2019 – Page 5 – Fastcase

Jayne Reardon

Over the last 13 years, Jayne Reardon has inspired lawyers, challenging them to embrace change while preserving the core values of the practice: civility, service, and professionalism. In 2006, Jayne helped lay the framework for what has become the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, a group created to promote a more amicable and inclusive…

Charlotte Alexander

Charlotte Alexander is a professor at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business as well as the College of Law, where she heads the Legal Analytics Lab, an interdisciplinary program that brings legal and business scholars together for large-scale data science projects. Current work for corporate and government partners includes data analysis and the use…

Brenda Castello

Brenda Castello leads the New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMCC), a relatively unique agency that serves as the official publishing hub for the state’s legislation and caselaw. Although the agency was created in 1941, just this past spring the NMCC pushed out a major service to benefit the public – open, official, annotated statutes, appellate court…

Susan Williams

Lawyers, even those not entrenched in legal publishing, know intuitively that reported cases are still tied to somewhat archaic methods (see: citations to paper page numbers), and the only permissible citations are often associated with private publishing companies. However, several dedicated innovators are working to change that, including Susan Williams, who serves as the Reporter…

Gillian Hadfield

Professor and legal theorist Gillian Hadfield has taken on the task of exploring how our economic world has and should change as a result of technology and globalization. In the intellectual tradition of Thomas Friedman, Hadfield has written Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex…

Erin Levine

As a family law attorney practicing in the Bay Area, Erin Levine quickly realized there was room for improvement in how the public accessed divorce services. With the cost of divorce reaching into the price range of a new car, clients needed an affordable way to understand the process with as little stress as possible.…

Brad Heath

As an investigative reporter for USA Today, Brad Heath has covered everything from crooked federal prosecutors to ATF sting operations and made a name for himself among D.C. journalists in the process. However, in the legal tech community he is perhaps best known for creating the beloved Big Cases Bot (@big_cases), which tweets out new…

Craig Newton

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII) is a powerhouse of the legal tech community, having made the law easily and freely accessible online since 1992 (years before many lawyers even began using the internet). LII’s work is so popular it is literally the most linked-to web resource in the field of law. Helping to lead LII’s…

Darla Jackson

Darla Jackson’s career has run the gamut, but there’s always been a consistent passion – helping others learn the skills necessary to practice law and research effectively through unceasing shifts in technology. From her current position as a librarian at OU Law, to her work at the Oklahoma Bar Association’s (OBA) Management Assistance Program and…

Janine Sickmeyer

Designing beautiful form filing software is incredibly difficult. It requires carefully tracking updates, developing the most efficient processes for users, and testing workflows in real world scenarios. In a modern law firm, it should also run seamlessly on the cloud. After years of working as a bankruptcy paralegal, Janine Sickmeyer was more than prepared to…