2015 – Fastcase

William (Bill) Raftery

Bill Raftery is the editor of Gavel to Gavel, a two-time ABA Journal top 100 law blog, that shares weekly reviews of legislation in all fifty states affecting the courts and judiciary. It’s a huge task, with copious amounts of legislation and legislative activity to sort through every day, yet Bill and his team find…

Hon. Goodwin Liu

California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu is one of the most accomplished lawyers of his generation. After attending Stanford, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School, Justice Liu served as a judicial clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He was an appellate litigator, then one of the most popular law professors at, the…

Chris Manos

If you are a member of a bar association in America, chances are pretty good that you have benefitted from the good counsel of Chris Manos, the Executive Director of the State Bar of Montana. When bar association executives assemble for training and collaboration, Chris has volunteered his expertise in planning and mentoring for new…

David Mao

The Library of Congress is in a time of great change. Less of the world’s information resides in books, and private companies are scanning large volumes of print to digital. To top it all off, only a few months after Mao signed on as his principal deputy, James Billington, the 13th Librarian of Congress, announced…

Kate Martin

“Access to justice is a core value of law librarians – and it is becoming more critical as professional legal assistance becomes more expensive and beyond the reach of even average, middle-class Americans,” according to Kate. The problem of access to justice seems large and intractable. But that didn’t stop Kate Martin from taking action…

Garry Mathiason

Before robots were even taken seriously in movies, Garry Mathiason was thinking about how our law would change because of them. Garry, who is the immediate past Chair of Littler, published his first paper about robots and the law in 1965 and anticipates that by 2025 half of the jobs currently performed in the U.S.…

Ryan McClead

Ryan McClead leads Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Legal Technology Innovation initiative, solving information supply-chain problems in one of the world’s largest law firms. Ryan is a regular contributor to the popular 3 Geeks and a Law Blog (perhaps the most prolific contributor recently). According to Original Geek (OG) Greg Lambert: Ryan’s writing is “pure genius.”…

Gavin McGrane

Everyone who uses PACER knows that it’s broken, and many people have complained about it. Gavin McGrane didn’t just complain; he did something about it, the mark in trade of a legal entrepreneur. He saw a problem, and he built a solution. That solution is PacerPro, which creates a free, functional, modern interface with PACER.…

Joe Milstone

The story is familiar – young lawyers suffering with the long hours and stress of a traditional law firm. What happened next is different: Cognition LLP co-founders Joe Milstone and Rubsun Ho decided to try lowering the billing pressure of their old law firms by starting their own firm. Cognition’s legal team works remotely, or…

Joe Mornin

You know what’s hard? Building legal research software. Which makes it all the more impressive that Joe Mornin found the time to build a Chrome extension for WestlawNext chock-a-block full of awesome, timesaving features – while he was a 3L at UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Technology…