2016 – Fastcase

Michael Sander

What do most lawyers do when faced with expensive, cumbersome methods for tracking cases and predicting case outcomes? They suffer grunt work, try to collect limited information, hedge, or rely on hunches when giving advice. But what if the lawyer were also a software developer? That lawyer-developer might do what Michael Sander did: design an…

Mary Juetten

Many think of software as confined to automated tasks and processes. Mary Juetten isn’t one of them. She is pushing the boundaries of what computers can do as the founder and CEO of Traklight, a Phoenix-based small company that helps attorneys and businesses protect their IP interests through a self-guided program. Traklight can assess risk,…

Kristine Knab

Kristine Knab has devoted her life to the defense of the rights of the poor. After graduating from Florida State University with High Honors, she joined the staff of Legal Services of North Florida. Author of the book Small Claims in Leon County, she became Executive Director of the LSNF in 1994. A passionate advocate…

Nehal Madhani

While he was billing 2,400 hours a year at Kirkland & Ellis, Nehal Madhani was nevertheless still making time to look for his opportunity to become an entrepreneur. He did that in 2013 by teaching himself to code and starting Alt Legal. The company helps IP lawyers to collect client information, create and file pertinent…

Katherine Mazzaferri

Katherine Mazzaferri has served the District of Columbia Bar for 34 years, most recently as its CEO. During Katherine’s tenure, the Bar elevated its pro bono efforts into the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, created a first-of-its-kind mandatory fee arbitration program, instituted a Lawyer Assistance Program, and started a Practice Management Advisory Service. She also…

Jack Metzler

The Bluebook is a rite of passage for many law students, a minor religion for (some) law review editors, and the occasional bane of practicing lawyers. However, different institutions have their own style guides quite beyond the edicts of the Bluebook, and Jack Metzler has brought at least two of the more prominent of this…

Jules Miller

Jules Miller and fellow entrepreneur Mary Juetten are showing that it’s not the strongest or smartest legal innovators that survive, but the ones that adapt most successfully to change. Jules created Evolve Law to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in the legal industry. Jules is also the COO and Co-founder (with fellow Fastcase 50…

Tammie Nelson

Some legal tech projects are bigger than others, and when it came time to retire THOMAS, the Library of Congress’s first legislative publishing system, Congress knew it would need an expert. It called on Tammie Nelson, who had been working on THOMAS for the Library of Congress. Nelson was a veteran of both software development…

Robert (Bob) Oaks

Bob Oaks has been a law firm librarian over 35 years, having spent the past 25 years at the 2,100-lawyer firm of Latham & Watkins LLP, where he recently retired as Chief Library and Records Officer. While at Latham, he managed the firm’s Department of Information Resources, which includes divisions for Library, Records, Conflicts/New Business…

Kevin O’Keefe

Kevin O’Keefe is one of the most connected lawyers in the world. For more than a decade, Kevin has shown us that authentic relationships are the special ingredient of networking online. He is the Benjamin Franklin of blogs for lawyers, using thoughts for keys and blogs for kites, he’s connecting lawyers and powering more than…