2017 – Page 2 – Fastcase

Rochelle Washington

Rochelle is one of the country’s leading Practice Management Advisors. Since joining the staff of the D.C. Bar, Rochelle has worked to implement model programming geared at assisting small and solo practitioners at all experience levels. Having worked as a solo practitioner for many years herself, Rochelle combines the pragmatic perspective of a practicing lawyer…

Adam Ziegler

Adam Ziegler leads the technology efforts of the Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab. He’s quarterbacking the Caselaw Access Project to digitize nearly 40 million pages of case law into files that are available to the public for free online. Adam has a broad innovation portfolio at Harvard — in addition to his work on…

Antonia Roybal-Mack

A litigation and planning attorney based in New Mexico, Antonia Roybal-Mack developed DivorceNM.com to help her neighbors access the family law system. The cloud-based self-service platform has the potential to change the way divorce proceedings are handled on a national scale. New Mexico claimants with a matter related to divorce, custody, or child support can…

Lawton Penn

After practicing law for 25 years, Lawton Penn now spends most of her days trying not to think like a lawyer. According to her colleague at Davis Wright Tremaine, she is “passionately dissatisfied with the old dynamic between businesses and their attorneys and is determined to find a better path”. Lawton helped launch and is…

Sheila Baldwin

To put it simply, Sheila Baldwin is invested in attorney success. As Member Benefits Coordinator of the State Bar of Georgia she not only researches and acquires meaningful resources on behalf of the state’s lawyers, she also makes sure her members are getting the most out of them. Sheila regularly teaches classes and gives attorneys…

Janet Welch

A self-professed legal futures and collaboration enthusiast, State Bar of Michigan Executive Director Janet Welch has written extensively about legal tech online and made preparing lawyers for the future of law one of the Bar’s top priorities. Under Janet’s leadership, the State Bar of Michigan released a wealth of recommendations on legal innovation titled “21st…

Allan Ramsaur

Allan Ramsaur has served the Tennessee Bar Association for almost 20 years as Executive Director, before stepping into the role of Executive Director Emeritus earlier this year. During this tenure, the TBA tripled in membership, had a tenfold increase in CLE revenues, rewrote the code of ethics for lawyers and judges, and moved headquarters to…

Jonathan Askin

Brooklyn is known as a hotbed of creative energy, but many times aspiring entrepreneurs do not have the financial resources or expertise to put their ideas into action. As Founder and Director of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) Jonathan Askin has created a symbiotic bridge between startups that need legal assistance and…

Carla Hayden

You may know Carla Hayden is the first woman and the first African-American to become the Librarian of Congress, but she is also one of only three professional librarians to ever fill that role. Before she was working diligently to modernize the nation’s greatest library, Dr. Hayden led Baltimore’s Pratt Library system for over 10…

George Brown

2017 marked the retirement of many of the country’s most capable and respected bar leaders. George Brown has been the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Executive Director for the last 17 years. From 2014-2015 he also served as the President of the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE). During George’s time at the bar he focused…