Tony Thai climbed ladders to elite rungs of Big Law, but when he got frustrated spending significant hours on tedious tasks that he knew he could write software to automate, or at the very least streamline, he tapped into his pre-legal career skillset as an enterprise software developer and created HyperDraft. Tony set out on…
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Mike Zouhri
Mike Zouhri is the founder of legal technology company PainWorth, a tool that disrupts personal injury lawsuits by automating the settlement process and providing new insights from highly customizable settlement data. The project is a personal one for Mike. He suffered physical injuries as the victim of a speeding drunk driver, and his experience, not…
Read MoreAnnie Mentkowski
Annie Mentkowsk is the Agency Librarian at the United States Railroad Retirement Board, an agency that oversees retirement, healthcare, and survivorship benefits for American railroad workers. Annie’s accomplishments go well beyond her work at the agency, however. She is one of the minds behind “Review-It”, a new legal tech tool that won the 2021 AALL…
Read MoreLindsey Carpino
Lindsey Carpino is a leader in the world of emerging and transformative technologies. In her current role as Legal Content Services Supervisor at BakerHostetler, Lindsey has contributed towards the development of an innovative new tool called “Review-it”. This crowdsourced platform provides anonymous legal resource reviews to the law library community at large in an effort…
Read MoreColin Levy
Colin Levy is a prominent and passionate voice in the effort to bridge the gap between the tech and legal world. With practice experience in eDiscovery, compliance, and corporate transactional work, Colin believes in this mission because he has seen technology as a key driver in improving how legal services are offered and executed. In…
Read MoreMiranda Perkins
In her current role as Knowledge Manager for WilmerHale, Miranda Perkins is the subject-matter expert for the firm’s technology stack, acting as a conduit between people and systems across practice areas and departments. In her support of various legal departments, Miranda has created knowledge assets from the firm’s expertise. According to lawyers at the firm,…
Read MoreAnne-Marie Rábago
As the founder and principal of Modern Juris, Anne-Marie Rabágo works to provide tools, training, and support to help lawyers and other legal professionals build sustainable businesses designed to serve the latent legal market. Through the cultivation of a more collaborative learning community, she seeks to break down barriers to legal access, build new business…
Read MoreBobby Balachandran
Bobby Balachandran has been a trailblazer throughout his extensive career in IT architecture and the implementation of systems for financial services organizations. Originally from India, Bobby is now the founder, president, and CEO of Exterro, Inc., the influential government, risk and compliance (GRC) firm. Bobby started Exterro with the conviction that the legal industry was…
Read MoreChase Hertel
In his role at LegalZoom, Chase Hertel is paving the way for the future of legal services, the latest step in a career dedicated to access to justice. He began at Lawfty, a D.C. personal injury firm designed to make it as easy as possible for those injured to be compensated, including through innovative use…
Read MoreJason Morris
Jason Morris is a Canadian lawyer pioneering research in “Rules as Code,” a new field seeking to create machine-understandable rules and law. Lawyers don’t scale well, so Jason and others in the field are seeking to make justice more easily distributed by making it easier for computers to process. This should in turn allow more…
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