Welcome to the Legal Techo Chamber Power Rankings – Round Five
Did you miss us? Turns out there are a lot of holidays and health crises between October and April. Believe me, no one could have imagined it. Who knew there were so many holidays? So we’re actually doing a perfect job publishing the power rankings. A lot of people are saying they can’t believe how great we’re doing.
So enjoy the April 2020 rankings of the 25 most powerful players in #legaltech!
| Power Ranking | Name | Org | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raj Abhyanker | Litigation Justice League | Saving legal tech from fraud, one startup at a time |
| 2 | Richard Tromans | Artificial Lawyer | Putting on a journalism clinic.... in sponsored content |
| 3 | Brian Kuhn | Elevate | |
| 4 | Cat Moon | Vanderbilt | The hall monitor we deserve |
| 5 | Carolyn Elephant | My Shingle | Not cool since before it was cool |
| 6 | Alex Smith | ex-RAVN | |
| 7 | Connie "Capone" Brenton | NetApp | |
| 8 | David Cowen | The Cowen Group | More SHAKY than SOLID |
| 9 | Jimmy Vestbirk | Legal Geek | Because SOMEONE should profit off all the legal tech hype |
| 10 | David Fisher | Integra Ledger | Teaching law students there is no such thing as a free lunch (or reimbursements for flights halfway around the world) |
| 11 | Patrick Lamb and Jeff Carr | Elevar | "GET OFF MY LAWN" |
| 12 | Richard Susskind's Kid | Nepotism | Here's to three more decades of publishing the same book every five years... although what will he write about if any of his old man's predictions ever come true? |
| 13 | Ron Dolin | ex-Google | The luckiest lawyer in Silicon Valley |
| 14 | John Lord | Neota Logic | |
| 15 | Josuha Fireman | Fireman & Co. | |
| 16 | Dan "Closing Next Quarter" Jansen | Nextlaw Ventures | |
| 17 | Shruti Ajitsaria | Allen & Overy | Damn, it feels good to be...that busy and important |
| 18 | Coronavirus | The League of Shadows | |
| 19 | Joshua Browder | DoNotPay | |
| 20 | Patrick Palace | Palace Law | Because this |
| 21 | Mark Cohen | Clearspire 4eva | Trippin balls since 2010 |
| 22 | Aron Solomon | Who cares? | |
| 23 | Richard Rosenbaum | Greenberg Traurig | Grand prize for wordiest attempt to turn bullshit into vapor |
| 24 | Jules Miller | IBM | |
| 25 | Jack Newton | Clio | Never let a good crisis go to waste |
On a serious note:
And breaking from the 4/1 shenanigans, a special shoutout to godfather of snarky legal blogs: David Lat. Thrilled to see you’re on the mend after showing our 18th most powerful person in legal tech a thing or two. We’ll continue sending thoughts and prayers to speed the recovery.
Stay safe and healthy everyone!