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DONNA PAYNE is CEO of PayneGroup She was the recipient of the first ever Consultant of the Year award given by Law Technology News, and the Lex Proficio award for lifetime service advancement of legal software and publishing. She is a frequent speaker at legal and technical conferences worldwide and has spoken to Congressional committees, the Senate, and at international judicial conferences on the subject of metadata and preventing accidental disclosure. Donna writes the Test Drive column for Law Technology News. She can be reached at donnapayne@ payneconsulting.com or Twitter @Donna_Payne. LINDA VEGA is the Supervisor of Desktop Support and Training at Fish & Richardson P.C. where she is responsible for all the IT department’s academic program’s implementation, organization, curriculum development, evaluation and delivery standards. Additionally, she manages the helpdesk. Linda can be reached at vega@fr.com. ROB SACCONE is Vice President and General Manager of XMLAW, part of Hubbard One, a Westlaw business. Rob has more than 15 years of business, software and knowledge management expertise in a variety of industries including legal, energy, real estate and financial services. He can be reached at robert.saccone@thomsonreuters.com. SUMIT VIRMANI, Principal Technologist with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team at Microsoft Corporation, is a CRM industry expert with more than 14 years of experience in architecting, designing, developing and managing successful CRM applications of global scale. He can be reached at svirmani@microsoft.com. NORM THOMAS is the Industry Market Development Director for Microsoft’s Legal & Professional Services. Norm joined Microsoft in 1996, leading tools development and training support in the Enterprise Customer Organization and later became Enterprise Sales Strategy Program Manager for the Worldwide Enterprise Group. He was later promoted to Worldwide Director of Operations for Microsoft Consulting Services. In all of those capacities, Norm was responsible for coordinating training programs, process and tool deployments and strategy coordination for Microsoft’s enterprise businesses. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Client Partner for Cambridge Technology Partners in large- scale project management and client development. Norm can be reached at norm.thomas@microsoft.com. BRIAN D. ZEVE is Managing Director for Microsoft Corp.’s U.S. Professional Services Group where he leads Microsoft’s sales and services efforts for the legal industry. Brian’s team of industry managers, solution specialists, marketing managers, partner managers, and technology strategists are focused on solving the business problems of legal professionals through industry-relevant solutions and technology. He can be reached at bzeve@ microsoft.com. www.iltanet.org Microsoft 53