Michael Smith Managing member of Smith Barid Savannah, Ga.

Nominated by Richard S. Barid: “Due to his depth of knowledge in IT matters, Michael serves as the firm’s chief technology officer and IT department. His ideas (and implementation of those ideas) has made Smith Barid one of the only paperless law firms in the Savannah area. Michael also pioneered a cloud-based case management system for the firm, utilizing and repurposing existing cloud-based tools, including 37signals’ Highrise, Google Apps and Amazon S3/Jungle disk. Michael constantly keeps the firm not just up to date but ahead of the curve on technological advancements that help improve law firm management as well as business development.”