2017 – Page 3 – Fastcase

Chris Geidner

It’s probably an understatement to say the American public became significantly more interested in legal news over the past year. Few are able to translate legalese into common parlance as quickly and accurately as Buzzfeed’s Legal Editor and Supreme Court Correspondent Chris Geidner. Chris, who is an attorney, originally cut his teeth in D.C. as…

Abhijeet Chavan

Abhijeet Chavan is the Chief Technology Officer at Urban Insight, Inc. and the Co-Founder of the urban planning news site Planetizen. The web solutions he creates for legal service providers and public web sites focus on improving comprehension to close the access to justice gap. Urban Insight designed WriteClearly and ReadClearly, two tools that help…

Billie Tarascio

Billie, along with many of this year’s Fastcase 50 honorees, is a leader in the growing “limited scope” representation movement. Billie’s Arizona practice, called Modern Law, was designed to help as many clients as possible, despite income barriers, with a pay-as-you-go model. She also helped to develop Access Legal, a cloud-based system where users can…

Rian Gauvreau

Along with childhood friend and past Fastcase 50 honoree Jack Newton, Rian Gauvreau founded the practice management software company Clio. Since then, Clio’s cloud-based practice management suite has become an undisputed giant of the industry. Clio’s success has inspired legal entrepreneurs across the world to create modern solutions, including many other past Fastcase 50 winners.…

Jim Cook

Access to justice is a laudable goal, but it becomes a very tangible problem in rural America, where there are few lawyers to help with legal issues. Rural legal access has been a problem for years, but a handful of states are addressing the problem with new remote lawyering resources. As Executive Director of Idaho…

Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta is one of the country’s top litigators, having successfully argued several major constitutional issues before the Supreme Court. As of this writing, he is lead counsel on a class action suit representing thousands of PACER users who allege the system’s fees violate the E-Government Act. The National Law Journal has praised his “calm,…

Marie Bernard

Marie Bernard is a globe-trotting force in legal tech. She serves as Europe Director of Innovation at Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, and Strategic Advisor for Nextlaw Labs. She identifies ways to make clients happy with technology that is directly responsive to their needs, and helps align mindsets and processes to ensure these solutions…

Joyce Brafford

It’s no secret that the legal industry can be slow on the uptake when it comes to incorporating technology, and then using that technology responsibly. As Interim Director of the Center for Practice Management and Practice Management Advisor at the North Carolina Bar Association Joyce Brafford is working every day to change that. Practice Management…

Joshua Browder

It started with the idea that parking tickets are given randomly, but the appeals process is based on knowable rules. When he was only 19 years old, Stanford student Joshua Browder created the mobile app DoNotPay. Since its inception, DoNotPay has helped users overturn thousands of parking tickets. It was a huge milestone in the…

Laurence Colletti

Over the last 12 years the Legal Talk Network (LTN) has become a vibrant hub of more than 20 legal-related podcasts. Executive Producer Laurence Colletti keeps the content flowing, both in front of the mic and behind the scenes. A business and commercial real estate attorney by trade, Laurence is the host of LTN’s “On…