Speaker Bio
David Falstein
As the Vice President of Product at PERSUIT, David Falstein leads the product management team and ensures that PERSUIT is solving the most important problems for our customers as new enhancements are developed to the PERSUIT platform. While he is a licensed attorney, David was always focused on the business of law. While completing his JD/MBA at Michigan State, he wrote his thesis on Alternative Fee Arrangements (“AFAs”). David played an instrumental role implementing value-based pricing and matter level RFPs in a legal sourcing role for Johnson & Johnson. Today, David consults legal department leaders on legal ops best practices and provides strategic guidance to dozens of F500 corporations around designing and implementing more objective and competitive outside counsel selection processes.
Speaker Bios
Melissa Salimbene
Melissa Salimbene is an experienced employment litigator and trusted advisor. For her litigation practice, Melissa regularly represents public and private employers of all sizes and industries before state and federal courts and administrative agencies in all aspects of employment litigation, including defending claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour issues. Melissa also brings and defends restrictive covenant claims involving trade secrets, confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements and other post-employment obligations.
Lindsay Dischley
Lindsay Dischley is an experienced employment attorney. In this capacity, Lindsay represents employers in all aspects of employment litigation, including wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, whistleblower, retaliation and wage and hour claims in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and New York and before federal, state, and local administrative agencies, including the EEOC, New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, New York State Division of Human Rights, and New York City Commission on Human Rights.
