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Ms. Lam’s responsibilities include investigating and prosecuting ethical violations of the Hawaii Rules of Professional Conduct, providing informal verbal opinions, and coordinating and presenting legal education seminars. Previously, Ms. Lam worked at Dentons US LLP, the world’s largest global law firm, where she focused her practice on commercial litigation and real estate transactions. She graduated, cum laude, from the William S. Richardson School of Law and received her B.A., cum laude, from Georgetown University. Prior to law school, Ms. Lam worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono and the U.S. Senate Democratic Leadership.

Mr. Buzin is a distinguished trial lawyer known for his extensive experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, employment law, and business litigation. With over two decades of experience, Mr. Buzin has secured numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, including a landmark $28 million verdict in a negligent supervision case against a public school district. Mr. Buzin’s legal expertise spans various complex areas, allowing him to represent clients in high-stakes litigation and deliver results. His work has led to national recognitions, such as being named a finalist for the 2019 Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.

In addition to his work in the courtroom, Mr. Buzin is a dedicated educator, serving as an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he shares his knowledge of trial advocacy, written advocacy, and legal writing with aspiring lawyers. His practice has earned him consistent recognition in Super Lawyers since 2015, an honor awarded to no more than 5% of attorneys in each state. In recent years, Mr. Buzin has been selected to an even more exclusive group by being named as a Super Lawyers Top 100 in the New York-Metro area.

Beyond his legal practice, Mr. Buzin is actively involved in legal education and mentorship, participating in seminars and panels aimed at developing the next generation of legal professionals. His dedication to the law, coupled with his robust trial experience, has solidified his reputation as a fierce advocate for plaintiffs.

As an attorney deeply committed to delivering justice, Mr. Buzin remains at the forefront of civil litigation, continually taking on challenging cases that require innovative legal strategies. His success in both personal injury and business litigation makes him a versatile, highly respected, and sought-after figure within the legal community.

His success spans a broad range of litigation, from catastrophic injury cases to complex business disputes, and he has participated in cases that have resolved for nearly $100 million. Mr. Buzin holds a J.D. and an MBA from the University of Miami and is admitted to practice in both New York and Florida. Mr. Buzin has also been quoted and/or had cases featured in New York Daily News, New York Post, Journal News, Fios One News, News 12, News Nation, New York Law Journal, Verdict Search, Patch, and Daily Voice.

Mr. Debbins focuses his practice on commercial litigation, federal court practice, class actions, torts and personal injury both at trial and the appellate level. He was the second chair attorney on the trial team that achieved one of the top fifty bench awards in the nation in 2020. While in law school, he served as a competitor and coach for NYU’s Moot Court Board and as a research and teaching assistant in criminal and administrative law. He also competed in NYU’s Marden Oral Advocacy Competition and participated in its Environmental Law Clinic, where he assisted the Natural Resources Defense Council in environmental impact litigation. Before finishing his third year of law school, Mr. Debbins joined The Order of the Coif and was designated a Florence Allen Scholar. After graduation, he served a one-year term as a confidential law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence J. Vilardo of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. He now serves as a member of the Local Rules Committee for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York and the New York State Bar Association Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction.

Mr. Goldblatt concentrates his practice representing individuals who have sustained orthopedic and traumatic brain injury due to the negligence of others. Mr. Goldblatt is currently on the Board of Directors for the Brain Injury Association of New York as well as a member of the Concussion Initiative Committee. He is a BIA Certified Brain Injury Specialist and is the former Chair of American Association for Justice Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, serves on their Executive Board and is also an active member in several other leading brain injury associations. He has chaired several CLE’s on brain injury for the New York State Trial Lawyers and lectures nationally to trial lawyers, judges, and representatives of the insurance industry on brain injury litigation. He has also authored articles offering guidance to attorneys in litigating brain injury cases.

Ms. Killar is an attorney at LaMarche Safranko Law PLLC, where she represents individuals who have been injured or accused of a crime throughout Albany, the Capital Region, and Upstate New York. Known for her drive, compassion, and strong advocacy skills, Ms. Killar brings a client-centered approach to every personal injury and criminal defense case she handles. She is a proud graduate of Siena College, where she studied interdisciplinary criminal justice with a focus on higher education opportunities for incarcerated individuals, and The Doane Stuart School.

