2014 – Page 3 – Fastcase

Eugene Volokh

To call Eugene Volokh a law professor, while technically true, sort of misses the point. In 2002, he founded one of the first and most influential law blogs, the eponymous Volokh Conspiracy. Today, the blog hosts a roster of prominent law bloggers. VC has been one of the most popular, celebrated, and award-winning blogs for…

Byron Warnken

What tools will lawyers of the future use? Although it’s hard to say with specifics, it’s a safe bet that lawyers will do more number crunching. That’s the approach taken by Baltimore lawyer Byron Warnken, who created the Injury Lawyer Database by collecting and analyzing millions of judicial opinions from Maryland courts, then using that…

Justice Don Willett

Justice Don Willett has a gold-clad resume: twice-elected Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, former White House Director of Law and Policy, Clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after he earned a J.D.-M.A. at Duke. But Justice Willett built his career on a foundation of hard work. His parents never graduated from high…

Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams is an open government advocate, both in her day job at the Sunlight Foundation, and in her work organizing DC Legal Hackers. Rebecca co-founded DC Legal Hackers to bring together a broad range of people interested in building apps using the law – software developers, lawyers, publishers, civil servants, and others, who might…

David Zvenyach

There are precious few engineers who understand law, or lawyers who understand engineering. David Zvenyach is the rare combination of both – and as a bonus, he also works as the General Counsel of the DC Council. In 2012, when a software developer asked for a copy of the D.C. Code to host as a…

Simon Fodden

Simon Fodden founded Slaw – Canada’s pre-eminent online legal magazine – more than nine years ago. This year, his announcement of retirement from the site was met with an outpouring of affection from many in the industry, both because of the sheer volume of his 3,000 posts, but more importantly because of the intellectual community…

Nicole Bradick

In a legal market awash with theories of disruption and new business models, Nicole Bradick has put these models into practice. The firm Potomac Law Group, has managed to avoid a good deal of costly overhead generally associated with large law firms, and offers a bevvy of alternate fee arrangements. Bradick is a sought-after speaker…

Evan Brown

As longtime blogger at internetcases, Evan Brown has spent the better part of a decade writing about intellectual property protection, licensing, and the legal issues surrounding social media and online services. In 2012, he joined InfoLawGroup LLP as senior counsel, where he practices in many of the areas he blogs about: emerging trends in the…

Chad Burton

Law firms are changing, but no one is quite sure what they’re changing into yet. Chad Burton and his team(s) are working to find out. He left the traditional law-firm model five years ago and started a five-attorney virtual law firm working remotely across the northeast. After speaking regularly at conferences and CLEs about his…

Matthew Butterick

When was the last time you thought about the font you used in that memo or brief—perhaps making a quick check of the local rules? Well, if you are Matthew Butterick, typography is not an afterthought—it’s a main idea, perhaps an obsession. While working as an attorney in Los Angeles, Butterick started the blog “Typography…