Given the increasing rate of legal tech’s evolution, it can be difficult to stand out among the plethora of tools flooding the market. In an effort to help would-be innovators set their products apart from the pack, Legaltech West Coast’s “Legal Innovation Lightning Round” sessions gave entrepreneurs a platform to present their tools and an audience of industry insiders to help them tweak their presentations.

In “Round Two” of the innovation sessions, moderator Nicole Shanahan, founder/CEO of ClearAccessIP and fellow at Stanford’s CodeX legal informatics center, explained, “There’s a lot to be gained with empowering people to use technology to answer legal questions; to help lawyers be more valuable.”