Mr. Ronemus has extensive experience in litigation covering a wide range of legal areas. Because of his medical school education, he is uniquely qualified in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury. In his more than 40 years of practice, he has achieved an impressive record of success, having tried more hundreds of cases to verdict and winning millions in compensation for his clients. He is well known throughout New York for his deep knowledge of Traumatic Brain Injury cases. After earning a Bachelor of Science from the University of Colorado in 1977, he attended Vanderbilt University Medical School and then enrolled in the New York University School of Law where he received his J.D. in 1983. In 1984 Mr. Ronemus became licensed to practice law in New York and Massachusetts. He was admitted in Connecticut in 1987. Before becoming a partner with Ronemus & Vilensky, Mr. Ronemus was an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York, an associate with Landau & Miller, and in private practice. Currently, Mr. Ronemus is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Network, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, and the New York State Bar Association/Medical Malpractice Committee. Mr. Ronemus has lectured for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association on topics including motor vehicle law, insurance law, negligent security cases, and medical malpractice.

Ms. Ronemus is a skilled trial attorney specializing in general liability, motor vehicle, construction accidents, and medical malpractice. She ardently represents her clients from the inception of the case, through discovery and trial. Ms. Ronemus has been practicing law for 12 years and before joining Ronemus & Vilensky she worked as a defense attorney. This gives her a unique insight into her cases and allows her to anticipate potential theories presented by the defense. Ms. Ronemus received a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University in 2006 and obtained her Juris Doctorate from New York Law School in 2011. She is licensed to practice in the state of New York and holds memberships in many professional organizations, including New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and The American Association of Justice. In addition, Attorney Ronemus has been selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars for 2018-2019, 2021-2023.

Mr. Kurdi has been serving the electrical industry for over 30 years as an engineer, electrician and trainer. Mr. Kurdi has engineered (designed, specified and analyzed) government buildings (police stations, sheriff’s offices, fire stations, city halls, court houses, libraries, and jails), housing buildings (affordable, senior, assistant, memory care, adaptable use and student), hospitals, data centers, sport arenas, commercial office buildings, water/wastewater treatment plants and electric utility distribution and substations. Mr. Kurdi’s experience as an electrician includes estimating, laying out, wiring, installing and maintaining electrical systems for residential and commercial buildings. He has served as an engineer on construction projects in numerous locations in Texas, including San Antonio, Arlington, Bryan and Manor. He has developed and taught thousands of seminar hours over the years at Dunwoody College of Technology, Minnesota Electrical Association, IEEE and others. The seminars include NEC Code, electrician’s exam, MV system, electrical wiring, apprenticeship, estimation, electrical design, Revit MEP, and project management. Mr. Kurdi holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Adult Education. He is a registered electrical engineer (PE) in 37 states, including Minnesota and Texas. He holds a Class A master electrician license from the State of Minnesota. Currently, Mr. Kurdi is a senior electrical engineer and department head at BKV Group (A&E Firm with offices in Chicago, Dallas, DC & Minneapolis). Mr. Kurdi served as NCEL Board Member (Jan 2021 – present), IAEI MN Chapter president (Jan 2018 – Jan 2023), chair of IEEE Twin Cities PES/IAS (Aug 2019 – Jan 2023), Minnesota State Board of Electricity member (Jan 2018 – Jan 2020).

Dr. Delaney is president and general manager of the construction management services group at Delaney CMS in Union Springs, New York. He is the former president of C&S Design Build Inc., C&S’s program and construction management company, where he started the agency construction management business. In his 12-year career there, he developed it into the fastest-growing and most profitable of the firms’ business units. At C&S, Dr. Delaney was responsible for more than $1 billion in completed projects in the education, municipal, wastewater, airport, and private development sectors. In his 25 years as a construction professional, he has served in many roles including those of project engineer, design coordinator, superintendent, construction manager, program manager, general manager, and president. Dr. Delaney is a licensed professional engineer, holds the program management professional (PgMP®) credential, is a certified construction manager (CCM®), and is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) accredited professional. Dr. Delaney is the only person in the world with all these credentials. In addition, he is an expert critical path method scheduler and has presented both nationally and internationally on construction, project, and program management. Dr. Delaney received his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He enjoys sharing his experience leading teams, and he has provided management training to senior management including his colleagues at the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Senior Executive Institute and at Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Inc., and L3 Communications. Dr. Delaney was recently the keynote speaker at the Tri-State Diversity Summit where he shared Delaney CMS’s (a woman-owned business enterprise) vision for equality and empowerment. He is also a professor in the Construction Management Department at Southern Mississippi University. He recently published a university textbook titled Construction Program Management by CRC Press. The textbook is used to teach undergraduate and graduate students and by practitioners to help them formulate a process-based approach for management of large projects and programs.

