Brad Antici serves as the Chief Pricing Officer at Butler Snow LLP, where he leads the firm’s overall pricing strategy, financial analysis capabilities, and development of complex alternative fee arrangements. Brad works closely with attorneys and leadership to advance datadriven pricing and improve firmwide profitability practices. 

Brad’s roots run deep with LVN, having attended the first LVN conference (formerly known as the “P3 Conference”). Since that time, he has been an active contributor to the LVN community, frequently sharing insights on lawfirm business management, attorney engagement, and the evolving dynamics of pricing and client value. Brad has served on the LVN Education Committee (Co-Chair) as well as numerous terms on the LVNx Programming and Conference Committees.  Brad currently serves as Co-Volunteer Director where he is responsible for assigning volunteers to the various committees throughout the organization. Brad serves as the Treasurer for LVN and is a member of the Board’s Finance Committee. 

Brad holds the Accredited Legal Pricing Professional (ALPP) Platinum Plus credential from the True Value Partnering Institute (TVPi) and was named TVPi Global Pricing Professional of 2025 – 1st RunnerUp, recognizing his leadership and innovation in developing modern pricing strategies within the legal industry. Brad also serves on Lex Mundi’s Legal Tech Pricing Governance Team. 

Brad graduated with honors (Summa Cum Laude) from Mississippi State University where he earned both a Bachelor of Accounting and an MBA. 

Jared Applegate is the Chief Legal Operations Officer of Barnes & Thornburg. He works with firm leadership and the firm’s largest clients to improve how legal work is priced, managed, and delivered, while supporting the firm’s broader strategy. 

Jared partners directly with senior executives and legal departments to bring structure and clarity to outside counsel relationships. His work focuses on setting clear expectations around scope, cost, and execution, and helping legal departments manage change in a practical, results-driven way. 

He leads the firm’s teams responsible for pricing, rates, legal project management, eDiscovery, sales, and client solutions, collaborating with more than 800 attorneys across the firm. He spends much of his time working directly with clients and firm partners on client efforts and high-stakes matters.

Under Jared’s leadership, the firm’s legal operations and pricing teams have received national and global recognition, including being named the nation’s Best Business Team by The American Lawyer and, most recently, one of the top pricing teams in the world by the True Value Partnering Institute.

Aaron Boersma is a global leader in AI adoption, economics, and public policy. As a sought-after writer and speaker, he advises industries on the economic impact of artificial intelligence. Currently, he holds dual executive roles as the CEO and Co-Founder of White Shoe AI and as the Spend Innovation Lead for Legal & Policy at Ford Motor Company.  

Prior to these roles, Aaron has spent four years focused on investing in some of the highest impact issues in tech. At Google, he managed a global outside counsel spending across legal and public policy risk, building the financial investment strategy for the company’s historic antitrust docket. 

Aaron's career began in Jackson, MS, as an analyst at Butler Snow before moving to Big Law at Baker McKenzie. A proud alum of Mississippi College who recently completed graduate work in AI at MIT, Aaron lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children. 

Hush began his career as a law firm business professional in 2008 when he joined an Am Law 100 firm to help navigate the financial crisis. Since 2015, Hush has worked for Covington & Burling, where he leads an innovative team focused on achieving clients’ legal business objectives by developing fee arrangements that increase cost predictability and incentivize efficiency. Prior to legal pricing, Hush worked for Accenture as a business consultant and later in public service as a Chief Fiscal Accounting Officer.

Chris Emerson is the Chief Legal Operations and Innovation Officer at Quarles & Brady LLP, where he leads the firm’s transformation of how legal services are delivered through advanced technology, data, and process design. He oversees firmwide pricing, matter budgeting, and legal operations, while also driving the development of next-generation digital platforms that integrate workflow automation, analytics, and generative AI into day-to-day legal practice. His work helps align legal service delivery with the way modern in-house legal, procurement, and finance teams operate—bringing greater transparency, predictability, and measurable value to clients. 

