When to Call

You should consider calling when:

• Your company is using AI tools faster than its policies, vendor contracts, and internal controls have developed.

• Employees may be entering confidential, client, customer, employee, proprietary, or regulated information into AI systems.

• A vendor is offering AI functionality, automation, analytics, or decision-support tools and asking your company to accept legal or operational risk.

• You are concerned about privilege, work product, confidentiality, discovery, or admissibility issues involving AI-generated material.

• Your organization is using AI in hiring, performance management, claims handling, underwriting, compliance, litigation, marketing, customer service, or business operations.

• You are a government contractor dealing with AI, cybersecurity, CUI, NIST, CMMC, FedRAMP, DFARS, or False Claims Act-adjacent issues.

• You need to brief leadership, a board, a committee, or a business unit on what responsible AI use actually requires.

• A cyber, privacy, data, AI, trade secret, employment, insurance, or contract issue may become a dispute.

The goal is not to slow innovation. The goal is to make sure legal judgment, documentation, and defensible process keep pace with business adoption.

Who I Help

I work with:

Government Contractors
Federal, state and local government contractors facing overlapping obligations involving AI use, cybersecurity, CUI, procurement rules, subcontractors, vendors, certifications, and litigation or enforcement risk.

Insurers and Claims Organizations
Carriers, claims professionals, TPAs, and related businesses using or evaluating AI in claims, coverage, litigation management, underwriting, fraud detection, analytics, or customer-facing systems.

Law Firms
Firms that need practical policies for generative AI, confidentiality, privilege, work product, client data, court filings, legal research, document review, and internal adoption.

Employers
Businesses using AI or automated tools in hiring, screening, performance management, surveillance, productivity analysis, discipline, termination, or employee communications.

Mid-Market Businesses
Companies large enough to face serious cyber, privacy, vendor, employment, and litigation risk, but not large enough to maintain a full in-house AI governance or privacy team.

Professional-Services and Technology-Adjacent Companies
Businesses whose value depends on data, client trust, confidential information, proprietary workflows, regulated relationships, or vendor-enabled technology.

Ways to Work Together

AI Legal Risk Assessment

A focused diagnostic for organizations that need to understand their current AI-related legal exposure.

This assessment typically includes interviews with key stakeholders, review of existing policies and vendor practices, identification of priority risks, and practical recommendations for next steps.

Common issues include confidentiality, data use, employee adoption, vendor contracts, privilege, cybersecurity, privacy, HR use, regulatory exposure, and litigation defensibility.

AI Governance Sprint

A structured project for organizations that need to move from informal AI use to a more mature and defensible governance framework.

Depending on the organization’s needs, this may include:

• AI-use inventory

• Acceptable-use policy

• Vendor review process

• Data privacy and security guardrails

• Confidentiality and privilege protocols

• HR and employment-use guidance

• Incident escalation procedures

• Board or executive briefing materials

• Employee training

• Litigation-readiness recommendations

The objective is to create a practical system that people inside the business can actually use.

Outside AI & Cyber Risk Counsel

For companies that need ongoing advice, I serve as outside counsel on AI, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, vendor, contract, employment, insurance, and litigation-risk issues.

This relationship is designed for businesses that want legal judgment available before a problem becomes urgent.

Typical work includes policy updates, vendor contract review, internal training, incident triage, executive counseling, litigation-risk analysis, and support for business teams adopting new technology.

Crisis, Investigation & Litigation Response

When a problem has already escalated, I help clients respond to disputes, investigations, claims, cyber incidents, data issues, AI-related employment concerns, trade secret problems, contract disputes, insurance issues, and litigation.

That work draws on more than 30 years of litigation experience, including trial work, government investigations, commercial disputes, insurance matters, employment defense, government-contractor disputes, privacy and cybersecurity issues, and emergency injunctive relief.

Why Work With Me

I am a trial lawyer who works at the intersection of litigation, AI governance, cybersecurity, privacy, contracts, and business risk.

My background includes more than three decades of litigation experience, service as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and work for insurers, government contractors, employers, law firms, construction companies, technology-adjacent businesses, and other commercial clients.

I hold the Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States credential and the Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional credentials from the International Association of Insurance Professionals. I also serve in national defense-bar leadership roles involving AI, cybersecurity, litigation, and the responsible use of emerging technology.

That combination matters because AI and cyber decisions are not just compliance issues. They become emails, policies, vendor contracts, board minutes, claim files, discovery responses, deposition exhibits, expert issues, regulatory submissions, and courtroom facts.

My role is to help clients make those decisions more deliberately, document them more defensibly, and respond more effectively when problems arise.

Start With a Confidential Conversation

A short conversation is often enough to determine whether an issue is minor, manageable, or urgent.

If your organization is adopting AI, evaluating vendors, responding to cyber or privacy risk, managing sensitive data, or facing a dispute involving technology, employment, contracts, insurance, or litigation exposure, I would be glad to talk.