Flightline Law PLLC

Flightline Law PLLC is a boutique law firm providing ceocounsel engagements that represent founders and CEOs individually, not their boards, corporations, or investors.

Core engagements include:

• Management equity & compensation: Employment agreements, capital structure design, and stock-based compensation strategy
• Board dynamics & communication: Fiduciary duties, communication optimization, and board coaching to help CEOs and founders improve board reporting and stakeholder alignment
• Risk mitigation & operational decisions: Strategic guidance on critical choices that shape company trajectory

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.

Our ceocounsel model enables candid, one-on-one consultations protected by attorney-client privilege. This structure allows clients to address sensitive issues with complete candor, evaluate risk clearly, and balance the many, and at times competing, demands of leadership with trusted legal guidance and discretion.

Bryan P. Lord is legal counsel and the founder and managing member of Flightline Law PLLC.  

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 at a top-tier Boston law firm, general counsel of a MIT-originated semiconductor start-up, and 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.  He also founded an angel investment fund focused on the orthopedic sector and an influential industry trade group dedicated to advancing the innovation economy. 

Building on this experience, Bryan advises entrepreneurs and executives across healthcare, high-tech, software, and other 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 Professor Clayton Christensen. He earned undergraduate degrees in business administration and political science from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Bryan represents clients nationwide on matters governed by applicable law, working with local counsel as appropriate when jurisdictional requirements apply.