Oral Advocacy and Credibility at Trial: Lessons from High Stakes AI Litigation

Michael Gouriet is a solicitor handling complex international financial remedy cases, including Part III claims following a foreign divorce.

Kim Lehal is a solicitor focused on international child abduction and Hague Convention work

Ruth Cabeza is a self employed barrister at Harcourt Family law.  Her practice focuses on complex litigation involving children, often where there are international issues involved.  Ruth is an expert in modern family law and has appeared in several landmark cases involving surrogacy and adoption and was lead author of Surrogacy: Law Practice and Policy published by Lexis Nexis in 2018.  Ruth is the editor of the Chapter on International Adoption on the online publication Butterworths Family Law and was one of the editors in the Class Legal publication of Dictionary of International Family Law. 

Ruth is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Law and the Across Border Alliance of Lawyers, through which she has enhanced her knowledge of family law practices overseas and developed a wide network of colleagues working in similar fields across the globe. 

In addition to her work on surrogacy and adoption Ruth is regularly instructed in 1980 Hague Abduction cases and complex private law disputes where allegations of domestic abuse are relied upon.  

Ruth sits as an Acting Deemster in the High Court of the Isle of Man. 

Maggie Li is the founder of Wumei Law Firm in Guangzhou, China. She has more than 20 years of experience practicing family law, and she is an IAFL member. Her practice focuses on cross-border family disputes between China and the US, including divorce, child custody, asset division and wealth succession planning. She works closely with US attorneys on complex multi-jurisdictional cases.

Throughout her career, she has served as private legal counsel to several families, providing wealth-risk assessment and mitigation, optimizing asset allocation, and designing and implementing family wealth-succession plans. She has been consistently recognized in the Chambers Greater China Region Guide (Private Client | Wealth Management) and the Chambers High Net Worth Guide (Family | Matrimonial Law).

Dr. Hassan Elhais is a senior legal consultant and internationally engaged legal professional
based in the United Arab Emirates, with approximately two decades of professional experience
in the UAE legal sector. He also serves as the co-chair of the relocation committee in the IAFL.
His career has been principally focused on complex cross-border and private-client matters,
including family law, international divorce and child custody disputes, inheritance and estate
matters, extradition, criminal law, civil and commercial disputes, enforcement proceedings, and
the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Throughout his professional career, Dr.
Elhais has advised individuals, families, and international clients in matters involving multiple
jurisdictions and differing legal systems.

Dr. Karim El Chazli advises courts on the application of Arab and Islamic family laws and writes extensively on comparative private international law.

Konstantinos Rokas is an Athens-based attorney and academic whose practice focuses on private international law, including matrimonial property disputes, international child abduction, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Greece. He brings both a scholar’s and a practitioner’s perspective to the differences between Greek and California family law.