2021 – Page 5 – Fastcase

Brad Blickstein

Brad Blickstein is a trend-spotter in the legal field, known for developing the longest-running Annual Law Department Operations Survey. Brad has also launched a comprehensive study on Annual Legal Spend and developed the Legal AI Efficacy Report. Brad’s initiatives allow helpful cross-firm comparisons and whole-industry analyses that are otherwise extremely difficult. He wears many hats…

Ivan Fong

Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Jamie Gorelick has said of Ivan Fong “I don’t think Ivan has a boat, but to use a boating metaphor, he has a great, great rudder.” Perhaps Ivan’s reliable rudder was never more important than in the early months of 2020. With 3M’s N95 respirators in unprecedented demand, Ivan had…

Sam Fletcher

Armed with a background in PhD-level data science, Sam developed a differential privacy algorithm to protect client-confidential information when legal machine learning models trained with sensitive data are shared. It was a game changer for collaborators in the space. The innovation, which was created alongside his team at Kira Systems, has morphed into Kira’s Quick…

Nikki Shaver

A few years ago, when she was practicing media law in Australia, Nicola (Nikki) Shaver had no idea she would someday be driving the culture of an entire industry. If you’ve been watching legal tech over the last year, you know Nikki’s work. Not only was Paul Hastings named Innovator of the Year by the…

James Duggan

James Duggan exemplifies leadership among law librarians as Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at Tulane Law School. James has worked to solidify Tulane’s position as a top-ranked national law school while maintaining the University’s position as a civil law bastion. He has been a constant and important force within the…

Haley Altman

We’re certainly not the first to recognize Haley Altman as a force in the legal industry. She served as an associate at Wilson Sonsini and Ice Miller, where Haley made history by becoming the Ice Miller’s youngest equity partner. There, she invested in growing entrepreneurial companies to gain financial success. Following her career in BigLaw,…

Jason Adaska

Jason Adaska is part of a new class of intrapreneurs in law firms. He works in two roles at Holland & Hart – leading the firm’s technology innovation team and overseeing its new tech consulting subsidiary, Juris Futura. Jason brings his knowledge of applied math (Ph.D. from Harvard University) with electrical engineering and computer science…

Evan Shenkman

Evan Shenkman is the face of progress at Fisher Phillips. In addition to serving as the Chair of the Innovation Committee, he has been the Committee Team Leader for the past four years at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference. Evan earned his law degree at Boston College and holds a Legal Lean Sigma…

Vanessa Blum

Vanessa Blum is a Swiss army knife, using her experience, creativity, and skill to connect technology with legal journalism and innovate in the field. She joined ALM in 1999 shortly after receiving a degree in journalism, and after a hiatus in other newsrooms, returned to ALM as a federal litigation reporter in 2016. Two years…

Ryan Walker

Math can change the world. Case in point: Ryan Walker. As a mathematician and analyst, Ryan has made a significant impact on the Casetext team and is helping transform the way legal research platforms function. Beginning as a data scientist with the company in 2015, Ryan did most of the engineering for CARA, Casetext’s pioneering…