2013 – Fastcase

Sharon Nelson

When Sharon Nelson started Sensei Enterprises in 1997, the tech world was very different. Cloud computing usually involved a laptop and an airplane. Since then, Sharon has written 11 books, hundreds of articles, and has taught lawyers across the country about everything from security to forensics to e-discovery. This year, Sharon and her husband (and…

Daniel Martin Katz

Daniel Martin Katz is one half of a dynamic duo leading a revolution in legal technology. ReInvent Law, which he co-founded with fellow Fastcase 50 winner Renee Newman Knake, has gathered legal tech thinkers and doers to collaborate on how the delivery of legal services is being redefined, with conferences in Dubai, Silicon Valley, and…

Renee Newman Knake

Renee Newman Knake co-founded with fellow Fastcase 50 winner Daniel Martin Katz the ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University School of Law. The team has incubated student projects to innovate around the delivery of legal services, and convened conversations among forward thinkers around the world. She has spoken extensively about the need for lawyers…

Colin LaChance

CanLII’s mission is to provide free access to Canadian law, which for a long time has meant primary law. Under the leadership of Colin LaChance, the organization has even begun to branch out into new frontiers of secondary sources. Through the recent deployment of the CanLII API, or application programming interface, CanLII will allow software…

Steve Lastres

Steve Lastres is a leading voice pushing for innovative solutions to how information professionals working in law firms can increase their value to their organizations. He is one of the founders and editors of the highly collaborative On Firmer Ground blog, which covers the challenges facing contemporary law firm librarians. He is a frequent speaker…

Carole Levitt

For more than 20 years, Carole Levitt has been thinking about legal research – how it works, how it might be better – and teaching others how to use the internet effectively in the practice of law. A nationally recognized speaker, Carole dives into the details of how legal research search engines and automated citators…

Daniel Lewis

Together with fellow Fastcase 50 winner Nik Reed, Daniel Lewis is creating innovative information visualization with legal data, specifically citation data, at Ravel Law. Dan is part of a new age in innovation in legal research, rethinking everything we know about how legal software works and making search results more visual, more meaningful, and easier…

Adriana Linares

Adriana Linares is one of the most respected, knowledgeable, and active technology coaches for lawyers. She is a nationally recognized speaker on legal technology issues and helps to make lawyers more comfortable and effective with the ever-changing digital landscape. Adriana was also a member of the Planning Board of the ABA Techshow for four years,…

Bruce MacEwen

With BigLaw reeling from crisis after crisis in the past five years, Bruce MacEwen’s “Growth is Dead” series published on his blog for Adam Smith, Esq. certainly created quite a buzz, and quite a bit of soul-searching, among observers of the legal industry. (The series has since been edited and cast in book form.) His…

Kevin Marmion

Many executives have stories about working their way up, but Kevin Marmion has worked his way all the way up over his 40+ years at William S. Hein & Co. Kevin started at the company in 1970 as a part-time hand in the warehouse while he was in high school. As President, Marmion has been…