Chris Dore

Chief Strategy Officer at Bridge Legal

Speaker

Chris Dore is the Chief Strategy Officer at Bridge Legal, where he leads the company’s long-term strategy and growth across technology, litigation finance, and strategic services in high-volume litigation. He also oversees Bridge Legal’s investment initiatives, including portfolio management and underwriting, as the company scales its capital markets strategy.

Bridge Legal is an AI-enabled legal fintech platform providing technology, data, and operational infrastructure for plaintiff law firms and litigation funders. The company combines legal operations expertise, AI-driven technology, and capital markets experience to support complex litigation at scale.

Chris has nearly two decades of experience as a litigator and litigation finance professional focused on mass torts. He previously served as a Director at Burford Capital, overseeing underwriting and investments in mass tort and single-event matters. Prior to Burford, he was a Partner at Edelson PC, a nationally recognized mass tort and class-action law firm.

Chris holds a J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, a Master’s in Sociology of Law from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, and a B.A. in Law and Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara.