Legal Rebels Profiles

192 ABA Journal Legal Rebels Profiles articles.

Gina Clayton-Johnson helps women who know what it’s like to have a family member locked up

“I realized that there’s a big problem with mass incarceration that we’re not seeing as much research on—that one in four women have a family member in prison,” says Legal Rebel Gina Clayton-Johnson, founder of the Essie Justice Group.

Sep 1, 2019 1:20 AM CDT

Keith Lee couldn’t find a place online where lawyers could communicate freely—so he created it

With the rise of Twitter and hashtags like #lawtwitter, more lawyers around the world are connected and engaged in public discussions about the law.

Sep 1, 2019 1:10 AM CDT

The founders of SimpleCitizen resolve to streamline the immigration process

Thanks to love—and subpar customer service—immigration is getting simpler.

Sep 1, 2019 1:00 AM CDT

Dorna Moini’s software helps legal aid groups and law firms automate users’ form-filling

When Dorna Moini was an associate at Sidley Austin from 2015 to 2017, she welcomed the opportunity to do pro bono work. But the repetitive nature of the job—filling out applications for domestic violence restraining orders—seemed like a waste when her firm was charging hundreds of dollars an hour for her time.

Sep 1, 2019 12:50 AM CDT

A seminal 1990s event sparked Colin Starger’s devotion to aiding criminal defendants, inmates

Legal Rebel Colin Starger, a 2002 Columbia Law School graduate, introduced the SCOTUS Mapping Project, an online tool that allows users to chart competing lines of Supreme Court majority and dissenting opinions.

Sep 1, 2019 12:40 AM CDT

With Kimball Dean Parker’s tools, people are better able to access the justice system

Kimball Dean Parker’s first legal technology business was not a moneymaker. But it planted a seed.

Sep 1, 2019 12:30 AM CDT

Cynthia Conti-Cook crunches the numbers to hold NYPD accountable for misconduct

As a staff attorney at the special litigation unit at the New York Legal Aid Society, a reminder of Cynthia Conti-Cook’s father’s indictment is the cornerstone of a career that seeks justice by speaking truth to power through litigation and data.

Sep 1, 2019 12:20 AM CDT

Lawyers, organizations design task-automation software with Jonathan Pyle’s Docassemble

In 2015, Jonathan Pyle built Docassemble, a free, open-source platform for expert systems and document assembly. People use it to assemble filings for a variety of legal issues, including divorce, eviction and Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Sep 1, 2019 12:10 AM CDT

Meet the 2019 Legal Rebels

When the ABA Journal named the first class of Legal Rebels 10 years ago, the legal industry was undergoing rapid transformation. Ten years later, it’s clear that many of the same issues that drove the original class of Legal Rebels to look for solutions outside the mainstream are still prevalent.

Sep 1, 2019 12:05 AM CDT

Mississippi ranks last when it comes to access to justice; Tiffany Graves hopes to change that

Growing up in a working-class household and with a large extended family in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Tiffany Graves knows what it looks like when a lawyer’s services are out of reach.

Sep 1, 2019 12:00 AM CDT

Young lawyers can be technophobes too, says legal tech entrepreneur Monica Goyal

Many lawyers are reluctant to adopt new legal technology, says Monica Goyal, who developed platforms including My Legal Briefcase, which helps parties in the Canadian small claims courts, and Aluvion Law, which uses automation to cut legal services costs for small businesses.

Dec 12, 2018 6:45 AM CST

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