Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards 2022 Finalists Are Announced

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The second annual Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards honors participants in a wide array of categories across in-house, law firm, and technology providers. The shortlist of finalists has been whittled down from a much more extensive longlist by our editorial panel, and everybody listed is very deserving of their position. Our esteemed external judging panel will now be spending the next couple of weeks scrutinizing each entry and choosing the best of the best in each category.

The final winners will be announced during an in-person awards ceremony event on February 2, 2022, during the 2022 Legalweek New York conference. You can register for the ceremony here.

Law Firms

Tech-Enabled Litigation Department of the Year

• McDermott Will & Emery
• Morgan Lewis
• Reed Smith

Start-Up Firm / Emerging Company Law Firm of the Year

• Cooley
• Latham & Watkins
• Reed Smith
• Wilson Sonsini

Most Innovative Operations Team of the Year

• Berry Appleman & Leiden
• Morgan Lewis
• Reed Smith
• Troutman Pepper

Innovators of the Year (Individual)

• Adam Ruttenberg, Cooley
• David Wang, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Timothy W. Levin and Colleen F. Nihill, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
• Bryon Bratcher, Reed Smith

Innovations in Pro Bono

• Akin Gump
• Baker McKenzie
• Eversheds Sutherland/Balanced Justice Project
• Reed Smith

Innovations in Diversity and Inclusion

• Akin Gump
• Bracewell LLP, Minute Mentoring
• Bracewell LLP, Madam Policy
• Fernando Koatz, Esq.
• MoginRubin
• Norton Rose Fulbright

Lifetime Achievement

• Ken Heaps, Latham & Watkins
• Austin T. Fragomen, Jr., Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy

In-House

Most Innovative Legal Department of the Year

• American Bankers Association
• Icertis
• Instacart
• Johnson & Johnson Services

Most Innovative Operations Team of the Year

• Dolby Laboratories
• Exelon
• Liberty Mutual, LISA (Legal Intake Support Assistant)
• Liberty Mutual, myLegalReferral
• Sonnedix

Innovators of the Year (Individual)

• Elaine Karp, Baxter International
• Farrah Pepper, Marsh McLennan

Innovations in Diversity and Inclusion

• AbbVie
• Liberty Mutual, Humans of LSS
• Liberty Mutual, Liberty Legal Academy
• Stripe
• UpWork

Championing Diversity in Tech

Winner to be announced at awards ceremony

Vendors

New Law Company of the Year

• Clearbrief
• Epiq
• Priori Legal

Data Privacy & CyberSecurity

• Breakwater, DSAR Response
• Caetra, Cyber and Data Security Compliance
• Canopy, Data Breach Response Software
• Compliance, CI Admin
• FTI Technology, Information Governance, Privacy & Security Practice

Legal Operations

• Breakwater Solutions, StoredIQ for Legal
• Epiq, Legal Spend Solutions
• Lex Mundi, Equisphere
• SimpleLegal, SimpleReview
• Priori Legal, Scout

Litigation & Discovery

• Everlaw
• FTI Technology, E-Discovery and Information Governance, Privacy & Security practices
• IPRO, K2 Partnership
• JAMS, Virtual ADR
• Merlin Search Technologies, Integrated Search
• TCDI, Military Spouse Managed Review (MSMR) program

Research & Data Science

Winner to be announced at awards ceremony

Practice Management

• iManage, Knowledge Unlocked
• iManage, Work 10 Platform
• RubyLaw, Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform
• XIRA

Championing Diversity in Tech (Individual)

• Julia Helmer, Array
• Mirra Levitt, Priori
• Sophie Ross, FTI Technology
• Mary Beth Schmidt, Array
• Shana Simmons, Everlaw
• Alys Williams, Epiq

Innovators of the Year (Individual)

• Patrice Asimakis, LegalEase Solutions
• Josh Blandi, UniCourt
• Mirra Levitt, Priori
• Michael Pontrelli, Consilio
• Deana Uhl, FTI Technology

Lifetime Achievement

• Scott Berger, Epiq
• Eric Elfman, Onit
• Bill Johnson, TCDI