Dr. Mulcue Nieto has attained two Ph.D. degrees and has more than 20 distinctions in the fields of engineering, renewable energy, and physics; granted by institutions in the USA, Europe, and Latin America. He has developed and published scientific models and technical regulations in BIPV. He has also researched the design of more economical and efficient solar cells for BIPV by using nanotechnology.

Dr. Harrod is a contractor, author and electrification advocate. In 2006 he founded Snug Planet, an award-winning home performance company based in Ithaca, New York. From its initial focus on energy audits and envelope improvements, Snug Planet has grown to offer whole-home solutions, including moisture management and HVAC upgrades. Snug Planet is an active participant in New York State residential programs serving low-income and market-rate customers. In early 2022, Snug Planet merged with Halco Energy, one of the largest home performance contractors in New York. Dr. Harrod is certified by the Building Performance Institute as a Building Analyst, Envelope Professional, Heating Professional, and AC/Heat Pump Professional. Dr. Harrod’s articles have appeared in Home Energy Magazine, Journal of Extension, Building Performance Journal; and ASHRAE Journal. He is a regular contributor to Green Building Advisor.

Mr. Mohney is the Engineering Geology Program leader for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). The Engineering Geology Program at ODOT encompasses site characterization, subsurface exploration, slopes and embankments, geologic hazards, groundwater, geotechnical instrumentation, and planning and research activities. In this role, he also oversees the Unstable Slopes (landslide/ rockfall) Program for ODOT. He is a registered geologist and a certified engineering geologist in Oregon with over 30 years of experience in Oregon and the western states. Mr. Mohney has been the Engineering Geology Program leader since 2004. Prior to this, he had been a staff and project-level geologist for consulting firms and the mining industry as well as for ODOT. He is a graduate of the Geology Program at Portland State University. During his professional career, Mr. Mohney has been involved in the investigation, design, and construction of a wide range of challenging earthwork projects including high fills on soft ground, side slope embankments, and cut slopes in mixed-face conditions. His other work includes landslide and rockfall mitigation, ground improvement, and dewatering.

Mr. Gorneau is responsible for offering innovative green infrastructure/low impact stormwater solutions that enable new applications and raise the bar on performance, cost effectiveness, and verification. He previously served as national manager of ACF Environmental/Ferguson Waterworks and as regional vice president for FABCO Industries where he was responsible for engineering design, specification, and installation of manufactured stormwater management systems. Mr. Gorneau earned a BS degree in Biological Systems Engineering and an MS degree in Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln which provided the necessary knowledge for him to launch his career into the technical sales and specified engineered products industry. He spent the subsequent time since graduation gaining experience and expanding his knowledge of the industry on a wide variety of civil and environmental engineering design projects for private and public sector clients. Mr. Gorneau is a registered professional engineer in Maine and New Hampshire, and he is a Maine certified stormwater inspector. He has been a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), serving as section president in 2014.

Mr. Miller has been a distinguished leader in the HVAC industry since 1995, bringing three decades of expertise spanning nearly all areas of focus in the HVAC industry. He holds an HVAC Master’s License in Maryland and Virginia, as well as a Stationary Engineer license. Mr. Miller is a proud member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), recently lecturing at the 2025 annual conference regarding Thermal Energy Networks. In 1998, he obtained a Security Clearance, enabling him to work on highly specialized and mission-critical classified mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) projects across the globe. His portfolio includes HVAC construction and system integrations in Egypt, India, the UK, Western Europe, the Caribbean, and throughout the United States, projects that extend far beyond the scope of traditional commercial MEP work. Since 2016, Mr. Miller has been based in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he continues to provide subject-matter expertise in all areas of HVAC. He also founded ProProfitBuild.com, a platform dedicated to empowering tradesmen and construction professionals. With real-world proven strategies, he addresses financial management practices, 1:1 construction and business management mentoring, and implementing proven practices and procedures to improve the continuity of business for trade-oriented businesses.

Mr. Messmer has over 30 years of engineering experience in analysis, design, plan/specification development, and project management/personnel supervision for geotechnical, foundation and structural engineering projects in the transportation, industrial, municipal and commercial fields of civil engineering. Throughout his career he has placed an emphasis on quality control and staff training. Mr. Messmer is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the American Society of Highway Engineers and the Society of American Military Engineers. He earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Messmer was accepted into the Academy of Geo-Professionals in 2013.

