Integrating Alternative Legal Service Providers into Your Legal Deptartment

Mateo is the head of Lawyer Talent for Canada and the eastern half of the United States at Axiom. Axiom is the leading provider of alternative legal services in the world, with over 1,500 experts across the globe providing world-class legal services to over half of the Fortune 100.

Mateo and his team work to coach and cultivate the strongest bench of attorneys working to transform the business of law forever and for the better. An educator and historian by training, Mateo holds degrees from Stanford University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Deborah R. Pierce, Esq., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., a national agency based in Newark, Delaware.

Deborah joined Integrity in 2011 with the mission to establish an in-house legal and employee relations function.

Deborah has held executive level legal, human resources and compliance positions at companies such as DuPont, Continental Airlines, Campbell Soup, Sears and Home Depot. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and served as the Regional Solicitor for Region III - U.S. Department of Labor.

Deborah earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of the United States. Deborah has presided as a certified Mediator in over 300 private sector and Federal agency disputes. In 2015 she was selected by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the Top Corporate Counsel in the Philadelphia region.