2013 – Page 4 – Fastcase

Josh Blackman

This year’s Fastcase 50 is deep with quantitative legal theorists – and Josh Blackman is a maverick law professor at the heart of this big data revolution in law. Josh is the founder of Fantasy SCOTUS, essentially a prediction market for U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and of the Harlan Institute, which sponsors a Fantasy SCOTUS…

Paulette Brown

At the American Bar Association’s midyear meeting in Dallas earlier this year, Paulette Brown wasn’t simply nominated to be the new President of the ABA in 2015. Her nomination was uncontested and was met by a standing ovation from the nominating committee. Brown would be the first African-American woman to serve as ABA President. She…

Matthew Burnett

Matthew Burnett directs Immigration Advocates Network, a collaborative project between Pro Bono Net and 11 leading immigration advocacy and legal support organizations. Faced with providing legal direction to more than 11 million people in a fast-changing area of law, IAN has developed multilingual websites and mobile apps to help low and moderate-income people to answer…

Cindy Chick

Cindy Chick once said, “I think a law librarian in a law firm setting is a hero on an almost daily basis.” And indeed, Cindy Chick is herself a hero to many in the legal technology world. For years, she co-published LLRX, the go-to online reference for legal research, information policy, international legal resources, and…

Aviva Cuyler

As Aviva Cuyler tells the story, she was “in the midst of a successful law career when a brainstorm hit. Toiling late nights over some pre-trial motions, she thought: why hasn’t someone harnessed the power of the Internet to allow lawyers to share their public work product with each other and potential clients?” No one…

Elizabeth Dobbins

Elizabeth Dobbins is the first female graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to attend UVA Law, from which she just graduated. She served in the Marine Corps, where she is a 1st Lieutenant, before and during law school. “You think if you have a tolerance for difficulty, then you can do anything difficult,” Dobbins said…

Erin Egan

With more than a billion users from around the world sharing some of the most personal information about their lives on its site, Facebook needed expertise in privacy policy in 2011. It had recently settled privacy charges with the FTC, and needed policy guidance in Washington. So when it came time for the company to…

Anne Ellis

Real estate is all about location. But great service is all about relationships, and nobody has better relationships in the law library community than Thomson Reuters’ Anne Ellis. Anne has more than 30 years invested in the law library community – as a law firm librarian, Senior Director of Librarian Relations for Thompson Reuters, and…

Raj Abhyanker

Raj Abhyanker is a serial entrepreneur who is innovating in the field of retail legal services. He co-founded Trademarkia, which served as the world’s largest trademark firm as well as providing a software service: a visual search engine for brands, logos, and government information. Raj and his team morphed Trademarkia into LegalForce RAPC Worldwide –…

Ron Friedmann

Ron Friedman is a big thinker around the transformation of legal services. He founded the KM Leaders groups in New York and Washington, DC, and he has served both inside law firms and private companies. Ron practiced briefly, then served as a consultant at Bain, both of which served him when he was the Director…