I Backwards-R Consultant David D. Lewis (dave@DavidDLewis.com) Abstract: In no particular order: lawyers, guns, money, marketing, DNA, NDAs, IP, PIs, non-competes, contracts, bioinformatics, porn, marriage, disability, liability, advisory boards, ethics, options, success, failure, friendship, hypocrisy, fun, bankruptcy. Usually the audience just asks questions the whole hour, never finding out that there really was no talk prepared. Biography: The speaker is a freelance consultant on information retrieval. Before choosing the Dark Side, he held more or less respectable jobs at AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, and the University of Chicago, and wrote lots of papers and stuff.