Gary J. Highland was born November 28, 1955 in Urbana, Illinois. Mr. Highland received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Sciences from the University of California, Irvine in 1976. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1979. While there, he served as Notes Editor for the Southern California Law Review. His law review article, "Sales of Defective Used Products: Should Strict Liability Apply?" was published in the Southern California Law Review in 1979 and has been repeatedly relied upon by appellate courts considering the issue presented by the article.

Since graduating from law school, Gary Highland's law practice has been focused almost exclusively on commercial real estate finance and business finance transactions. Over the years he has represented many of the largest and most prestigious lending institutions in the United States.

Mr. Highland developed a reputation for using automation in his law practice, and has been featured in numerous articles on document automation and law office technology. He has personally developed numerous computer applications to automate the preparation of customized commercial loan documents. Much of the document automation software used by RoboDocs today was originally developed by Mr. Highland.

Before founding RoboDocs and Highland Law Corporation in 1997, Gary Highland was a partner in the Orange County office of Bryan Cave, a prestigious law firm founded in 1873 based in St. Louis, Missouri, with offices throughout the world. At that time Mr. Highland was the senior partner in the real estate finance group of Bryan Cave's three Southern California offices.

In 1997, Gary Highland founded RoboDocs, an internet-based loan document preparation service specializing in documentation of commercial real estate loans and other business loan transactions. At the same time he founded Highland Law Corporation, a law firm dedicated exclusively to serving the legal needs of RoboDocs clients in connection with the loan transactions documented by RoboDocs. Since 1997 he has served as President and General Counsel of RoboDocs and senior shareholder of Highland Law Corporation.

Mr. Highland is a member of the Orange County and American Bar Associations, State Bar of California, American Mensa and The Pacific Club. Gary Highland has resided in Newport Beach, California for many years, where he lives with his family including three young children. He enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, reading, movies, photography and cooking.

Taylor B. Chi was born May 29, 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan. She moved to the United States when she was 3 years old and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Chi graduated cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Law & Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993. She received her Juris Doctor, with honors distinction, from the University of San Francisco in 1998. While there, she served as Comments Editor for the University of San Francisco Law Review, moot court case counsel and tutor for the Academic Support Program.

Since graduating from law school, Taylor Chi’s law practice has focused mostly on commercial and residential real estate transactions. Over the years she has represented small start-up companies to large Fortune 50 companies on a wide range of range of transactions, including, the acquisition, disposition, development, construction and leasing of real property.

Before joining RoboDocs and Highland Law Corporation in 2010, Taylor Chi was an Associate in the Orange County office of Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus and Peckenpaugh where her practice concentrated on representing residential developers and homebuilders with the development and sale of property in master planned communities, planned developments and condominium projects in California. Before that, she worked at the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie, a prestigious global law firm where she represented large multinational clients on the design, implementation and maintenance of equity-based compensation programs, including stock option and stock purchase plans, outside the United States. Ms. Chi’s prior legal experience also includes working in house for San Francisco based real estate development company, Catellus Development Corporation. Ms. Chi began her legal career as a real estate associate in the Palo Alto headquarters of one of the largest law firms in the country, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati where she represented over 100 clients in approximately 200 real estate transactions.

Ms. Chi is a member of the Orange County Bar Association and the State Bar of California. Taylor Chi resides in Irvine, California, where she lives with her husband, son and daughter. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, reading, watching movies, and hiking.

Heather Paulus was born May 30, 1980 in Morristown, NJ. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with a dual major in English and Political Science from the University of New Hampshire, graduating cum laude in 2002.

She received her Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 2005. While there, she served as Chapter Clerk for BC Law’s Phi Alpha Delta law society and participated in Moot Court competition. She also clerked with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, assisting the Office of the Attorney General in prosecuting emissions law violations.

Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Paulus served a term as a judicial law clerk in New Jersey Superior Court, Hudson County Criminal Vicinage. She then served as in-house counsel for a New Jersey real estate development company, focusing on managing legal review and environmental compliance for a $400 million portfolio in court appointed receivership. Upon her relocation to California, she worked as a trust officer at Northern Trust Bank. Prior to working for Highland Law Corporation, Ms. Paulus provided pro bono services to the Legal Aid Society of Orange County and the Orange County Public Law Center.

Heather is admitted to practice law in the states of California, New York and New Jersey. She is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the Orange County Women Lawyers Association, and the state bars of California, New York and New Jersey.

Heather participates regularly as a judge at the University of California, Irvine’s mock trial competitions. She enjoys competing in equestrian events with her horse, surfing, mountain biking, playing tennis, traveling, and reading. Heather and her husband reside in Newport Beach, California.