Pamela Morgan
Founder & CEO | Empowered Law
Pamela Morgan is an educator, entrepreneur, author, and attorney. Licensed to practice law in Michigan and Illinois, she has extensive legal experience in business organization, risk analysis, contract negotiation and drafting, and dispute resolution through consensus building. She began focusing her law practice exclusively on bitcoin and digital currencies in early 2014. Today, much of her work with Empowered Law involves training lawyers how to use bitcoin and open blockchain technology to reduce risk and uncertainty in business and legal settings. Her workshops have been lauded as providing “clarity amidst all the hype.” She is a widely respected authority on multi-signature governance, inheritance planning and legal innovation using digital currencies. Her book, Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning: A Simple Guide for Owners, provides a clear blueprint to inheritance planning for those holding cryptocurrency, tokens, crypto-collectibles, and other cryptoassets.
She is also the founder of Third Key Solutions, LLC, a boutique cryptographic key consulting firm that works with individuals and organizations to improve the security of their cryptoassets and ensure these assets are accessible in the event of a crisis or disaster. In 2017, she joined the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel as the first arbitrator with extensive bitcoin and open blockchain experience.
Morgan’s expertise has been featured in Bloomberg BNA, Reuters, Wired Germany, Motherboard/VICE, International Business Times, NPR’s Marketplace Make Me Smart, Epicenter, Let’s Talk Bitcoin, The Bitcoin Game, Sane Crypto, and many other outlets. She has delivered hundreds of dynamic presentations at conferences, meetups, and universities around the world.
Morgan earned a Juris Doctor degree from Wayne State University, order of the coif, a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Programming, highest honors, from Davenport University, and an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Small Business Management, with honors, from Schoolcraft College.