is the founder of Aluvion, a legal solutions company offering technology, paralegal and lawyer-driven solutions with a special focus on the quality, cost, and accessibility of legal services for both businesses and individuals. Monica began her career working as an engineer in R&D for companies like Toshiba, Nortel and Nokia while earning her Masters of Engineering at Stanford. Monica's history conditioned her to solve problems in a efficient and tech-savvy manner, an approach she brings with her to legal solutions. Monica currently sits on the Canadian Bar Association's Futures Initiative, and will be teaching a course on Legal Technology at York University’s Osgoode Hall. She was recently named one of 10 Women to Watch in Tech in the Journal of the American Bar Association.In a December 2004 interview with the evangelical magazine Christianity Today, James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, celebrated the recent passage of same-sex-marriage bans on ballots in 11 states. The groundswell of support for these measures, he contended, was driven by a case decided earlier that year by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Goodridge v. Department of Health, which made Massachusetts the first U.S. state to permit same-sex couples to marry. “Mainstream Americans began understanding the urgency of these threats,” Dobson told the magazine, “and ultimately decided that they could not stand idly by while the radical gay agenda was forced down their throats.” But now, 10 years after opponents of same-sex marriage believed they had launched a successful counterattack on the Goodridge ruling, they