Washington, D.C. · Available for new matters

Tanner Wilburn.
Counsel for what's next.

I'm an attorney working where artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the law collide — advising companies on the systems they ship, the data they hold, and the rules that don't quite exist yet.

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Practice: AI · Cybersecurity · Privacy · National Security
Firm: Mayer Brown
Bar: District of Columbia

01 About

A lawyer for the hardest questions in technology — the ones that aren't quite technical and aren't quite legal.

Before practicing law, I worked in cybersecurity — focused on medical device security and radio frequency (RF) systems. I learned how attackers think, how products fail, and how often the consequences land somewhere a court has never been asked about before.

Today I'm an associate at Mayer Brown, advising US and multinational companies on cybersecurity, data privacy, AI, and national security. I help clients navigate cyber incident response, regulatory compliance, and the legal implications of emerging technologies — translating between engineers, executives, and regulators.

JD Indiana University Maurer School of Law
MS Indiana University Luddy School of Engineering
BS Ball State University

02 Focus

What I work on.

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Artificial intelligence

AI governance, model risk, training-data exposure, and the emerging US and EU regulatory landscape. From foundation models to in-house deployments.

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Cybersecurity

Incident response, breach counseling, ransomware, and pre-incident readiness — informed by years of hands-on offensive and defensive security work.

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Data privacy

Cross-border data flows, US state privacy regimes, sectoral rules (HIPAA, GLBA), and the privacy consequences of new product architectures.

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National security

CFIUS, export controls, sanctions, and the security review of technology transactions — particularly where AI, semiconductors, and critical infrastructure intersect.

03 Writing & Podcast

Thinking out loud about technology and the law.

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On the record.

Conversations on AI, security, and the legal systems trying to keep up.

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Notes on emerging tech regulation, incidents, and what they mean for builders.

Tanner Wilburn

Associate Attorney · Mayer Brown

Washington, D.C. · Greater Washington Area

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GitHub

Tinkering, in public.

Side projects and experiments — the engineering habit, still intact.

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Donna

Browser cookie utility — Safari compatibility and extras.

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Build deck

Lucille — how she was built.

An always-on assistant running on a Mac mini: her own face, her own voice, her own inbox, and a brain that decides for itself whether to answer locally or reach for the cloud. A walkthrough of the architecture, the routing decision trees, the client-alert pipeline, and the dark web research mode.

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