Dan Lear is a technology lawyer, facilitator, and gadfly. He is currently the Director of Industry Relations for Avvo.com, an online legal marketplace. In that role he is responsible for the company's relationship with lawyers, the legal industry, and legal technology companies and helps to drive content strategy and general outreach. He is also the cofounder of and a legal hacker at the Seattle Legal Technology and Innovation MeetUp, a legal hacking group that meets regularly to explore, identify, and implement unconventional solutions to law’s problems, big and small. He’s blogged and written extensively about the legal profession and its evolution on his blog Right Brain Law and for other online and print publications such as the ABA, AboveTheLaw, Solo Practice University, and the Washington State Bar Association.