2016 – Page 5 – Fastcase

Mark Edwards

Someday law students across the country may be thanking Mark Edwards for having their backs. That’s because Mark developed a less expensive alternative to the bulky casebook -– ChartaCourse. As a law professor at Mitchell Hamline, Mark saw a better way to learn. ChartaCourse formats entire courses as concept maps, and embeds all course material…

Zev Eigen

Zev Eigen strikes an unusual profile for a lawyer – a BigLaw data scientist. He’s a lawyer with a Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management who leads a team of data scientists tackling hard problems, like constructing predictive models and building software solutions to HR, labor, employment, and litigation focused problems. This is a…

Michael Genesereth

The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX, for short) is the Woodstock for legal technology — some of the most interesting projects in legal tech have come from, or through, CodeX, which Michael Genesereth directs (with fellow Fastcase 50 honoree Roland Vogl). At a time when artificial intelligence has captured the collective imagination of legal…

Karen Gifford

The stress of the legal profession is well-documented, but how can we work to combat it? Do attorneys just need to better regulate their work-life balance, or is there more to it? Karen Gifford found a different kind of solution. While working in the high-stress financial industry (previously as Counsel and Officer of the Federal…

Risa Goluboff

On July 1, 2016, Risa Goluboff became the twelfth Dean, and first woman Dean, of the University of Virginia School of Law. A mere listing of achievements, awards and honors would be impressive: A.B. from Harvard, M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton, J.D. from Yale Law School, clerkships with Judge Guido Calabrese (Second Circuit) and Justice…

Ross Guberman

Ross Guberman is a former translator, award-winning journalist, professional musician, and lawyer at a top firm. Before law school, he completed doctoral-level coursework in linguistics and semantics. Ross has made it his mission to raise the bar for legal writing everywhere. He has penned two bestselling books on the subject – Point Made: How to…

Kirsten Gullickson

The Problem: Congress is “a 19th-Century institution often using 20th-Century technology to respond to 21st-Century Problems” (according to Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers). The Solution (or at least part of it): Kirsten Gullickson, who is helping bring Congress out of the paper-and-ink era into the digital age. Kirsten serves as co-chair of the Legislative Branch XML Working…

Vanita Gupta

Vanita Gupta has been the head of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice since 2014, where she advances criminal justice reform and constitutional policing. As the chief civil rights prosecutor for the United States, she also oversees a wide range of additional enforcement efforts, including prosecuting hate crimes and human trafficking,…

Jack Harkness

Past President of The Florida Bar Greg Coleman recently said of The Florida Bar Executive Director Jack Harkness, “There is no single person who has meant more to the legal profession and Florida lawyers than Jack Harkness. He has been the guiding force behind every Florida Bar president and has made our Bar the most…

Eric Holder

When the Department of Justice Hired Eric Holder as a trial attorney in the Public Integrity Section in 1976, fresh out of Columbia Law School, they probably had little idea that he would later serve as the nation’s first African-American Attorney General 33 years later. He served as the 82nd Attorney General from 2009 until…