Accessibility Statement Skip Navigation
  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing
  • Login
  • GDPR
  • Create a Free Account
Return to PRWeb homepage
  • News
  • Resources
  • Contact
When typing in this field, a list of search results will appear and be automatically updated as you type.

Searching for your content...

No results found. Please change your search terms and try again.
  • News in Focus
      • Browse News Releases

      • All News Releases
      • Multimedia Gallery

      • All Multimedia
      • All Photos
      • All Videos
  • Business & Money
      • Auto & Transportation

      • Aerospace, Defense
      • Air Freight
      • Airlines & Aviation
      • Automotive
      • Maritime & Shipbuilding
      • Railroads and Intermodal Transportation
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Transportation, Trucking & Railroad
      • Travel
      • Trucking and Road Transportation
      • View All Auto & Transportation

      • Business Technology

      • Blockchain
      • Broadcast Tech
      • Computer & Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Components
      • Electronic Design Automation
      • Financial Technology
      • High Tech Security
      • Internet Technology
      • Nanotechnology
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Semiconductors
      • View All Business Technology

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Financial Services & Investing

      • Accounting News & Issues
      • Acquisitions, Mergers and Takeovers
      • Banking & Financial Services
      • Bankruptcy
      • Bond & Stock Ratings
      • Conference Call Announcements
      • Contracts
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Dividends
      • Earnings
      • Earnings Forecasts & Projections
      • Financing Agreements
      • Insurance
      • Investments Opinions
      • Joint Ventures
      • Mutual Funds
      • Private Placement
      • Real Estate
      • Restructuring & Recapitalization
      • Sales Reports
      • Shareholder Activism
      • Shareholder Meetings
      • Stock Offering
      • Stock Split
      • Venture Capital
      • View All Financial Services & Investing

      • General Business

      • Awards
      • Commercial Real Estate
      • Corporate Expansion
      • Earnings
      • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
      • Human Resource & Workforce Management
      • Licensing
      • New Products & Services
      • Obituaries
      • Outsourcing Businesses
      • Overseas Real Estate (non-US)
      • Personnel Announcements
      • Real Estate Transactions
      • Residential Real Estate
      • Small Business Services
      • Socially Responsible Investing
      • Surveys, Polls and Research
      • Trade Show News
      • View All General Business

  • Science & Tech
      • Consumer Technology

      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Blockchain
      • Cloud Computing/Internet of Things
      • Computer Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Consumer Electronics
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Gaming
      • Financial Technology
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Multimedia & Internet
      • Peripherals
      • Social Media
      • STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math)
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Consumer Technology

      • Energy & Natural Resources

      • Alternative Energies
      • Chemical
      • Electrical Utilities
      • Gas
      • General Manufacturing
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Oil & Energy
      • Oil and Gas Discoveries
      • Utilities
      • Water Utilities
      • View All Energy & Natural Resources

      • Environ­ment

      • Conservation & Recycling
      • Environmental Issues
      • Environmental Policy
      • Environmental Products & Services
      • Green Technology
      • Natural Disasters
      • View All Environ­ment

      • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Aerospace & Defense
      • Agriculture
      • Chemical
      • Construction & Building
      • General Manufacturing
      • HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning)
      • Machinery
      • Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Paper, Forest Products & Containers
      • Precious Metals
      • Textiles
      • Tobacco
      • View All Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Telecomm­unications

      • Carriers and Services
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Telecommunications Equipment
      • Telecommunications Industry
      • VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Telecomm­unications

  • Lifestyle & Health
      • Consumer Products & Retail

      • Animals & Pets
      • Beers, Wines and Spirits
      • Beverages
      • Bridal Services
      • Cannabis
      • Cosmetics and Personal Care
      • Fashion
      • Food & Beverages
      • Furniture and Furnishings
      • Home Improvement
      • Household, Consumer & Cosmetics
      • Household Products
      • Jewelry
      • Non-Alcoholic Beverages
      • Office Products
      • Organic Food
      • Product Recalls
      • Restaurants
      • Retail
      • Supermarkets
      • Toys
      • View All Consumer Products & Retail

