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Legal Analytics: How to Win More Business, Cases, and Beat Your Competition |
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Owen Byrd, Chief Evangelist & General Counsel, Lex Machina
Owen Byrd is Lex Machina’s Chief Evangelist and General Counsel. He provides thought leadership in the domain of Legal Analytics and its application to the business and practice of law via speaking engagements, publications, webcasts, blogging, social media, and press. He also assists with sales, marketing, and customer success, and manages Lex Machina’s operations, including legal, finance, and human resources. Owen has previously founded and led data-centric software, real estate, and non-profit ventures and operated his own law firm. He is a member of the California Bar and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. from Colorado College. |
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Sean Bedford, Associate, Alston & Bird
Sean Bedford is a registered patent attorney and an associate in Alston & Bird's Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Sean has experience litigating in district court, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and before the International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as with pre-litigation evaluation of the value and validity of patents. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies, including airfoils, automotive components, propulsion systems, consumer electronics, flooring systems, manufacturing processes, medical devices, and veterinary pharmaceuticals. He has also prosecuted numerous patent applications to allowance. Sean received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Florida, where he served as a managing editor of the Florida Law Review and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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