About Christie
Christie Dudley combined an early career in engineering with formal legal training. She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas before attending Santa Clara University School of Law, where she completed a J.D. in 2014 and studied high-tech law. During law school she worked as a privacy research assistant, a role that linked her technical background to emerging policy and privacy questions.
Her professional path began in the technology trenches. In the late 1990s and 2000s she held roles in telecommunications and networking, including positions as a WAN administrator, senior telecommunications engineer and senior networking engineer. She later worked as a UNIX system administrator and in other infrastructure roles. Those years in operations and systems administration preceded her transition into legal work and shaped how she approaches technical legal issues.
By the early 2010s Dudley moved toward the intersection of law and technology. She founded Fork the Law in 2013, an initiative that reflected her interest in the legal implications of technology. While at Santa Clara she served as a privacy research assistant in 2012, and after earning her law degree she supported solo practitioners as a legal technology assistant. She has since worked as a patent specialist and a law clerk at Computerlaw Group LLP. In 2022 she took on remote freelance work through LAWCLERK, and in 2023 she opened a practice under her own name.
Her legal qualifications include admission to practice in both California and New York. She also holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional credential for the United States (CIPP/US) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Those credentials sit alongside memberships in the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Queen’s Bench Bar Association, both of which she joined in 2023.
Dudley’s experience blends technical fluency and legal training. She has moved between hands-on IT roles and legal positions involving patent matters, privacy research, and legal technology. That mix has informed how she reviews disclosures, assesses technical evidence, and advises clients on compliance and intellectual property concerns.
She maintains a solo practice under the name Christie Dudley, Lawyer at Law. Her current practice concentrates on privacy, intellectual property and legal technology matters.