Mr. Nuño is a civil engineering manager at the Denver office of Ware Malcomb. A 2008 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a specialty in structural and environmental engineering, he has established himself as a leader in the field of drainage and erosion and sediment control. In his 15-year career, Mr. Nuño has excelled in the design of land development projects including grading, utility design, stormwater management, and erosion control. Through his experiences as a consulting engineer, he has prepared civil construction plans for such clients as Marriott International, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), Lennar Homes, Oakwood Homes, and Kiewit Infrastructure West. In the field, Mr. Nuño has provided stormwater inspection services for SDG&E, Caesars Entertainment Group, and public agencies such as the City of Carlsbad, California, and the Town of Elizabeth, Colorado. He has managed civil projects in 17 different states and prides himself on working with developers, architects, and contractors to bridge the gap between regulatory compliance and constructability in the field. Mr. Nuño is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and California; a Certified Floodplain Manager; a certified professional in erosion and sediment control, a Colorado LEED accredited professional, and a qualified SWPPP developer/practitioner. He is an active member in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Urban Land Institute, and the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers.

Professor Bernstein is a nationally recognized authority on tort law and feminist jurisprudence, as well as professional responsibility, products liability, and family law. Her awards include the first Fulbright scholarship in European Union affairs given to a law professor. As a member of the American Law Institute, she has served as an adviser on two torts Restatements, the recently completed one on intentional torts and the in-progress Restatement covering remedies. In 2020 she received from the AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems the top honor in her academic field, the William L. Prosser Award.

Her writings have appeared in dozens of law reviews, including the principal ones of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, California, Michigan, Cornell, Duke, Texas, and Vanderbilt. She is the author of two books about the law of human reproductive anatomy, The Common Law Inside the Female Body (Cambridge University Press 2019) and Making the Best of Semen (forthcoming, NYU Press). Her other books address torts, products liability, and the law of marriage. Professor Bernstein’s scholarship has been cited in decisional law by federal courts (both trial and appellate) and the supreme courts of Pennsylvania and Texas. She has also authored a series on legal malpractice in the New York Law Journal.

Prior to joining Brooklyn Law School, Professor Bernstein was the Sam Nunn Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at New York Law School, and Norman & Edna Freehling Scholar and Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also served as a visiting professor at Michigan Law School, Cornell Law School, and the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was the Mason Ladd Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. Before her academic career, she practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton and was a law clerk to Judge Jack Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Professor Goldman is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also co-directs the school’s Datta Center for High Tech Law (DCHTL) and co-supervises the school’s Privacy Law Certificate. Before joining the SCU faculty in 2006, Professor Goldman was an Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School, General Counsel of Epinions.com, and an Internet transactional attorney at Cooley Godward LLP.

Professor Goldman teaches and publishes in the areas of Internet Law, Intellectual Property and Advertising & Marketing Law. He blogs on these topics at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog, which has been inducted into the ABA Journal’s “Blawg Hall of Fame.” The California State Bar’s IP Section has named him an “IP Vanguard,” and Managing IP magazine twice named him to a shortlist of “IP Thought Leaders” in North America. In 2019, he received Santa Clara University’s Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, the university’s highest award for scholarly achievement. In 2023, he received Santa Clara University’s Brutocao Family Foundation Award for Curriculum Innovation for his work on the school’s Privacy Law and Tech Edge JD certificates.

Professor Goldman received his BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in Economics/Business from University of California, Los Angeles in 1988. He received his JD from UCLA in 1994, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review, and concurrently received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Professor Khan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, where she teaches Intellectual Property, AI Law, and other tech-related subjects. Professor Khan is an expert on copyright law, platform governance, and artificial intelligence. Her recent academic scholarship includes articles on developing an accountability framework for large-scale AI training datasets, regulating automated content moderation and online speech tools, and the impact of AI on the creative industries.

Professor Khan was previously a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University. Her research at BKC examined ways of governing the practices involved in developing and deploying AI technologies. She is particularly interested in ensuring diversity and representation in the development process. She has also held positions at Yale Law School, serving as a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project and as the Program Director for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. Additionally, she has been a visiting researcher at Stanford HAI. She is a recipient of numerous grants to work on the use of AI in hiring. In 2019, she was a Fellow at the Center for Technology, Society and Policy and a Research Grantee at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

Her doctoral dissertation, completed at Berkeley Law, examines the role of internet platforms in shaping fair use. This research was partly inspired by the challenges internet users face in accessing knowledge and the ways platforms like Google and Wikipedia navigate complex copyright rules to make knowledge more accessible.

