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citybizPublic-affairs veteran launches a new firm focused on AI-era leadership and influence.
AI made content free. What AI cannot manufacture is standing — the legal, political, and capital foundations from which words move regulators, markets, and communities. We don't produce content. We produce authority.
We move big cases, contested projects, and fragile deals out of the starting gate and across the finish line.
Regulatory, governance, and litigation work where the record and the story are built together — because the strongest legal position is also the most persuasive one. Going from advising executives, mayors, and governors to advising America's top health leaders was a career-long transition.
We help leaders, institutions, and innovators gain resonance in the AI epoch — the era where artificial intelligence and human storytelling are reshaping influence itself. Reach is infinite and cheap; resonance is earned. Community is the antidote to the algorithm.
In 1608, Cahir O'Doherty and his clan burned Derry to the ground rather than bow to the crown. Centuries later that fire is capital of our own: the O'Doherty family office commits first, and a national network of family offices and global investors moves with it. Family-office counsel, investment narratives, and the approvals that let capital move — capital that brings freedom, innovation, and light for all.
A lean partnership, not a process shop. Every engagement brings a global network of senior experts into the rooms where the outcome is actually decided — and nowhere else.
Decide what you are before deciding what to say. The principal without position is noise with a budget.
Being seen is cheap. Being believed is the asset. Visibility amplifies whatever standing already exists — including none.
One room that matters beats a thousand impressions that don't. Scale what already works at full weight.
The legacy model — retainers for activity, access as the product, deliverables as proof, a menu of services priced by the item — was built for a world where content was scarce. That world is gone. A firm selling those as line items is selling something that now costs zero to reproduce. We are not a process firm, a content firm, or an access firm. Those models sell activity.
Chairman and Founder
He leads a family of firms in law, influence, and capital spanning Maryland, Washington, and Aspen. He has represented Fortune 100 companies, 63 hospitals, prominent family offices, trade associations, university presidents, master-plan developers, and U.S. governors and mayors.
From guiding the launch of a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonprofit newsroom, to securing approvals for a $1.4 billion MGM resort overlooking the nation's capital, to a historic ski-lift redevelopment in Aspen, his counsel delivers generational value for some of America's most influential family offices.
Raised between the Washington and Baltimore beltways, he forged a combination of D.C. savvy and Baltimore grit that made him a trusted strategist in media, crisis, and influence work. His national network is key for entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders seeking capital to scale.
The campaign at the heart of The Atlantic's cover story: the fight to save The Baltimore Sun from Alden Global Capital — and, when the hedge fund won, the answer. The story broke the news that a new publication of record would be built from the ground up in Baltimore. That newsroom became The Baltimore Banner, now a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Counsel that holds in a hearing room, a boardroom, or a capital raise.