- About Us
- MyLawsuit TEAM
- Board of advisers
- Milestones
- August 2012
- Investor/Advisor Steve Bennett is tapped to head Symantec. Congratulations, Steve. Symantec is very lucky to have you at the helm.
- July 2012
- Redbook article features MyLawsuit.com Founder Michele Colucci
- March 2012
- First cases connected via MyLawsuit.com (DuPuy Hip Implant Case & Patent Case)
- MyLawsuit.com Videos go Viral!
- February 2012
- Stanford Global Entrepreneur Marketing Team chooses MyLawsuit.com as their semester project (add photo of GEM team)
- MLS launches its Contingency Fee Lawyers LinkedIn Group http://linkd.in./linkedinlegal
- MLS participates in Funders and Founders Law+Tech – The Unpopulated Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
- October 2011
- MyLawSuit.com: The Painless Co-Pilot for Your Legal Issues
- MLS Featured in INC Magazine online http://bit.ly/IncMagazine
- July 2011
- MLS launches its Twitter Presence - 261 Followers https://twitter.com/#!/MyLawsuit
- February 2011
- MLS launches its Facebook Presence – 939 Likes https://www.facebook.com/mylawsuit
- April 2011
- CEO Michele Colucci named one of the 2011 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
- January 2011
- Stanford University's Global Entrepreneurial Marketing Program invites Michele Colucci to be Stanford Engineering School invites Michele Colucci to be a Guest Lecturer and Mentor for the Entrepreneurship and Global Marketing programs.
- November 2010
- MyLawsuit.com gets second place in the Los Angeles Innovate 100! Pitch Slam Competition sponsored by The Guidewire Group.
- August 2010
- CEO Michele Colucci became a Featured Blogger in the business section of the Huffington Post.
- February 2010
- MyLawsuit.com's CEO Michele Colucci is chosen as one of the top five women run technology businesses in the Catalyst competition sponsored by Girls in Tech
- December 2009
- Featured in
Women 2.0's
Female Founder
Successes of 2009
- Featured in
- January 2009
- Profiled in Silicon Valley Business Journal - "Need a lawyer? You can look here"
- November 2008
- Featured in San Jose Mercury News - "Silicon Valley startups weathering the financial storm"
- August 2012
Mr. Bennett specializes in management issues of employment/labor law and currently serves as Chair for the ABA's Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. He also formerly chaired the 36,000 member TTIPS section of the ABA.
In Citizens of Hinkley v. Pacific Gas & Electric he obtained a $333 million settlement for 650 residents of Hinkley, California, in the toxic tort case made famous by the film Erin Brokovich. Mr. Girardi was also lead litigator in the suits against Vioxx and has a strong track record of taking on large corporations and winning.
Considered “Sherpa" to many early-stage companies in eCommerce, consumer internet services, interactive entertainment, online advertising and new media, Mr. Morgan was previously a Partner in two Silicon Valley law firms representing start-ups, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and Latham & Watkins.
Attorney and award-winning journalist who covered the U.S. Supreme Court for ABC News for more than 22 years. Following his tenure at ABC News, O’Brien served as the principal Washington correspondent for CNN’s Moneyline.
Mr. Wallace is a former CEO at UstreamTV and former Co-Founder & Senior Executive atEsurance. He is also Director of Swords-to-Plowshares, a non-profit helping Veterans in need.
Ms. Scholes is the Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an investment management group for start-up companies. She was also a former partner at Heller Ehrman, where she specialized in international and partnership taxation.
Mark specializes in products liability, large property loss and catastrophic loss litigation and has served as national and regional counsel in large-scale catastrophic loss cases. Mark is among a select group of lawyers who have earned the BV Peer Review Rating.
Steve Bennett joined Symantec's board of directors in February 2010 and became chairman in 2011. Bennett previously led Intuit serving as president and chief executive officer from 2000 to 2007. At Intuit, Bennett combined the company's historic innovative and customer-driven expertise with strategic and operational rigor. Intuit revenue grew to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2007 from less than $1 billion in fiscal 2000. Under Bennett's leadership Intuit grew its existing businesses while simultaneously expanding into new markets, such as online banking and healthcare.
Bennett joined Intuit after a 23-year career at General Electric, where he managed complex and diverse organizations from consumer appliances to financial services. During his career at GE, he held a variety of key management roles in numerous areas of the business, including GE Capital e-Business, GE Capital Vendor Financial Services, GE Electrical Distribution and Control, GE Appliances, GE Medical Systems and GE Supply.
He currently serves on boards at American Airlines and parent company AMR Corporation, along with Qualcomm. Bennett graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in finance and real estate. Full bio
With a strong background in product development and management, M&A, strategy, business operations and senior management, he’s held positions with Yahoo!, Creative Wonders, SideStep, and more. He earned his Bachelor’s from UC Berkeley and is a member of numerous boards.
He has held multiple positions at News Corporation/Fox, and previously worked as a financial analyst with Morgan Stanley. Rich earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and is an active alumnus of Georgetown University, where he received his BS in Business Administration.
With almost 40 years of experience in the world of media, 25 years with ABC News and 11 with Nightline, he was the first person to serve as VP of ABC News and Broadcast Operations and Engineering simultaneously.
Evite was acquired by Interactive Corporation, the company that owns Match.com, Citysearch, Ask Jeeves, Ticketmaster, and more. Since Evite, Al has founded Innovive Technologies, an internet software company, and been consulting for early-stage startups. Al graduated with a CS degree from Stanford U.
Mr. Ihrie has roughly 40 years of experience in the software industry. He has held positions at ADP, Security Pacific Bank, Bell Labs, and Computer Usage Company. Before earning his MA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, Mr. Ihrie received his BS in Mathematics and Management from MIT.
Mr. Etter has previously held positions at Citicorp, Barclay’s Bank, GE Capital and Price Waterhouse, where he obtained his CPA. He received his MBA and undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he has lectured in Finance for a decade.
Forest joined NEA in 1999 and became a General Partner in 2004. He focuses on information and energy technology investments. Prior to NEA, he was Senior VP of R&D and CTO of Silicon Graphics Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Previously Forest was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
David Miller is a communications executive with more than 20 years of experience with public relations, M&A, social media and investor relations in Fortune 500 and start-up environments. Dave is responsible for corporate communications and public relations for LSI Corporation. Prior to LSI he managed communications for Solyndra, a pre-IPO solar company, and before that was head of worldwide media relations, managed corporate affairs and served as spokesperson for Applied Materials for more than 12 years. Dave has a B.A, English and Communications from the University of C.A., Davis. Additional marketing management experience includes CounterPunch Studios, Etec Systems, Spectra-Physics, Newport, and Frost and Sullivan.
From 2002 to the present, he has provided financial consulting and management services to early stage high-tech companies in Silicon Valley while also managing mining and real estate investments in the western U.S. Prior to this, Russ was the CFO of Aurigin Systems, an intellectual property management software developer. Aurigin Systems was acquired by Information Holdings Inc. (NYSE:IHI) in 2002. From 1991 through 1996, Russ was the Director of Finance and Administration at Pure Software (NASDAQ:PRSW). Before working with high-tech companies, he was a CPA with Deloitte & Touche. Early in his career, Russ was involved in the management of mining and petroleum exploration businesses in Canada. He holds a B.Sc.in Chemistry from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.