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Health

      • Biometrics
      • Biotechnology
      • Clinical Trials & Medical Discoveries
      • Dentistry
      • FDA Approval
      • Fitness/Wellness
      • Health Care & Hospitals
      • Health Insurance
      • Infection Control
      • International Medical Approval
      • Medical Equipment
      • Medical Pharmaceuticals
      • Mental Health
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Supplementary Medicine
      • View All Health

      • Sports

      • General Sports
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Sporting Events
      • Sports Equipment & Accessories
      • View All Sports

      • Travel

      • Amusement Parks and Tourist Attractions
      • Gambling & Casinos
      • Hotels and Resorts
      • Leisure & Tourism
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Passenger Aviation
      • Travel Industry
      • View All Travel

  • Policy & Public Interest
      • Policy & Public Interest

      • Advocacy Group Opinion
      • Animal Welfare
      • Congressional & Presidential Campaigns
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Domestic Policy
      • Economic News, Trends, Analysis
      • Education
      • Environmental
      • European Government
      • FDA Approval
      • Federal and State Legislation
      • Federal Executive Branch & Agency
      • Foreign Policy & International Affairs
      • Homeland Security
      • Labor & Union
      • Legal Issues
      • Natural Disasters
      • Not For Profit
      • Patent Law
      • Public Safety
      • Trade Policy
      • U.S. State Policy
      • View All Policy & Public Interest

  • People & Culture
      • People & Culture

      • Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American
      • African American
      • Asian American
      • Children
      • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
      • Hispanic
      • Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
      • Men's Interest
      • People with Disabilities
      • Religion
      • Senior Citizens
      • Veterans
      • Women
      • View All People & Culture

  • Hamburger menu
  • Cision PRWeb provides efficient communication tools to continuously engage with target audiences across multiple online channels
  • Create a Free Account
    • ALL CONTACT INFO
    • Contact Us


      11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday

  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • News in Focus
    • Browse All News
    • Multimedia Gallery
  • Business & Money
    • Auto & Transportation
    • Business Technology
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Financial Services & Investing
    • General Business
  • Science & Tech
    • Consumer Technology
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Environ­ment
    • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing
    • Telecomm­unications
  • Lifestyle & Health
    • Consumer Products & Retail
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Health
    • Sports
    • Travel
  • Policy & Public Interest
  • People & Culture
    • People & Culture
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR

Fastcase Announces 2020 "Fastcase 50" Award Winners

Honors 50 Innovators, Visionaries, and Leaders in Law


News provided by

Fastcase

Aug 25, 2020, 08:30 ET

Share this article

Share toX

Share this article

Share toX


WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Legal publisher Fastcase today announced the company's annual list of "Fastcase 50" honorees. Selected from online nominations, the award recognizes the year's smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.

View the 2020 winners at http://www.fastcase.com/fastcase50

“2020 has been an incredibly difficult year, and in times like these, it’s especially important to draw inspiration from others.....We are as proud as ever to spotlight the tenth class of the Fastcase 50, highlighting now 500 people who have inspired our profession, since our first class in 2011.”

Post this

Fastcase is happy to introduce the Fastcase 50 Class of 2020. Each year since the inaugural awards in 2011, the Fastcase 50 has applauded the most fascinating trailblazers and architects of the future of law and legal technology. The award recognizes pioneering people who have made important contributions to the legal profession, for practitioners and the public. The honorees for the Fastcase 50 Class of 2020 represent a diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, law librarians, judges, bar association leaders, legal innovators, and people who are passionate about reforming and automating the law.

"2020 has been an incredibly difficult year, and in times like these, it's especially important to draw inspiration from others," said Fastcase CEO Ed Walters. "We have lost friends and heroes, learned from the great example of others, and witnessed a year of action on civil rights, criminal justice reform, and access to justice. We are as proud as ever to spotlight the tenth class of the Fastcase 50, highlighting now 500 people who have inspired our profession, since our first class in 2011."

