Dean helps clients acquire and develop intellectual property, technology, software, and other technology-related services. Dean has counseled Fortune 100 clients, mid-tier clients, and start-ups on AI, product compliance, privacy and security, and governance. Dean’s more than a decade of software industry experience began with AI work and expert systems creation for EDS Research and Development. He later developed communications device drivers and operating systems for IBM. Dean has been recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA for 22 years.
Publications
Co-author of the Editors’ Introduction and United States chapters in the Artificial Intelligence Law Guide , published 29 September 2026 , alongside John Buyers .