Who we are

Jackson Hall Strategies is a small team led by its two founders, both former in-house lawyers who spent a decade each at technology companies working on questions with no playbook. Working alongside the founders are a legal fellow and academic advisors, who bring current scholarship on technology law and governance into the advice we give.

Principals

Alisa Hall

Alisa Hall

Founder

Alisa Hall advises technology companies on artificial intelligence governance, data privacy, consumer protection, and intellectual property law. She brings more than a decade of experience as legal counsel at leading technology companies, giving her a practitioner’s understanding of the regulatory, product, and engineering considerations that shape AI and privacy risk management.

Prior to founding Jackson Hall Strategies, Alisa led Meta’s Generative AI product legal team, advising on the development and launch of Meta AI and the LLaMA model family, including regulatory engagement, product counseling, and cross-functional legal support for AI research and deployment. Before her generative AI remit, Alisa led privacy counseling for a portfolio of Meta’s consumer platforms and business lines.

Before Meta, Alisa spent six years at eBay where her practice spanned both privacy and litigation. She built privacy compliance programs from the ground up for foundational regulations including CCPA and led a privacy advisory team as Director of Privacy & Privacy Compliance. As Senior Litigation Counsel, she managed high-profile intellectual property disputes, regulatory investigations, and consumer class actions, giving her an unusually broad view of how legal risk manifests across the enterprise.

Alisa began her legal career on Capitol Hill, where she drafted federal privacy legislation—a background that informs her approach to regulatory strategy and policy engagement. She received her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and is admitted to the bars of California and Massachusetts.

Olivia Jackson Malchow

Olivia Jackson Malchow

Founder

Olivia Malchow (formerly Jackson) works with emerging and established companies on technology and corporate governance, free speech, consumer protection, and privacy issues, drawing on two decades of international legal experience.

Prior to founding Jackson Hall Strategies, she served as the inaugural General Counsel for the Oversight Board, an independent governance body established by Meta that issues binding decisions on content moderation matters across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In that role, she developed frameworks for addressing freedom of expression and complex speech issues on digital platforms.

Earlier in her career, Olivia spent seven years at eBay in progressively senior legal roles, ultimately serving as Senior Director of Legal, where she managed attorney teams and acted as lead legal partner to major business units. She began her legal career at a global law firm in London and clerked at the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and at international courts.

Olivia holds an LL.M. in Corporate Governance & Practice from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in Law (with French Law) from Oxford University. She is admitted to practice in New York and England & Wales.

Legal Fellow

Hélène Li-Ann Bruderer

Legal Fellow

Hélène is the firm’s Legal Fellow, working across client matters and building tools with us.

Academic Advisors

The firm has a roster of academic advisors who bring academic rigor and current scholarship on technology law, governance, and intellectual property to our research projects, and help inform our overall thinking about the legal questions we advise on.

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