There’s a shortage of women in science, technology, engineering and math. And there’s still a 17 percent gender gap in pay—across the board—in all of legal (18 percent at Big Law). But within the legal technology community are many women with thriving careers.

Monica Bay recently interviewed Lauren Amanda Adler, 38. She works as national sales director at Alt Legal, headquartered in New York. Her home base is New York City, but she spends about 25% of the year in Europe (mostly London).