Notable
matters.

01 · MODEL · TRAINING DATA · OUTPUTS

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

3 REPRESENTATIVE

• Sole Arbitrator Private commercial arbitration Eight-figure exposure

  Issue · Enterprise customer dispute against an AI vendor over alleged hallucinated outputs in a regulated workflow. Authentication of inference logs and review of system-card representations were the determinative technical questions.

  OUTCOME · Reasoned award addressing the technical and contractual issues; resolution within the procedural calendar.

• Special Master Federal trade-secret litigation Nine-figure exposure

  Issue · Authored a tiered protective-order framework distinguishing model weights, training data, prompts, and outputs into separate access levels; supervised cleanroom review.

  OUTCOME · Workable protocol adopted by both sides; matter proceeded to merits without further protective-order disputes.

• Forensic Neutral Pre-suit dispute, technology M&A Confidential valuation

  Issue · Independent assessment of an ML training-data provenance claim affecting the valuation of an acquired model.

  OUTCOME · Written finding accepted by both sides; transaction closed on adjusted terms.

02 · COVERAGE · ATTRIBUTION · DWELL TIME

Cyber Insurance Coverage

3 REPRESENTATIVE

• Mediator Private mediation following coverage litigation Multi-million-dollar exposure

  Issue · Coverage dispute turning on the dwell-time question — whether the threat actor first gained access pre- or post-binding. Required reading of the IR record under tier-1 protective designation.

  OUTCOME · Settled within ten days of issuance of a memorandum identifying points of consensus and points genuinely in dispute.

• Mediator Insurance coverage mediation Multi-million-dollar exposure

  Issue · Fraudulent wire-transfer dispute under a cyber policy with a contested computer-fraud trigger; involved analysis of email-authentication records and impersonation methodology.

  OUTCOME · Negotiated resolution within the standard mediation cycle.

• Sole Arbitrator Private commercial arbitration Eight-figure exposure

  Issue · Coverage dispute under a war-exclusion clause where attribution of the underlying incident was contested.

  OUTCOME · Reasoned award addressing both the technical attribution analysis and the policy-language questions.

03 · CODE · ARCHITECTURE · MISAPPROPRIATION

Trade Secret & Software IP

3 REPRESENTATIVE

• Forensic Neutral Federal trade-secret litigation Multi-hundred-million-dollar exposure

  Issue · Independent forensic protocol design and execution; chain-of-custody preservation of departing-employee devices; authentication of disputed file-existence questions.

  OUTCOME · Written report adopted by the appointing tribunal; case settled within months of report issuance.

• Discovery Special Master State court trade-secret matter Confidential valuation

  Issue · Source-code review protocol for proprietary software alleged to have been derived from plaintiff’s codebase. Designed sampling approach, reviewer-credentialing tiers, and expert-comparison framework.

  OUTCOME · Protocol order issued; review proceeded without further disputes.

• Mediator Pre-suit dispute, venture-backed company Founder-equity dispute

  Issue · Co-founder dispute with allegations of post-departure misappropriation. Forensic evidence preservation handled in parallel.

  OUTCOME · Resolved with negotiated technical-remediation terms.

04 · TAR · CAL · SPOLIATION · PRIVILEGE

eDiscovery & ESI Disputes

3 REPRESENTATIVE

• eDiscovery Special Master Federal multi-district class action TB-scale ESI

  Issue · Authored ESI protocol; supervised TAR/CAL workflow; resolved real-time discovery disputes; handled privilege-log adequacy challenges.

  OUTCOME · Protocol adopted; class production completed on revised timeline.

• Discovery Referee Superior Court matter, technical IP Substantial document corpus

  Issue · Real-time resolution of dozens of discovery disputes between the parties over a multi-year period; spoliation findings under FRCP 37(e) standards.

  OUTCOME · Reports to the court; case proceeded efficiently to merits.

• eDiscovery Special Master Federal mass-tort matter Large-scale environmental litigation

  Issue · ESI protocol authoring for a complex multi-defendant mass tort; cross-border production coordination.

  OUTCOME · Workable protocol implemented across all defendants.

05 · ON-CHAIN · OFF-CHAIN REMEDIES

Smart Contracts & Cryptocurrency

3 REPRESENTATIVE

• Sole Arbitrator Private commercial arbitration Eight-figure exposure

  Issue · Smart-contract dispute involving a wrong-wallet auto-execution against a counterparty. Contract bytecode audit, on-chain transaction tracing, and cross-border attribution.

  OUTCOME · Reasoned award addressing both on-chain and off-chain remedies.

• Mediator Pre-suit dispute, decentralized protocol Token valuation dispute

  Issue · Founder/investor dispute concerning protocol governance and token-allocation execution.

  OUTCOME · Negotiated structural resolution.

• Forensic Neutral Federal regulatory matter Cryptocurrency exchange

  Issue · On-chain forensic analysis of disputed transaction histories and wallet attribution.

  OUTCOME · Written technical findings submitted to the appointing tribunal.

06 · CLASS ACTION · BREACH · GDPR

Privacy & Data Protection

2 REPRESENTATIVE

• Special Master Federal class-action privacy matter TB-scale ESI; class of millions

  Issue · Authored ESI protocol for a multi-plaintiff privacy matter; supervised data-handling under heightened protective-order tiers; reported findings to the court.

  OUTCOME · Protocol adopted; class production completed.

• Mediator Pre-suit cross-border breach matter GDPR exposure

  Issue · Multi-jurisdictional breach response with parallel U.S. and EU regulatory exposure; Schrems II considerations on data transfer in the production phase.

  OUTCOME · Coordinated resolution with regulatory closure paths.

07 · INTERNATIONAL · MULTI-PARTY

Cross-Border Commercial

3 REPRESENTATIVE

• Mediator Pre-suit cross-border partnership Multi-jurisdictional exposure

  Issue · Founder dispute spanning U.S., EU, and Asia operations of a technology and apparel partnership; international discovery coordination.

  OUTCOME · Negotiated dissolution and remediation terms.

• Sole Arbitrator L.C.I.A. seat Confidential commercial dispute

  Issue · SaaS-platform service-level dispute between an enterprise customer and software vendor; contract interpretation and technical performance analysis.

  OUTCOME · Reasoned award.

• Sole Arbitrator H.K.I.A.C. seat Confidential commercial dispute

  Issue · Cross-border software licensing dispute with multi-jurisdictional choice-of-law overlay.

  OUTCOME · Reasoned award.

08 · VALIDITY · INFRINGEMENT · DAMAGES

Patent Litigation (Software & Hardware)

2 REPRESENTATIVE

• Forensic Neutral Federal patent litigation Substantial damages exposure

  Issue · Independent technical assessment of accused software functionality against claim limitations.

  OUTCOME · Written technical findings incorporated into the merits proceedings.

• Mediator Pre-trial patent matter Multi-million-dollar exposure

  Issue · Validity and infringement issues in a software patent matter; mediated alongside a retired-judge process neutral.

  OUTCOME · Negotiated license framework.