Arlo Devlin-Brown
Co-Founder, Treanor Devlin Brown PLLC
Integrating AI Into Our Litigation Boutique
About
Arlo Devlin-Brown is a co-founder of Treanor Devlin Brown, a New York litigation boutique focused on white collar criminal defense, high stakes civil litigation, and blockchain-related fraud cases. Before launching the firm in 2025, he spent eleven years as a prosecutor and supervisor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and nine as a litigation partner at Covington & Burling. Arlo led the prosecution of what remains the largest insider trading scheme ever charged, brought anti-money-laundering charges against the largest U.S. bank (recovering $1.7 billion for Madoff victims), and at Covington represented more than fifteen FTX and Alameda employees and defended a law firm partner in a cryptocurrency money laundering trial. Arlo runs Treanor Devlin Brown as an AI-native firm and builds the tools himself. A fleet of custom agents support all aspects of firm operations and are deeply integrated into client matters. He is currently building a blockchain tracing and analytic tool to support the firm's cryptocurrency fraud recovery practice and a toolkit to assist federal criminal defense lawyers throughout the life cycle of a typical defense case. He also writes practical guides for lawyers on using AI, and speaks regularly on the subject on podcasts and at legal conferences.
2 Projects
TDB Trace
A blockchain tracing tool initially being developed for internal use to support crypto fraud recovery.
Fed Crim
A toolkit for federal criminal defense lawyers with both deterministic and agentic components. Lives in case file and streamlines tasks from arraignment/bail through discovery, motion practice, pleas, trials, sentencing and appeals. Currently in development.
Media Appearances
Philosophy
"You can't outsource understanding."
Modern practice runs on legal AI, and using it well is a two-subject discipline.