Evan Shenkman leads the Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Library functions at the 600+ 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; helping making the practice of law far more efficient for firm attorneys and clients; and working with startups to develop and enhance legaltech.

Passionate about legal tech and legal innovation, in 2022-23 Evan and his team helped Casetext develop (and were the first law firm to deploy) CoCounsel, the world's first GPT-4-powered Legal AI Assistant. Evan has been honored with ALM’s 2024 Innovations in KM Award, ILTA's "Innovative Leader of the Year Award," Litera’s “Legal Innovator of the Year Award”, and the American Legal Technology Award's "Law Firm of the Year." He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and was named to the 2024 Lawdragon 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors list, and the "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, he was an AV-rated law firm partner, litigating labor and employment matters for a decade.

Outside of work, Evan is a club soccer coach, is on the advisory boards of numerous legaltech startups, 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.