Honors 50 Innovators, Visionaries, and Leaders in Law

 

Washington, DC (August 25, 2020) – 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

 

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 this, 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 Council, 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, Editor-in-Chief, 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 www.fastcase.com.