2011 – Page 2 – Fastcase

Catherine Sanders Reach

Catherine Sanders Reach is one of the leading lights on the use of technology in the law office. Catherine is the Director of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center, and is an organizer of ABA Techshow. She is an active speaker at legal conferences regarding the use of technology in legal practice, and has published…

Roberta Shaffer

Roberta Shaffer is a brilliant and visionary Law Librarian of Congress, owing in part, one supposes, to her fascinating career in the law. In the 1990s, she served simultaneously as coordinator of the law librarianship specialization at the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America and as the head librarian…

Joe Shea

Joe Shea changed forever the way lawyers subscribe to their legal research services, pioneering with the Ohio State Bar Association a new model for member benefits. Joe founded Casemaker, an innovative consortium of state bar associations who subscribed in volume for their members. Joe, a formidable litigator in Cincinnati, Ohio, has served in a number…

John Mayer

John Mayer is a visionary and a connector (as well as a leading purveyor of flying stuffed animals at conferences). John was instrumental in the growth and development of CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, now the gold standard for legal educators, and he helped initiate the first-ever meeting-of-the-minds conference for the best thinkers…

Stacy Stern

Stacy Stern is the better half of legal technology’s most karma-endowed power couple (see also: Tim Stanley). As a founder and President of Justia, Stacy oversees all revenue and client operations, as well as marketing and partnerships, and oversees Justia’s legal portal content and community features. She is a nationwide leader in helping lawyers market…

Ernest Svenson

Ernie Svenson is a trailblazer — a solo practitioner who used technology to make his practice more efficient, and is now sharing what works with others so they can grow their practices, too. Ernie views the practice of law as an “information processing business” and does his best to help lawyers find smarter and more…

Genie Tyburski

If there were an elite research strike force, Genie Tyburski would be a Seal Team leader. She has been teaching and writing about legal research for more than 20 years. She founded The Virtual Chase, one of the first sites dedicated to legal research and strategies for finding legal information, business information, and public records.…

Ted Ullyot

Ted Ullyot has covered a lot of very impressive ground within a relatively short amount of time. Since earning his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia in the mid-1990s, Ted’s worked in the highest level of government including top positions at the White House and Bush administration,…

John Waters

John Waters is the Executive Director of Covington & Burling LLP, where he coordinates the administrative operations for the firm’s offices around the world. He has worked at Covington & Burling since 1997, overseeing the integration of new offices and a major firm merger. Addressing a need for young professionals at the firm, John worked…

Erika Wayne

From her position as Deputy Director of the Law Library at Stanford Law School, Erika Wayne is a vigorous advocate for open access to law. She spearheaded the Law.gov National Inventory of Legal Materials after the Law.gov workshop at Stanford, which has become a nationwide effort to catalog free (and restricted) legal resources on the…