Dennis M. Kennedy

Dennis Kennedy (www.denniskennedy.com) is President of Dennis Kennedy Advisory Services LLC, an information technology and innovation lawyer, and author well-known for promoting the use of technology in the practice of law. He focuses on innovation, legal technology, speaking, writing, and coaching and is an adjunct professor in the LegalRnD program at Michigan State University College of Law and also at the University of Michigan Law School.

Dennis retired as Senior Counsel for the Digital Payments & Labs group at Mastercard, where he focused on information technology law, fintech law and innovation. His new company will concentrate on innovation, legal technology and productization, including “Legal Innovation as a Service” packages and the Kennedy Idea Propulsion Laboratory.

Dennis is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and former chair of the board of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center. Dennis wrote the legal technology column for the ABA Journal for many years, has authored and co-authored several books, including Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law: A Practical Guide for Law Firms, Law Departments, and Legal Organizations (2019), The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together (2nd edition, 2018) with Tom Mighell, and LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers and Facebook in One Hour for Lawyers, with Allison Shields.

He co-hosts The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on the Legal Talk Network, and has written his blog, DennisKennedy.Blog, since 2003. On Twitter, Dennis may be found at @denniskennedy and was one of the earliest lawyers with a website (1995). LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dennismkennedy