Updated with news about the judges of the panels and our room. 

Mark your calendar! At Legaltech West, at the Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero) in San Francisco, on day 2 (July 14), CodeX will present a start-up frenzy: Three sessions of  of “Legal Disruption Lightning Rounds” where entrepreneurs will pitch their startups. The track will be held in Pacific Concourse L, on the Pacific Concourse level, one floor below the exhibit hall.

CodeX directors Roland Vogl and Michael Genesereth  invite you to “join us for a series of fast-paced, successive demos and talks featuring the latest emerging legal tech companies working to advance the legal system.”

“During this “Shark Tank”-style session, our presenters have the opportunity to pitch their products to and receive feedback from a panel of judges consisting of investors, academics and industry giants.”

ROUND ONE PRESENTERS (10:30-11:30):

• AdviseHub: Sanjay Yadgirkar, CEO & founder.
• Align Matters: Alan Nathanson, CEO, CTO & founder;  Deborah Baron, chief strategy officer.

• Beagle: Cian O’Sullivan, CEO & founder.
• ClearAccessIP: Nichole Shanahan, CEO & founder.
• HotShot Legal: Chris Wedgeworth & Ian Nelson, co-founders.

• Kira: Steve Obenski, CMO.

ROUND TWO PRESENTERS  (1:30-2:30):

• LawyerIQ: Michele Colucci, CEO & founder.
• Legaler: Michael Genesereth, associate professor, Computer Science, Stanford.
• Leverage: Ray Gallo, CEO & founder.
• LiTIQ: Gurinder Sangha, CEO & founder.

• MeWe: Manik Suri, CEO & co-founder.
• Stanford Open Data:  Sudhir Agarwal Logic Group, Computer Science Department, Stanford University,
and Abhijeet Mohapatra, Ph. D. candidate, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

ROUND THREE PRESENTERS (3:00-4:00)

• eBrevia: Ned Cannon, CEO & founder.
• Lawcountability: Ari Kaplan, founder.
• Legal.io: Pieter Gunst, Tony Lai, co-founders.
• Patent Navigation Inc. Charles Mihro: co-founder.

• SupportPay: Sheri Atwood, CEO.

JUDGES

Judges will include John Bautista, partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff; Monica Bay, Fellow, CodeX; Ralph Baxter, chairman, Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Senior Advisor,  former partner and chairman  emeritus of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff; Jerry Kaplan, Fellow, CodeX; Rebecca Lynn, general counsel, Canvas Ventures (round 1 only); Marc Morgenstern, founder and managing partner of Blue Mesa Partners, managing partner of Maxim Advisors and chairman of CadenceCounsel (afternoon panels);  Jeroen Plink, general manager, USA, Glasswall Solutions.

For more information about ALM’s Legaltech West Coast, visit www.legaltechshow.com. In January, ALM & CodeX announced a partnership to offer to provide educational content at Legaltech New York and Legaltech West Coast.

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and is a member of the California Bar. In February, she retired from ALM where she was Editor-in-Chief of Law Technology News. Email: mbay@stanford.edu. Twitter: @MonicaBay.