Featured Speakers

Michele Carney

Partner, Carney & Marchi, P.S.

Michele Carney is an attorney in Seattle, Washington, with a focus on preventative ethics, immigration and passion for legal technology. Carney is the incoming chair for the Committee for Professional Ethics, Adjunct Disciplinary Counsel and has been a past member of the Practice of Law and Character & Fitness Boards, Legal Technology Task Force and Ad Hoc member of the Well Being Task Force for the Washington State Bar Association.  

She is also currently a member of the AILA National Law Journal, AILA Task Force – Future of Practicing Immigration Law and Ethics Committee (as well as past chair) and also was a past chair and member of the Innovation and Technology Committee. Carney is also on the AILA Washington chapter Wellness Committee. In addition, she is also on the ABA Leadership Board/Committees of Ethics & Professionalism and Legal Technology Resource Center. 

Mark Chinen

Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law

Mark Chinen is Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. He was educated at Pomona College and Yale Divinity School before receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School. Before he began law teaching, Professor Chinen practiced in the areas of international trade, banking and corporate and securities law in Washington D.C. with the firm Covington & Burling.

Professor Chinen teaches contracts and courses in international law and writes on various aspects of international law, particularly international governance, theology and international law, and the relationship between domestic and international law. More recently, he has written on artificial intelligence and legal responsibility and on the international governance of artificial intelligence.

Professor Chinen is a commissioner on the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. He was the inaugural William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence from 2007 to 2010.

Jens Frankenreiter

Treimen Professor of Law, Washington University Law

Jens Frankenreiter‘s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of business law, contract law, and comparative law. His work draws on methods from economics, statistics, and data science to improve our understanding of contracting, private and public lawmaking, and legal institutions. A particular focus of his work is on the use of large amounts of texts and other forms of big data. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in leading academic journals, among them the Journal of Legal Studies and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Professor Frankenreiter holds a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Before coming to WashU, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Bonn, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership.

Sital Kalantry

Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law

Sital Kalantry is a law professor and founder and director of the Roundglass India Center at Seattle University. She has written two books (Women’s Human Rights and Court on Trial) and published over 40 articles in major legal journals such as the Cornell Law Review and the Stanford International Law Journal as well as peer-reviewed social sciences journals. 

Her opinion pieces have been published by the New York Times, Slate, and the Hill (among others). She is a regular media commentator on reproductive rights, law in India, and human rights issues. Her writing has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and Indian Supreme Court. She teaches contract law, comparative constitutional law, and business and human rights. Professor Kalantry has degrees from Cornell University (A.B.), the London School of Economics (MsC), and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (J.D).

Nancy Kim

Professor of Law Emerita, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Nancy S. Kim is the inaugural Michael Paul Galvin Chair in Entrepreneurship and Applied Legal Technology and Law Professor Emerita at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Kim is an expert on contracts and emerging legal issues created by technology and she has written extensively on these topics. She is the author of the books Consentability: Consent and Its Limits (Cambridge University Press, 2019); The Fundamentals of Contract Law and Clauses (Edward Elgar, 2016); and Wrap Contracts (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Her latest book, Death by a Thousand Clicks: How Terms of Service Reshaped Society, the Economy, and Our Future, will be published by Cambridge University Press in February 2027. She has been cited by federal courts, legal treatises, and in media outlets such as the New York Times, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and Popular Mechanics.

Laura Lemire

Attorney, Laura Lemire Law PLLC, SU Law Alumna ‘09

Laura Lemire is a technology attorney and the founder of Laura Lemire Law PLLC. She helps clients succeed in a high-stakes digital economy, drawing on extensive experience both in-house at Big Tech companies and in private practice.

Lemire advises clients across the corporate spectrum—from emerging startups to industry leaders—on data privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and accessibility. She guides organizations as they launch new products, negotiate complex tech transactions, and navigate an evolving regulatory landscape. Known for her practical judgment and collaborative approach, Lemire translates complex legal frameworks into clear, business-minded solutions. 

Tyler McAllister

Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend

Tyler McAllister focuses his practice on patent preparation and prosecution, patent clearance and opinions, patent licensing, patent litigation, post-grant review, and related business and intellectual property counseling. He helps startups, along with established corporations, bring new products and services to market in a wide range of technologies including computer software and hardware, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, virtual assistants, electronics, robotics, graphical user interfaces, content delivery networks, telecommunications, health IT, medical record management, implantable medical devices, robotic surgical devices, wearable medical and consumer devices, insect rearing and release systems, warehouse automation and material handling, sporting goods, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Prior to joining the firm, McAllister gained experience working as a full-time extern to the Honorable Chief Judge Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. During law school, he worked as a law clerk in the Spokane, Washington office of a national law firm and also served as the business editor of the Gonzaga Law Review. Prior to his legal career, Tyler worked as a junior associate engineer at Nolte Associates, Inc. in Cedar City, Utah.

McAllister was recognized in 2025 as one of the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch" for Patent Law by The Best Lawyers in America®. He was recognized in 2025 and the six years immediately preceding as a Washington “Rising Star” for Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers magazine.

Judge Margaret McKeown

Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Judge M. Margaret McKeown is a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining the court in 1998, she was the first female partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle and Washington, DC, where her practice focused on intellectual property, antitrust, and complex litigation.

Judge McKeown is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as a Japan Society Fellow and a White House Fellow. Chief Justice Roberts appointed her as chair of the Judicial Conference Codes of Conduct Committee (ethics) and as a member of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Committee. She is on the boards of the World Justice Project and the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (Chair and Vice Chair), the Council of the American Law Institute, and the Judicial Advisory Board of the American Society of International Law.

Judge McKeown has published and lectured widely on intellectual property, constitutional law, and rule of law issues. She is the recipient of the American Inns of Court Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Ethics and Professionalism Award, the ABA Margaret Brent Women of Achievement Award, the California Bar IP Vanguard Award, the California Bar Warren Christopher Award for International Law, and the William H. Webster Profiles in Leadership Award, among others.

Judge McKeown is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid and is Jurist-in-Residence at the University of San Diego School of Law. She holds a JD and honorary doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. Judge McKeown is the author of Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion (2022).