is a partner with Wechsler Becker, LLP in Seattle, a ten attorney firm exclusively practicing family law. He has been practicing family law since 1992, and has acted as a Title 26 guardian ad litem and a volunteer court appointed special advocate. Mr. Funk's presentations include: "Working with Pro Se Litigants as Opposing Party," at the WSTLA Family Law & Criminal Law CLE (11/30/06); "Evaluating the Evaluator; Preparation for and Deposition of the Parenting Evaluator," at KCBA Family Law Section Hot Topics CLE (10/5/07); "Advanced Family Law Practice for Paralegals;" "Drafting Child Support Orders and Worksheets," (8/14/08); "Financial Settlement Strategies for Your Divorce Clients;" "Getting A Divorce Case Off to the Right Foot," (12/11/08); "Legal Strategies for Coping with Parents Who Alienate," (2010); "Parenting Disputes from A to Z: In the Best Interests of the Child;" "Ethical Considerations," (3/3/2010); "Effective Use of Parenting Evaluations in Divorce," (2011); "Discovery of Electronic Records, How to Discover, Produce and Review Electronic Data;" and, "Tools and Tips for Dealing with New Technologies," (2009). He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Washington and his J.D. degree from Willamette's College of Law. Mr. Funk is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the State Bar of California. His volunteer work includes Eastside Legal Clinic, an arbitrator on King County Mandatory Arbitration Panel, King County Superior Court Settlement Conference Master, an instructor for a King County "How to Finish Your Divorce" class, and a member of the King County Bar Association Courts and Judiciary Committee, and the Judicial Evaluations Committee. Mr. Funk is past secretary and then member of the King County Bar Association's Board of Trustees, past secretary of the King County Bar Association Family Law Section, past vice-chair of King County Bar Association Family Law Section, and past chairman of King County Bar Association Family Law Section.

is the owner of the Law Office of Lynndolyn T. Mitchell P.C. in Rockville, Maryland. She has been representing clients from all economic and social backgrounds in juvenile, family, misdemeanor criminal, and traffic matters in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia for more than 30 years. Ms. Mitchell has served as a senior assistant public defender in Virginia Beach in the Juvenile Division and Felony Trial Division, and deputy public defender in the Juvenile Division of the Riverside County Public Defender's Office. She has represented juveniles in delinquency and dependency matters in California, Virginia and Maryland. Ms. Mitchell served an assistant adjunct professor for the University of Maryland Global Campus (Formerly UMUC) in the disciplines of paralegal studies and criminal justice. She has extensive experience representing military families in all aspects of family law matters. Ms. Mitchell is a member of Maryland State Bar Association's Solo Small Firm Section, served as co-chair of the Education Law Section, and has served as a member of the School Board at Montrose Christian School in Rockville. She is admitted to practice in Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland and Montgomery County. Ms. Mitchell earned her B.A. degree from the University of Irvine and her J.D. degree from Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C. She has handled pro bono education law matters for the Maryland Disability Law Center.

is a partner in the law offices of DSK Law. He is board-certified as a trial lawyer by both The Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Over the course of his practice, Mr. Knight has generally focused on personal injury litigation. He earned his B.S.B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Florida and his J.D. degree from Stetson University College of Law.

founded Midwest Frontier AI Consulting to help law firms and businesses use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) responsibly through professional continuing education and training. He has spoken to numerous audiences on generative artificial intelligence, speaking to well over over one thousand people, presenting live and in person, presenting to record audiences (National Insider Threat Awareness Month 2024; ACAMS National Capital Chapter 2026), delivered keynote addresses, and provided live and recorded training. Prior to starting his consultancy, Mr. Ratashak was a senior financial crimes officer, VP, in the Financial Crimes Intelligence team of a major financial institution and was the private sector leader for the Department of Homeland Security’s Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program (AEP) on Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure in 2022. ChatGPT was not his first encounter with AI risk as an intelligence analyst: in Q4 2017, he received two awards from an employer while working as an intelligence analyst: a company-wide Commitment Award for the quality of a monthly analytical product; and a Teamwork Award for leading a multidisciplinary team that used machine learning to detect influence bots targeting an Arabic-speaking country. Mr. Ratashak is from central Iowa, where he graduated from Southeast Polk and was a Page in the Iowa House of Representatives. He attended the University of Oklahoma as a National Merit Scholar, where he earned both his B.A. degree, major in Arabic and a 5-year BA/MA in International Studies. Mr. Ratashak also completed the Arabic Language Flagship Capstone Year in Meknes, Morocco, and ran a podcast on the linguistics of Moroccan Arabic with his professor for several years after. He has spoken to audiences ranging from law firms and financial crimes professionals to small business owners and developers. At his prior role at a major financial institution,Mr. Ratashak also created two recorded trainings available to all employees (Introduction to Generative AI and Generative AI for Financial Crimes and Cybersecurity) and delivered Lunch & Learns for departments from Commercial Banking to Consumer Lending to Financial Crimes Investigations, reaching collectively well over a thousand employees.