2013 – Page 3 – Fastcase

Mark Rosch

Mark Rosch, co-author of “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet” and 6 ABA-published books including the recent “Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers”, helps legal professionals navigate the free and low-cost sources on the Web to meet their due diligence requirements for investigative and background research. Mark also speaks to lawyers about…

Jim Sandman

After thirty years as a leader in private practice, Jim Sandman, who was appointed president of LSC in 2011, brings a unique perspective to legal aid. One continuing focus of LSC is the organization’s robust Technology Initiative Grants program, which exists to improve client access to high quality assistance in the full range of legal…

Josh Tauberer

In the open government movement, there are few “makers” of the caliber of Josh Tauberer. Josh built GovTrack, one of the world’s most visited government-transparency websites, and is leading the way to open government via automation and syndication. His format for compiling and sharing information about legislators and legislative actions is the model for government…

Tracy Thompson-Przylucki

Tracy Thompson-Przylucki has been at the helm of the New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO), an organization that has expanded to represent the interests of more than 110 law libraries under her leadership. This past year, she collaborated with the Legal Information Preservation Alliance to launch PALMPrint, a project advocating collective ownership and stewardship of…

Grant Vergottini

Grant Vergottini is applying his two decades of experience in the software industry to help define data standards for legislative materials. His company, Xcential, has worked with a variety of U.S. and international jurisdictions to create tools that help manage the drafting and amendment process in law-making. He is also a key contributor to an…

Bart Epstein

When he isn’t busy at his day job as General Counsel & Chief Strategy Officer at Tutor.com, Bart Epstein serves as President of Gifts for the Homeless, a nonprofit that collects and distributes thousands of bags of donated clothing to more than 70 homeless shelters, soup kitchens and transitional housing facilities. The nonprofit collects enough…

Stephen Allen

PwC has a new take on the New Normal: it has set up a consulting practice to help in-house counsel better retain and manage outside counsel to their strategic advantage. And the firm has tapped Magic Circle lawyer, blogger, and legal entrepreneur Stephen Allen to lead the effort worldwide. Allen has said that he will…

Tom Barnett

One of the quieter success stories in the future of law comes from Pierre, South Dakota, where Executive Director Tom Barnett for years has been reaching across the digital divide and innovating around the practice of law in rural communities. For years, the State Bar has created access to justice for communities unserved by high-speed…

Josh Becker

In 2013, law schools are incubating a number of legal startups. But in 2006, when Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley started the Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse, the idea was unheard of. The idea was simple – to collect real-time data on IP litigation. The project grew so large that it spun out of Stanford Law…

Bob Berring, Jr.

Most lawyers learned about legal research from law school professors, and most of those professors learned from Bob Berring, the granddaddy of legal research. When people say that Bob Berring wrote the book on legal research, they mean that he literally wrote the book on legal research. Two of them, actually: Finding the Law and…