Advisory Council

Ben Grimes

Ben is the founder of BKG Leadership Coaching, a leadership development practice focused on humanizing the practice of law by offering lawyers and law firms the skills to lead with trust, transparency, empathy, and passion. He is a nationally recognized expert in professional responsibility and has a deep practical background in teaching, training, and mentoring lawyers. Through his coaching practice, Ben consults with law practices of all types and sizes to develop individual and organizational approaches to leadership development in legal organizations.

Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower

Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower is President and CEO of the NALP Foundation, where she guides the Foundation’s research initiatives, publications, and programs on key issues such as the professional development of lawyers, access to and diversity within the legal profession, and the effective management of lawyers.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Fiona served as Assistant Dean for Career Development and Public Service at Boston University School of Law, and as the National Director of Legal Recruiting for Bingham McCutchen.

Justice Douglas S. Lang

Justice Lang served as a member of the  Fifth District Court of Appeals of Texas, from 2002 to 2018. He is senior counsel at Thompson Coburn LLP, in Dallas, and Co-Chair, Firm Appellate Practice.  Prior to joining the bench, Justice Lang was a partner in the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell L.L.P.  He is a past president of the Dallas Bar Association, where he initiated and administered an effective mentoring program for beginning lawyers that was adopted by the State Bar of Texas.  He is also past president of the National Council of Bar Presidents. In addition, he has served as an officer and a board member of the American Inns of Court Foundation and has been involved with local Inns–which are dedicated to mentoring as part of professionalism. Working with ABOTA (American Board of Trial Advocates) he has done extensive work toward training and mentoring new lawyers. Justice Lang is the author of a book that describes how lawyers learn from their peers and seniors about the values of honesty and integrity in the legal profession.

Len Polsky
Manager, Legal Technology & Mentorship
Law Society of Alberta

Len is the Law Society of Alberta’s Manager of Legal Technology & Mentorship. He established and directs the Mentor Connect and Mentor Express programs and is responsible for developing, implementing and managing the Law Society’s practice technology programs for lawyers in Alberta.

Roberta Oluwaseun Roberts

Roberta Oluwaseun Roberts, Esq. is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation – Appellate Section. Roberta is a co-chair of the DOJ Association of Black Attorneys (DOJABA) Attorney Recruitment and Professional Development Committee, where she assists with DOJABA’s law student outreach initiatives and professional development programs for DOJABA members. She formerly ran DOJABA’s mentoring program for attorneys in the organization. Roberta is also an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School, where she teaches Legal Research and Writing for international LLM students, and serves on the inaugural GW Law Public Interest Advisory Council and its Professional Development Committee. Roberta has experience mentoring law students and entry-level attorneys both formally and informally, and runs an online community of more than 700 Christian women lawyers, Bar exam takers, and law students in the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe called Grace for the Grind®. She is also a Bar exam coach and created an online Christian Bar exam coaching program called Blessed & Barred®.