Congratulations to the following Fastcase 50 award recipients:

  • Hon. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
  • Josh Blandi, CEO and Co-Founder, UniCourt
  • Cynthia Brown, Senior Director of Research Services, Littler Mendelson
  • Tiela Chalmers, CEO and General Counsel, Alameda County Bar Association
  • Lisa Colpoys, Program Director, Institute for the Future of Law Practice
  • Michelle Cosby, Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
  • Andre Davison, Research Technology Manager, Blank Rome LLP
  • Dave DiCicco, Senior Director of Product Planning, LexisNexis
  • James Dimos (In Memoriam), Associate Executive Director and General Counsel, American Bar Association
  • Ona Alston Dosunmu, Executive Director, California Lawyers Association
  • Ronald Drescher, Attorney, Drescher & Associates, P.A
  • Daniel Farris, Founder, Proxy and NMBL Technologies; Partner, K&L Gates LLP
  • Alli Gerkman (In Memoriam), Former Senior Director, The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System; Founder, Foundations for Practice at the University of Denver
  • Cara Griffith, President and CEO, Tax Analysts
  • Dave Harriman, CEO (retired), Casemaker
  • Shannon Hein, Executive Vice President, William S. Hein & Co. Inc.
  • Hon. Thelton Henderson, Inactive Senior United States District Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Shon Hopwood, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Vasu Kappettu, COO and CTO, Justia
  • Liz Keith, Program Director, Pro Bono Net
  • Jeff Kelly, Chair, Future of Law Committee, North Carolina Bar Association
  • Diana Koppang, Director of Research & Competitive Intelligence, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
  • Steven Lofchie, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; Founder, Cadwalader Cabinet
  • Catherine Alman MacDonagh, CEO and Founder, Legal Lean Sigma Institute LLC
  • Olga Mack, CEO, Parley Pro
  • Shane Marmion, President, William S. Hein & Co. Inc.
  • Hon. Bridget Mary McCormack, Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court; Co-Chair, Michigan Post-Pandemic Planning Technology Workgroup
  • Erie Meyer, Technology Advisor for Commissioner Rohit Chopra, Federal Trade Commission; Co-founder, Tech Ladymafia
  • Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Director, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
  • David Miranda, Partner, Heslin Rothenberg Farely Mesiti; Former President, New York State Bar Association
  • Kim Nayyer, Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Associate Dean for Library Services, Cornell Law
  • Kara O'Brien, Vice President, Programs, Practising Law Institute
  • Ian O'Flaherty, Founder and CEO, LIT Software LLC
  • Farrah Pepper, Chief Legal Innovation Counsel, Marsh & McLennan Companies
  • David Pinke, Product Owner, Digital Online, Practising Law Institute
  • Natalie Pierce, Shareholder and Co-Chair, Robotics, AI and Automation Practice Group, Littler Mendelson
  • Basha Rubin, CEO, Priori Legal
  • David Shapiro (In Memoriam), Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft
  • Graham Smith-Bernal, Founder and CEO, Opus 2
  • Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative; Clinical Professor, New York University School of Law
  • Matthew Stubenberg, Associate Director of Legal Technology, Access to Justice Lab, Harvard Law School; President, MDLegal Apps
  • Hon. John Tran, Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court
  • Cathy Underwood, Freelance Legal Editor
  • Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Penn State Law; Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic
  • Noah Waisberg, CEO, Kira Systems
  • Hon. Stephen Williams (In Memoriam), Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
  • Natalie Worsfold, Co-Creator, CounterMeasure; Product Manager, Counter Tax Lawyers
  • Bob Young, Founder, Lulu Press
  • Rachel Zahorsky, Director of Marketing and Senior Leader, Novus Law LLC

To view profiles of each of the winners and to learn more about the Fastcase 50 award, visit http://www.fastcase.com/fastcase50

About Fastcase
Fastcase is a leading legal publisher that democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Fastcase is a comprehensive research suite of primary law, treatises, legal blogs, analytics, workflow tools, and legal news. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 900,000 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.

SOURCE Fastcase

Related Links

http://www.fastcase.com/

Modal title

Contact PRWeb

  • 11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday
  • Contact Us

About PRWeb

  • About PRWeb
  • Partners
  • Partnership Programs
  • Editorial Guidelines
  • Resources

Why PRWeb

  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing

Accounts

  • Create a Free Account
  • Log in
  • Contact Us

Do not sell or share my personal information:

  • Submit via [email protected] 
  • Call Privacy toll-free: 877-297-8921

Contact Cision

Products

About

My Services
  • All News Releases
  • Online Member Center
  • ProfNet
Cision Distribution Helpline
888-776-0942
  • Legal
  • Site Map
  • RSS
  • Cookie Settings
Copyright © 2025 Cision US Inc.