2018 – Page 5 – Fastcase

Mark Torchiana

Want to take a traditional information archive set and turn it on its head? Ask Mark Torchiana how. Along with Co-Founder Everett Harry, Courtroom Insight CEO Mark and his team are among the first to develop tools that naturally combine public and private data, allowing law firms to build their own database and leverage their…

Kenton Brice

Kenton Brice has been a proponent of legal technology throughout his career, from working in litigation to heading up technology innovation at the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma. Beginning with his days in practice at Christman Kelley & Clarke, PC, where he oversaw technology implementation and efficiency processes, Kenton has consistently advocated…

Lisa Joy

It’s probably not shocking to anyone that the Fastcase team loves a show about the philosophical questions surrounding emergent robots, scored with ragtime covers of grunge classics. Harvard Law School alumna Lisa Joy is one of the Co-Creators of HBO’s Westworld, and we like to think that her legal training has something to do with…

Aileen Schultz

The Global Legal Hackathon, which took place earlier this year, engaged law schools, law firms, programmers, thinkers, doers, governments, and others to create innovative new systems to advance access to justice. Aileen Schultz, Co-Organizer of the worldwide event, brought the legal industry together with innovation and tech, and to collaborate for fast innovation. Good ideas…

Joseph (Joe) Tiano, Jr.

Joe Tiano experienced firsthand the difficulties of the legal profession when the firm he was partner of collapsed in 2008 with the great recession. Fortunately for Joe, he parlayed his finance practice into another AmLaw 100 firm where he practiced for a few years and then started a private practice. Joe used his experience in…

Femi Cadmus

It’s an age-old problem: legal information is often costly and difficult to access, but the law still affects everyone. A former international commercial law practitioner, Femi Cadmus now uses her role as one of the country’s most celebrated law librarians to fight for open access to legal scholarship and information. Femi is President-Elect of the…

Shruti Ajitsaria

Shruti Ajitsaria is changing the way tech companies and law firms work together. She is driving innovation at the United Kingdom firm Allen & Overy and created Fuse, the firm’s legal innovation incubator. Fuse aims to bring together tech companies, Allen & Overy lawyers, technologists, and firm clients. Within Fuse, they can explore, develop, and…

Laura Safdie

“I’d like to see the world’s best entrepreneurs, technologists and designers focus on problems that affect ordinary people facing real day-to-day challenges,” Laura Safdie said in a recent profile. While working as a clerk in the Southern District of New York, Laura saw firsthand how access to better research tools is directly correlated to just…

Michelle Suskauer

As the first former public defender to be elected as President of The Florida Bar, Michelle Suskauer is bringing a focus on criminal justice reform, inclusiveness, destigmatizing mental health and wellness, and providing practical resources for small and solo firms. She is spearheading the first statewide Criminal Justice Summit with lawyers and elected officials to…

Jeff Pfeifer

How does one drive product innovation in a large organization? With the vision, patience, and conviction of Jeff Pfeifer. At LexisNexis, Jeff has accomplished the near impossible – reinventing Shepard’s, championing innovation, and continually improving one of the flagship brands of legal research. Collaborating with homegrown stars and infused innovators at Lex Machina and Ravel, Jeff has…