A core focus of Chris’s role is building AI-enabled systems that convert the firm’s financial, matter, and knowledge data into actionable intelligence. Under his leadership, Quarles has deployed secure, enterprise-grade platforms that connect billing, time, matter, and document data into structured knowledge graphs and analytics engines, enabling everything from pricing and budgeting to expertise discovery and client-specific insights. These tools support both attorneys and clients with real-time dashboards, predictive models, and AI-assisted workflows that reduce friction, surface risks and opportunities earlier, and drive continuous improvement in outcomes and cost efficiency. 

Through this work, Chris ensures that the firm’s attorneys are equipped with a deep, data-driven understanding of client needs and legal operations, allowing them to deliver advice that is not only legally sound but operationally and economically informed. By embedding AI, analytics, and automation into the fabric of legal service delivery, he helps position Quarles to deliver higher-quality, more scalable, and more cost-effective legal solutions. 

Angela Floessel is a seasoned legal operations executive with over two decades of experience driving innovation and efficiency in finance, pricing and project management. Angela joined Chapman and Cutler as their CFO in May 2025 where she has oversight of the finance organization including, Client Accounts Management, Pricing, Accounting, Tax and Partnership Accounting, FP& A, Financial Systems and Data Analytics. Prior to joining Chapman she served as the Managing Director of Client Value at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where she led firmwide initiatives that integrate data analytics, pricing strategies, and client-focused solutions to enhance profitability and value delivery. 

Prior to her tenure at Morrison & Foerster, Angela was CFO of the Chicago office and North American Pricing Director at Baker McKenzie, where she was instrumental in developing and implementing pricing models that aligned with client needs and market trends. Her strategic insights and leadership have consistently positioned firms at the forefront of legal service innovation.

Angela's expertise is widely recognized in the legal industry. She has been a featured speaker at prominent conferences, including the Legal Value Network's webinar on "Legal Pricing & Project Management: Driving Law Firm Management, Budgeting, and Use of Data," where she discussed the impact of generative AI and evolving rate structures on law firm operations and as well as Litigation Financing Essentials in 2024’s LVNx conference. 

Her educational background includes a BA in Economics at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana as well as certifications as an Accredited Legal Pricing Professional (ALPP) and an Accredited Legal Project Manager (ALPM). Angela currently serves as Chairperson of the Board for Legal Value Network and was Co-chair for the programming committee in 2024 and 2025.

Andy is the Chief Financial Officer of Arnold & Porter, where he leads the firm’s global financial operations, profitability initiatives, and digital transformation efforts. With more than two decades of senior leadership experience in AmLaw 100 firms, he has built a reputation for driving operational excellence through data-driven decision-making, innovative pricing strategies, and collaborative business partnerships with firm leadership and clients. Andy oversees the full spectrum of financial operations, including FP&A, pricing, profitability analytics, and enterprise modernization, ensuring the firm’s financial model supports long-term growth and client value. 

Before joining Arnold & Porter, Andy served in senior finance and pricing leadership roles at Finnegan Henderson, where he directed FP&A and built the firm’s first formal pricing and profitability function. His work has centered on developing client-centric pricing models, advancing legal operations maturity, and implementing technology-enabled solutions that enhance transparency, predictability, and value delivery. He is recognized for his ability to translate complex financial insights into practical strategies that strengthen client relationships and improve firm performance. 

Andy holds an MBA and a Master of Law Firm Management from The George Washington University, along with a BS in Finance from Penn State. A frequent collaborator and thought leader in the legal business community, he is passionate about advancing the profession through innovation, cross-functional partnership, and the development of future leaders in legal finance and pricing. 

Experienced professional with 20 year history of working in the legal industry. Skilled in Strategic Pricing, Business Process Mapping, Strategic Planning, Analytical Skills, Dashboard Development, Workflow Management, and Project Management with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) focused in Business Administration from Texas Woman's University.