Sarah Sutherland
Sarah Sutherland leads the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), the authoritative (and free) online resource for Canadian law. CanLII is a founding member of the Free Access to Law Movement and a global leader in the Legal Information Institute movement. This year, in addition to serving as President and CEO, Sarah published her first book – Legal Data and Information in Practice: How Data and the Law Interact, a pragmatic guide on how to acquire, manage, and use legal data in various contexts, from libraries to startups. The book is essential reading for information professionals in the legal space, as it evangelizes data-driven decision making, with clear steps on how to improve processes from an international perspective.