Cordell Parvin is among the nation�s most widely known and respected transportation construction lawyers. During thirty-seven years practicing law, Cordell built a national construction law practice. At Jenkens & Gilchrist in Dallas, Cordell was the construction law practice group leader and was responsible for attorney development.

His enthusiasm for helping lawyers achieve greater success prompted him to leave Jenkens & Gilchrist in January 2005 to open a coaching and consulting practice. Since then he has taught, mentored and coached lawyers on client development and career success throughout the United States and Canada and has created video programs for lawyers unable to work with him in person.

Cordell makes his home in Dallas with Nancy, his wife of forty-one years and greatest supporter. Nancy is an avid golfer who started playing when she was forty years old and now has a three handicap. She plays in tournaments in Texas and across the United States. While Cordell is proud of the work he has done for clients and, more recently, for lawyers, law firms, and law students, he is most proud of his daughter, Jill, who follows her passion and teaches special education to children with special needs in Justin, Texas.

Brice Voran joined Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York City in 1968 and became a partner in 1975. He spent 18 years in New York, 10 years in Los Angeles and 10 years in Toronto, all with the same firm. At the end of 2005 he retired and became Of Counsel. The firm asked him to act as a consultant to the Professional Development & Training Department at Shearman & Sterling. In this role he participated in the development of several innovative training programs for his firm�s associates combining his experience from over 35 years of practice in a large law firm with the academic principles being presented by training consultants.

His daughter is in her second year of law school and seems to think her dad is getting smarter every day. When he is not in New York working on training projects for Shearman & Sterling, he and his wife live by a lake in Michigan. He is currently working hard to become the best amateur portrait photographer he can be. He also spends time thinking about how to motivate lawyers to change their behavior and writing essays from time to time.