Chicago Legal Tech Innovator Showcase

On October 24, Chicago-Kent and the Chicago Bar Association hosted the Chicago Legal Tech Innovator Showcase.  This event started with a special CLE event featuring three local technology leaders – Rakesh Madhava – CEO, NextPoint, Wendy Rubas – General Counsel, Village MD, and Kevin Chern – Managing Partner, UpRight Law — discussing innovation and its importance in today’s legal marketplace.

Chicago Legal Tech Innovator Showcase Panelists

Innovator Showcase Winners

The Showcase also highlighted 10 best local innovators of 2017 – 5 firms and 5 businesses. Showcase participants met with the innovators face to face to ask questions, and then the 10 innovators provided short demonstrations of their specialized product or service in a TED-style talk.  The 10 winners were:

• Legal Tech:
  • Paladin
  • PerfectIt with American Legal Style (Office Store Edition)
  • Aequitask Investigations
  • Page Vault On Demand™
  • Road to Status
• Law Firms/Legal Aid:
  • Chi City Legal, LLC
  • Indie Law, LLC
  • CARPLS Knowledge Management
  • Illinois Legal Aid Online  Victims of Crime Portal
  • Upsolve

Twitter Recap

Chicago Legal Tech Innovators Showcase – CK & CBA

Photo Gallery

Debbie Ginsberg, panel moderator

Kristen Sonday, Co-Founder and COO of Paladin

Catherine Reach of the Chicago Bar Association

John Paul Demirdjian, COO of Road to Status

Conor Malloy, partner at Chi City Legal

Andrew Sharp, Content Manager for ILAO

Joey Vitale of Indie Law