Vilas Dhar

Vilas Dhar is a computer scientist turned lawyer turned entrepreneur. He focuses on projects that bring socially-influential technologies from concept to the real world. He has spent years traveling around the world, working on projects ranging from refugee rights to microfinance to rural health care initiatives in the developing world, and ties together his understanding of social process, knowledge of legal and regulatory regimes and a genuine excitement with technology in his practice at Dhar Law, LLP, an East Coast law firm pioneering the concept of "community lawyering."

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