Leadership Profiles

To encourage connections throughout the RAILS network, we’ve profiled a selection of our RAILS Participants. We’ll continue to add to this section as we develop more profiles. Stay tuned!

Meet RAILS participants

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Wendy Curtis

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Wendy Curtis serves as Orrick's Chief Innovation Officer. Named "Most Innovative Lawyer of the Year" by Financial Times in 2018, she leads the firm's efforts to transform legal service delivery through novel products, streamlined processes, and technology.
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Subroto Mukerji

Subroto Mukerji is the CEO of Integreon, a worldwide provider of legal and business outsourced solutions, including services enabled by AI that balance innovation and risk.
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Stephanie Goutos

Stephanie Goutos is the Lead Practice Innovation Attorney for Gunderson Dettmer’s Employment & Labor Group, where she spearheads their innovation and knowledge management initiatives.
Sonja Ebron

Sonja Ebron

Sonja Ebron holds a PhD in electrical engineering and is a former college professor with a background in utilities and artificial intelligence. She is the cofounder and CEO of Courtroom5, where she has made it her personal mission to empower people to represent themselves effectively in court.
Sarah Mauet

Sarah Mauet

Sarah Mauet is a UX researcher and strategist with nearly 20 years of experience in website design and development, multimedia communications, and higher education instruction and administration.
Leigh Zeiser

Leigh Zeiser

Leigh Zeiser is the Senior Manager of Innovation at BakerHostetler. She champions innovative technologies and processes, focusing on AI and automation to create competitive advantages. With over 20 years of experience in the legal industry, she has received multiple awards, including ILTA's Innovative Leader of the Year.
Katie Strickfaden

Katie Strickfaden

Katie Strickfaden is the Chief Operating Officer at Lakeshore Legal Aid, a not–for–profit law firm that is focused on providing civil legal services to low-income individuals, older adults, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Michigan Area.
Jeff Kelly

Jeff Kelly

Jeff Kelly is a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, specializing in emerging technology, including data analytics, artificial intelligence, digital assets, and FinTech. 
Eli Makus

Eli Makus

Eli Makus is the Managing Partner at Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation (VM Law), a law firm focused exclusively on neutral fact-finding services, including workplace investigations and Title IX investigations, adjudications and decision making.
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Diane Wells

Diane Wells is the founder of Impartial, an organization that helps raise awareness for US non-profit organizations that work in the criminal justice system filling in the gaps and errors.