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Associate Director of Digital Experience at Cooley LLP. Selectively open to consulting, speaking, and creative collaborations.

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Last updated · 2026-07-01

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Focus and priorities for this season. Project write-ups on Projects; scholarships and local programs on Community.

At Cooley

Associate Director of Digital Experience

Strategy, Transformation & Growth

I integrate web, email, virtual events, media, and search into one digital ecosystem for one of the world's leading law firms — and lead the transformation roadmap behind it.

That means AI and automation with guardrails, client journey orchestration, and measurement leadership actually uses to decide. I align with practice marketers, communications, business development, and firm leadership so the ecosystem stays coherent.

cooley.com & web development / Email strategy & production / Virtual events, media & search / SEO → GEO/AEO evolution / Analytics & reporting / Digital transformation roadmap / Team leadership / Vendor & budget management

Priorities

  • Cooley. Omnichannel digital ecosystem — web, email, virtual events, media, and search — plus the transformation roadmap, journey orchestration, and reporting leadership can act on.
  • Community: Our New Ending, One Love News, and scholarship season. Community →
  • Projects: one clear experiment at a time on the Projects index.
  • Studio time: painting keeps taste honest.
  • Selective collaborations only when aligned. Contact →

Focus

  • GoYou! A community app for people who want to start before they are ready. Project page →
  • JamesHallWorks.com. Documenting work and thinking in one place. Project page →

Learning

  • AI workflow design. Using AI to help people build useful things, not just produce more content.
  • Enterprise marketing craft. Judgment, trust, and prioritization inside a high-stakes environment.
  • Digital transformation and search evolution. How GEO/AEO changes discovery, and what firms need to measure as AI reshapes how people find counsel.
  • Creative discipline. Photography and painting as thinking tools, not a separate lane from the rest of the work.
  • Tool fluency. Cursor, Claude, Cowork, HeyGen, and the rest: what belongs in the workflow versus noise.

Exploring

  • Marketing after AI. When everyone can generate content, taste and strategy become the moat.
  • Small-town innovation. What happens when people in South Georgia get the same tools bigger cities have had for years.
  • Building in public. More unfinished work, fewer polished postmortems.

Inspired by the /now page movement.

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