Full Name
Michael Sander
Job Title
Founder, Managing Director
Company
Docket Alarm
Speaker Bio
Michael Sander is the Director of Analytics at Fastcase and the Founder and Managing Director of Docket Alarm, a company he founded as a litigation associate in New York City. Docket Alarm has introduced litigation analytics to thousands of attorneys for the first time, paving a new way for attorneys to approach the law. Docket Alarm has received annual Innovation Awards in 2015 and 2019 and a 2020 nomination.
In 2018 Docket Alarm was acquired by Fastcase, a legal tech innovator since 1999, providing hundreds of thousands of attorneys access to the law through their bar memberships and firms. Today Michael continues to lead Docket Alarm and Fastcase’s analytics strategy.
As part of his job, Michael advocates for greater access to legal materials. He has advocated as an *amici curiae* at the U.S. Supreme Court for greater legislative material and the Federal Circuit for access to court records.
Michael has given guest lectures and seminars at schools such as Cornell, Hofstra, Vermont Law School, Southwestern Law School, and Stanford. Michael participates in hackathons and innovation challenges, and speaks frequently at legal technology events such as LegalTech, AALL, and ILTA and intellectual property law events such as INTA and AIPLA, among others.
Michael has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell, an MS in the same from UCSB, and a JD from Cardozo. Michael is a patent attorney and is barred in New York, where he currently resides.
In 2018 Docket Alarm was acquired by Fastcase, a legal tech innovator since 1999, providing hundreds of thousands of attorneys access to the law through their bar memberships and firms. Today Michael continues to lead Docket Alarm and Fastcase’s analytics strategy.
As part of his job, Michael advocates for greater access to legal materials. He has advocated as an *amici curiae* at the U.S. Supreme Court for greater legislative material and the Federal Circuit for access to court records.
Michael has given guest lectures and seminars at schools such as Cornell, Hofstra, Vermont Law School, Southwestern Law School, and Stanford. Michael participates in hackathons and innovation challenges, and speaks frequently at legal technology events such as LegalTech, AALL, and ILTA and intellectual property law events such as INTA and AIPLA, among others.
Michael has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell, an MS in the same from UCSB, and a JD from Cardozo. Michael is a patent attorney and is barred in New York, where he currently resides.
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