Defining and implementing legal narratives with intelligence and precision.

 
 

As a transatlantic legal strategist, I help companies navigate the complexities of doing business in the United States and globally—especially in times of cultural, political, and regulatory uncertainty.

Doing business today is subject to changing sets of norms, expectations, and evolving regulatory frameworks.

In the midst of such uncertainty, businesses must operate with both precision and narrative clarity.

I provide legal guidance and strategic advisory services grounded in decades of U.S. corporate experience, helping clients articulate strong legal positions in their business transactions while also staying aligned with their values.

Why Legal Narratives Matter

In uncertain environments, compliance becomes a shifting target. Companies need to explain why they do what they do—whether to regulators, investors, employees, or the public. A well-structured legal narrative helps organizations build trust, mitigate risk, and stay ahead of change.

Legal narratives now shape and direct the success (or failure) of enterprises and even entire market sectors.

Technology sectors—AI, blockchain and cryptographic assets—are disrupting entire industries but also facing a variety of regulatory and legal challenges.

Company values, hiring practices, corporate governance, and protecting the environment are also now being shaped through legal narratives.

My Legal Narrative Advisory Practice

With affiliated offices in San Francisco, New York, and now Amsterdam, I work with corporate clients, investment funds, and emerging companies, supporting them in:

  • Entering and expanding into the U.S. market

  • Navigating the shifting U.S. legal and cultural landscape

  • Developing compliance strategies around employment, retention, and company values

  • Understanding positive and negative impact, and developing approaches to mitigate externalities

  • Building legal narratives that withstand regulatory, media, and internal scrutiny

Our US offices also assist in implementing such advice, through

·       Presentations and advice to company boards of directors

·       Employee and service provider workshops

·       Documentation of corporate policies through “core manuals”

Background

I bring over two decades of experience in U.S. corporate law, international law, and impact litigation.

  • Education: Stanford University (BA International Relations, BA Psychology, MA Sociology), NYU School of Law (JD); current PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University

  • Practice: Managing Partner at Comar Molle LLP

  • NGO Leadership: Executive Director, Just Atonement Inc.

  • Bar Admissions: California, New York, multiple federal courts, and the United States Supreme Court

  • International Work: Regularly engaged at the United Nations (New York and Geneva) on global legal issues

Representative engagements

  • Currently advising numerous tech and sustainability companies with respect to U.S. market compliance, employment law, and regulatory positioning

  • Guiding multinational teams through hiring practice risk assessments and responses

  • Advising litigants on high-level strategy in their impact-driven lawsuits involving international law, human rights issues, and director fiduciary obligations

  • Helping founders, executive teams, and corporate boards align legal structures with mission, narrative, and market realities

FAQs

  • Legal narratives help companies in novel tech sectors or in uncertain regulatory spaces protect the enterprise.

    Companies building new kinds of technologies often face new kinds of legal questions for which there is no hard answer. A legal narrative provides an overarching framework that the company can implement, top-to-bottom, to ensure a cohesive and consistent regulatory position and a legal footing for corporate activity.

    Legal narratives are also essential for companies with respect to hiring, employment, and sustainability practices, as well as with fundamental corporate values. Legal narratives provide a defensive legal architecture in uncertain regulatory environments, assisting in dialogue with regulators and the general public.

  • In addition to defining a company’s legal narrative or narratives, it is essential for any narrative to be implemented throughout the company in a cohesive and comprehensive way.

    Depending on the size of the company, training sessions, workshops, and creating “core manuals” to augment a company’s other internal policies helps ensure that the legal narrative is part of the company’s DNA.

  • Most companies will have a sense of when their enterprise lacks an overarching framework for responding to uncertain regulatory environments or novel legal questions.

    Companies in novel tech spaces encountering uncertain legal questions (intellectual property rights and securities laws are common topics) need a legal narrative to affirmatively describe their regulatory compliance.

    Hiring and retention policies, as well as sustainability policies are also under legal review in certain jurisdictions and need a legal narrative to defend company practices.

  • Legal narratives guide and oversee the work of communications teams with intelligence and precision, providing a legal basis and foundation for certain communications strategies.

    Unguided corporate communications often unintentionally run afoul of legal and regulatory requirements and needlessly create expensive and distracting problems down the road. This is particularly the case in novel tech sectors or in uncertain regulatory environments.

    Communications teams also lack the tools to document and implement narratives throughout the organization to ensure consistency, compliance, and precision.