2014 – Fastcase

Vishnu Prasad

Vishnu Prasad, CEO and Managing Partner of Law Pundits LLP, is re-engineering legal education in India and the Middle East by providing continuous legal education and harmonizing legal education in those areas of law where standardizing is possible. His firm fills a gap in legal education for the record number of lawyers hanging their shingle…

Joshua Kubicki

Legal technology is having a moment, and Josh Kubicki wants to throw some fuel on the fire. Josh is the founder and President of the Legal Transformation Institute, which designs, invests in, and innovates new business models for legal services. Josh organized LexRedux, a legal startup event that coincided with Reinvent Law New York, offering…

Casey Kuhlman

Casey Kuhlman is a practicing lawyer and social entrepreneur working in Somaliland, and highly innovative software developer, working on legal applications of Ethereum, a decentralized blockchain network that allows lawyers to develop and deploy self-executing smart contracts, and possibly even Judging-as-a-Service. Ethereum is the foundation and vocabulary for machine-readable contracts. Besides being an innovator and…

Richard Leiter

Rich Leiter has done pioneering research into citation analysis tools – indeed some of his ideas can be seen in legal research services like Fastcase and Fastcase 50 honoree Jake Heller’s service Casetext. In particular, Rich wondered: is there a superset of cases that have been cited frequently by law review articles, and could you…

Benjamin Lieber

Ben Leiber created a non-traditional path for lawyers by intentionally building a law firm with low overhead. After recognizing the high level of legal talent looking for an alternative to traditional big firm life, Ben founded the Potomac Law Group, with the idea that a dispersed firm operating in a low overhead environment would be…

Mike Lissner

Mike Lissner is the lead developer and Co-Founder of CourtListener, which is part of the Free Law Project (founded with fellow Fastcase 50 honoree Bryan Carver). CourtListener provides free public access, including an open API, to a huge collection of nationwide judicial opinions. CourtListener also collects new opinions daily from a broad range of courts,…

John Lord

John Lord leads the pack of innovators at Neota Logic. In recent months, John’s been instrumental in providing vision and building platforms that advance the law. For example, Neota’s been engaged to develop an interactive portal for New Mexico legal aid in a project funded by the Legal Services Corporation; and has collaborated with Georgetown…

Marco Mari

Marco Mari is exploring the intersection of law, economics, and design, as an application developer, but also as an event organizer. Together with his co-founder (and fellow Fastcase 50 honoree) Francesca De Lisa, Marco created the Italian service legalPAD, then collaborated to create a legal tech design summer camp, We Have the Future!, at a…

Scott Meiser

What will books of the future look like? Although nobody knows for sure, Scott Meiser will guide part of that progress. As the Director of Product Planning for LexisNexis, Scott has been responsible for the company’s implementation of its eBook program – and eBooks have been a moving target, to say the least. Scott has…

Dan Mills

Dan Mills the Assistant Director of the DC Bar’s Practice Management Advisory Service – the Bar’s resource for advice from tech to accounting. Dan leads a monthly business bootcamp, Basic Training & Beyond, designed to transition attorneys into solo and small firm practice. The program has won an award from the ABA’s Standing Committee on…