As a partner and chief innovation officer with Baretz+Brunelle, Dan leads LexFusion Labs, which builds custom AI applications that help law firms and corporate legal departments deliver legal services more quickly, intelligently, and efficiently in the AI era.
Dan has been a key contributor to multiple first-of-their-kind enterprise software solutions adopted by major Am Law 100 firms. Dan’s AI engineering expertise and executive leadership were honed inside two of the legal industry’s most innovative Am Law 100 firms: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he led the firm’s nationally recognized innovation team, De Novo, and Littler Mendelson P.C., where he held senior technology roles.
Under his leadership, De Novo developed groundbreaking AI-driven solutions for Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as well as its Fortune 500 clients. Dan led the development of Prose, an AI writing assistant named the Financial Times’s 2024 Top North American Innovation in Digitizing Legal Practice, and Haven, an AI platform that streamlines asylum applications that earned ILTA’s 2025 Transformative Project of the Year, the second time his work received that honor. He also spearheaded the development of DWT.AI, the firm’s custom chatbot adopted by more than 70% of the firm—the industry’s most successful AI deployment to date.
Dan’s executive leadership track record also includes guiding high-stakes projects such as law firm mergers, major organizational restructurings, and nationwide hardware and software technology rollouts, uniquely positioning B+B to assist clients during moments of profound change.
Dan’s innovation journey began in the U.S. Army, where he served for five years as a communications sergeant deployed in Iraq and taught himself to code by night. His military experience sharpened his ability to perform under pressure and solve problems with limited resources—skills that later propelled him into senior technology leadership roles.
Dan graduated from Colorado Technical University with a B.S. in computer software engineering.
