Cameron Smith

Cameron Smith, PMP
Legal Operations Practitioner
Ewa Beach, Hawaii

I help legal teams govern AI before it governs them.

Most legal organizations are using AI tools right now without a policy, without a review protocol, and without a documented accountability structure. That gap is not an IT problem. It is a professional responsibility problem, and it lands on the attorneys and legal operations leaders who signed off on the tools.

My work is building the governance infrastructure that closes that gap: assessments, frameworks, and systems grounded in how legal teams actually operate, not how vendors describe them.

Seven years inside high-stakes legal operations.

My career started inside one of the most operationally demanding legal environments that exists: the U.S. Army JAG Corps. As a paralegal and legal operations practitioner, I managed court-martial case operations, built analytics infrastructure from scratch, and designed triage systems where missed deadlines carry statutory consequences. Not just professional ones.

That included managing a no-body homicide investigation involving 23 TB of digital evidence, designing Power BI and SharePoint dashboards tracking 100 to 200 active federal crime cases, and training 60 to 150 legal professionals on workflows, compliance tools, and digital evidence systems across multiple offices.

That experience shaped a specific standard: legal operations is not a support function. It is a command-and-control system that either works or doesn't. I have carried that standard into AI governance work, where the stakes are the same and the frameworks are still being built.

The Aegis Protocol.

The Aegis Protocol is a proprietary nine-domain AI governance assessment framework I developed for legal organizations. It runs across Organizational Readiness, AI Inventory, Policy and Documentation, Attorney Oversight, Data Governance, Vendor Management, Risk Management, Training and Awareness, and Regulatory Compliance. Every engagement produces documented findings, evidence-backed recommendations, and a governance report the organization can defend to a board, a regulator, or a court.

The platform includes modules for EU AI Act compliance diagnostics, state AI law mapping, agentic AI governance, and adversarial stress testing of deployed AI systems. It is not a vendor product. It is a consulting infrastructure built to the standard the work demands.

See the Framework

Certified. Field-tested. Still building.

Governance and Project Management

PMP Certified AIGP — AI Governance Professional, IAPP (In Progress) CPMAI — Certified Professional in Management of AI, Cognilytica (In Progress) ISO 42001 Lead Implementer (In Progress) PMI-ACP — PMI (In Progress)

Legal Operations and Technology

Army JAG Operations Legal Technology Power BI Power Automate SharePoint Process Mapping Lean Six Sigma CLOC Core 12 eDiscovery Trial Paralegal (JAG) CORE Registered Paralegal
8+ Years in Legal Operations
200+ Cases Tracked via Dashboard
150+ Personnel Trained
35% Processing Time Reduction

Four principles. Every engagement.

01

Systems over workarounds

Every inefficiency is a design problem. I build solutions that address the root, not the symptom, so the fix holds when I'm not in the room.

02

Precision under pressure

Legal environments don't forgive imprecision. My work is built to the standard the stakes demand: documented, measurable, and defensible.

03

Technology in service of people

A dashboard nobody reads is just noise. I build tools people actually use, because adoption is part of the design.

04

Continuous improvement as a practice

Lean Six Sigma isn't a certification to me. It's a lens. I look for waste, measure what matters, and iterate until the system is better than I found it.

See the work. Start a conversation.

Explore the portfolio to see what I've built, or reach out directly to discuss what your organization needs.