2014 – Page 5 – Fastcase

Tina Gheen

Standards are important – they make the Web work, power your e-mail, and they make the law understandable (increasingly to both people and machines). As the Library of Congress’s Emerging Technologies Librarian, Tina Gheen has been working to construct and promote standards in law, whether with the OASIS LegalDocumentML Technical Committee or in coordinating public…

Sam Glover

Sam Glover began the popular Lawyerist blog in 2007, which is simultaneously one of the most informative law blogs and one of the flat-out funniest. Lawyerist, which was once a pastime for him, grew into an occupation, and now it’s a go-to resource for lawyers everywhere. Sam, who maintains an appellate and motion practice consultancy,…

Tom Goldstein

Tom Goldstein is one of the nation’s most experienced Supreme Court practitioners. (He has personally argued 31 cases in the past 15 years.) SCOTUSblog, which he co-founded in 2003, is one of the most widely read, and respected, sources of news and analysis of Supreme Court decisions; it is the only blog to ever receive…

Ken Grady

It’s now a cliché to say that large firms have to adapt – and yet very few firms are really doing that. Seyfarth Shaw has started an in-house consultancy, SeyfarthLean, which works with in-house legal departments to help them reduce costs, improve quality, mitigate risk, and enhance efficiencies. The group combines the core principles of…

Michael Green

Michael Green is the director and founder of BarNet, an Australian non-profit that has created a free legal research tool called Jade for Australian law. Michael is an open law pioneer, showing that where open law is made available, entrepreneurs will build great apps to work with it. Jade isn’t just a simple search engine…

Jake Heller

There are lots of high-quality, crowdsourced resources in the world. Why not legal research? Jake Heller started Casetext with the mission of making the world’s law free and understandable, and one of the ways the company will do that is to use open annotation as a powerful lever. Casetext allows users to tag, annotate, and…

Kashmir Hill

Kashmir “Kash” Hill joins the ever-growing list of Above the Law editors and alums named to the Fastcase 50. After leaving Above the Law to join Forbes in 2010, Kash doubled-down on her efforts to make the public aware of “The Not So Private Parts” where technology and privacy collide. She has a special knack…

The Honorable Geraldine S. Hines

Recently appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to join the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Justice Geraldine Hines is the first woman of color to serve on the state’s highest court. After law school, Justice Hines earned a fellowship at MIT, where she studied policy initiatives addressing the serious issue of police misconduct in communities of color.…

Leila Kanani

Leila is an innovator who creates new opportunities for others. As an experienced patent attorney, she also wanted mothers balancing hours between their family and law firm to strike a better a work-life balance. So she created Intermix Legal Group, a platform that allows attorneys who want to work fewer hours, specifically attorney moms, to…

Courtney Kennaday

Courtney Kennaday runs the Practice Management Assistance Program for the South Carolina Bar, which advises its members about how to use technology and process to run their practices more effectively. Courtney has seen the profession from multiple angles, as a lawyer, a law librarian, and as an IT director, so she brings many different perspectives…