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Alan N. Walter, Esq.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Alan N. Walter, Esq.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

AI Governance | Business Law | Emerging Technology | Startups | Outside General Counsel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montclair, New Jersey attorney advising companies that build, buy or deploy artificial intelligence. Plus startup formation, venture financing and technology transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artificial intelligence is now a business law problem, not a technology problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your company is already exposed to AI. It is in the vendor contract someone signed without reading the model terms, in the pitch deck that describes a workflow as autonomous, in the tool an employee pasted a client file into last Tuesday. The legal questions that follow do not stay in one practice area. They surface as contract risk, disclosure risk, employment risk, intellectual property risk and diligence risk, usually at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I help New Jersey and New York companies find those issues before someone else does, and put practical governance in place that a small team can actually follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI legal services<\/a> \u2022 Talk through an AI issue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founders get counsel who has sat on the other side of the table<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have been the first general counsel at entrepreneurial firms, practiced in Big Law and served as in-house counsel at a Fortune 500 company. I know what founders need, how investors think, what matters to corporate partners and where deals break down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n