As a law student Raj Abhyanker had many questions, mostly about why the profession seemed so inefficient.
"I wouldn't be surprised if some people didn't quite get Raj," says Douglas Sylvester, dean of Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. "His questions weren't about interpretations; they were challenges to the whole idea.
"He was never very interested in learning the doctrine of rules," Sylvester adds. "It was always about 'I don't think this is right.'"
Abhyanker,...
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...
