2014 – Page 4 – Fastcase

Ryan Calo

Robots are no longer the province of science fiction – they surround us every day. Whether it’s surgical robots, drones, or self-driving cars, or autonomous systems that trade stocks and write newspaper articles, machines are playing an increasingly large role in contemporary society. However, the law of robots is still very much rooted in the…

Peter Carayiannis

In the last two years, Carayiannis has grown his firm, Conduit Law, into a Canadian market leader in providing embedded legal counsel to large corporations. The company is helping to change the perception of contract lawyering from a temporary expense into an area of strategic advantage, and has targeted Fortune 500 companies in Canada in…

Brian Carver

Along with fellow Fastcase 50 awardee Micheal Lissner, Brian Carver has established the Free Law Project, a non-profit providing free access to primary law, developing legal research tools, and supporting academic research on legal data. A professor of information science and also a lawyer, Carver studies the laws and policies governing technology and information, particularly…

Ross Davies

Let’s face it: law review articles are pretty dry. So in 1997, Ross Davies and two classmates from the University of Chicago Law School revived an out-of-print legal magazine, The Green Bag, as an “Entertaining Journal of Law,” dedicated to shorter articles on more interesting topics, and with fewer footnotes. Now, 17 years later, Davies…

Francesca Di Lisa

Francesca and her We Have The Future! co-founder Marco Mari (also honored among the 2014 Fastcase 50) developed a legal information portal called legalPAD, and they noticed during the process the importance of design. Even though they were students, they thought it would be important for European lawyers to include business practices, economics, and design…

The Honorable Stephen Dillard

Judge Stephen Dillard of the Georgia Court of Appeals is about as active as a judge can be online. Judge Dillard founded the Southern Appeal blog while he was a judicial clerk, and co-founded the Coalition for Darfur blog, to oppose conflict in Sudan and to educate people about the humanitarian crisis in the region.…

Ron Dolin

Stanford Law is a hotbed of activity in legal tech, producing a wave of innovators, conferences on technology in law, and incubating new ideas about the important role that design plays in people’s understanding of law. And quietly, behind the scenes, Ron Dolin is at work creating new opportunities, mentoring, teaching, angel investing, and advising…

Casey Flaherty

Casey Flaherty had a problem – he felt that his bills from outside counsel were bloated, and his hypothesis for the bloat was simple: “that lawyers in general are woefully deficient in using the software tools at their disposal – e.g., Word, Acrobat, Excel,” so it took them longer to perform basic legal work. To…

Frank Bennett

As a volunteer developer in the open-source Multilingual Zotero software project, Frank Bennett has spent the last five years making sure you never have to format a Bluebook citation manually again. The software extracts structured metadata, or information about a case or law review article, from documents in legal databases—including Fastcase—and also encourages database owners,…

Bryan Garner

Bryan Garner has been called the “greatest lexographer of our time,” and he is on a mission to make legal writing better. He founded LawProse to teach lawyers to write more clearly, persuasively, and simply, which he does in day-long seminars across the country. He may be the nation’s foremost expert on legal writing, with…