Professor Khan is a licensed attorney and has previously worked as a lawyer in the United States, Malaysia, and Pakistan. She has held positions at the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—three Bay Area institutions that have been at the forefront of many legal battles around digital rights. She holds an LLM and JSD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Professor Lawrence is professor of law and associate dean of faculty at Emory University School of Law. He is a leading scholar of health law, administrative law, and the regulation of addiction. His work spans these fields by exploring how the framework rules that govern public institutions—including appropriations law, administrative law, and constitutional law—influence health outcomes in the real world, often invisibly and at scale.

Professor Lawrence was named one of the top 100 legal scholars of 2025 in Willey and Knapp’s citation-based ranking, is currently serving as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and is a coauthor of The Law of American Health Care, a health law textbook centering federal statutory and regulatory law. His scholarship appears in top law journals including placements at the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, New York University Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. His scholarship also appears in leading peer reviewed medical journals including the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (JLME), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Public Health Reports, and Science.

Professor Lawrence has extensive, bipartisan federal experience. This includes service at DOJ during the Obama Administration, OMB during the first Trump Administration, and DEA during the Biden Administration, as well as work at the United States House of Representatives Budget Committee. He draws from this experience to inform his scholarship, teaching, and frequent media appearances. In 2023, Professor Lawrence was awarded the Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education. His media appearances include Bloomberg, Kaiser Health News, Nature, The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Professor Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. He joined FIU after several years practicing intellectual property and Internet law at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, California, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He has also served as the Irving Cypen Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Florida, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a teaching assistant in philosophy classes taught at Harvard College and UC Berkeley. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. at the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California.

Professor Travis is the author of Platform Neutrality Rights: AI Censors and the Future of Freedom (Routledge, forthcoming 2024), and Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in a Social Media Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and the editor of Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy (with Peter Mezei and Anett Pogácsás, Brill forthcoming 2024) and Cyberspace Law: Censorship and Regulation of the Internet (Routledge, 2013). He has also published works on copyright law, intellectual property remedies, patent reform, the freedom of expression, antitrust law, and net neutrality, including articles in the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, American University Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Miami Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Villanova Law Review, and Yale Journal of Law and Technology. He has contributed to symposia and edited volumes on the international and comparative law of copyright and performers’ rights, including a piece on software contracts and copyright that was selected by West Group as one of the best articles relating to intellectual property law that was published in 2010. An article of his on intellectual property remedies was selected by West Group as one of the best articles relating to intellectual property law that was published in 2019. He co-directs the Intellectual Property Certificate Program.

Professor Travis has also published widely on genocide, cultural survival, and human rights. His work in this area has appeared in edited volumes from the University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Berghahn, and Bloomsbury; the international law journals of the Cornell, Washington University, and Brooklyn law schools; and specialty journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Quarterly, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (twice), and Genocide Studies International (three times). He is the editor of The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies (Routledge, 2018), and the author of Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations: Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945 (Routledge, 2012) and Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). He has served as an editorial advisory board member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal and Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (the journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, continued via University of Toronto Press and the Zoryan Institute as Genocide Studies International), and on the book review panel of the Journal of Genocide Research. He has coached or co-coached FIU’s Jessup International Law Moot Court team, Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court team, BMI Copyright Law Moot Court team, and Cyber 9/12 team.

Mr. Hein is a consulting civil engineer with over 40 years of experience in the design, evaluation and management of transportation infrastructure. He retired from Applied Research Associates, Inc. of Toronto, Canada, where he managed the 90-person Transportation Infrastructure Division in the U.S. and Canada. Mr. Hein is the past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation and Development Institute (ASCE T&DI), and chair of several engineering standards committees. He is a member of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), past-chair of the pavements committee and past member of the Transportation Research Board pavement management, pavement maintenance and pavement preservation committees. Mr. Hein has been a member of the World Road Association (WRA) pavements and asset management committees since 2002. He has been involved in numerous national and international research, evaluation and asset management projects for Federal, State, Provincial and Municipal agencies and for many of the public/private/partnership highway construction projects across Canada and the United States.

