Evan Carter

Tech Moves Fast. Law Moves Slow.

Evan Carter practices at the intersection of emerging technology and civil litigation, taking on cases where the law hasn’t written a clear answer or provided a remedy yet.

Landmark Cases

The cases that define what’s possible – and what isn’t. Yet.

Petrella v. Vesperin Studios

A Star is Coded

AI Likeness theft

Digital Actor Rights

Los Angeles Superior Court

When Vesperin Studios created an AI actor from Aria Petrella’s stolen likeness, they didn’t think anyone would come after them. Evan Carter did.

In Re Callahan Family Trust

The Passphrase

Cryptocurrency Estate

Digital Asset Succession

Probate Division

David Callahan died unexpectedly, leaving behind $13 million in Ethereum, and a family that didn’t know it – or his daughter – existed.

The Short Docket

Short Cases. Real Wrongs. Free to Read.

ELEVEN MINUTES

An Evan Carter Short Story

A 61-year-old widow nearly lost her home when an AI deepfake was used to fool a Remote Online Notary service and a bank into approving a fraudulent Home Equity Line of Credit. Evan found the thread and pulled it.

FAIR MARKET

An Evan Carter Short Story

A coder built an AI bot to make multiple lowball offers on homes owned by elderly sellers. Every offer was legal. Every contract was valid. Nobody did anything technically illegal. Evan saw the wrong, but would existing law be sufficient?

About Evan

Evan Carter takes cases where technology, especially Artificial Intelligence, moves faster than the law can keep up with. Clients come to him when the harm seems obvious but the remedy isn’t.

Courts can’t just make up law. They’re bound to apply law from statutes and cases, many of which were enacted before the internet was invented. AI isn’t waiting. It’s moving faster than any legislature or court.

Sometimes the law just doesn’t have an answer to someone’s problem yet, which is never what a client wants to hear.

From the Author

Evan Carter exists to make people think about how technology can affect so many areas of their lives. My novels highlight the fact that technology, especially Artificial Intelligence, can be both beneficial and harmful in ways that many people haven’t considered, and that sometimes justice isn’t available for those harms.

I’m Lance Brusher and I write the cases Evan handles. Some of them are closer to tomorrow’s headlines than I’d like.

Evan Carter is a fictional character, not a real human being, much less a licensed attorney. This website is part of the promotional universe for the novels The Passphrase and A Star Is Coded, among others that will be added later.

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