2019 – Fastcase

Alyza Tarmohamed

Alyza Tarmohamed is the driving force behind WLM Solutions’ LegalVIEW Bill Analyzer, software designed to improve in-house legal operations. BillAnalyzer is a bill review service that frees up in-house attorneys’ time to focus on higher value work, improves billing guideline compliance, and delivers up to 10% cost savings over traditional invoice review processes. Alyza has…

Renee Thompson

Renee is a rising star among Florida lawyers and has been integral to The Florida Bar’s effort to emphasize the importance of practice management and technology skills for attorneys. Renee has helped to form the Bar’s Technology committees and initiatives, including chairing the Bar’s Solo Small Firm Technology Conference, bringing the Clio Cloud Conference to…

Marie Kulbeth

Through SixFifty, the software development subsidiary of Wilson Sonsini, Marie Kulbeth and her team of lawyers and engineers (which includes fellow Fastcase 50 honoree Kimball Dean Parker) are streamlining complex areas of the law with technology solutions. For its first public launch, SixFifty Privacy automated the main obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)…

Jim Shelar

A legend among law librarians, Jim Shelar passed away just before this year’s Fastcase 50 awards. As a law librarian first at Squire Sanders, then later as Chief Law Librarian at Arnold & Porter, Jim oversaw a number of notable firsts, among them being the first law firm library to have a Lexis terminal. He…

Seth Price

At Price Benowitz, Seth Price has created one of America’s best-known law firms, in part because his firm has such a large online footprint for legal matters. Over the past decade, Seth has scaled his two-person firm to 40 lawyers. And that’s no accident. Seth is a master of the art of online presence and…

Jonah Paransky

The work of corporate legal departments is difficult, with competing options among software tools and outside counsel, and increasing pressure to add predictability to the cost and complexity of legal matters. Jonah Paransky is a leader in providing technology solutions that address the needs of general counsels and their corporate legal departments. Under Jonah’s leadership,…

Miguel Willis

While it’s easy for law students to slip into the throes of self-interested peer-to-peer competition, for grades, clerkships, and other “leg ups”, Miguel Willis was not going to wait until graduation to make a difference for others. As a 2L at Seattle University School of Law, he founded the Access to Justice Tech Fellows Program,…

Jason Lockhart

Jason Lockhart is an efficiency junkie, constantly seeking innovative ways to improve the business of law to serve clients more effectively and efficiently. He spearheaded The Insurance Defense Incubator for McAngus Goudelock & Courie (MGC) and is now taking the insurance defense industry to the next level by bringing AI to better understand judgments. Jason…

Marc Lauritsen

Marc Lauritsen is a pioneer of legal software. For over two decades, Marc has been blazing trails on document automation and artificial intelligence. He earned two degrees from MIT and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, served in legal aid offices, and then returned to Harvard to direct clinical programs, including Project Pericles, Harvard’s first…

Anusia Gillespie

When one of England’s largest firms, Eversheds, merged with Atlanta-based powerhouse Sutherland Asbill & Brennan at the end of 2016, people knew that the combined Eversheds Sutherland would be a new kind of global firm. One of the firm’s first acts was to hire Anusia Gillespie to lead the firm’s innovation efforts in the United…