Mr. Fisher has more than 30 years of experience constructing hundreds of customized, site-specific, calibrated groundwater flow and contaminant transport models for both private and public clients. As a senior level hydrogeologist, he brings a comprehensive understanding of geology, hydrogeology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics to the table while using specialized investigative techniques such as graphical analyses, statistics, groundwater flow modeling and contaminant transport modeling. His experience includes all aspects of remedial and hydrogeological investigations including soil/groundwater sampling programs; groundwater monitoring system design; monitoring and extraction well installation and development; aquifer characterization, testing and evaluation; and many types of environmental data collection, management, and interpretation techniques in many geologic terranes. Mr. Fisher has experience with conceptual and actual designs for remediation of fuel and solvent-related soil and groundwater contamination at privately and publicly owned waste management sites. He knows the natural chemical characteristics of groundwater, as well as the occurrence and behavior of man-made organic and inorganic contaminants. Mr. Fisher’s experience allows him to conceptualize and describe complex problems and to present solutions in three-dimensions in order to bring clarity to complex technical discussions. He uses a wide variety of mathematical and modeling tools including: GMS, MODFLOW, MODPATH, MT3DMS, RT3D and PEST as well as simpler, less labor-intensive analytical models.

Mr. Departhy, P.E., CFEI, CPD, is a Senior Consultant and Team Leader with Engineering Systems Inc., bringing over 20 years of experience in engineering, construction, and forensic investigation. His expertise includes HVAC and plumbing system design, building envelope performance, and moisture intrusion analysis, with a focus on identifying and evaluating failures in the built environment. Mr. Departhy is a Certified Plumbing Designer (ASPE) and serves on the ICC Mechanical Code Development Committee, providing him with direct insight into evolving code requirements and industry best practices. He has investigated numerous cases involving water losses, construction defects, and ventilation-related issues, and is known for delivering clear, technically sound conclusions. A licensed professional engineer in North Carolina and multiple other states, he combines practical design experience with forensic analysis to offer actionable guidance. In this seminar, he will cover plumbing, mechanical systems, and ventilation strategies critical to designing moisture-resistant buildings in North Carolina.

Mr. Isackson is a technical director of architectural engineering at Rimkus with more than 35 years of experience in architectural design and construction contract administration on commercial and military buildings throughout the United States. At Rimkus, he has experience with building enclosure investigation, property condition assessments, litigation, remediation design, and construction contract administration on commercial, military and residential buildings. His investigative and design work includes wall cladding and roofing assemblies. His litigation experience includes premises liability and design and construction defects. 

Mr. Jackson has worked across the residential and commercial sectors as a 3rd party advocate for owners, developers, HOAs, contractors and architects. He is a Level 3 Master Thermographer with a background in design review, failure analysis and hands on field diagnostics. He specializes in identifying the “why” behind a failure and how to prevent it. 

In 2011, Mr. O’Connor founded Advanced Enclosure Consulting, LLC (AEC). AEC has a 15-year history of successfully providing building enclosure consulting services. AEC’s project range includes various secured government facilities, federal courthouses, corporate headquarters, university classroom and laboratory facilities, data centers, office buildings, high rise residential buildings, transportation facilities, and hotels. The scope of AEC’s services includes building envelope commissioning, existing building envelope forensics, design build/design assist consulting, submittal reviews, factory & field QA/QC inspections and reporting, and building envelope field testing. Mr. O’Connor began his career in the building enclosure industry in 1997. He was employed full time while completing his master’s degree in civil engineering. Over the course of (14) years of continuous employment with several different building enclosure trade contractors, Mr. O’Connor held positions of Estimator, Project Manager, Sr. Project Manager, and Project Executive. In these roles, Mr. O’Connor gained experience in all facets of the building enclosure process, including: contract documents, design intent, contracts, system design parameters, budgeting, environmental conditions and their effect on building systems and enclosures, thermal transmittance, envelope air and water tightness, procurement, product selection, material compatibility and coordination, scheduling, material fabrication, factory production and assembly, installation, cost tracking & controls, logistics, factory and onsite quality assurance testing, factory and jobsite quality control, and documentation/reporting. Mr. O’Connor hold the following designations and certifications: IIBEC BECxP – Certified Building Enclosure Commissioning Provider, ASHRAE BCxP – Building Commissioning Professional and Electronic Leak Detection Testing Certification.

Ms. Dobreva is a dedicated project manager with a successful track record in the construction industry. Currently based in MGAC’s Los Angeles office, her experience encompasses a diverse range of projects in commercial real estate, luxury living, and biotech/life sciences, featuring budgets that span from $15 million to $300 million in states such as Arizona, Texas, Michigan, and Florida. Ms. Dobreva diligently engages in all project phases, from design to construction management, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes while building strong relationships with her clients. Passionate about purposeful design and the use of natural elements, she continually seeks innovative ways to add value to projects and spaces creatively, showcasing her dedication to both her professional and personal interests.

