of Inquiry into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard. The public inquiry started in January 2005 and was completed in December 2006 having over 125 witnesses and 192 days of hearings. Doug is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Suying Hugh is the Work and Study Abroad Officer at the International Student Centre of the University of Toronto. Suying has a Masters degree in International Relations from Seton Hall University and a Bachelors degree in International Development Studies and Economics from the University of Toronto. She has worked in various countries in the Caribbean and has a keen interest in international education and has recently conducted some research in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

LaJean Humphries joined Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in 1991 and is responsible for administration of library services for the firm’s offices in Oregon and Washington. The library has a staff of five serving all firm attorneys and staff in all offices. The collection contains over 5,000 print titles and over 23,000 electronic titles. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Humphries had experience working in academic, public, law, and school libraries. Ms. Humphries has significant experience with retrospective conversion projects, library moves and space planning, online research, and online research training. She obtained her Master of Library Science from San Jose State University and her B.A. from Boise State University.

Ernie Ingles is Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta. He was the founding Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Historical Microreproductions/Institut canadien de microreproductions historiques (CIHM/ICHM). In the 1980’s he was University Librarian at the University of Regina where he founded the RegLIN consortium, a group of libraries working together to share an automated library system. In 1990 he moved to the University of Alberta, where as Chief Librarian and Director of Libraries he created the NEOS consortium, a province-wide Health Knowledge Network (HKN) and the first Canadian university remote storage and document supply facility. In 1995, he assumed the role of Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) and in 2004 he assumed the role of Vice-Provost. He has been an active player within the Canadian library and information technology communities, having served over one hundred professional, association and community organizations. A key contribution to the Canadian library community was his founding of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute, now acclaimed world-wide as a landmark contribution to professional leadership development. He has been the recipient of numerous awards in the fields of librarianship and information technology.

F. Tim Knight has been Head of Technical Services at the York University Law Library since May 2006. Before this he worked at the Great Library at the Law Society of Upper Canada where he honed his skills as Senior Cataloguer and Cataloguing Team Leader. His accidental career as a librarian began in the late 80’s at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Tim has been actively involved with the Canadian Association of Law Libraries for many years. He co-chairs the Access Services & Resource Sharing SIG, has recently become the chair of the KF Modified Committee and is the current editor of the KF Classification Modified for Use in Canadian Law Libraries. His current research interests include: library systems; information technology; social software; subject analysis; classification; cataloguing; folksonomies; and, when time allows, writes a little music here and there. He is teaching, Cataloguing Electronic and Internet Resources, a distance education course through Mohawk College in Hamilton.

Karen Leung is a member of the Legal Research Department at the Vancouver office of Davis LLP. Her practice is primarily focused on the preparation of research memoranda, the giving of opinions and the preparation of arguments. Ms. Leung summered and articled at Davis and rejoined the firm in 2006 after practicing general civil litigation at local Vancouver firm, where she gained experience litigating in the areas of insurance fraud, personal injury and employment. She has appeared as co-counsel in the B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.

Shaunna Mireau is the librarian at the Field Law firm in Edmonton, Alberta. Her position includes management of the firm libraries, planning and direction of Knowledge Management initiatives, and close collaboration with the firm's technology team. She obtained her Library and Information Management diploma from Grant MacEwan College in 1992. She has been working in law firm libraries for most of the past 16 years. Shaunna believes in active participation in professional organizations. She is a member of the Edmonton Law Libraries Association (Head Start 2008 Chair, Webmaster), the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, and is past president of the Alberta Association of Library Technicians.

Ivan Mokanov is Deputy Director of LexUM and Chief Editor of CanLII. He oversees CanLII's publishing and development activities and works with the Board of Directors to set CanLII's strategic directions. At LexUM, Ivan supervises various consulting and research projects in Canada and abroad. As a member of LexUM's Executive Committee, he participates in LexUM's administration and business development. Ivan is a graduate from Sofia University (B.C.L.), the University of Montreal (LL.M.) and he is currently enrolled at HEC Montreal (M.B.A)

Cyndi Murphy, the Director of Research and Library Services at the law firm of Stewart McKelvey in Halifax, has over 26 years of experience in a law library. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.A.(Honours) in French and German, and a Masters in Library Services. During the course of her employment with Stewart McKelvey she has been responsible, at various times, for Closed Files and Computer Services, as well as for Library Services. Currently, she acts as Administrative Contact for the office's Students Committee and has responsibility, among other things, for organizing regular "lunch and learns" for the articled clerks and summer students. Cyndi also co-teaches the course in Advanced Legal Research & Writing at Dalhousie Law School.

Frédéric Pelletier is in charge of the development and application of policies regarding the preparation and publication of legal materials by LexUM. In addition to his editorial work for CanLII, he is coordinator of the Canadian Citation Committee and carries out research on issues related to public access to court records. He has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2002.

