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Jane Kinney Meyers

“Lubuto” is a word in the central African Bemba language meaning “knowledge, enlightenment, and light.” What better name for the library project begun by librarian Jane Kinney Meyers, which has established open-access libraries to serve Africa’s poorest children? The project began as “street kids library” at a drop-in shelter in Lusaka, Zambia, built from a…

Rick Klau

It might not be true that everything Rick Klau touches turns to gold, but you could forgive people for thinking so. Rick runs the Startup Lab at Google Ventures, where he connects companies in which Google invests with resources at the company. After law school, Rick worked at Feedburner before it was acquired by Google.…

Marcia Koslov

Marcia Koslov is reimagining what a public law library should be in the digital age. It is not a small experiment, as she is at the helm of LA Law Library, the second largest public law library in the United States, with nearly 1 million volume equivalents in the main branch in the L.A. Civic…

Mitchell Kowalski

Mitch Kowalski is an innovative thinker, lawyer, writer and entrepreneur. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, ABA best seller “Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century” and frequently speaks with legal managers about re-engineering the practice of law for today’s digital marketplace. Mitch teaches the next generation of lawyers and industry…

Dahlia Lithwick

Many writers take a judge’s neutral, dry, and impersonal tone when writing about the law. But Dahlia Lithwick’s writing for Slate sings, finding human angles and deeper reporting on legal news and trends. Her writing is as informative as it is (dare we say) fun. And her pioneering work on a unified theory of muppetry…

Peter Martin

Peter Marin co-founded the first law site on the Internet, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII). He’s served as dean of Cornell Law School and led it into the digital age and or over a quarter century. In a larger sense, Peter is the Dean of the legal internet. Peter’s focus is addressing online access to…

Elmer Masters

If legal tech had Jedis, Elmer Masters would be Mace Windu (the Jedi played by Samuel L. Jackson). Elmer Masters builds tools that bring the law to law school. He is the engineer in chief at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects like eLangdell (elangdell.cali.org), Classcaster (www.classcaster.net), and…

Mark Mathewson

Mark Mathewson is at the nerve center of one of the country’s largest state bar associations, as director of publications for the Illinois State Bar Association. A lawyer and journalist, Mark has been recognized with the E.A. “Wally” Richter Leadership Award from the National Association of Bar Executives for outstanding achievement in the field of…

Erik Mazzone

Legal technology is changing faster than ever, and for lawyers, there are precious few people to whom they can turn for guidance. Erik Mazzone brings order to the chaos, advising North Carolina lawyers on how most effectively to structure and run their practices, as well as how to gadget up when the need arises. Erik’s…

Kyle McEntee

Law school is a strange investment. Where else do you spend upwards of $150,000 with so little information about what you’re purchasing? Kyle McEntee is looking to change that. He is the executive director of Law School Transparency (LST), which seeks to create consumer-based reforms to the law school market. For example, LST has asked…