Trusted Legal & Strategic Advisor in Public Safety and Security
 

Dr. Pastor’s legal career has carved out a highly specialized niche at the intersection of public safety, security, and the law. SecureLaw LLC’s brand reflects this: The Art and Science of Security and the Law℠
 

Having worked with thousands of attorneys in his career, Dr. Pastor knows that every professional develops niched, even unique, skills derived from years of study and experience.
 

In this increasingly specialized and sophisticated world, this basic fact ought to resonate: No one can be an expert on all areas affecting an organization and its attendant exposures.
 

Bringing decades of experience and thousands of transactions, his rare combination of legal expertise, security acumen, and real-world, “streetwise” insight to complex challenges.
 

Do you or your organization grapple with the following issues?
 

• Protecting your business from liability related to crime and misconduct.

• Crafting contractual and operational provisions that can minimize liability exposures.

• Developing standards and protocols to meet your legal or contractual duties and minimizing your legal exposures stemming from violent acts, such as terrorism, extremism, and workplace violence.

• Addressing liability exposures raised when security personnel make an arrest or use force, including how and why these can be minimized.

• Reconciling workplace searches and privacy policies.

• As security incidents and crime may create legal exposure, considering these as part of your risk management assessments are crucial.
   

These, and others related to crime and security, are critical to effective risk management.
 

Value to Legal Teams

Dr. Pastor works collaboratively with counsel, or in some cases directly to corporate decision makers, to:
 

• Clarify applicable standards of care and professional norms

• Assess foreseeability and reasonableness under prevailing conditions

• Identify strengths, weaknesses, and defensibility of policies and actions

• Present guidance and advice that are reflective of judicial scrutiny and jury evaluation
   

Security and Risk Management are the key to these engagements and relationships. 
 

Clients value Dr. Pastor’s ability intuitive security “sense” derived from decades of public safety and security experience enabling and delivering practical, innovative guidance to today’s evolving security and risk environments– results that are concrete, actionable and effective.