Featured Guest Speakers

Giles Watson helps law practices realise their potential through coaching, consultancy and tailored professional development. He specialises in client-facing challenges such as positioning and strategy, pricing, marketing & business development, customer experience & client service.
Prior to setting up his own consultancy in 2015, he managed the Practice management Course at Queensland Law Society, ran a practice management quality mark scheme for the Law Society of England and Wales, and was a business development manager for three London law firms.
Giles has a degree in Politics, a Masters in Marketing and an MBA. He lectures on costs communication at the QUT Legal Practice Course, and on ‘Dynamic strategy and disruptive innovation’ for Kaplan Business school’s MBA course.

Jonathan Middleburgh consults on human capital issues and coaches senior legal talent in both law firms and legal departments. A former practicing lawyer, he is also trained as an organizational psychologist, Jonathan has a wide range of experience helping law firms and legal departments to develop their senior legal talent so as to maximize business outcomes.

Gerry Riskin is an internationally recognized lawyer, author and management consultant. He was managing partner of a law firm in Canada and Hong Kong, and is the author of The Successful Lawyer, Creating The Marketing Mindset, Herding Cats and beyond KNOWING. Gerry resides in Anguilla BWI and serves law firm clients globally.

Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase, a legal publishing company based (during non-pandemic times) in Washington, D.C. Fastcase is one of the world’s fastest-growing legal publishers, serving more than 1.1 million subscribers from around the world.
Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington & Burling, in Washington D.C. and Brussels, where he advised Microsoft, Merck, SmithKline, the Business Software Alliance, the National Football
League, and the National Hockey League. His practice focused on corporate advisory work for software companies and sports leagues, and intellectual property litigation.

Steven Roberts started his engineering career in the United Kingdom after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Computing, specialising in networks and communications. Steven has called Australia home since 2002 and after nearly a decade working in large organisations, including service delivery to the Northern Territory Government, Steven started One IT Services in 2010. Steven’s business has more than quadrupled in size during a period that has seen the greatest change in the cyber-threat landscape. One IT Services has been at the forefront of IT service delivery for over ten years and Steven has provided cybersecurity consultation to businesses of all levels and sizes while also advising on multiple IT Risk Committees. Additionally, Steven has built One IT Services as a premium MSP which is now the largest IT Service Provider to the legal industry in the NT.