Our Leadership Team
Larry Bridgesmith, JD LPP
Co-Founder and CEO
The mastermind behind DASH, Larry has over 30 years in the practice of employment and labor law. This experience grew into legal services consultation and training in effective and efficient project and change management within law firms and legal departments. A noted speaker at legal industry events, Larry also serves as an Adjunct Professor and Coordinator of the Program on Law & Innovation at the Vanderbilt Law School, and leads the Music City Legal Hackers, a Vanderbilt Law School initiative.
Larry believes in giving lawyers their lives back. By bringing Lean, Agile and Legal Project Management to the practice of law, the lawyer/client relationship can return to a trusted and collaborative relationship. By practicing law "better, faster and cheaper" clients can grow comfortable with legal matter price certainty and lawyers can enjoy greater profitability through efficiency, rather than waste. Access to Justice is more than "free legal advice". DASH brings all these ideals together to provide value to lawyers and clients alike.Cat Moon, MA JD LPP
Co-Founder
Cat is a fifth generation lawyer and just as law is in her DNA, so is the client-first mindset that made her a practitioner of human-centered design thinking (HCDT) in law. Cat understands and teaches what more lawyers need to learn: we must put clients and their needs first in all that we do in the process of delivering legal services. As the ABA's 2016 Report on the Future of Legal Services warns the profession: "Those who seek legal services expect us to deliver legal services differently." Only through a truly client-centered approach that leverages technology and innovation will lawyers thrive in the 21st century.
Cat is the Director of Innovation Design at her alma mater Vanderbilt Law School, where she teaches human-centered design, the business of law, and blockchain to law students and legal professionals through the PoLI Institute. She also provides design facilitation and coaching to legal professionals globally.
Cat believes that all lawyers deserve to have tools and technologies that are at once beautiful and functional, and that elevate the practice of law by leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies. THAT is why she's helping to build DASH.
Tony Threatt, Ph.D.
VP of Product
Tony has over 17 years of design experience in architecture and product design. Tony holds a Ph.D. in human-centered product design and has led a variety of healthcare mobile teams to develop a patient portal, a schedule and messaging app, and a task management and employee engagement app. Tony is passionate about human-centered design and believes in the power of small, dedicated teams to deliver innovative solutions. Tony also co-facilitates Caffy Hour, a design thinking meet-up in Nashville, each month.
As the VP of Product, Tony will work with the technical team to translate user and business needs into design requirements helping to make DASH as lawyer-centered as possible.
Adel ElMessiry, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Advisor
Adel has over 20 years of experience managing complex technical projects and teams, having successfully co-founded and exited two healthcare startups. Not only does Adel speak six languages, he also possesses an atypical and impressive capacity to communicate highly technical concepts to the non-technical mind.
Adel brings his significant technical and management skills and startup experience to Legal Alignment's development team, and his vision is the driving force behind the technical brilliance of the DASH platform.
Adel holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Clay Hobbs, CPA
Business Advisor
Clay has over 25 years of executive, financial, and business leadership experience. He has held CFO roles in several large multinational firms and startups. He has led organizations in real estate, building products, healthcare technology, and tire industries. While employed at General Electric, Clay graduated from GE’s John F Welch Leadership Development Program.
As a Legal Alignment Business Advisor, Clay provides strategic counsel in finance, investment, and operations strategies resulting from his remarkably successful executive career.
Contact
Larry Bridgesmith, CEO
Adel ElMessiry, CTO
Cat Moon, COO + CDO
Tony Threatt, VP of Product
Larry Bridgesmith, CEO
615-585-7563
