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Law Firms

Lifetime Achievement Winners

  • Florinda Baldridge, Norton Rose Fulbright — Presented by:  
  • Shannon Bales, Munger Tolles & Olson
  • Colleen Kenney, Sidley Austin

Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award Winners

  • Katherine Charonko, Bailey & Glasser
  • Maureen Naughton, Lowenstein Sandler
  • Jennifer Reeves, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
  • Rachel Shield Williams, Sidley Austin
  • Theresa Spartichino, Ropes & Gray


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Best Custom Legal Technology Development (Law Firm) Finalists

  • BakerHostetler
  • Erickson Immigration Group — WINNER
  • Harrity & Harrity
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 
  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

 
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Best Use of Artificial Intelligence Finalists

  • Foley & Lardner — WINNER
  • Harrity & Harrity
  • Husch Blackwell
  • Morgan Lewis
  • Troutman eMerge
  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 
  • WR Immigration


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Best Use of Emerging Technology (Non-AI) Finalists

  • The Beckage Firm — WINNER
  • King & Spalding
  • McDermott Will & Schulte


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Best Tech Training Program Implementation Finalists

  • Akin
  • Debevoise & Plimpton
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Morgan Lewis 
  • Orrick — WINNER
  • Thompson Hine


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Change Management Leader of the Year - Law Firm (Individual) Finalists

  • Lorie Almon, Seyfarth Shaw
  • Cindy Thurston Bare, FBT Gibbons
  • David Cunningham, Reed Smith
  • Chloe Moedritzer, Orrick
  • Colleen Nihill, Morgan Lewis — WINNER
  • Lawrence Peters, Latham & Watkins


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E-Discovery Technology and Innovation Finalists

  • The Beckage Firm
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  • Cravath Swaine & Moore
  • Orrick — WINNER
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Troutman eMerge
  • Winston & Strawn 


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Innovations in Dealmaking Finalists

  • Latham & Watkins 
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges  — WINNER


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Innovations in Knowledge Management Finalists

  • FBT Gibbons
  • Foley & Lardner
  • McDermott Will & Schulte
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Troutman Pepper Locke — WINNER

 
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Innovator of the Year- Law Firm (Individual) Finalists

  • Michael Afar, Seyfarth Shaw
  • Daniel Berman, Wood Smith Henning & Berman — WINNER
  • Timothy Fox, Ogletree Deakins
  • Chanley Howell, Foley & Lardner
  • Christopher Kercher, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
  • Eric Rice, Latham & Watkins
  • Anthony Millin, Next by Shulman Rogers


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Litigation Technology and Innovation Finalists

  • Lowey Dannenberg
  • McDermott Will & Schulte — WINNER
  • Reed Smith
  • White & Case 


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Most Innovative Law Firm/Client Tech Collaboration Finalists

  • The Beckage Firm 
  • Cleveland & Co — WINNER
  • Erickson Immigration Group
  • Honigman 


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Regulatory, Governance and Compliance Technology Finalists

  • Latham & Watkins
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Reed Smith
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Seyfarth Shaw — WINNER
  • Thompson Hine


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Providers

Lifetime Achievement Winners

  • David Greetham, Level Legal
  • Mary Mack, EDRM
  • Heena Bhambhlani, Ernst and Young

Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award Winners

  • Laura Danielson, HaystackID
  • Elisabet Hardy, Elite
  • Kathleen Killin, ClearyX
  • Annie Lespérance, Jus Mundi
  • Renee Meisel, UnitedLex
  • Kathy M. Zhu, Streamline AI


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Innovations in Trial Technology Winner

  • Rev


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Technology for Good Winner

  • Clearbrief

Best Emerging Technology (Non-AI) Finalists

  • ActiveNav
  • Exterro — WINNER
  • HaystackID

Best Tech Training Program Finalists

  • AltaClaro / Verbit
  • DISCO
  • Diversity Lab
  • Factor — WINNER

Best Use of Artificial Intelligence (Contract, Document & Project Management) Finalists

  • Billables AI
  • Litera 
  • Luminance
  • NetDocuments
  • Stretto — WINNER
  • Tonkean
  • Winnow 


