About

Legal technologist and knowledge architect with over fifteen years at the intersection of law, libraries, and technology. Career defined by a consistent thread: making legal information and legal tools more accessible for all users — from students to legal professionals to members of the public. Has worked across the full spectrum of the legal ecosystem, from direct access to justice service to building tools for legal aid organizations to now defining the intelligence layer of the commercial legal tech market. Equally comfortable setting strategy and getting hands dirty in the work — building technology, shaping product, and designing the systems that make it all function.

Areas of Expertise

Legal Tech Market Intelligence
Legal Innovation
Knowledge Architecture
Access to Justice
Education & Professional Development

Experience

Director of Data Curation — Legaltech Hub (January 2024 – Present)
Leads the curation department for the legal technology industry’s leading market intelligence platform. Primary focus is the analytical and knowledge work at the core of the product: researching, evaluating, and structuring information about legal tech solutions so that law firms, legal departments, and vendors can make informed purchasing and strategy decisions. Serves as the platform’s subject matter expert on legal tech taxonomy, the categorical framework that defines how the market is understood and navigated, and works cross-functionally with product, advisory, and commercial teams as internal authority on market data.

Senior Solutions Analyst — Legaltech Hub (January 2023 – December 2023)
Produced objective, vendor-neutral analysis of legal tech solutions for the Legaltech Hub directory. Translated complex product capabilities into clear, useful language for legal buyers across Big Law and corporate legal.

Legal Tech Curator — Reynen Court (May 2021 – November 2022)
Created rigorous, in-depth overviews of enterprise legal technology solutions for a curated marketplace serving Big Law and corporate legal departments. Assessed product capabilities, security posture, and market fit for a discerning audience that needed to trust what they read.

Project Specialist Manager / Counsel — American Bar Association (October 2016 – April 2021)
Held two concurrent roles over the final eight months of tenure. As Project Specialist Manager at the Center for Innovation, built technological tools for legal aid societies, court systems, and nonprofits working to expand access to legal services, produced research reports and resources on legal technology and regulatory innovation, and provided internal and external consulting on legal tech strategy. As Counsel to the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, provided legal analysis and project coordination focused on the legal needs of moderate-income individuals who fall above the threshold for free legal aid but cannot realistically afford private counsel.

Research Fellow — Harvard Library Innovation Lab / Berkman Center (August 2015 – July 2016)
Researched free and open legal information in the United States. Created the State Legal Information Census, a fifty-state audit of the accessibility and authenticity of official legal information online, surfacing significant gaps in public access to law and informing subsequent legal information policy discussions.

Director of Content Development / Director of Community Development — CALI (August 2011 – July 2015)
Held two concurrent roles at the nonprofit consortium providing free legal education technology to U.S. law schools. Facilitated the eLangdell open casebook project, producing free, open-access legal textbooks for law students at member institutions nationwide, overseeing production and contributing content. Also supported law students, faculty, and librarians at member institutions in getting the most out of CALI’s tools, helped organize the annual conference for law faculty, librarians, and legal technologists, and contributed to product development for tools serving legal education and access to justice contexts.

Outreach and Faculty Services Librarian — Valparaiso University School of Law (April 2010 – July 2011)
Provided legal reference services to law students, faculty, practicing attorneys, and the public. Co-taught the first-year legal research curriculum and developed advanced research instruction sessions across course offerings. Maintained the law library’s web and social media presence.

Reference Librarian — University of Kentucky College of Law (December 2006 – March 2010)
Provided legal reference services to law students, faculty, practicing attorneys, and the local bench and bar. Taught first-year legal research and developed advanced research instruction. Managed interlibrary loan operations and supervised student staff.

Reference Librarian — University of Dayton School of Law (November 2005 – November 2006)
Provided legal reference services to law students, faculty, practicing attorneys, and the local bench and bar. First professional position following library school, grounding subsequent work in the day-to-day information needs of the legal community.

AmeriCorps*VISTA — Cincinnati Area Senior Services (1998 – 1999)
Recruited, trained, and managed senior citizen volunteers for an urban elementary school tutoring program in Cincinnati. Completed prior to law school as part of a year of national service.

Education

Master of Library Science
Indiana University Bloomington, 2005

Juris Doctor
University of Cincinnati College of Law, 2002
Ohio Bar (inactive)

BA, Anthropology Major, Minor Biology
Indiana University Bloomington, 1998

Honors

2026 Fellow, College of Law Practice Management
2017 ABA Women of Legal Tech Honoree
2016 ABA Legal Rebel
2016 DC Legal Hackers Le Hackie Award
2013 ABA Blawg 100
2011 Fastcase 50 – Inaugural Class