BURNABY, BC, Oct. 10, 2022 /CNW/ – Clio, the world’s main supplier of cloud-based authorized expertise, at present introduced the winners of the sixth annual Reisman Awards. This yr’s recipients embrace Clio clients who’ve demonstrated legislation agency excellence and innovation during the last yr.
Named for Clio’s first buyer, Catherine Reisman, an entrepreneurial legal professional whose suggestions helped form the software program, the Reisman Awards have fun the authorized business’s sport changers, groundbreakers, and pioneers.
“For the reason that launch of the Reisman Awards in 2017, now we have been honored to listen to the tales of Clio clients and the way leveraging our platform bettered the lives of their purchasers, workers, and communities,” stated Jack Newton, CEO and Founding father of Clio. “This yr’s winners reveal a novel strategy to delivering impactful authorized providers to their purchasers. They totally embrace innovation, and in doing so, develop what’s doable in how we resolve for higher entry to justice.”
The 2022 Reisman Award recipients are:
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Authorized Innovation: Koenig|Dunne – Authorized Innovation honors a observe that has efficiently challenged business norms, both via expertise, supply of authorized providers, or assembly the wants of a non-traditional market. Primarily based in Omaha, Nebraska, Koenig|Dunne is 100% women-owned and devoted to altering the authorized expertise for households in Nebraska who want the help of a divorce lawyer. Nonetheless, funds and lack of assets stop their full entry to the justice system. Koenig|Dunne fashioned a committee of staff members, met with representatives from Authorized Assist and the Nebraska Volunteers Lawyer Venture, and in 2019 constructed Untie On-line, the primary and solely divorce service in Nebraska that gives schooling, data, assets, personalised authorized paperwork, and legal professional help, all at an reasonably priced charge.
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Finest New Legislation Agency: Rudder Legislation – Finest New Legislation Agency honors a newcomer who has weathered the trials of entrepreneurship and are available out on prime. As a younger Black lawyer, Andrew Rudder skilled the affect of systematic racism rooted in Canadian and American historical past. He took his destiny into his personal fingers by beginning his legislation agency, in January 2021, across the identical time he printed his e-book, “Catastrophic Impairment Legislation in Canada.” Andrew began his agency not solely to enhance range, inclusion, belonging, and fairness within the authorized occupation but in addition for the liberty of constructing an organization in his imaginative and prescient that displays his beliefs, values, and elementary rules.
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Neighborhood Champion: Creedon Legislation PLLC – Neighborhood Champion honors companies that prioritize giving again to their communities, whether or not it’s via professional bono work, donations, volunteering, mentorship, or one other altruistic exercise. Creedon Legislation PLLC – a authorized staff that builds and protects manufacturers by offering skilled mental property and authorized counsel – launched One Future Initiative (OFI), offering 5% of its gross income and 5% of its time to Good Works in its neighborhood. The agency’s mission to encourage individuals to construct one nice future is conserving them on monitor to be the primary Corp-certified legislation agency in Texas. Creedon Legislation PLLC additionally created the 501(c)(3) Creedon Basis to assist youngsters pursue their passions – from the humanities to sports activities. They supply each mentorship and monetary help.
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Excellence in Consumer Service: The Daswani Legislation Co – Excellence in Consumer Service honors a observe that has efficiently carried out a client-centered strategy to working their agency that’s higher for his or her purchasers and their enterprise. The Daswani Legislation Co focuses on serving companies of all sizes within the Industrial Contracts and Mental Property area. Following a uniform course of with purchasers, The Daswani Legislation Co at all times begins with a complimentary discovery name to find out the shopper’s actual necessities and if its staff is the most effective match or not – offering a service that’s considerate, supportive, and responsive. Past servicing, The Daswani Legislation Co additionally makes cost flexibility a precedence, providing cost plans upon request to assist purchasers unfold the fee to alleviate the monetary burden off their purchasers.
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Variety and Inclusion: 402 Authorized– Variety and Inclusion, a brand new class within the Reisman Awards, acknowledges companies driving range, inclusion, and the illustration of marginalized communities within the authorized occupation. Sokpoh Legislation Group LLC has been a champion within the Nebraska neighborhood since its creation in 2011. It has represented a whole bunch of people in juvenile courtroom and immigration proceedings at considerably diminished charges. Founding and managing associate Karine Sokpoh is an immigrant from Togo and has advocated for immigrants, refugees, and BIPOC out and in of courtroom. She can also be the founder and present President of the Midlands African Chamber, Inc., the one black chamber of commerce within the state of Nebraska. Sokpoh Legislation Group LLC helps its founder by sponsoring and offering authorized providers to the winners of the Pitch Black competitions, which offer alternatives for funding, mentoring, and connections to various entrepreneurs.
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Finest Progress Story: Torrey Pines Legislation Group – Finest Progress Story honors a observe that has seen success with Clio. Kevin Buckley based Torrey Pines Legislation Group in 2013, a world patent legal professional specializing in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical system, and synthetic intelligence improvements. Earlier than the pandemic, Kevin’s agency included solely 4 individuals. Nevertheless, because the agency’s pivot in February 2020 in response to the upcoming pandemic, Torrey Pines Legislation Group has grown to incorporate 22 patent attorneys, patent brokers, enterprise attorneys, FDA regulatory advisors, paralegals, and agency directors.
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Authorized Impression Award: Chartier & Nyamfukudza P.L.C. – Hand-picked by Reisman’s panel of judges, this award celebrates legislation companies who embody Clio’s mission of remodeling the observe of legislation, for good. Chartier & Nyamfukudza, P.L.C. focuses solely on prison protection and is obsessed with ridding individuals of the stigma of being a felon or having a conviction. The agency works with two Innocence Venture Clinics in Michigan, which helps exonerate wrongfully convicted people and offers authorized providers for these people on a pro-bono foundation. In 2020 and 2021, Chartier & Nyamfukudza, P.L.C. achieved three exonerations, returning three people to their households after being wrongfully convicted. Along with individuals, the agency additionally takes on “doggy dying row” circumstances pro-bono, serving to free canine ordered to be euthanized attributable to being categorised as harmful.
To study extra concerning the Reisman Awards or to appoint your agency for the 2023 awards, go to clio.com/the-reismans/.
About Clio
Clio is reworking the authorized expertise for all by creating the world’s main cloud-based applied sciences for legislation companies—to maintain attorneys and their purchasers higher linked all through the authorized course of. Corporations of all sizes and observe areas use Clio merchandise—Clio Handle, Clio Develop, and Lawyaw—to handle agency operations, streamline billing and funds, automate authorized paperwork, and enhance shopper experiences. Following its US$250M Sequence D funding, led by TCV and JMI Fairness, and its US$110M Sequence E funding, led by T. Rowe Worth Associates, Inc. and OMERS Progress Fairness, Clio has made historical past by turning into the primary authorized observe administration unicorn on the earth. Study extra at clio.com.
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