This blog post has been updated on April 23 to reflect the most recent agenda.

This is the fourth of our previews of the upcoming FutureLaw Conference 2015 (April 30, presented at Paul Brest Hall on the Stanford campus). The event is organized by CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Roland Vogl (left) is the Executive Director and Michael Genesereth is the Research Director (right, below).

Our prior previews (see below) covered the morning program. After networking at lunch, attendees will have to make a very, very difficult choice, because the first afternoon event breaks into three tracks! You’ll have to choose from three compelling options:

Track A: “Best Practices for Consumer Law Companies,” features Sheri Atwood, Abe Geiger, Richard Granat and Edward “Eddie” Hartmann.

> Atwood, left, is the founder and CEO of SupportPay, a Santa Clara-based company that provides an automated child support payment that helps parents share child expenses and exchange support/alimony.

> Geiger is founder and CEO of ShakeLaw, which helps users “create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds,” the website states.

> Granat,  a veteran in the legal renovation arena, holds several titles. He’s President and CEO of DirectLaw Inc.; CEO of LawMedia Labs Inc.; and Co-Director and Affiliate facutly at the Center for Law Practice Technology at Florida Coastal School of Law. DirectLaw is “a virtual law firm platform that turns your law firm’s website into an interactive, online law practice,” the site says.

> Hartman  is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at LegalZoom, which offers “legal help for businesses and families.” It helps consumers with a wide range of legal documents, from wills to incorporation, and more, and offers help from attorneys.

Track B: “Innovating from Within Law Firms: Technology Serving Law Firms in Delivering Value to Clients.” Moderated by Joshua Walker, panelists include  Julie Pearl, Yaacov Rochael Soper Adranly, Silberman and James Yoon.

> Walker is Intellectual Property Counsel and leads IP transations for Silicon Valley, notes Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He is a Co-Founder and Senior Fellow at CodeXand previously served as Chief Legal Architect, CEO and Chairman of Lex Machina Inc.

> Pearl is CEO and Managing Attorney of The Pearl Law Group, an immigration firm that she launched in 1995. She also is Co-Founder and Chair of Tracker Corp. and Pearl Travel Tech.

> Soper Andranly is general counsel and Legal Design Lead at IDEO. She previously served as Outside General Counsel.  The company is a design and innovation consulting firm.

> Silberman is a Partner and COO at Rimon Law, a “full service, international law firm designed from the client’s perspective,” he writes on Linkedin. He previously practiced at Ropes & Gray.

> Yoon is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a litigator and counselor, focusing on IP, trade secrets and employee mobility.

Track C: “The Adoption of Technology Within Corporate Legal Departments.”
This panel will discuss developing and adopting tech to enhance legal services for clients. Dan Cooperman will moderate; panelists include Mark Chandler, Karen Cottle, Pieter Gunst, and David Perla.

> Cooperman is a Stanford Law School Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Of Counsel at DLA Piper. He previously worked at Bingham McCutchen, and served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Apple Inc. from 2007-2009;  he held the same title at Oracle Corp. from 1997-2007.

> Chandler is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Security and Chief Compliance Officer at Cisco Systems Inc. He manages 450 professionals (legal, employee relations, ethics, investigatoins and brand protection teams), and  has been at Cisco since 2001.

> Cottle is Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin, in the firm’s Corporate Goverance and Executive Compensation group. She previously was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Adobe Systems Inc. for 10 years.

> Gunst is co-founder of LawGives, and previously worked in Brussels as a technology lawyer at DLA Piper. He is also an Entrepreneurial Fellow at CodeX.

> McPolin is General Manager of Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business, which offers legal outsourcing.  and has been with Pangea3 since 2007 (with a 10-month interruption to be founder of Reveal,  which offers e-discovery software for litigation support. (Thomson Reuters is the conference partner for FutureLaw Conference 2015.)

> Perla is President, Legal Division/Bloomberg Law at Bloomberg BNA. He oversees Bloomberg BNA’s legal business, “including legal, legislative and regulatory news and analysis, and the flagship Bloomber Law legal and business intelligence research system,” he says on Linkedin. Perla previously was Chairman and CEO at Matterhorn Transactions; Co-Founder and Managing Director of 1991 Ventures; and Co-CEO of Pangea3.  [Disclosure: I am a freelance reporter for Bloomberg BNA.]

Like I said, it’s going to be very hard to choose which panel to attend. But there is good news:  CodeX will be videotaping all of the panels as in the past!

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Monica Bay recently retired from ALM, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Law Technology News in New York and senior editor at The Recorder in San Francisco. She is a member of the California bar. Email: mbay@stanford.edu. Twitter: @MonicaBay