Michael Hartman

Lead Developer

Lead Developer at VNS Firm with 20 years of experience providing specialist business consultancy and digital product engineering services for legal and regulated industries.

Michael Hartman is the Lead Developer at VNS Firm, bringing 20 years of specialist business consultancy and digital product engineering to the small-firm client intake problem. He builds and maintains the software that keeps every VNS client’s pipeline visible from first ring to signed retainer.

At VNS Firm

Michael owns the engineering that turns intake from a chore into an advantage. That means the CRM integrations that sync in real time with Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, and every other case management system our clients rely on. The AI-assisted intake tools that surface the right questions to the right specialist at the right moment. The dashboards that let a small-firm attorney see exactly which leads converted, where they came from, and what they cost.

His work is what makes it possible for a two-attorney criminal defense firm to run a technology stack that would have been reserved for national practices five years ago.

Background

Twenty years of engineering across regulated industries — legal, finance, and healthcare — where the technology has to hold up under pressure, integrate with legacy systems, and get audited. Michael brings that same discipline to VNS: reliable, well-tested, and built for the specific workflows small law firms actually use.