Rakesh MadhavaFounder

United States - Greater Chicago Area

Rakesh Madhava is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nextpoint, an award-winning 50+ person software-as-a-service company with clients across the US and internationally.

Over the past 20 years, Rakesh and Nextpoint have provided software, strategy and advice to more than 500 law firms and other legal-focused organizations. Rakesh continually looks for innovative methods and techniques to encourage the use of internet-based technologies in the legal sector.

Rakesh has written dozens of articles on eDiscovery, data strategy, internet-era security and business strategy.

• Frequent speaker and participant at legal technology conferences
• Patent-awarded inventor
• Founding member of the Legal Cloud Computing Association
• Work has been featured in press coverage by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Reuters, ABA Journal, Law Technology News, and Information Management
• Adjunct Lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in New Media

Memberships have included the Sedona Conference Working Group 1, Electronic Discovery Reference Model, American Bar Association, CALSM and Chicago Bar Association and Rakesh is active in local and national industry events . Together with the team at Nextpoint, Rakesh organizes Nextpoint's Technology Advisory Group (TAG) conference and Spring Learning Series (SLS).

He's also a member of the Chicago Committee of Human Rights Watch and supporter of Common Pantry.

Rakesh has dedicated his efforts to increasing awareness and education in the use of technology to attorneys as a way to increase equal access to justice for all people.