Flightline Law
Flightline Law provides attorney-client privileged legal counsel to founders and CEOs navigating complex organizational and leadership decisions.
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About Flightline Law
Flightline Law is a boutique law firm focused on representing founders and CEOs in moments that matter most. The firm provides legal counsel on employment agreements, governance, stock and stock-based compensation, transactions, risk mitigation, and critical business decisions. Flightline Law is intentionally designed for executives who operate at the intersection of leadership, ownership, and responsibility.
Unlike traditional firms organized around narrow practice silos, Flightline Law brings a broad-based, founder-centric perspective informed by real-world operating, management, and transactional experience.
Flightline Law is structured to support candid, one-on-one consultations between counsel and client. By representing founders and CEOs individually, rather than boards, corporations, or investors, the firm enables direct, confidential conversations protected by the attorney-client privilege. This approach allows clients to address sensitive issues with candor and confidence, evaluate risk, and make decisions with clarity, discretion, and trusted legal guidance.
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Bryan P. Lord is the founder of Flightline Law and provides legal counsel to founders and CEOs on governance, employment agreements, stock and stock-based compensation, transactions, risk mitigation, and critical business decisions.
Bryan brings a rare combination of legal training, executive leadership, and transactional experience. Over the course of his career, he has served as a corporate attorney, general counsel, founder, and chief executive officer of emerging growth companies, including a ten-year tenure as founder and CEO of a leading medical technology company, where he led the business from concept through FDA clearance, full-scale production, and nationwide commercialization.
Building on this experience, Bryan advises entrepreneurs and executives across healthcare, technology, and innovation-driven industries. His legal practice is informed by firsthand experience navigating executive compensation, investor negotiations, corporate governance, regulatory risk, and complex transactions at the founder and CEO level.
A committed advocate for U.S. innovation and technology policy, Bryan has testified before the United States Congress and the U.S. International Trade Commission and has co-authored multiple amicus briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court on matters involving intellectual property and technology policy. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New Hampshire, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and before the United States Supreme Court.
Bryan holds a Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School, where he served as Propter Honoris Respectum editor of the Notre Dame Law Review, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a Certificate in Disruptive Innovation Strategy from Harvard Business School, an online certificate course taught by Clayton Christensen. He earned a B.A. in business administration and political science from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Bryan represents founders and CEOs nationwide on matters governed by applicable law, working with local counsel as appropriate when jurisdictional requirements apply.