Best legal Twitter accounts of 2018
Dan Lear (@rightbrainlaw)
He is a technology-focused business lawyer, blogger at Right Brain Law and “legal industry gadfly.” He’s also the former director of industry relations for Avvo.
Keith Lee (@associatesmind)
Keith Lee is the founder of LawyerSmack, a private online community for lawyers, a blogger at Associate’s Mind and author of The Marble and the Sculptor: From Law School to Law Practice.
Erin Levine (@hellodivorce)
NEW: She’s founder and CEO of Hello Divorce, a website that aims to manage the California divorce process and take “the drama” out of it.
Cat Moon
Cat Moon (@inspiredcat)
NEW: She is director of innovation design at the Program on Law & Innovation and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC)
He is editor of the blog Above the Law and co-host of the Thinking Like a Lawyer podcast.
Dera J. Nevin (@dera_nevin)
NEW: She’s a Baker McKenzie associate, adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, legal tech specialist and legal process engineer.
Kevin O’Keefe (@kevinokeefe)
He is CEO and publisher of Seattle-based blog-publishing platform LexBlog. His own blog is Real Lawyers Have Blogs.
Melba Pearson (@ResLegalDiva)
NEW: She’s deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.
RAICES
RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS)
NEW: The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services is the largest immigration legal services nonprofit in Texas, focusing on immigrant children, families and refugees.
Daniel B. Rodriguez (@DBRodriguez5)
NEW: The former dean at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law is now chair of the ABA Center for Innovation.
Billie Tarascio (@mymodernlaw)
NEW: This 2018 Legal Rebel heads up Modern Law, a divorce law practice, and Access Legal, a legal technology company.
Jae Um (@jaesunum)
NEW: She’s the founder of Six Parsecs, a legal market insights company and a 2018 Legal Rebel. “Jae’s tweets are a great entry into her brilliant long-form posts about data, design and strategy in the legal marketplace,” says Vanessa Butnick Davis, vice president of research and product development at LegalZoom.com.
Mike Whelan Jr. (@mikewhelanjr)
NEW: This Rockport, Texas, solo practitioner, is founder of the Lawyer Forward Conference, which helps you “become a more complete attorney.”
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![Chad Burton](https://abajournal.com/images/mag_images/1218_F_Web100_ChadBurton.jpg)
Chad Burton is the CEO of CuroLegal and co-founder of Modern Law Practice, firms focused on developing technology to reduce the access-to-justice gap and modernize delivery of legal services. He serves on the governing board for the ABA Center for Innovation.
Photo courtesy of Chad Burton
![Vanessa Butnick Davis](https://abajournal.com/images/mag_images/1218_F_Web100_VanessaButnickDavis.jpg)
Vanessa Butnick Davis is vice president of research and product development at LegalZoom.com. She serves on the advisory boards of PactSafe and Evolve the Law and as a mentor for Law Without Walls. She was named one of the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech 2018.
Photo courtesy of Eli Edwards
![Eli Edwards](https://abajournal.com/images/mag_images/1218_Web100__Eli-Edwards.jpg)
Elizabeth T. “Eli” Edwards is the emerging technologies research librarian at Santa Clara University School of Law.
Photo courtesy of Eli Edwards