2013 – Page 5 – Fastcase

Sara Frug

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute is an inspiration to publishers, courts, and open-government advocates around the world. And Sara Frug runs the team of engineers that runs the LII. For the most part, Sara’s work is behind the scenes. But you can see her fingerprints on everything, from the CFR and data visualization projects to Wex.…

Richard Granat

Richard Granat calls himself an “explorer of the outer limits of legal space,” and rightly so. Richard has been an innovator in the delivery of legal services for more than 30 years, since his work forming what is now the Legal Services Corporation. Not only a serial entrepreneur, Richard is something of a serial processor,…

Itai Gurari

Itai Gurari is building a new way of conducting legal research that goes beyond the literal search for keywords – looking instead for concepts and meaning in search phrases and in data. Judicata uses fields and semantic filtering to sort and filter legal text with the goal of providing lawyers with information more relevant to…

Marci Harris

Marci Harris is solving the problem of communication with Congress, giving people a voice in government by bringing constituent engagement to the art of lawmaking through her company POPVOX. Widely heralded as one of the best eDemocacy programs in the country, POPVOX allows individuals and advocacy groups to comment on bills and show their support…

Mark Harris

There are a handful of law firms in America trying to reinvent the law firm model. But Mark Harris and Axiom Law might be running the largest, most lucrative, and most disruptive of them. Axiom Law is a 1,000-person firm, made mostly of lawyers who left some of the nation’s largest law firms. Axiom Law…

Allan Head

Allan Head is one of the longest-serving bar executives in the nation, with nearly four decades of service to the North Carolina Bar Association, and the last 32 years as its executive director. During Allan’s tenure, the NCBA grew from 3,500 members to more than 15,000. The organization’s budget has grown about 35-fold, and its…

William (Bill) Henderson

As one of the very few law professors who studies the business of law, Bill Henderson’s work has had profound effect outside the academy. One of his most recent works in Pepperdine Law Review, A Blueprint for Change, begins with the observation: “United States legal education needs to change. Simply stated, there is a shrinking…

Terry Hill

Terry Hill runs some of the most innovative bar programs in the country as Director of Programs for The Florida Bar. He oversees Legal Publications, Legal Specialization & Education, Professional Development, Meetings & Conventions, Law Office Management Assistance Service and Public Service Programs. Terry is also the CLE Director and the staff liaison to The…

Ken Hirsh

Ken Hirsh has been urging the application of technology in legal education and law practice for 24 years. At Duke University School of Law he created its first local area network and one of the first computing services departments at a law school. He was instrumental in putting the school on the Web a year…

Phil Hoare

Wilson Sonsini is one of the techiest law firms in the world, with sophisticated tech clients and lawyers all working in the same network. And running it all is Phil Hoare, who has served as the firms CIO for almost 20 years, effectively there even was a legal Internet. At a time when many law…