2020 – Fastcase

David Pinke

Avid skier and baker of bagels, Dave Pinke is PLI’s Digital Online Product Owner, who, with the greater PLI team, has recently transformed the PLI training and CLE website to make it more intuitive and accessible. Dave developed the Credit Tracker, which is helping tens of thousands of attorneys and CPAs track their state’s CLE…

Shane Marmion

A legal publisher, Shane Marmion is president of William S. Hein & Co., the world’s largest legal periodical distributor, providing tools for research in law, political science, and international relations. At Hein, Shane has led engineering efforts to modernize the HeinOnline platform. Shane was influential in organizing more than 8,000 profiles for professors to connect…

Shannon Hein

For generations, you could find Heins and Marmions at the helm of the William S. Hein & Co., one of the last independent legal publishers in America. The torch has been passed to a new generation of Heins and Marmions, with Shannon Hein and Shane Marmion (also recognized with a Fastcase 50 award this year)…

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is a leading voice in American immigration policy and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Law Journal. Her research on prosecutorial discretion as it relates to factors such as race and national security has been published in more than thirty law reviews and two books, and her work has…

Shon Hopwood

Shon Hopwood’s life story is one of redemption. A former serial bank robber, at the age of 23 Shon was sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison. What came next no one could have predicted: with no formal legal training, Shon became perhaps the most successful “jailhouse lawyer” in American history, with his first…

Hon. Stephen Williams (In Memoriam)

Many lives were lost in 2020 to COVID-19, including D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Stephen Williams on August 8. The Judge’s clerks remember him as a “giant of administrative law”, and one of the longest-serving judges on the D.C. Circuit. President Ronald Reagan named Stephen to the court in 1983, and although he took senior status in…

Steven Lofchie

After a career in BigLaw, many partners begin to look back on their legacy, but Steven Lofchie continues to look forward. Steven has had a storied career advising clients in the financial services sector, including writing Lofchie’s Guide to Broker-Dealer Regulation, a leading treatise. Always innovating, Steven recently forged a path into the digital era…

Teresa Miguel-Stearns

Teresa Miguel-Stearns is a law library polymath. She recently became Director of the Law Library at The University of Arizona after 15 years in various positions at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. Teresa is the co-founder and creator of ALLStAR Benchmarking, a leading data collection and analysis tool for U.S. academic…

Tiela Chalmers

Tiela Chalmers has spent her career engaged in providing free legal services for clients with low incomes. She worked with the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Volunteer Legal Services Program for 25 years, 14 of them as the Executive Director. Tiela left that position in 2011, but continued her work to help provide pro bono…

Vasu Kappettu

For two decades, Vasu Kappettu has been providing free and public access to the law. She is a founding member of Justia and leads the technology development as well as the innovation efforts for Justia’s portal and client services products. Vasu does not seek the spotlight, but she has made integral contributions to Justia’s goal…