North Carolina State Bar · Active & In Good Standing
Admitted
2011
North Carolina State Bar · Active license in good standing.
Career Focus
Special VictimsPrimary Docket
D.A.Prosecutorial Career
Practice Background
The formative years of my legal career were spent as a prosecutor at the District Attorney's office, where the docket was dominated by special victims cases — primarily domestic violence. The work required building evidentiary files under pressure, navigating victim trauma, and translating complex fact patterns into legal arguments that hold up at trial. A secondary assignment to the habitual felon team added a different dimension: multi-charge coordination, prior record analysis, and the procedural complexity of enhanced sentencing. Neither role left much room for abstraction — outcomes were measured in verdicts.
While at the DA's office, I designed and built a SQL database to automate the administrative tasks required of prosecutors — case tracking, deadline management, and the procedural workflows that courts require but that no commercial tool handled well at the time. It was the first time I had to translate a legal workflow into a data model, and it created a lasting habit of thinking about legal processes in terms of structure, inputs, and outputs.
Prosecution to Legal AI
Years in a special victims courtroom develop a particular kind of analytical discipline. The evidence has to be right — not directionally right, but correct in detail — because the stakes are real and opposing counsel will find every gap. That standard of accuracy, applied now to AI outputs, is not borrowed from another discipline; it is the same habit of mind. The SQL database I built at the DA's office was an early indicator that I would approach law through systems as much as through argument. The work since has followed the same thread: using technology to make legal reasoning more reliable, more auditable, and more scalable — without sacrificing the precision that the law demands.