Governance programs your team can actually run.
AI oversight, data privacy, incident response, and international operations — scoped as fixed-price programs and delivered as working process. Not a memo you file away and rediscover during the incident.
- Admitted
- Utah · New York
- Certifications
- CIPP/US · CIPP/E · Fellow of Information Privacy
- Most recently
- Corporate Counsel & AI Committee Chair, NASDAQ-listed company
- Previously
- Corporate & International Group, Kirton McConkie
- Bar service
- Chair, Cyberlaw Section, Utah State Bar
- Languages
- English · Spanish
Between a large firm's regulatory group and no legal function at all, there is very little.
A national firm will build you an AI governance program. It will be excellent, it will take five months, and it will cost more than the risk it addresses. A generalist outside counsel will send you a policy template and wish you luck.
What most companies need is in between: someone who has built these programs from inside a public company, working at a defined scope for a price agreed in advance, who leaves behind a process your team owns rather than a dependency on the lawyer who wrote it.
That is the whole practice. Six lines of work, each delivered as a fixed-price program, each ending with documents and workflows in your hands.
Senior counsel, in the amount you actually need it.
Most of this work doesn't justify a full-time hire, and outside counsel bills it hourly without ever learning your business. Fractional counsel sits in between — a lawyer who knows your systems, your vendors, and your risk posture, engaged in whichever shape the work requires.
Defined scope
One piece of work with a delivered artifact. A privacy program, an incident plan, a single market entry.
Standing allocation
A set number of hours each month across whichever programs are live. Same counsel, continuous context.
Temporary coverage
A departure, a leave, or the stretch before you hire. Full function, bounded term.
Six programs, engaged in any of those three shapes.
AI governance
Where AI already sits in your business, the policy that governs it, and the vendor diligence that keeps pace as new tools arrive.
What you get PRVData privacy
Notices people can understand, consent that actually works, a process for handling data requests, and retention rules that limit what a breach can reach.
What you get IRIncident response
A plan for the first hour, a clear map of who must be notified and by when, and the disclosure call made before the pressure is on.
What you get INTLInternational operations
Opening in a new market, or winding one down, in the order that keeps it from taking twice as long.
What you get FCPAAnti-corruption
A policy that isn't shelfware, training for the people closest to the risk, and knowing who your third parties are before they act on your behalf.
What you get RECRecords governance
Keeping what the law requires, deleting what you shouldn't still be holding, and making sure a litigation hold reaches the right people before the wrong thing is gone.
What you getScope first, price second, work third.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes, no charge, no obligation. Enough to establish what you actually need — including when the honest answer is that you do not need this program, or need a different one.
Fixed-fee program
A written scope and a fixed price, agreed before any work starts. You know the deliverables and the number in advance. No hourly meter running in the background.
Ongoing counsel, if useful
Once the program is delivered, ongoing support is arranged separately — so you decide with the finished work in hand instead of committing at the outset.
Robert Snyder
Robert built SunCrest Law to do the work he had been doing inside a public company, for the companies that need it but cannot justify the headcount.
Most recently he was Senior Director and Corporate Counsel at a NASDAQ-listed company, where he chaired the AI committee, led privacy program modernization, authored the enterprise incident response plan, and served as legal lead on operations across more than fifteen jurisdictions. Before that he practiced in the Corporate and International Group at Kirton McConkie, Utah's largest law firm.
Earlier he spent eight years in chief-of-staff roles supporting executive leadership at a global organization with 30,000 employees. That is where the bias toward working process over polished memoranda comes from.