Crisis & Dispute Management

Steady strategic advice when scrutiny is highest.

We help with pending and threatened disputes, settlement negotiations, expert services, and crisis communications — managed to help protect the business and its reputation.

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What we solve

Some Problems This Work Helps Answer

Managing Unexpected Crises

The Executive Challenge

“When a significant unexpected incident or legal inquiry occurs, my organization may face an immediate, multi-front crisis that could simultaneously threaten our market standing, legal position, and stakeholder trust.”

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The Strategic Solution

Moving beyond narrow or reactive advice, we can help orchestrate a proactive, coordinated response that helps manage risks and protect enterprise value, while actively helping to restore or maintain market trust.

Resolving Disputes and Impasses

The Executive Challenge

“I am facing a complex commercial dispute or critical regulatory impasse with a partner, vendor, or the government that threatens our business execution.”

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The Strategic Solution

We help architect strategic resolutions to complex corporate and regulatory disputes and can provide expert witness services. Drawing on more than three decades of experience at the intersection of technology, business, law, and policy, we look beyond conventional approaches to help structure commercially viable paths forward that aim to protect core assets, resolve the impasse, and prevent protracted value erosion.

Building Strategy and Consensus

The Executive Challenge

“I face intense pressure from conflicting internal and external stakeholders—including investors, leadership, and public policymakers—making it difficult to build consensus and establish a unified corporate direction on technology transformation.”

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The Strategic Solution

We help resolve C-suite and boardroom friction to drive strategic clarity. Bringing decades of high-level experience at the intersection of technology, business, law, and policy, we serve as an expert advisory anchor to help align competing stakeholder priorities, manage institutional risk, and build a unified, long-term corporate roadmap that secures enterprise value.

What we do

How We Help

Disputes & Settlements

  • Support with pending or threatened disputes or settlement negotiations
  • Expert services and testimony

Crisis Management

  • Strategic crisis management
  • Crisis communications and positioning
  • Developing supporting communications

Why Us

Three decades, five technology revolutions.

Almost no one has spent over three decades helping organizations navigate successive technology revolutions, from engineering, business, law, government, policy, boardroom, and academic perspectives.

More about Lee
  • Former AmLaw 50 Partner
  • Former NIST Senior AI Advisor & OECD Consultant
  • Former Senior Adviser, International AI Safety Reports
  • OECD/Global Policy Expert
  • Electrical Engineer & University Faculty
  • Elite Service Firm Affiliations
  • Global Speaker & Network
Appeared In
The Wall Street Journal Fortune TechCrunch WIRED Duke University University of Maryland NPR

Testimonials

Said about Lee

From industry and other leaders.

“Every time we turn a corner to an epochal new technology, Lee Tiedrich is already there as a thought-leader. This is just the latest iteration.”
EVP & Chief Legal Officer, Media Company
“Lee Tiedrich is a true thought leader in international AI policy, someone who doesn’t just make a point, she makes a difference.”
Managing Director, Global Government Affairs Company
“Lee has been at the forefront of helping organizations maximize their investment in AI in safe and responsible ways.”
Managing Director, Global Advisory and Advocacy Consultancy
“Not only does Lee have deep substantive knowledge and outstanding judgment, but she also knows how to lead teams with diverse expertise and architect integrated, actionable, and effective solutions.”
General Counsel, Technology Company
“One of the world’s best experts … [and] that’s not even an overstatement.”
Leading AI Scholar
“Lee’s credentials are stunning.”
A Retired Air Force Major General
“Lee Tiedrich develops approaches for AI that evaluate and manage risk while aligning law, policy and practices with science.”
TechCrunch, Women in AI Series

Contact

Need a steady hand on this?

A straightforward discussion. No pitch. Bring us the decision on your desk and we’ll tell you how we’d approach it.

A straightforward discussion. No pitch.