BarAlliance, a Division of LegalSpan, Inc. announces the promotion of Sean Leung to Director and Mark Widener to Assistant Director

AUSTIN, TX – BarAlliance a Division of LegalSpan, Inc. provider of member interaction management to Associations, announces the promotion of Sean Leung to Director and Mark Widener to Assistant Director.

“Sean has been instrumental in the success of BarAlliance since its inception,” said John Davis, CEO of LegalSpan. “With no apparent effort he has translated the deeply complex concepts and designs put forth by our BarAlliance Consortium members into the rich and intuitive application that BarAlliance has become. There is no question that under Sean’s guidance, BarAlliance will quickly become the industry leading association management software system available.”

Sean started as a developer on the BarAlliance project and his leadership and vision were quickly recognized by all as he quickly rose to team leader in 2005. His ability to plan, implement and develop simultaneously was key in the successful release of BarAlliance on schedule.

Sean is a graduate of ASU with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering. His experiences range from working with assembly language and microprocessors to development with C#.NET language and web/database servers. Sean formerly worked for the Arizona State University Information Dissemination Section.

Mark Widener came to Legalspan with an extensive Customer Service background after working 25 years with Xerox Corporation. In those 25 years he worked at customer accounts maintaining all aspects of their association with Xerox and later transferred to a Customer Support Center helping Xerox employees and customers with issues ranging from equipment dependability to software problems and fixes.

Mark joined LegalSpan in the Customer Support department to help set up and manage the department when we moved to Austin. “Marks ability to analyze a situation and deliver the most advantageous solution has been critical to the success of both LegalSpan and BarAlliance,” said Robert Reisch, COO of LegalSpan.

About LegalSpan, Inc.

Providing online streaming video based Continuing Education for 44 state bar associations, 24 Accounting Societies and several other professional associations, LegalSpan is the nation's leading Legal Internet broadcasting company. LegalSpan provides a seamless and fully integrated online CE platform that enables associations in the legal, accounting and banking professions to provide the highest quality educational content on the Internet. To learn more about LegalSpan please visit http://www.LegalSpan.com. Press contact (rreisch@legalspan.com) at 888.892.7676.

About the BarAlliance Consortium

The BarAlliance Consortium represents a new paradigm in software development. Consortium members interact with our development staff at every stage of the project from concept through design and testing to release. For more information about the BarAlliance Consortium visit www.baralliance.com or contact Toby Brown, Consortium Director, at toby@utahbar.org.