2012 – Page 2 – Fastcase

Tanina Rostain

Software is transforming legal practice – but you would never guess that in the halls of many law schools, where legal education teaches many of the same things it did 40 years ago. Tanina Rostain is breaking that mold at Georgetown. In 2012, Tanina and fellow Fastcase 50 honoree Roger Skalbeck hosted the first “Iron…

Ed Scanlan

Ed Scanlan is one of the founders of Total Attorneys, a software platform used by thousands of small law firms nationwide togrow and manage their practices. Ed managed Total Attorneys to be one of the fastest-growing software companies of any kind, especially among legal technology providers. But he hasn’t rested on his laurels, presiding over…

Sarah Schacht

Justice Louis Brandeis said that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and Sarah Schacht is bringing the sunshine to legislative information. When she realized that nonprofits, citizens, and policymakers were all having separate conversations about opening government information, she convened Open Gov West, a way to get them all in the same conversation. As the Founder…

Michael Mills

Michael Mills practically invented the modern role of Chief Knowledge Officer, serving in the role at Davis Polk & Wardwell for more than 20 years. As an encore, Michael is helping to reinvent lawyering with Neota Logic, software that allows lawyers to build expert systems. As the access to justice gap widens and legal costs…

Daniel Schwartz

Dan Schwartz is a pioneer in topical blogging for lawyers and the author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, one of the most widely-read legal blogs in the nation. The ABA Journal has cited Dan’s blog as one of the top “100 blogs produced by lawyers” in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Bruce Sewell

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he famously said that Apple had filed for 200 different patents for the device. And in 2009, Apple hired Intel General Counsel Bruce Sewel to enforce them. Today, Sewel and Apple are engaged in high-stakes litigation on multiple fronts, against Samsung, HTC, Motorola (now owned by Google),…

Robert Shapiro

Robert Shapiro is in the middle of a pretty amazing second act. Known as a lawyer to celebrities such as Johnny Carson, Jose Canseco, and the Kardashians (to say nothing of O.J. Simpson), Robert Shapiro has been even more visible recently as the co-founder and public face of LegalZoom, the document assembly service that is…

Roger Skalbeck

Roger is a digital “maker,” building apps and software that are pioneering in legal information systems. Together with fellow Fastcase 50 awardee Jason Eiseman, Roger also conducts an annual ranking of the top 200 law school home pages. This year, Roger co-hosted the first “Iron Tech Lawyer Competition,” as part of the Technology, Innovation, and…

Regina Smith

How do you preserve the integrity of a 210 year-old law library (one of the nation’s oldest), while making it a vibrant part of the legal community? This is the unique challenge that Regina Smith has faced with her overhaul of Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia. She and her team have preserved the character of…

Richard Susskind

William Gibson once said, “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” He may well have been talking about Richard Susskind, who appears to be already living there and waiting for the rest of the legal industry. His books on the impact of informationtechnology have influenced public policy, legal service industry,…