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Susan Cartier Liebel

Susan Cartier Liebel is filling an unlikely, but unmistakable gap in legal education: teaching about the practice of law. Her Solo Practice University offers more than 600 courses from more than 55 faculty members on the practical how-to’s of running your own law firm. With a record number of lawyers entering practice for themselves, and…

Greg Castanias

Greg Castanias is charged with creating a single library culture at Jones Day, a firm with 30 offices around the globe. But he has been recognized more for his speaking and writing about how broken the legal publishing business is, and how out of alignment its billing is with the economics of law firms and…

David Drummond

David Drummond manages one of the world’s largest and most active legal teams as Google’s head lawyer. He represented the company as its first outside counsel in 1998, when he worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, and he joined Google full time in 2002. Today David manages one of the largest patent portfolios, active…

Jason Eiseman

Jason Eiseman might have the coolest legal information job in America, the Librarian for Emerging Technologies at Yale Law School. Jason thinks about what lies ahead, and how we can use it intelligently to make our legal lives easier – then he teaches others. Jason has done extensive work on eBooks, and how they might…

Tom Fleming

At one point in the life of all technology, it was an emerging technology – and for each emerging technology, there was a time when Tom Fleiming has spoken or written about it, introducing it to communities of information professionals. Tom literally wrote the book on how to manage a law firm library.

Jerry Goldman

Professor Jerry Goldman has brought the U.S. Supreme Court closer to everyone through the OYEZ Project, a project that brings the Supreme Court alive through images, audio, and video. Jerry has collaborated with experts in linguistics, psychology, computer science and political science with contributions by the National Science Foundation to create a complete archive of…

William S. Hein, Jr.

Few companies have exemplified the transition from print to digital quite like William S. Hein & Co. A bindery and printer with roots in the 1920s, Hein has grown through acquisition and expanded strategically over the years. Beginning with some of the best law review titles in the business, Hein expanded first to microfilm, and…

Matt Homann

Matt Homann has been asking hard questions. What really sets you or your firm apart from others? If your client could design your bill, what would it look like? Matt writes, speaks, and hosts retreats designed to help lawyers deliver a more service-like service. He also hosts the annual LexThink.1 conference (formerly Ignite Law) at…

Ruthe C. Ashley

Many lawyers work towards diversity in the profession, but few have lived it in the way that Ruthe Ashley has. She is past president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and when she worked at CalPERS (the largest public pension fund in the United States), she founded and served as CEO of CaliforniaALL,…

Waldo Jaquith

As much as lawyers love legal research online, they have traditionally favored statutes in print. Waldo Jaquith is about to change that. Waldo is the founder of The State Decoded, which is designed to make state codes “for humans.” Waldo has created a beautiful version of the Virginia Code, and the Knight Foundation has awarded…