Speaker Bio

Mark Britton is the founder of the legal marketplace, Avvo.com. Upon his retirement from Avvo in 2018, Above the Law called Mark “the person who most disrupted law this decade.”

Prior to founding Avvo, Mark was the executive vice president of Worldwide Corporate Affairs of InterActiveCorp Travel (IACT) and Expedia, Inc. (NSDQ: EXPE). In this position, Mark oversaw all strategy, finance, accounting, corporate development, legal, human resources and government relations functions for the IACT companies, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International. Mark was also Expedia’s first general counsel and a long-time Board member of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW).

Today, Mark stays active in the legal industry by advising some of its most innovative companies, including Clio (www.clio.com), Clearbrief (www.clearbrief.com) and Tangibly (www.tangibly.com). Mark also regularly advises courts and other policy groups regarding technology, access to justice and the future of law.

Mark received his law degree from George Washington University. He holds a degree in finance from Gonzaga University and served on Gonzaga’s Board of Regents for 14 years. He has appeared on major news programs, including ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox Business News, CNN Money and Dow Jones MarketWatch. He also received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in 2015.