2013 – Page 2 – Fastcase

Kingsley Martin

Kingsley Martin has spent nearly the last decade coming up with innovative technological solutions for automating document assembly. His company leverages computers and technology to revolutionize the way standard contracts and other legal documents are created, which is transforming the way attorneys practice transactional law. While expert deal lawyers may have experience crafting hundreds of…

Eric Mill

Eric Mill is an innovator in the open government movement and is shining the light on government data with his projects at the Sunlight Foundation. Eric’s work includes making and maintaining software (such as Sunlight’s Scout service, Congress API, and Android Congress app) allowing the public to see, search, sort, search, follow, and find information…

Charley Moore

One common problem being addressed by this year’s winners is providing better legal services to the vast middle class – people who aren’t wealthy enough to pay Wall Street lawyer rates, and aren’t indigent enough to qualify for legal aid. As the CEO of Rocket Lawyer, Charley Moore is driving the consumerization of legal services,…

Tim Hwang

Tim Hwang does more than think and pontificate about how algorithms and computing power will change the practice of law – he skipped a few steps and created a law firm with his robot overlords, Robot, Robot & Hwang LLP. Tim also ran the inaugural CodeX FutureLaw Conference at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics…

Dwight Opperman (in memoriam)

This year marked the passing of a legend in law, former West Publishing Co. CEO Dwight Opperman. Opperman started at West fresh out of law school in 1951, cataloguing cases for the National Reporter System by hand. He rose through the ranks of the then-paper publishing business, but with a sense that change was coming.…

Jennifer Pahlka

Jennifer Pahlka is re-imagining how government can harness the strengths of the Web. She created and leads Code For America, a project to fix America’s code infrastructure. The volunteers she works with promote openness, participation, and efficiency in municipal governments. Jennifer is currently serving as deputy CTO for government innovation with the White House Office…

John Phelps

As a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, John Phelps knows a thing or two about determination and discipline. He heads one of the most organized bar associations in the country, and his impressive resume shows why: John has served in a variety of executive public-service positions, including as chief of staff of…

Deb Quentel

Deb Quentel has long been a pioneer and leading light in the field of legal education. In her sixteen years with CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction), she has collaborated with hundreds of law professors and law librarians as they organize, prepare, and create CALI’s essential and excellent online lessons. Her myriad responsibilities at…

Nik Reed

Together with Daniel Lewis, Nik Reed is creating new ways to understand legal research, using data visualization to expose relationships in legal information. He hails from the innovation hub of Stanford Law School and is advancing next-generation methods of graphical legal research, as well as advocating for the free law movement.

Bess Reynolds

Technical services librarians are the unsung heroes of the new era of legal research, and Bess Reynolds stands at the forefront of this group as an advocate for her firm’s research needs. She has pushed for attorney-friendly solutions to knotty problems with new forms of legal content, such as eBooks, and has the ear of…