The “Fastcase 50” award recognizes 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 10, 2014
Legal publisher Fastcase today published the company’s annual list of “Fastcase 50” award recipients. The “Fastcase 50” award recognizes 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.
View the 2014 winners at http://www.fastcase.com/fastcase50-winners-2014.
The Fastcase 50 highlights entrepreneurs, innovators, and trailblazers — people who have charted a new course for the delivery of legal services. In law firms with new delivery models, legal tech startups, and even inside some of the nation’s largest law firms and legal publishers, these pioneers are giving the world a first look at what’s next for law and technology.
“The Fastcase 50 is one of our company’s favorite events,” said Fastcase CEO Ed Walters. “There is a wonderful community of friends, past winners, bar partners, law librarians, and software developers who recommend their heroes for the award. Every year we’re inspired by the stories, and we especially enjoy celebrating some people who aren’t always in the limelight, but who are quietly transforming the law and legal services.”
It was hard to top the Fastcase 50 classes of 2011, 2012, and 2013 — but with another record number of nominees, there were some great choices. Fastcase is happy to introduce the Fastcase 50 Class of 2014.
Congratulations to the following Fastcase 50 award recipients:
Frank Bennett, Faculty of Law, Nagoya University
Nicole Bradick, Director, Potomac Law Group; Founder, Custom Counsel
Evan Brown, Attorney at InfoLawGroup and Co-host of This Week in Law
Chad Burton, Founding Attorney at Burton Law and CEO of Curo Legal
Matthew Butterick, Author of Typography for Lawyers
Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington
Peter Carayiannis, President and Founder of Conduit Law
Brian Carver, Assistant Professor at the U. C. Berkeley School of Information
Ross Davies, Professor at the George Mason School of Law and Editor-in-Chief of The Green Bag
Francesca Di Lisa, Chief Operating Officer at WeHave the Future!
Hon. Stephen Dillard, Judge, Georgia Court of Appeals
Ron Dolin, Legal Technologist, Co-Founder of Program for Legal Tech & Design, Fellow & Instructor of Law at Stanford Law School, Center on the Legal Profession
Casey Flaherty, Corporate Counsel, Kia Motors America.
Simon Fodden, Founder and Publisher of Slaw.ca
Bryan Garner, Founder and President of LawProse, Professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Tina Gheen, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Law Library of Congress
Sam Glover, Editor in Chief, Lawyerist Media, LLC
Tom Goldstein, Co-Founder and Publisher, SCOTUSBlog
Ken Grady, CEO, SeyfarthShaw Lean Consulting
Michael Green, Director and Founder, BarNEt
Jake Heller, Co-Founder and CEO, Casetext
Kashmir Hill, Senior Online Editor, Forbes
Justice Geraldine Hines, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judiciary
Leila Kanani, Partner at Vector IP and Founder of Intermix Legal Group
Courtney Kennaday, Director of the Practice Management Assistance Program, South Carolina Bar
Orin Kerr, Professor of Law at the George Washington University
Joshua Kubicki, Founder, Legal Transformation Institute LLC
Casey Kuhlman, Managing Partner, Watershed Legal Services
Richard Leiter, Director and Professor of Law at the Schmid Law Library, University of Nebraska College of Law
Benjamin Lieber, Founder, Potomac Law Group
Mike Lissner, Co-Founder, CourtListener and Free Law Project
John Lord, Founder, Neota Logic
Marco Mari, Co-Founder, WeHave the Future!
Scott Meiser, Senior Director of Research Information, LexisNexis
Dan Mills, Assistant Director, Practice Management Advisory Service, DC Bar
Art Neill, Founder and Executive Director, New Media Rights
Justice Sarah Parker, Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
David Perla, Founder, 1991 Ventures; Co-Founder and CEO, Pangea3
Vishnu Prasad, CEO, Law Pundits LLP
Scott Rechtschaffen, Chief knowledge Officer and Shareholder, Littler
Matt Spiegel, Founder, MyCase
Neil Squillante, Creator & Publisher, TechnoLawyer
Colin Starger, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Lisa Tatum, Past President, State Bar of Texas
Susan Taylor Martin, President of Legal Business, Thomson Reuters Legal
Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law
Byron Warnken, Owner, 27Legal
Justice Don Willett, Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
Rebecca Williams, Policy Analyst, Sunlight Foundation and Co-Founder of DC Legal Hackers
David Zvenyach, General Counsel, Council to the District of Columbia
Fastcase 50 recipients will be celebrated during the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual meeting July 10-16 in San Antonio, Texas.
To view profiles of each of the winners and to learn more about the Fastcase 50 award, visit http://www.fastcase.com/fastcase50-winners-2014.
About Fastcase
Fastcase is a leading legal publisher focused on smarter legal software that democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Using patented software that combines the best of legal research with the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy users sift through the clutter, ranking the best cases first and enabling the re-sorting of results to find answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 800,000 subscribers from around the world. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington, D.C. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at @Fastcase or visit http://www.fastcase.com.
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