How Kurt Helps Clients

Kurt supports clients in matters involving cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, regulatory compliance, public policy and government relations. He has spent his career assessing and mitigating legal, policy and operational risk. He focuses now on risks raised by information technology and helps clients maximize the value of technology's safe and effective use. Kurt's experience in law and technology has touched on diverse fields such as insurance, foreign investment, government procurement, cooperative relationships with federal departments and agencies, and information technology issues arising from mergers and acquisitions.

Kurt served as an attorney in the U.S. Marine Corps for over 23 years, to include assignments in the office of general counsel for multiple organizations and as senior legal advisor to the Afghan National Army. In litigation, Kurt served as defense counsel for over 175 clients and prosecuted over 70 cases as counsel for the U.S. Government.

At U.S. Cyber Command from 2014 to 2022, he served as lead attorney for plans, policy, domestic and international partnerships, COVID-19 response, and legislative affairs, later as lead attorney for operations and intelligence, and finally as the Command’s Deputy General Counsel. He retired from the Marine Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel in November 2022. He is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Army Cyber Institute at West Point and a Senior Non-Resident Advisor with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, DC-based think tank.