Evan Shenkman leads the Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Library functions at the 550+ attorney labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips, where his daily responsibilities include creating processes, practices, and software to allow firm attorneys to work smarter, faster, and more in sync; harnessing the power of A.I. and data analytics for use in legal; creating internal and client-facing collaborative tools; and helping making the practice of law far more efficient for firm attorneys and clients.

Passionate about legal tech and legal innovation, in 2022-23 Evan and his team helped Casetext develop CoCounsel, the world's first GPT-4-powered Legal AI Assistant, and his firm was the first firm to deploy it. In 2021, his firm won the American Legal Technology Award's "Law Firm of the Year," and Evan won ILTA's "Innovative Leader of the Year Award," and was named to the "2021 Fastcase 50 List," recognizing “50 of the smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” Before entering the KM field in 2011, Evan was an AV-rated law firm partner, litigating labor and employment matters for a decade.

Outside of work, Evan is a club soccer coach, and he frequently writes and presents on KM and Legal Innovation topics, appearing on/in NPR's Marketplace, The American Lawyer, the ABA Journal, Law.com, the AALL Spectrum, the Knowledge Cast Podcast, The Geek in Review podcast, The Modern Lawyer Podcast, LiteraTV, and the Reinventing Professionals podcast, among others.