The combined team of vLex and Fastcase today announced the 2023 honorees of the Fastcase 50. Since 2011, the Fastcase 50 has recognized lawyers, legal technologists, policymakers, judges, law librarians, bar association executives, and people from all walks of life who are innovating and creating new frontiers in the legal profession. In April 2023, vLex and Fastcase merged, and the companies today jointly announced the 2023 class of Fastcase 50 honorees.
The annual Fastcase 50 awards were designed to highlight the profound and insightful contributions that are made across the legal industry every year. Anyone is eligible to be named, and each year people nominate a truly diverse group of people who are making an impact within the legal sector. This can include anything from imaginative new strategies to promote access to justice to intuitive solutions that tackle complex issues and create new legal services.
“Ever since its debut in 2011, the awards have bestowed recognition upon countless trailblazers who have fearlessly reshaped the legal landscape for lawyers, courts, and the public at large,” said Julia Herman, Chief Revenue Officer, vLex. “As a judge in this year’s awards program, I found myself in awe of the boundless brilliance displayed by the nominees, their visionary ideas, and their relentless dedication to enhancing the legal realm.”
“This has been an amazing year of change for legal tech, including at vLex and Fastcase,” said Ed Walters, Fastcase co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of vLex. “This year’s list of honorees reflects a year of transformation for legal services. The Fastcase 50 class of 2023 is also the most international group of honorees in our history, which reflects the growing scale of vLex and Fastcase.”
Congratulations to the 2023 Fastcase 50 Honorees:
Daniel Acevedo, Senior Manager & Legal Operations Services Leader, LatAm North, Ernst & Young
Ben Alarie, Professor & Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Founder & CEO, Blue J Legal
JoCo Alberto de Oliveira Lima, Legislative Information Systems Analyst, Senado Federal (Brazil)
Joe Breda, President, Bloomberg Law
Junior Browne, Officer-in-Charge, Faculty of Law Library, The University of the West Indies
Ana Buitrago, Senior Advisor, PWC
Rodrigo Camarena, Director, Justicia Lab
Erick RincSn CArdenas, Director, TicTank
Kevin Colangelo, Senior Director, Professional Learning, Law School Admission Council
Ken Crutchfield, Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US
Wendy Butler Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer, Chair eDiscovery & Information Governance Group, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Anthony Diana, Co-Chair of IP, Tech & Data Practice Group; Enterprise Data Risk Management Partner, Reed Smith LLP
Diana Didia, Senior Vice President; Chief Information and Innovation Officer, American Arbitration Association
John DiGilio, Firmwide Director, Library Services, Sidley Austin LLP
Mark Doble, CEO and Founder, Alexi Inc.
Chris Dralla, Founder and CEO, TypeLaw
Tim Fox, Director of Practice Intelligence and Data Analytics, Ogletree Deakins
Bill Girdner, Editor, Courthouse News Service
Gordan Glover, Founder, Glover Law Firm
MSnica GonzAlez ContrS, Director, Institute of Legal Research, Universidad Nacional AutSnoma de MIxico
Dirk Hartung, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Legal Technology and Data Science at Bucerius Law School
Daniel Hoadley, Head of Data Science & Analytics, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Douglas Keith, Counsel, Democracy Program at Brennan Center for Justice
Scott Kelly, Senior Manager of Product, NetDocuments; Co-Founder, Afterpattern
Linda Kruschke, Director of Legal Publications, Oregon State Bar
Jamie Maclaren, Founding Executive Director, Access Pro Bono Society of BC
Conor Malloy, Supervising Attorney & Rentervention Director, Law Center for Better Housing
Maya Markovich, Executive in Residence – Justice Tech, Village Capital
Theresa McCue, Member Support Manager, NELLCO Law Library Consortium
Sara Molina, Senior Manager in Legal Management Consulting, Deloitte Legal
Francesc MuQoz, CIO, Cuatrecasas
Joy Murao, Founder & CEO, Practice Aligned Resources
Aaron O’Brien, CEO, Parrot
Mark C. Palmer, Chief Counsel, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism; Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois College of Law
Marcos RCos, Partner, Carey; Chair, American Bar Association International Law Section
Julia Rodgers, CEO and Co-Founder, HelloPrenup
John Sheridan, Digital Director, The National Archives, UK
Andrew Solomon, Senior Rule of Law Advisor, United States Agency for International Development
Quinten Steenhuis, Practitioner in Residence and Adjunct Professor, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab, Suffolk University Law School; Founder, Lemma Legal
Holly Stevens, Chief Data Officer, Legal Services Corporation
Nicole Stone, Director of Product Management, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US
Alex Su, Head of Community Development, Ironclad
Joaquim Matinero Tor, Banking-Finance & Blockchain Associate, Roca Junyent
Kelly Twigger, Founder and CEO, eDiscovery Assistant
Joshua Walker, CEO, System.Legal; Co-Founder, CodeX; Author, On Legal AI
Caroline Walters, Collection Development Librarian for US and Materials Budget, Harvard Law School Library
Nick West, Chief Strategy Officer, Mishcon De Reya LLP
Keli Whitnell, Director of Firm Intelligence, Troutman Pepper
Laurent Wiesel, Litigation Knowledge Lawyer, Simpson Thatcher
Stephanie Wilkins, Editor-in-Chief, Legaltech News
