2011 – Page 4 – Fastcase

Jim Brennan

Jim Brennan is a giving leader. He serves as the President of the State Bar of Wisconsin and supports the Bar’s efforts to improve access to justice. James gives to his community by dedicating twenty percent of his professional time to pro bono work serving homeless people and veterans. He previously served as the Executive…

Robert Brink

As Executive Director of the Social Law Library (either the oldest or second-oldest membership law library in the country, depending on who you ask.), Robert Brink is part leader, part membership coordinator, and part collection management librarian. During difficult economic times and challenging state budgets, Robert has stewarded Social Law Library and maintained its position…

Tom Bruce

If Tom Bruce is anything, he is a rebel. As Director and co-founder of the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School, Tom is a world leader in democratizing the law. In fact, LIIs around the world have followed Cornell’s example — today Legal Information Institutes promote the rule of law around the world.…

Jim Calloway

Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program and co-produces the monthly podcast, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology. He is also a legal tech Jedi — having chaired the ABA Techshow and spoken about legal technology just about everywhere one can. Legal tech is often intimidating and bewildering to…

Kevin Chern

Kevin Chern, the President of Total Attorneys, is an entrepreneur and an authority on law practice management. He assists individuals with solo and small law firm practice management, growth and development including tips on leveraging technology to grow law practices. Kevin should know. Before joining Total Attorneys, Kevin was managing partner of the nation’s largest…

Carolyn Elefant

Carolyn Elefant is the patron saint of small firms and solo practitioners everywhere. She is the founder of the MyShingle blog dedicated to the promotion of solo and small firm legal practice. Since starting her law firm in 1993 Carolyn has been a resource and an advocate for those seeking to leverage technology to make…

Patrick Fitzgerald

Patrick Fitzgerald has a record of rooting out government wrongdoing of every political stripe. He’s gusty, tough and uncompromising when it comes to holding government and notorious individuals accountable for their actions. Patrick’s quest for justice led him to his current role as United States Attorney Northern District of Illinois.

Sarah Glassmeyer

Sarah Glassmeyer is calling librarians to break down corporate barriers to accessible information. She’s on a mission to level the playing field through collaboration. Sarah has been one of her generation’s leaders in library science, as well as an advocate for mentoring and vigorous advocacy by law librarians. She’s a frequent speaker on issues of…

Anurag Acharya

Anurag Acharya is the principal engineer behind Google Scholar and the driving force behind Google’s primary law materials, which launched in Scholar in 2009. With a team of less than three full-time engineers inside of Google, Anurag changed forever the world’s access to law and scholarship. Anurag’s development of Google Scholar has helped increase public…

Joe Hodnicki

Sometimes hard truths must be spoken, and when they must, you can bet that Joe Hodnicki will speak them. Joe has created some of the most visited blogs of law librarians and law professors, “Law Librarian Blog” and the “Law Professor Blogs” respectively, and he’s a prolific contributor. He’s a frequent speaker on open access…