With a record number of nominations, online legal research company Fastcase chose its latest class of 50 legal innovators and visionaries to honor in 2013. They include legal technologists and law professors, from start-ups to the establishment, who are inventing, adopting and advocating for new models of delivering legal services.
Honoree Raj Abhyanker, co-founder of Trademarkia, which served as the world’s largest trademark firm, recently opened a retail storefront reminiscent of Apple computer stores for legal services in Palo Alto, Calif. The gist is to change the way consumers shop for lawyers and to promote accessible and affordable legal services.
That mission is shared by Charley Moore, the founder and executive chairman of Rocket Lawyer, and Richard Granat, founder and CEO of the Granat Group. Granat’s prolific works include one of the nation’s first virtual law offices, a self-help website for Maryland family law and a legal forms company.
