Larry Bridgesmith is an adjunct law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, serves as the inaugural executive director of the Lipscomb University's Institute for Conflict Management and also teaches at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law.

But he was honored for his creativity in the legal tech sphere, among other things. He founded DASH4Law DAO, "the world's first cloud-based, AI-powered, blockchain-based, NFT-capable, DAO-supportive and Web3 legal dashboard," according to its LinkedIn profile. Bridgesmith also co-founded Vanderbilt Law's Program on Law & Innovation (PoLI), which "has provided academic education in legal innovation to literally 1,000s of students" since its launch more than a decade ago, according to his nominator essay.