2014 – Page 2 – Fastcase

Art Neill

Art Neill founded New Media Rights, a non-profit housed at California Western School of Law, that provides one-to-one legal services to creators, entrepreneurs and internet users whose projects require intellectual property law expertise. New Media Rights also collects and rolls up the advice it gives to individuals and creates how-to videos and talks for artists.…

Justice Sarah Parker

Chief Justice Sarah Parker has served three terms on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and since 2006, as its Chief Justice. She is only the third woman to serve on the Court. In August 2014, she will reach the mandatory retirement age, after serving on the Court on and off since 1992. During a very…

David Perla

Legal entrepreneurship is booming, and David Perla can rightly say that he saw it coming. David co-founded and ran legal process outsourcing giant Pangea3 to more than 1,000 employees around the world, before the company was purchased by Thomson Reuters. He has characterized the boom in legal tech startups, and funding for them, as the…

Orin Kerr

Orin Kerr is a professor at the George Washington Law School and leading scholar on computer crime law and internet surveillance, both of which have had a pretty hot year. He analyzes law and technology issues in the federal courts at the Volokh Conspiracy and SCOTUSblog. And Orin should know the issues. In addition to…

Scott Rechtschaffen

Scott Rechtschaffen is changing the way Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law firm, is delivering legal services to clients. Scott leads the nation’s largest legal Knowledge Management (KM) department and combines his 25 years of experience in labor and employment law with technology know-how to make his firm’s work more cost effective. Scott…

Matt Spiegel

Matt Spiegel co-founded practice management software platform MyCase while he was a practicing criminal defense attorney. He wanted a good, web-based tool to manage his office, so he created one, building MyCase into one of the leading companies in the space before its acquisition in 2012 by AppFolio. Matt remains on the MyCase team today…

Neil Squillante

TechnoLawyer has grown from a popular listserver back in the 1990s into a network of professionally edited law practice email newsletters that are considered a must-read for lawyers interested in management, marketing, and technology. TechnoLawyer’s family of publications consists of product announcements and reviews, business and tech Q&A from peers, and separate newsletters tracking news…

Colin Starger

Colin Starger is putting Supreme Court decisions on the map in a new way. As the principal on the SCOTUS Mapping Project, Colin is using software-driven process to plot Supreme Court doctrine and case genealogy in order to visually show the relationships of influential court decisions on precedent and how dissents contribute to the development…

Lisa Tatum

Lisa M. Tatum is the founder and owner of LM Tatum, PLLC in San Antonio with a practice that focuses on corporate, education, employment and public finance law. She became the first elected African-American president of the State Bar of Texas and is leading and promoting civic and education projects. Lisa is instrumental in spearheading…

Susan Taylor Martin

On January 1, Susan Taylor Martin became President of Thomson Reuters Legal; she is a veteran of Thomson Reuters, but not of the legal division. She had previously been running TRL and Practical Law Corporation in England and Ireland, but most of her career (spanning more than 20 years) had been at Reuters. She is…