North Carolina State Bar · Active & In Good Standing
Admitted
2011
North Carolina State Bar · Active license in good standing.
Career Focus
Assistant District AttorneyProsecutorial Career
Special VictimsPrimary Assignment
Practice Background
The formative years of my legal career were spent as a prosecutor at the District Attorney's office, where for the majority of my tenure there I was assigned to 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. I also spent a year with the habitual felon team which 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 instill a particular kind of analytical discipline. Evidence has to be correct, and legal arguments sound, or defense counsel will ruin a prosecution before it even starts. That discipline — applied to data, to technology strategy, to organizational change — is the foundation on which everything I have built.
The SQL case management system I built at the DA's office was an early signal that I would approach law through systems as much as through argument. Everything after, in my career, has followed the same logic: using technology to make legal reasoning more reliable, more auditable, and more scalable — without sacrificing the precision the law demands.