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President - Igor Olenich
Igor Olenich is the Firm Wide Patent Docket Manager at Morrison & Foerster LLP with over 20 years of experience supporting attorneys with all aspects of IP docketing. He has worked in Litigation Docketing although, his expertise is in IP. His career, as well as his life, is diverse with a background in human resources, records management, and law enforcement. He has traveled and lived in a dozen countries. Igor served for 4 years as NDA Secretary and is the former NDA Vice President. |
Igor Olenich
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Vice President - Mary J. Beaudrow
Mary J. Beaudrow is a Senior Docket Coordinator at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Ms. Beaudrow has been employed in the legal field for over forty years, spending much of that time working in the attorney service business. Mary served as the Treasurer of the National Docketing Association from 2016 - 2021. Mary is a Past President of Legal Professionals, Incorporated (LPI) (formerly known as Legal Secretaries, Incorporated). Mary is also a Past President of California Association of Legal Support Professionals. She is a member of the National Docketing Association (and its SF Bay Area Chapter) and of Mt. Diablo Legal Professionals Association. She has lectured at a number of forums including San Francisco Legal Professionals Association, (former) San Francisco Docket Association, and the Bay Area Legal Forum. |
Mary J. Beaudrow Senior Docket Coordinator Morrison & Foerster LLP 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105-2482
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Secretary - Lindsay Owen
Lindsay A. Owen is the Database Manager at White & Case LLP in New York City. At White & Case, Lindsay oversees electronic filings, maintains the Firm’s case docketing system and advises attorneys on court procedures. Prior to White & Case, Lindsay began her career in the legal field at US Document and Retrieval Company as a Court Researcher. Prior to her role as NDA Secretary, Lindsay served as the Sponsorship Co-Chair on the NDA Board as well as the Technical Analyst on the NDA’s Technology Committee. Lindsay was the recipient of the 2014 NDA Annual Achievement Award and is a graduate of Duke University. . |
Lindsay Owen
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Treasurer - Olivia Bane 
Olivia Bane is the Senior Manager of Litigation Docketing at Venable, LLP. For over 20 years, she has supported attorneys and staff, both in IP prosecution and in litigation docketing. She has overseen two firm-wide creation and implementations of new centralized litigation docketing departments at Dickstein Shapiro and at Venable. She has trained staff and attorneys on department services and procedures, including managing the front and back-end of the firm’s calendaring systems, CompuLaw and eDockets. Prior to her new role as NDA Treasurer, she previously served as the NDA Membership Committee Chair/Co-Chair from 2013-2021 and helped lead the efforts in instituting chapters across the country. |
Olivia Bane Senior Manager, Litigation Docketing Venable, LLP 750 E. Pratt Street Suite 900, Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 244-5493 |
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NDA Membership Committee Co-Chair - Amber Goodenough
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Amber Goodenough Docket Manager & Counsel Winston & Strawn LLP 35 W. Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 558-7582 |
NDA Membership Committee Co-Chair - Krista Wilmot
Krista Wilmot is the Litigation Docketing Manager at Faegre Drinker. Krista has been involved in litigation docketing for over 30 years. She has held similar positions at Akin Gump and Dickstein Shapiro (Blank Rome). Currently at Faegre Drinker she is overseeing consolidation of multiple docketing systems and converting them into a centralized docketing platform. She is also overseeing centralization of the docketing department. Krista has been a member of the NDA for over 10 years and has served as the co-chair of the NDA membership committee for the last several years. |
Krista Wilmot Litigation Docket Manager Faegre Drinker 1500 K Street NW Washington, DC 20005
(202) 256-3293 |
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NDA Publication Committee Co-Chair - William G. McKay
Rule Committees: New York State Courts, United States District Court-Eastern District of New York. User Committees: New York State Courts, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court – Southern District of New York, United States District Court – Eastern District of New York, United States Bankruptcy Court – Southern District of New York, United States Bankruptcy Court – Eastern District of New York. Along with serving on committees for electronic filing, he has also provided advice and served on panels with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Administrative Office for U.S. Courts. Speaking engagements on electronic filing include the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and Bloomberg LP. |
Managing Clerk Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
(212) 728-8790 |
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NDA Publication Committee Co-Chair - Leslie White
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Leslie White, C.P. Sr. Paralegal, Legal Department Cirrus Logic, Inc. 800 W. 6th Street Austin, TX 78701 (512) 851-4522
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NDA Education Committee Co-Chair – Leticia Arvizu-Nelson
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Leticia Arvizu-Nelson Senior Litigation Docketing Analyst Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 2029 Century Park East Los Angeles, CA 90067 (310) 855-3069 |
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NDA Education Committee Co-Chair – Cecil Atkinson
