My legal career has been non-traditional in many ways. First, I chose early in my career to resign as an associate at a leading law firm and join an in-house legal department. That was in 1987, when in-house counsel were considered one level above paralegals by their fellow counsel. However, the department I worked for became know nationally for its innovative practice, because we did virtually all legal work in-house and we used computer tools when practicing lawyers thought it was beneath them to type, and thus couldn’t use a typewriter keyboard, let alone a PC or database.
I eventually developed my own legal practice where I was the “general counsel” for a number of start-up companies, or those emerging from bankruptcy, who did not need a fulltime in-house counsel. My clients were both international and high tech, so my practice was as cutting edge as an Big City Lawyer, even though much of my work was done out of my home office. Through my clients, I developed an understanding of the possibilities and threats from AI and other high tech in the infancy of the Age of Algorithms.
My practice was also an unusual mix of business law and constitutional/civil rights work. I was encouraged at my first in-house job to volunteer for pro bono work, and have continued that commitment throughout my career. I have represented clients in First Amendment cases, discrimination cases and several cases whey clients wanted to disprove the notion that “you can’t fight City Hall”. I even represented my own family in a discrimination claim against the Obama Administration involving the refusal of HHS to deem my family a “family” because the Obergefell case had not yet been decided.
That has lead me to this, perhaps the final stage of my legal career. I want to assist both lawyers and the general population to understand the implications of AI and Algorithms to American jurisprudence in the 21st Century. That is the primary focus of this blog, One Nation Under Algorithms.
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