Disrupting the legal industry by combining Lean Startup and Six Sigma concepts is the basis for LegalX and LawMade.com, founded by Jason Moyse and Aron Solomon. Part of the NewLaw movement, Jason and Aron are on the cutting edge of (r)evolutionizing the business processes of law firms. Through LegalX and LawMade, Jason and Aron seek…
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Pat Nester
Continuing legal education has changed enormously over the past few years, so imagine how different it was when Pat Nester, the Director of TexasBarCLE, began working to train lawyers with the State Bar of Texas 29 years ago. With firm roots in the past, Nester has an eye on the future of CLE, from flipped…
Read MoreDean Andrew Perlman
Andy Perlman has been a popular law professor at Suffolk Law (so popular that he has just been named Dean of the school), teaching professional responsibility, but with an angle of what that responsibility might look like in a differently regulated future for lawyers. Andy has written numerous articles on professional responsibility, including the idea…
Read MoreLisa Linsky
Lisa Linsky has a 30-year history of advocating for diversity and inclusion, first as a special prosecutor dealing with child abuse and domestic violence cases, then as a litigator at McDermott, Will & Emery. Linsky has worked to promote diversity within her law firm, but she also has been an advocate for marriage equality everywhere,…
Read MoreTrisha Ryan
Trisha Ryan is a self-made lawyer. When she was 30, she had only a high-school education and was a divorced mother of two, working 60 hours per week managing an Arby’s in Bonita Springs, Fla. She knew she needed a way out, and that education would be that way. Trisha went to college and got…
Read MoreBrendan Schulman
Brendan Schulman, or “The Drone Lawyer,” as he is sometimes known, heads Kramer Levin’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems practice, the first of its kind in the United States. He successfully defended the first person prosecuted for operating a commercial drone in the United States, and advises manufacturers, business people, and hobbyists about the safe and legal…
Read MoreMatt Sellers
Matt Sellers is the CEO of Quimbee, a legal education platform that makes it easy, fun, and interesting to learn about the law. The service, which has more than 10,000 law students, offers case briefs, courses, quizzes, and a Web-based outliner for law students, all targeted to major casebooks. The service is Web-based and beautifully…
Read MoreAron Solomon
Disrupting the legal industry by combining Lean Startup and Six Sigma concepts is the basis for LegalX and LawMade.com, founded by Jason Moyse and Aron Solomon. Part of the NewLaw movement, Jason and Aron are on the cutting edge of (r)evolutionizing the business processes of law firms. Through LegalX and LawMade, Jason and Aron seek…
Read MoreDavid Sparks
By day, David Sparks is a corporate lawyer in Orange County, Ca. But he is also (and we use the term endearingly) a geek of the highest order. David is a podcaster, blogger, and author who spends a lot of time finding the best ways to work, and the best tools, hardware, and workflows for…
Read MoreBen Stevens
To lawyers in Spartanburg, SC, Ben Stevens is the founding member of a successful family law practice specializing in complex cases. But to the rest of the world, Ben is The Mac Lawyer. Not “a” Mac lawyer. Capital T, capital M, capital L: The Mac Lawyer. Ben moved his practice to all-Mac in 2005, long…
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