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Best Use of Artificial Intelligence (E-Discovery & Litigation) Finalists

  • AItorney
  • Clearbrief
  • Epiq — WINNER
  • Everlaw
  • Filevine
  • HaystackID
  • Relativity 

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Innovation Finalists

  • HaystackID
  • LRN Corporation
  • Transcend — WINNER

E-Discovery Technology Finalists

  • Casepoint
  • eDiscovery AI
  • HaystackID
  • ModeOne
  • Ontellus
  • Oxygen Forensics
  • Syllo — WINNER

Innovating Knowledge Management Finalists

  • ActiveNav
  • iManage — WINNER

Innovations in Arbitration/Mediation Technology Finalists

  • American Arbitration Association — WINNER
  • Jus Mundi
  • Opus 2
  • New Era ADR

Innovations in Contract Technology Finalists

  • Ironclad
  • Litera
  • Summize
  • Tonkean — WINNER

Innovation in Hiring, Staffing & Recruitment Finalists

  • HaystackID
  • Legal Innovators
  • SurePoint Technologies — WINNER

Innovator of the Year - Provider (Individual) Finalists

  • Ritayan Bhattacharjee, SurePoint Technologies
  • Hilary Bowman, Querious — WINNER
  • Jeff Chivers, Syllo
  • Jean-Rémi de Maistre, Jus Mundi
  • Sophie Ross, FTI Technology

Legal Operations Innovation Finalists

  • Filevine
  • FirmPilot
  • Fulcrum GT
  • Tonkean — WINNER
  • UpLevel Ops

 
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Legal Tech Company of the Year Finalists

  • Billables AI — WINNER
  • Clearbrief
  • Clio
  • Harvey
  • Hello Prenup
  • Jus Mundi
  • ModeOne
  • Syllo
  • TitanFile 


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Litigation Technology Finalists

  • Advocacy
  • ChronoTracer 
  • Clearbrief — WINNER
  • Crane Patents
  • LexisNexis - Lex Machina
  • Syllo/Ballard Spahr


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M&A and Transaction Innovation Finalists

  • ClearyX
  • Emma Legal — WINNER

Practice Management Innovation Finalists

  • AllRize
  • Billables AI
  • CARET Legal
  • Elite
  • Maeven AI — WINNER
  • NetDocuments

Regulatory, Governance and Compliance Technology Finalists

  • Diligent
  • HaystackID
  • ELTEMATE — WINNER
  • LexisNexis State Net
  • LRN Corporation
  • Promatrix Technologies Private Limited

In-House

Lifetime Achievement Winner

  • Ruby Zefo, Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute and formerly Uber — WINNER

Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award Winner

  • Letitia Haynes-Frasier, Cox Media Group — WINNER

Best Custom Legal Technology Development (In-House) Finalists

  •  Capgemini
  • Corteva Agriscience
  • Meta Platforms — WINNER

 
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Best Use of Artificial Intelligence Finalists

  • Boston Consulting Group
  • DHL Supply Chain — WINNER
  • Meta
  • MODE Global
  • Uber


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Business Impact Through Technology Finalists

  • Cox Media Group
  • Solstice Advanced Materials — WINNER


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Change Management Leader of the Year - Legal Department (Individual) Finalists

  • Eric Greenberg, Cox Media Group — WINNER
  • Gregg McConnell, Corteva Agriscience
  • Monique Morreale, MUFG Bank

Innovator of the Year - Legal Department (Individual) Finalists

  • Catherine Dawson, 8am
  • Jen Fryhling, Meta Platforms
  • Alex Ponce de Leon, Google — WINNER


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Most Innovative Legal Department of the Year Finalists

  • Everbridge
  • Mercedes-Benz USA
  • Meta Platforms
  • MUFG Bank
  • Uber Technologies — WINNER


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Most Innovative Legal Operations Team of the Year Finalists

  • Capgemini Americas — WINNER
  • Corteva Agriscience
  • DHL Supply Chain Americas


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Regulatory, Governance and Compliance Technology Finalists

  • Kyndryl Legal Department — WINNER
  • Uber Technologies


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