Gina Drew

Gina is a former Florida trial paralegal and a specialist in branding, marketing and creation of Internet presences for lawyers and law firms. The former administrator of a 600-member Western North Carolina district bar association, she is an event organizer, creator and publisher of their print magazine, The Bar Briefs. Gina is involved in the creation of an application for court systems purposed to reduce stress and increase efficiency for everyone. She is passionate about lawyer well-being, restorative justice and peacemaking. Gina's adult life has been spent studying these principles, and the last three years developing the ideas behind this Network.

Gina is a single mother of an 18 year old son, Chad, who lives with her in Asheville, NC. Gina enjoys networking, hiking, exploring, rock hunting, rafting, and video gaming.

Jonathan Daggerhart

Jonathan is has spent many years exploring and studying the intricacies of web application development and the open-source platform, Drupal. The collaboration involved in creating modules and enhancements to Drupal's lightweight framework, and the sharing of those ideas, is exciting to Jonathan. A student of whatever topic currently stirs him, Jonathan's creative nature is inspiring. The credit for the Network's design, functionality and usefulness is his alone.

Jonathan and Gina are collaborating with Walt Turner of Corporate Web Consulting relative to development of applications enabling court systems to benefit from Internet technology in powerful ways.

Justin Belleme

Justin and Gina have been working together since he was a computer science student at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Justin, a student of Walt Turner's, lead a team of student designers in the development of an application for bar associations, directed by Gina and a team of judges, lawyers and paralegals, in a real life career learning experiment. Justin's primary business, AshevilleNow.Com, is an informational resource for business and visitors to the area. AshevilleNow.Com is a custom ASP project, developed by Justin and his partner, Nate Kempner, another of Walt's students.

A designer and developer, Justin has delivered one enhancing suggestion after another to the betterment of Legal Trends Network, and provided the expertise to make implementation easy.

Special Thanks

The Legal Trends Network design team would like to give a special thanks to the vast network of designers and module developers that make up the Drupal Community, Walter and Andrea Turner, Jason Baronciani, Ryan Owens, Jeff Rix, Yensine Larsen of World Pulse Magazine, Geoffrey Wall, Tim Snoddy, Howard Gum, J. Kim Wright, Michael Wright, Judge Michael A. Town, and Dr. Isabella Drew Marsella for their support, advice and education.