Counsel at the frontier of technology, digital assets, AI, and free speech.

Byrne & Storm, P.C. represents clients on the frontier of technological development, including in social media, crypto, and AI.

We help our clients with a wide range of matters as outside general counsel, including building compliance systems, product design, data privacy, litigation strategy, law enforcement requests and stored communications, board reporting, and corporate governance for FinTech operators and emerging-technology companies.

Active in the blockchain and distributed cryptosystems space since 2013.

Defending the constitutional rights of American software developers, Internet companies, and their users from government censorship and vexatious litigation.

Byrne & Storm represents Americans against attempts to censor or chill constitutionally protected speech online by public bodies, both in the United States and acting under the authority of foreign governments and international organizations. The firm has handled enforcement and content regulation matters involving regulators from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, the European Union, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Brazil.

Foreign regulators currently have a 0% success rate at compelling the firm’s American clients to obey foreign censorship edicts, including compelled speech, design codes, age verification mandates, and takedowns of constitutionally protected expression. The firm’s clients are the only American companies publicly known to have refused those demands through the lawful exercise of their constitutional rights.

This work is conducted, where required, on a pro bono publico basis.

International commercial litigation and arbitration, with experience managing cross-border disputes in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute in London, where work focuses on model legislation, policy papers, and longform analysis on technology regulation and freedom of expression.

Author of the GRANITE Act, a foreign censorship shield law concept that has informed legislative drafting at both the state and federal level. The Wyoming GRANITE Act passed the Wyoming House of Representatives 46-12 in February 2026 before running out of legislative time; it is being reintroduced as a committee bill in the 2027 general session. Versions of the GRANITE Act are under consideration by lawmakers in at least three other U.S. states.

Early drafts of the Wyoming GRANITE Act and supporting documentary evidence of foreign censorship attempts against American persons were provided to United States federal legislators and executive branch officials for their consideration throughout 2025 and 2026.

Lead author of the Adam Smith Institute’s Freedom of Speech Bill 2026 law reform proposal to create a First Amendment-style right in the United Kingdom.