2012 – Fastcase

David Schnurman

David Schnurman is the founder of online CLE provider Lawline, as well as a television host and serial entrepreneur. Earlier this year, Lawline did one of the most terrifying things a CLE provider can: he opened the catalog for free online (in order to get certification and credit, users must pay after they have viewed…

Jack Newton

Jack Newton is one of the pioneers of cloud-based practice management. He frequently writes, presents, and educates others on mobile lawyering. Jack serves on the board of the International Legal Technology Standards Organization (ILTSO), where he’s helping craft standards for law office technology. He also co-founded and is acting President of the Legal Cloud Computing…

Mark O’Brien

Why should every legal aid organization in the country build and re-build the same software systems to meet recurring needs? Mark O’Brien founded and leads Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that addresses this problem by powering legal aid organizations across the country. Pro Bono Net’s work promotes legal work in the public interest (its Pro…

Sabrina Pacifici

Sabrina Pacifici was a “first mover” of legal tech. For 20 years, she served as the Director of Library and Research Services at the Washington office of Sidley Austin. After creating and serving as publisher of the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, she pivoted in 1996 to create the Law Library Resource Exchange, or LLRX.com…

Larry Port

Occasionally, scientists will share a Nobel Prize in Physics, when scientist across the globe create something awesome at the same time. And something akin to this happened a few years ago in cloud-based practice management. Larry Port co-founded Rocket Matter, one of the first cloud-based practice management platforms for lawyers. Larry’s direct and funny style…

Michael Poulshock

Michael Poulshock builds legal decision systems for Oracle, helping people model things like legislation, and is a resident at the CodeX project at Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (a multidisciplinary skunkworks lab for legal software). Michael built Jureeka, a Firefox plugin that connects law on the Web to different sources of law online, effectively exposing…

Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois is the Johnny Appleseed of technology in Silicon Valley, holding senior leadership roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, and most recently, mobile payment platform Square. He has been called a Secret Silicon Valley Super Angel for his tech investments in the Bay Area. Before working and investing in tech companies (he was an early…

Hon. Jed Rakoff

Judge Rakoff has presided over some of the largest and most consequential litigation of the last decade, including litigation surrounding Bernie Madoff, and a decision rejecting a settlement between the SEC and Citigroup in 2011. Perhaps because of his “pull no punches” style, he’s been praised by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi as “fast becoming a…

Jeff Richardson

One of the biggest trends in legal technology from the last few years has been the move to smartphones — and specifically to iPhones. And the leading iPhone resource for lawyers is iPhone J.D., a blog by New Orleans lawyer Jeff Richardson. This isn’t Jeff’s full-time job, but for the second year in a row,…

Kathleen Richman

Quietly, somewhere in the back of Windward Community College at the University of Hawaii, the machines are whirring away, archiving law books for Kathleen Richman. Kathleen is the executive director of Hawaii-based LLMC, a nonprofit library cooperative that scans books to fiche, with twin goals of preserving law books and government documents on film, and…