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Cecil M Atkinson National Docketing Manager McGuireWoods LLP Gateway Plaza 800 East Canal Street Richmond, VA 23219 (804) 775-1693 |
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Executive Board Member - Elaine Screechfield
Elaine Screechfield is the Firmwide Litigation Docket Manager at Morrison & Foerster LLP. For over thirty years, she has overseen centralized litigation docketing, including training, court resource management and database support. Elaine is the immediate past President of the National Docketing Association. She is a past Chair of the Education Committee and past Chair of the SF/Bay Area Chapter. She has lectured at numerous forums including the San Francisco Bar Association; San Francisco Legal Professionals Association; (former) San Francisco Docket Association; National Docketing Association; 2014 Aderant Conference; and the Bay Area Legal Forum. Executive Board Member - JoAnn DiSanti
Executive Board Member – Beth Hella
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Elaine Screechfield Firmwide Litigation Docket Manager Morrison & Foerster LLP 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 268-7279 Elizabeth C. Hella Senior Trademark Docketing Manager Foley Hoag LLP Seaport World Trade Center West 155 Seaport Boulevard Boston, MA 02210 (617) 832-1702 |
Amber Goodenough is Docket Manager & Counsel at Winston & Strawn LLP. She is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois and has worked for the firm for over fourteen years. In her role, she works to create and implement best practices in the areas of electronic court filing and centralized docketing. She collaborates with Business Development, Collective Intelligence and Research, and Information Services to find innovative ways to leverage her team’s work to contribute to the firm’s business development and knowledge management efforts.
William G. McKay is the Managing Clerk at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. As Managing Clerk, Mr. McKay is responsible for advising attorneys on court procedures and rules along with maintaining the firm’s Litigation, Bankruptcy and Trust & Estates records. Mr. McKay has served on the following committees concerning electronic filing:
Leslie White is a Certified Paralegal at Cirrus Logic, Inc. in Austin, Texas. She has been involved in the docketing, IP and litigation profession for over 30 years, working at such multi-national firms as Vinson & Elkins, Morrison & Foerster and Arnold, White & Durkee. She now serves on the Education Committee and assists as an IP track organizer for the NDA. 
Leticia Arvizu-Nelson is the Senior Litigation Docketing Analyst at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She has been involved with Litigation Docketing for over 30 years, working with a wide range of law firms from boutique firms to multi-national firms. As result she has a wide span of knowledge related to various docketing policies, procedures and best practices. Leticia was also the Century City Chapter Chair which later became the L.A. Chapter for 6 years. She now serves as the co-chair for the NDA Education Committee. Leticia enjoys being of service to the NDA and exploring good educational material for members.
Cecil Atkinson is the National Docketing Manager at McGuirewoods LLP. He started his docketing career at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold over 28 years ago. Since that time, he has overseen various Project Management initiatives - four software conversions and the implementation of three docketing departments. Cecil worked at Sedgwick's New York office for 11 years, then the DC office of Katten Muchin Rosenman for 12 years as the Docket & Records Manager. He now calls Richmond, Virginia, home at McGuireWoods. Among his accomplishments at McGuireWoods, Cecil has taken a small docketing operation of two individuals and built a Firm-Wide docketing department of 12 Docketing Professionals in 24 months. Cecil also created the firm's Docketing Policy, Docketing Best Practices, and the firm's Docketing Portal page. Cecil believes that sharing knowledge is more than an opportunity but a responsibility. Cecil has mentored eight calendar clerks and docket specialists into a docketing management role. He is the happy recipient of the 2013 Urban Alliance Mentor Award.
JoAnn DiSanti is the Associate Director - Managing Clerk at White & Case LLP, with over 20 years of experience leading the firm's Managing Clerk's Department. She is responsible for keeping track of the firm's Litigation and IP in all domestic offices. JoAnn is a past President of the National Docketing Association. She served on the Motion Support Committee of the Supreme Court of New York County, assisted the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in reorganizing their website, and assisted various courts in beta testing their e-Filing systems. In 2001, she was the recipient of the Legal Aid Society of New York's award for Outstanding Pro Bono Representation. In 2017, she was the recipient of the NDA Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of an article published in the New York Law Journal, "Taming the court Calendar," October 20, 2008.
Beth Hella is the Senior Trademark Administration Manager at Foley Hoag LLP. Born and raised in the Boston area, Beth has been in the trademark docketing field for over 20 years. Her current role as co-chair of the Resource Library and former role as Treasurer of the NDA has allowed Beth the privilege of working with countless talented docketing professionals across the country. The enthusiasm of the NDA members inspires Beth to continue to work within the association to ensure it meets and exceeds the expectations of its members. It is with great pleasure that Beth serves as an Executive Board Member of the NDA.