Mr. Bowen’s practice focuses on advising clients on best practices to prevent and respond to data privacy and cybersecurity matters. His expertise includes providing pre-breach and incident response counseling and managing all aspects of cybersecurity incident response, including forensic investigations and remediation, media and third-party communications, data mining, breach notification, subrogation, and litigation. Mr. Bowen has experience managing media and third-party communications with state, federal and international regulators and represents his clients in connection with government investigations that arise out of cybersecurity issues. Mr. Bowen also provides counseling on matters relating to HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, PCI-DSS, and various state data protection and breach notification laws. He also has experience advising and assisting with proactive data privacy measures and breach prevention, including the creation of information security plans and programs, acceptable use policies, and incident response plans.

Ms. Dawson’s practice includes extensive experience of responding to data security incidents while ensuring her clients remain compliant with state, federal and international requirements, as well as managing operational and reputational impact. She also develops and provides oversights for complex insurance programs, implementing cyber incident response policies and protocols, overseeing risk management, engaging in insurance program negotiations, retaining and overseeing outside counsel, providing client training to mitigate risk, and resolving insurance coverage disputes. Ms. Dawson’s experience includes representing private companies and public entities whose operations have been affected by ransomware attacks or impacted by a business email compromise. She is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as an accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US), Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). 

Mr. Moore is a Certified Insurance Counselor and Licensed Insurance Counselor who has specialized in insuring architects, engineers, environmental consultants, and surveyors for nearly 30 years. He is past president of a/e ProNet, previous chair of the City of Hillsdale Planning Commission, and trustee on the Hillsdale Community Schools Board of Education from 2019-2025 and was active with the Exchange Club of Hillsdale for nearly 25 years. Moore Insurance Services was founded in 1894 as the W.D. Taylor Agency, Charles L. Moore purchased the agency in 1968, and the Moore family has continued providing the professional and personal insurance service that William Dempster Taylor started 132 years ago.

Professor Opfer teaches coursework in construction management, cost control, cost estimating, structural design, and facility systems (MEP design). He is also an industry consultant on design and construction issues, construction safety/defects, methods/materials, and production issues. Professor Opfer has been a consultant to numerous ENR Top 600 Design Firms, Top 400 Contractors, and Fortune Top 500 Corporations. He received his B.S. in Building Theory, B.A. in Business, and B.A. degree in Economics, all from Washington State University. Subsequently he received his M.S. in Management (MBA) from Purdue University and his P.D. in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Opfer has been involved as an estimator, lead estimator, chief estimator, and estimating consultant on billions of dollars of construction projects over his career.

Mr. Quesada has been practicing law since 1993 and is admitted to all Michigan Courts and the U.S. District Courts of Michigan. His practice has been concentrated in the design and construction industries. He has represented architects, engineers, contractors, suppliers, private construction owners, and public entities in business and construction law matters, contract, construction and property disputes, construction lien and bond claims and defense, professional malpractice, copyright, insurance claims and defense and government affairs. Mr. Quesada has been named an honorary affiliate member of the AIA, and he was named one of Metro Detroit’s Top Lawyers by DBusiness Magazine. He is also an arbitrator on the AAA panel.

Mr. Stoner has successfully defended claims against design professionals for design defects, tortious interference, failure to inspect, and damages for delay, and he has handled contractor claims and surety and lien claims. In addition, he frequently represents shareholders in various business disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and usurpation of corporate opportunity. Mr. Stoner has successfully tried cases in both state and federal courts. His contributions to the legal profession are not limited to the courtroom. He has lectured extensively on various risk management issues for design professionals on areas such as contract drafting, project documentation, claims handling, and other issues that typically arise during a construction project. Mr. Stoner earned his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Political Science from Indiana University and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Toledo College of Law. 

Ms. Bowman Bowman currently teaches water law, administrative law, natural resources and property at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Her work has been cited in the New York Times, and she is a sought after expert in infrastructure, water, energy and regulation who has been interviewed by PBS, CNN, and Democracy Now.  Ms. Bowman has extensive law and policy experience in local, state and federal government, as well as in the non-profit sector. Ms. Bowman has published widely on infrastructure, telecommunications and regulatory issues. She has consulted for the Kenyan Government, USAID, the United Nations, and the U.S. State Department. Before joining The University of New Mexico, she taught at the University of Tulsa, the American University in Cairo, Egypt during the revolution of 2011, as well as at the University of Mississippi, the University of Arkansas and Kabarak University in Kenya. In 2023, she published a book with Palgrave McMillan Digital Development in East Africa: The Distribution, Diffusion, and Governance of Information Technology.

