Julio Macedo

Senior legal operator | AI-native programs at scale.

Senior Attorney based in New York, trained in intellectual property and information technology law. Runs programs for companies across financial services, technology, and professional services. Operates as cross-functional embedded counsel. Programs designed and managed to scale business needs, with decisions documented at the standard a federal audit would expect.

EB-1A Extraordinary Ability in Law Fordham LLM, IP and IT Law GMS-T Certified New York Bar Brazilian Bar
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Builder

Designs and runs regulated legal programs end-to-end, with immigration as the primary production environment. Workflow, compliance, governance, and the cross-functional structure that holds them together.

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Legal AI practitioner

Builds AI tooling end to end. Custom research pipelines, agentic systems, reporting automation, and the data infrastructure behind them. Practitioner-built, in production, on real client work. Published thinking on legal reasoning as an emerging asset class.

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Data-driven

Decisions backed by primary data. Pathway forecasting, risk modeling, and quantitative reporting drawn from competitive structure intelligence.

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Multinational practice

Cross-border casework that moves faster because the attorney already knows the systems on both sides.


Operating Mode

Operates inside the client's decision-making, not adjacent to it. Present when the hire is proposed, when the strategy is set, when the regulatory question is raised. Decisions get made with full portfolio visibility and legal authority, not after the fact through a billable engagement. The function shifts from reactive filings to proactive judgment.

Builds end-to-end legal programs designed to absorb growth, regulatory shifts, and team transitions without breaking. Workflow architecture, compliance infrastructure, governance protocols, and the cross-functional structure that holds them together. Hires, develops, and manages the team that runs them.

Builds AI-assisted legal workflows for research, classification, reporting, quality control, and audit-ready decision records. Custom research pipelines, agentic systems, reporting automation, and the data infrastructure behind them. Practitioner-built, in production, on real client work. Privilege-safe by design.

Translates dense regulatory and legal complexity into decisions that C-suite executives, General Counsels, HR leaders, recruiters, engineers, and candidates can act on. The communication layer is part of the legal work, not a separate skill. Strategy lands when the people who need to act on it understand it.

Practice

Designs and modernizes mobility programs. Workflow architecture, compliance infrastructure, policy governance, and cross-functional protocols. Programs built to scale with the business, not against it. End-to-end ownership across the full case lifecycle, with embedded protocols that survive volume increases, regulatory shifts, and team transitions.

Owns compliance posture, audit responsive frameworks, and agency pushback training. Risk identified before it surfaces, documentation maintained at audit-grade, and the programmatic safeguards required to operate at scale across multiple jurisdictions.

Underwrites pathway decisions with quantitative analysis. Cap exposure modeling, non-cap pathway eligibility mapping, alternative routes assessed and risk forecasting at international scale. Each pathway decision tied to the company's specific footprint, growth trajectory, and the workforce planning conversations happening on frontier market level.

Strategic Counsel to C-suite, General Counsel, and HR leadership, advising on immigration as a hiring constraint, not a downstream filing process. Embedded counsel translates immigration requirements into decisions the business can act on, strategies to be adopted, and solutions before the problems.