2017 – Page 4 – Fastcase

Felicity Conrad

Many lawyers and their employers want to do more pro bono work, but significant up-front administrative work makes pro bono more difficult than it should be. The result? Fewer people get the legal help they need. Felicity Conrad recognized this problem and left a Biglaw career to create the solution. She is the Co-Founder and…

Robyn K. Crawford

At an age when most of us were still studying for the LSAT, Robyn K. Crawford was already prosecuting her first case. Upon passing the Florida bar exam, Robyn was hired as an assistant state’s attorney at age 20. For those of you trying to do the math she started her undergrad at 14 and…

Kathryn DeBord

Bryan Cave is making it a point to emphasize technology in a large firm context. Leading that charge is Chief Innovation Officer Kathryn DeBord, who has leveraged the expertise of outside companies such as Neota Logic to automate the tasks most firms toil over. She also helped develop Bryan Cave’s BCXponent, a business advisory service…

Stephanie Everett

Who says you can’t teach and provide valuable legal assistance to the community at the same time? Stephanie Everett does both. Starting with her consulting firm, which focuses on business development, time management, and productivity, Stephanie also made a commitment to passing her knowledge on to new attorneys. As Executive Director of Lawyers for Equal…

Haben Girma

The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change, and Forbes recognized her in Forbes 30 Under 30. She travels the world consulting and public speaking, teaching clients the benefits of fully accessible products…

Tom Gordon

Tom Gordon is an unwavering advocate for legal access and the rights of the legal consumer. Tom serves as the Executive Director of Responsive Law, which is a national organization advocating for regulations that facilitate fast, effective, and affordable legal services. Responsive Law has advocated for more liberal regulations regarding lawyer advertising, who can own…

Monica Goyal

Monica Goyal is a serial entrepreneur. She founded both My Legal Briefcase, a platform for efficient resolution of small claims cases for small business, and Aluvion Law, a flat-fee law firm specializing in legal startup and in-house counsel services. She is an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in…

Maura Grossman

Maura R. Grossman is an expert in technology-assisted review (TAR), having written two seminal papers on the use of supervised machine learning for electronic discovery. Maura used her background as a clinical psychologist and as a lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to demonstrate that TAR can help attorneys do e-discovery faster, cheaper, and…

Joseph Bahgat

Before he was running a cutting-edge entertainment and privacy law firm, planning ABA TECHSHOW, and working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Joe Bahgat toured as a professional saxophone player, backing acts such as Ray Charles. Perhaps living out of a suitcase taught Joe the value of efficiency because Bahgat & Bahgat LLC is the…

Misha Guttentag

Misha Guttentag is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Yale Law and Technology Society (TechSoc). Before attending Yale Law, Misha spent four years teaching high school chemistry in Houston, Texas, leading a department reaching nearly 600 students annually. When Misha decided to attend law school, he took his interest in technology and access to knowledge…