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Nola has practiced law for over 30 years, primarily as a trial attorney, in both civil and criminal litigation. She has served as legal counsel for major corporations, small companies, law firms, and government agencies, and has been the supervising attorney for paralegals on staff. She received a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1980 from the University of Kansas, and her Juris Doctorate from Washburn Law School in 1984. In addition to her trial practice, she has taught as an adjunct for business law classes and paralegal programs. A native Kansasan, Nola is an avid KU basketball fan (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!) and an advocate and supporter of the arts.

Marty Chadwick is a political science graduate of Columbia College and has a J.D. from Western New England University. A resident of Gilbert, Arizona, he is an active member of the Arizona State Bar and prior member of the Massachusetts Bar and the Virginia Bar; where he practiced contract, criminal, elder, juvenile, and estate planning law. He is a professional mediator with his own Arizona firm, Mediation Path, where he mediates divorce, family law, employment, and elder conflicts. He has also mediated for the Pinal County Courts, the Office of the Arizona Attorney General, the Maricopa County Justice Courts, and the EEOC. Prior to this, Marty had a long career as a C-level executive in Healthcare.

Prior to teaching at Bryan, Marty was an adjunct instructor in the Lamson College paralegal program. His significant other, sons and several grandchildren in the area keep him busy, humble, perplexed, and delighted. He also enjoys volunteer work with the fire department, hiking, golfing, cooking, creative writing, and experimenting with water coloring

Steve received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Washington in 1996.

Steve is an E-Discovery and Litigation Support professional with extensive experience advising case teams and clients on best practices, educating and guiding them through the complex electronic discovery process, creating and managing sensible and cost-effective solutions to meet their needs, as well as implementing sound procedures and policies to ensure that they receive consistent and high-quality results.

Steve is currently the Director of E-Discovery & Litigation Support at Dentons Law Firm, Kansas City, MO., the world’s largest law firm representing client’s globally. Previously he served as the Director of Litigation Support at Lathrop & Gage. In both positions, Steve has designed and implemented departmental service offerings relating to information and data management, litigation technology, E-Discovery, and other Litigation Support functions.

Steve has a history of building professional and client service teams around the core principles of service, project management, accountability, and common sense.
He is passionate about and promotes education and thought on process and project management throughout the industry and frequently speak or present on issues across the EDRM spectrum.

Before joining the paralegal team at Bryan, Curtis spent over 20 years of working directly with law firms and government agencies in electronic discovery, litigation support, and quality control. He has worked for noted industry leaders in legal software such as Modus eDiscovery, Inc., Encore Legal Solutions/Epiq Systems, and InVzn. He has trained students and supported Client and Encore users on Concordance, Summation, iCONECT, iPro, LiveNote, CaseMap, MS-Windows, MS-Office, MS-DOS, and litigation document production-related subjects.

His past experience in litigation support software development and instruction brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to our students learning about electronic discovery.

Claudine Dulaney is the Program Director for the Litigation and E-Discovery Paralegal program at Bryan University. After completing her Bachelor’s degree at Washington University in St. Louis, she graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law with a Juris Doctor (J.D.). Her years of experience as a paralegal, legal secretary, and research assistant provide her with great insight into the realities of the paralegal career field. In addition, over the past 8 years, she has worked in teaching and administrative roles in higher education including paralegal studies.

She is a member of NALA, the Association of Legal Assistants and Paralegals, and participates in continuing education opportunities, staying current on the trends in the field.

She is passionate about the Paralegal field and in preparing students successfully to meet the demands of the workplace.

Lesa Engle is a licensed attorney in Arizona. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Valparaiso University in 2007, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 2005.

Lesa is the Assistant Managing Attorney for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Legal Services Office. She currently maintains a caseload of Guardian ad Litem appointments in Dependency, Mental Health, and Civil Family cases. Lesa enjoys working with people, and helping underrepresented populations navigate the legal system. She spent almost five years with the Maricopa County Office of the Public Defender representing indigent clients charged with felony offenses.

In her free time, Lesa enjoys hiking, trying new restaurants, and live music.

Patrick graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a B.S. in Political Science. He then earned his Juris Doctorate from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. While in law school, Patrick interned at the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, and a civil firm. He was also a member of the nationally-ranked Cumberland Trial Team.

After law school, Patrick moved to Arizona where he began working at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. While there, he prosecuted cases in the Pre-Trial Bureau, the Felony Trial Bureau, and the Family Violence Bureau. After nearly five years in Maricopa County, Patrick joined the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, where he currently prosecutes violent and repeat offenders in the Major Offender Bureau.

Christine Leavitt is an attorney who is licensed to practice in Arizona, California, and Utah. Christine works in the field of employment and labor law as Associate General Counsel to one of the largest private insurance brokerages, a job which she has held for the past six years. In 2011, Christine was invited to be a guest lecturer in Ukraine as part of the U.S. Build Initiative, and she taught at five law schools in western Ukraine. Christine also externed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Utah Legal Services, and the Beaver County Public Defender’s office, for which work she received the J. Reuben Clark Public Service Award.

