Lance Koonce is a partner at Klaris Law, specializing in intellectual property and media in the context of new technologies, including web3, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. He advises clients from individual authors and artists to multinational corporations in industries including film, television, publishing, music, news, art, and software. As an early entrant in the crypto/blockchain space, Lance has been counseling early tech and media companies on emergent legal issues in that space for 8 years. He has also co-founded two start-ups focused on IP rights issues in web3.