Outside General Counsel Marie-Louise Skafte is the founder of Skafte Global Law, P.A., a boutique consulting firm. She is licensed to practice law in England, the Province of Ontario, Canada and various states in the U.S. with over 25 years of success across the transportation, aviation, financial services, marine container leasing and logistics industries as well as supporting professional services firms. She serves as Consultant and provides general advice to global companies, executive management teams and acts as outside General Counsel. Prior to forming the firm, Marie-Louise worked in key management positions, including Global General Counsel, Head of Human Resources and Corporate Compliance for international organizations. She is a Member of the Board of One Love Foundation, a Member of the Board of Advisors for Corporate Counsel Women of Color and Dean’s Cabinet Member at Suffolk University Law School.

Jason Skala is a personal injury lawyer in Anchorage, Alaska. He is the Principal Partner at the Jason Skala Law Firm. Mr. Skala has more than 20 years of experience in personal injury law including: auto accidents, commercial vehicle crashes, pedestrian accidents, slip and fall accidents, oil field injuries and oil rig accidents, Alaska Airline injuries, and wrongful death. Mr. Skala received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1993 and then went on to graduate from Loyola Marymount University where he received his J.D. degree in 1999. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1999 and to the Alaska Bar in 2001. As a result of the 2020 Pandemic, he has now expanded his practice to focus on Covid-19 insurance claims where he is providing counsel to businesses impacted by Coronavirus-related closures and losses.

Paul Skiermont is a trial lawyer with a national litigation and inter partes review practice. Paul represents companies large and small in litigation involving complex science and technology, including pharmaceuticals and other life sciences, telecommunications, aerospace, speech recognition and consumer electronics. Paul is currently lead trial counsel for the patent owner and exclusive licensee in a patent infringement lawsuit in which Apple’s Siri personal assistant is the instrumentality accused of infringing a natural language processing patent owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Intellectual Asset Management 2015—an industry guide that identifies the top patent practitioners in key jurisdictions around the globe—ranks Paul as one of the Top 12 IP litigation attorneys in Texas, and highlights his “brilliant litigation instinct.” Skiermont Derby LLP was recognized by the online legal news service Law360 as one of ten national boutique practices “that have established brands on par with the biggest firms” and are “capable of competing with — and beating — the best big firms at the highest level.” The firm’s IAM profile, based on independent research and interviews with patent attorneys worldwide, notes that the firm is involved in “some of the most challenging technology altercations going, due to its ability to decode elaborate technical concepts, and package – and deliver – arguments in a way that juries find convincing.” Prior to founding his own firm, Paul was a partner at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, a nationally renowned litigation boutique known for its success in high-stakes cases. He represented Pratt & Whitney and prevailed in an alleged multi-billion dollar patent infringement lawsuit over the engines that power the A380 superjumbo aircraft, and also represented Bayer in its successful defense of the landmark antitrust class action involving the antibiotic Cipro.

Mr. Sklar a trial lawyer, specializing in personal injury, law enforcement misconduct and civil rights cases. I have been in practice in Michigan for 29 years