2016 – Page 3 – Fastcase

Gabriel (Gabe) Teninbaum

Gabe has been in constant motion in his legal career. He attended law school at night while serving in the U.S. Secret Service, where his duties included protecting two U.S. presidents and dozens of other dignitaries. After graduating law school in 2005, he had a two-year stint as a trial attorney at a Boston firm…

Mark Unger

Why should technology be reserved for Biglaw and firms focusing on tech-based practice areas? In his practice as a divorce lawyer and mediator, Mark Unger saw the value of integrating technology at every step to achieve greater efficiency and organization. Before practice management software was a major player, Mark was already setting up a practice…

Robert Van Nest

Robert Van Nest won one of the biggest litigation victories of the year when a jury found that Google’s use of Java APIs wasn’t a copyright infringement, ending a six-year lawsuit with Oracle. Robert is no stranger to high-profile litigation, with clients that include Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, LinkedIn, and many more. He joined Keker &…

Corry van Zeeland

Corry Van Zeeland was a social worker for fifteen years before obtaining a law degree from Tilburg University. After a position in the Dutch prison system, she joined the Tisco Research Institute at Tilburg University. Her efforts there have centered on conflict resolution, and especially designing and implementing user-driven systems. In 2012, Tisco entered into…

Roland Vogl

Although Roland’s “credit line” indicates that he is executive director of CodeX, that is only a very small part of his activities aimed toward building a new way to look at and use legal information. After early stints with the European Commission and the European Parliament, Roland began the United States phase of his career…

Lyle Denniston

Lyle Denniston has spent an amazing 58 year career just covering the Supreme Court. That covers a quarter of all the justices ever to sit! Forget social media being for youngsters only. This octogenarian blogs for SCOTUSblog, has his own Twitter account and law news website, and liveblogs SCOTUS decisions to a faithful following, where…

Janet Howe Accardo

Janet Accardo recently retired as library director at Skadden, after having been a mainstay of library professionalism in New York for more than four decades—at only two places, Ernst & Young (1972-1992) and Skadden (1992-2016). She joined Ernst & Young after undergraduate studies at Wellesley College and the College of Wooster (English Literature/Letters) and graduate…

Marvin Ammori

One of the most prominent defenders of Internet freedom and the First Amendment, Marvin Ammori does not shy away from a battle. He heads up The Ammori Group, which has been a major player in more than one policy fight on Capitol Hill. Some of his previous clients include Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter, and Tumblr.…

Peter Aprile

Peter Aprile is the founder of Counter Tax Lawyers, a Canadian tax law firm that has leveraged technology and built software tools such as its proprietary tax dispute and litigation application, CounterPoint, to build stronger cases and give its clients a unique competitive advantage. Counter’s emphasis on adaptive strategies and computer-assisted efficiency has received praise…

Andrew Arruda

Machine learning has conquered chess, Jeopardy!, and Go. It flies airplanes, assists in surgery, and drives cars. Can we seriously doubt that it will change the practice of law as well? Andrew Arruda helped create ROSS Intelligence as part of a team at the University of Toronto, applying IBM’s Watson to legal research, starting with…