Martin Phillipson is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies & Research at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. He has previous held teaching positions at the Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Professor Phillipson’s teaching and research interests lie in the area of Intellectual Property law and more particularly on the regulation of agricultural biotechnology and its impact upon intellectual property rights, farmers’ rights and the environment. Professor Phillipson is Faculty Editor of the Saskatchewan Law Review and Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice.

Pat Riva is Coordonatrice, Section des monographies in the Direction du traitement documentaire de la collection patrimoniale at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal, Canada. Prior to 2007, she held academic librarian positions at McGill University, first in the Library Systems Office, then as Romance Languages Cataloguer/Bibliographic Database Specialist. Her interests are in cataloguing standards, library systems, and the exchange of bibliographic records. She is chair of the Canadian Committee on MARC, was a member of the Format Variation Working Group (created by the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR) and is presently a member of the RDA Examples Group. In 2005, she was elected to the IFLA Cataloguing Section and became chair of the FRBR Review Group.

Mary-Jo Romaniuk is Associate Vice Provost (Learning Services) at the University of Alberta where her responsibilities include the Bookstore, University Press, Museums and Archives and the Libraries. She works closely with and acts for the Vice Provost & Chief Librarian and is responsible for financial management, communication and marketing, fund development, strategic planning, and research and development. Currently, Mary-Jo is on secondment to the Provost and Vice President (Academic) acting as Interim Senior Financial Officer. Mary-Jo has been a guest lecturer at the University of Alberta School of Library and Information Science, and has developed and co-taught the Managing Across Generations course for the Learning Partnership and has presented at various library conferences. Mary-Jo has a BComm (1983), MLIS (2008) and will be commencing work on a PhD. in August 2008. Her area of research and publication is library leadership. Mary-Jo has been involved with the planning and program delivery of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute (NELI). She is a Fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute. She also holds certificates in advanced facilitation and public participation.

Paul Schabas is a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto. He has a broad litigation practice with an emphasis on media, constitutional and public law. Mr. Schabas frequently represents Canada’s major media on defamation and freedom of speech cases. He has also been counsel on leading Charter of Rights cases dealing with freedom of speech, equality, judicial independence, fundamental justice and search and seizure, many in the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Schabas is an elected Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada (the governing body of the legal profession in Ontario) and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the President of Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association, and a Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, The Advocates’ Society, The Law Foundation of Ontario and The Osgoode Society. Mr. Schabas was a founding Director, and is Past-President, of Pro Bono Law Ontario. He is Chair of Lex Mundi’s Pro Bono Committee. He has published many articles on media and Charter issues, and is a frequent speaker at conferences, including the Law Society of Upper Canada’s “Special Lectures” in 2000 and 2003. He has taught for many years at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where he teaches a course on Media and Defamation Law. Mr. Schabas has also sat on the Boards of community and cultural organizations.

Brigadier-General Ken Watkin OMM, CD, QC, has served as a Canadian Forces legal officer since 1982 in a variety of positions in the operational law, military justice and general legal services fields. He has been trial counsel at courts martial and appellate counsel before the Court Martial Appeal Court. Brigadier-General Watkin was the Deputy Judge Advocate/Operations at the time of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and during a significant portion of the subsequent deployment of the Canadian Forces in the “Campaign against Terrorism”. In 1993 he was the legal advisor to a Canadian military/civilian Board of Inquiry investigating the activities of the Canadian Airborne Regiment Battle Group in Somalia and from 1995 to 2005 was Government counsel in respect of various investigations and inquiries arising from the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. His operational law experience has included service as a legal adviser to the Canadian Navy and advising Canadian Commanders in Bosnia. In 2002 Brigadier-General Watkin was appointed to the Order of Military Merit.

Kate Welsh is the Courts Advisory Counsel for the Alberta Courts. She manages access and privacy issues relating to judgments, court records and judicial information systems, and provides legal, policy and operational advice to the judiciary and administration of all three Courts. Ms. Welsh is also the eCourt Coordinator for the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, providing guidance to parties regarding the use of technology before the Court. Ms. Welsh is a founding member and currently chair of the Privacy Law (North) section of the Canadian Bar Association – Alberta Branch. She has also served as the Director of Research for the ‘ALITA’ computer law project (1990–93) at the University of Alberta, where she taught and published in the areas of computer law and computer systems in practice. Ms. Welsh received degrees in English and Law from the University of Alberta, and was called to the Bar in Alberta in 1987.

Virginia Wilson has been the Coordinator of the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership (SHIRP) for the past three years. She has been the co-convener for the Canadian Library Association’s Evidence based Librarianship Interest Group and has created a toolkit on evidence based librarianship for public libraries. She sits on the editorial board for Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, and writes evidence summaries for the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.