Christine graduated with a Juris Doctor Degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School with honors. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Utah University, where she double majored in Political Science and Spanish, graduating with high honors and as Valedictorian of her class. Christine is very energetic and passionate. She loves learning and enjoys meeting new people. She is also the mother of four, an accomplished pianist, and a long distance runner. Her hobbies include traveling and spending as much time as possible exploring the outdoors with her family.

After working at the Arizona Supreme Court, Kristin Moye entered private practice at the law firm of Becker Zarling & Moye Law. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Arizona and holds a J.D. and LL.M. from Phoenix School of Law and Pepperdine. She has published two law review articles in the area of employment law and estate planning.

Kristin worked at Snell & Wilmer and Ryley Carlock and Applewhite where she gained experience with e-Discovery. Currently, her practice focuses on estate planning and representing small businesses. In her spare time, she enjoys practicing yoga and spending time with her daughter.

Kim is a Senior Paralegal Legal in the Intellectual Property Litigation Department at Merck & Co., Inc. in New Jersey. She has over 10 years’ experience in IP Litigation and extensive hands on experience managing discovery requests, document reviews and productions for major Hatch-Waxman litigations.

While handling Merck’s high profile cases, she works closely with various teams of project managers, outside counsels, e-discovery vendors, and technical service professionals who provide support to her large scale ANDA suits and litigations internationally and domestically. She takes on a supervisory role to her cases by developing teams that are detailed oriented and highly values the implementation of thorough quality control, efficiency and cost savings.

Kim has also taken on a consultative approach with various acquisitions to ensure all IP is preserved, maintained and integrated into the universal Merck environment. She has worked with numerous departments to establish SOP’s to comply with company issued legal holds, the preservation of ESI and non-ESI data corpuses.

Kim earned her bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University with high honors and her paralegal degree from Berkeley College. Kim also serves on the Advisory Board for the Litigation and E-Discovery Paralegal Studies program at Bryan University. She is also actively involved in Merck’s pro-bono programs covering fields such as bankruptcy, UVisa applications, StreetLaw and Veterans’ services to name a few.

Mike is the Director of Litigation Support Services at New York-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. He is the author of “Project Management in Electronic Discovery” (2016 eDiscoveryPM.com), the only book to merge project management principles and best practices in electronic discovery.

He is a teacher, a project management professional, and technologist with more than 20 years of experience in the legal services industry. He has worked in legal technology and litigation at large law firms, including at Skadden Arps, managing large litigation and complex technology projects involving forensics and electronic discovery.

At Stroock, he is responsible for the development and implementation of Firm policy relating to the use of technology across multiple practice areas, including litigation, financial restructuring and intellectual property. As part of the Firm’s administrative team, he oversees a full-service Litigation Support Department, the development of best practices and project-oriented protocols, and the design and delivery of e-discovery and application-specific training programs.

Mike is a member of the Firm’s eDiscovery and Information Governance Group and he regularly consults with attorneys and the Firm’s Fortune 500 clients on the use of technology, electronic discovery and information governance. A graduate of the State University of New York, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in psychology and music, he also studied law for one year at the University of London. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS), and he teaches e-discovery and project management at Tempe, Arizona-based Bryan University, where he also sits on the university advisory board. He is the ACEDS liaison member to the Advisory Committee of the EDRM. Mike frequently writes and speaks on issues related to project management, e-discovery and litigation support.

Elvis teaches the paralegal program’s courses in electronic discovery. Originating from Albania, Elvis earned his first law degree from University of Tirana, Faculty of Law in 2009 and later his Master Degree (LL.M) from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University with concentration in International Business Law in 2012. He is licensed to practice law in New York State and a member of New York Bar Association.

Currently working as a litigation paralegal for a Phoenix, Arizona law firm, Elvis’s primary focus is electronic discovery and data management, covering of wide variety of cases. His experience and knowledge in litigation software and technology include the noted programs Eclipse, eCapture, eScanit, IPRO Suite, Relativity, Concordance Lexis/Nexis, CaseMap, Discovery Assistant, Trial Director and Summation. Certified in IPRO Suite 8.6, Elvis has also worked as a Quality Assurance Analyst (software tester) and Tech Support Specialist for IPRO Tech Inc.

Elvis’s extensive knowledge and experience in electronic discovery litigation coupled with his enthusiasm for teaching provides our paralegal students with an unparalleled education in this ever-evolving area of the law.

Cori received two Bachelor degrees, Political Science and Government, and Spanish from the University of Kansas in 2013, where she was a National Collegiate Scholar, a member of the KU Honors Society, and Pi Sigma Alpha, a Political Science Honors Society.

She went on to earn her juris doctorate degree in 2016 from the University of Kansas Law School, receiving her juris doctorate in 2016. While there she served as president of the 3 L class, and was a member of the Environmental Law Society, Animal Defense League and Vice President of the Law Students for Women’s Reproductive Justice.

Cori is a registered attorney in Arizona, and currently works as an associate attorney for the Gurstel Law firm in Scottsdale, AZ.