2022 – Page 2 – Fastcase

Sarah Sutherland

Sarah Sutherland leads the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), the authoritative (and free) online resource for Canadian law. CanLII is a founding member of the Free Access to Law Movement and a global leader in the Legal Information Institute movement. This year, in addition to serving as President and CEO, Sarah published her first book…

Danielle Citron

Danielle Citron is an accomplished scholar of digital privacy and protections. In addition to many law review articles, she is the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and the upcoming The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age. Indeed, she is one of the most extensively cited professors in the…

Igor Olenich

Over his long career, Igor Olenich has worked in human resources, records management, and even law enforcement. As one of the original founders of the National Docketing Association (NDA), Igor has already served as NDA Secretary and Vice President. In his new capacity as President, Igor will lead the global conversation on docketing standards. When…

Casandra Laskowski

Cas Laskowski is the Head of Research, Data & Instruction at the University of Arizona’s Law Library, where she works with faculty, staff, and students to build legal technology skills. Cas is an advocate for free or low-cost resources, a critical element for practitioners setting out on their own. Cas also has set up virtual…

Joe Lawson

Joe Lawson is creating technology tools that increase access to justice and legal information for thousands of patrons, self-represented litigants, and attorneys. As Director of the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library in Houston, Texas, Joe has recognized the need to be more tech savvy in order to make justice and access to legal…

Clanitra Stewart Nejdl

Clanitra Stewart Nejdl’s enthusiasm for law librarianship, both nationally and in her home program at Vanderbilt Law, is self-evident. Clanitra started her career practicing in Georgia and South Carolina, where she worked for the public interest, representing indigent clients and advocating for policy change on behalf of low-income communities. In her second career as a…

Neal Nagely

It’s a common fact pattern – a member of the public needs help with a civil legal matter, but can’t afford professional services, so they turn to Google and a labyrinth of competing and untested information. BookLawyer was founded by Neal Nagely in 2006 to alleviate that problem, by providing free resources to help everyone…

Diana Imbert

Understanding that access to legal knowledge and opportunity is locked behind many walls of inequity, Diana Imbert set out to dismantle barriers from the bottom up when she helped found Defying Legal Gravity (DLG), a nonprofit based in Manhattan that connects students with a groundbreaking legal curriculum. The program is for students from 6th grade…

Amanda Caffall

Always with an eye for service, Amanda Caffall has successfully leveraged technology and innovation to expand The Commons Law Center into a highly efficient operation. The Commons is a nonprofit law firm that assists those living at 400% below the federal poverty level. Based in Oregon, the Center offers sliding-scale legal services and has expanded…

John P. Blumberg

As a triple-board certified trial attorney with more than forty years of experience, John Blumberg knows a thing or two about effectively advocating before juries. This past year, John took a career’s worth of knowledge and consolidated it as a new methodology for the courtroom called: Persuasion Science for Trial Lawyers (Full Court Press 2022).…