Dax Hansen founded Perkins Coie’s blockchain practice group long before the digital transaction and record-keeping platform was heralded as a game-changer.
That was in 2013. Today, blockchain is best known as the network that enables buying and selling of bitcoin. But it’s also beginning to enter the tech and business mainstream, with leading companies investing in its potential and Big Law also starting to take a stake of its own.
“It was not as sexy in 2012 or 2013,” said Hansen, who focuses his practices on IT, payments and international business transactions.
“Lawyers like shiny things, and so there has ...
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