Ms. Jones draws on extensive environmental compliance and enforcement experience to provide strategic counsel to energy and natural resources clients on environmental litigation and regulatory enforcement matters. Ms. Jones represents energy and natural resources clients in environmental litigation and regulatory compliance matters. She helps clients navigate complex environmental issues ranging from New Mexico water law matters to defending against government enforcement actions and counseling clients on regulatory compliance strategies.

Having served for nearly a decade as a trial attorney with the DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, Ms. Jones gained unique insight into federal agency decision-making processes and enforcement priorities. This perspective allows her to anticipate potential regulatory hurdles and develop practical, collaborative approaches that align with clients’ legal requirements and business objectives. Ms. Jones’s experience spans the full spectrum of federal litigation and includes multiple oral arguments and complex e-discovery matters. She has worked on matters affecting the energy sector, including oil and gas operations, mining projects, and infrastructure development. She brings extensive experience negotiating resolutions among diverse stakeholders through consent decrees and settlement agreements.

Ms. Russo Baca is the staff attorney and Ombudsman Program Director at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In both roles that she fulfills, her mission is to support and represent constituents in a fair and unbiased manner. As the Ombudsman Program Director, she guides the activities of the Joe M Stell Ombudsman Program, a statewide program that provides impartial adjudication information and procedural guidance to unrepresented water rights claimants in the State of New Mexico. Ms. Russo Baca also manages the Native American Water Right Settlements E-Repository. She contributes significantly to the Utton Center’s overall mission of providing objective research-based public service to New Mexico’s communities on energy, climate change, ecological conservation, food systems, and international natural resource management issues. Ms. Russo Baca undergraduate degree is in agroecology, and she holds both Indian Law and Natural Resources and Environmental Law Certificates from the UNM School of Law. She has also served on the Tribal Law Journal as a staff member and editor and received the Dean’s Award upon graduation. During the Spring 2024 semester, she taught the inaugural Agricultural Law class at the UNM School of Law. Ms. Russo Baca is currently the Chair of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Board of Directors, holding Position No. 1, At-Large.

Rin Tara began working at the Utton Center as a staff attorney in the fall of 2023. They graduated cum laude from the University of New Mexico School of Law in May 2023, where they earned a certificate in Natural Resources and Environmental Law. Upon graduation, Rin received the Honorable Pete Domenici Award for Environmental Excellence. In addition to their studies, they served as both an editor and a staff member for the Natural Resources Journal and a board member for the Environmental Law Society.

During their time as a law student, Rin worked as a research assistant for the Utton Center, as well as a legal intern in positions with the United States Department of the Interior Solicitor’s Office Water Resources Division, the United States Department of Agriculture Office of General Counsel, and the nonprofit organization, American Rivers. As staff attorney specializing in water policy and governance, Rin is primarily interested in questions of water management in the face of climate change. They have done work in riparian restoration, river connectivity, tribal water sovereignty, climate change adaptation, and water rights. Rin is delighted to continue research on these topics in the service of the state of New Mexico, through the Utton Center.

Mr. Dutta is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) who is fully engaged in water and environmental protection through his leadership in S&M Engineering, LLC (SNM), a Maryland Corporation. He worked as the lead engineer in a superfund site remediation project and various RCRA sites involving design and installation of landfill cover systems, planning and implementing exhumation of a radioactive waste site in a DoD facility. Mr. Dutta worked in developing regulations and guidance later at a national level while with the US EPA for 20 years. He designed an innovative well interception plan, based on the bathymetric profile of the seabed to successfully kill the 1.4m gal/day Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Macondo Well) in Aug 2010. Mr. Dutta is also working on climate change impacts in the Himalayan region by visiting the glacial sources of rivers, specifically the Khatling Glacier (12,500 ft.) in Uttarakhand, India. Mr. Dutta’s most recent book Environmental Treatment Technologies for Municipal, Industrial and Medical Wastes, Remedial Scope and Efficacy, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), was published in October 2024 (new edition), Isbn 9781032058214.

Mr. Sivigny has over 32 years of work experience in enforcement of the Minnesota Building Codes in both rural and metropolitan settings. He has spent many years in the industry as a code official and a construction manager. Mr. Sivigny is known nationally for his work in residential building codes, building durability issues, building science, air quality control, radon, energy and green building issues. He has traveled the country teaching these topics and has often been a featured speaker both locally and nationally on these topics as well.