Katherine Starr provides legal strategy consulting and expert witness services grounded in her proprietary legal frameworks, including Negligent Digital Architecture™ (NDA²), Negligent Digital Access™, Negligent Dating™, and Digital Maritime Doctrine™. These frameworks clarify how harm arises not just through individual conduct, but through design-enabled negligence, infrastructural gaps, and systemic failure. Katherine supports legal teams, investigators, and policymakers in translating institutional harm into actionable legal logic, whether in litigation, policy, or strategic reform.
Katherine Starr provides expert witness services in cases involving sexual abuse, institutional negligence, and failure to protect. Her unique perspective as both a survivor and nationally recognized expert enables her to evaluate systemic misconduct within schools, sports organizations, religious institutions, and youth-serving programs. Katherine’s testimony has helped establish liability by connecting policy failures, improper hiring practices, and cultural conditions that enable abuse to persist.
Katherine Starr’s Negligent Dating™ framework redefines legal responsibility in the digital dating space. As a strategist, Katherine works with legal teams, survivor advocates, and policymakers to expose how harm arises from app features, platform cultures, and system designs that enable exploitation. Her strategic consulting includes case analysis, litigation support, and design audits — clarifying where platforms failed in their duty to protect.
The Negligent Digital Access™ framework identifies how users are exposed to foreseeable harm through access points that lack adequate safeguards. Katherine Starr serves as a strategist for legal teams and institutions, offering in-depth analysis of how abusers gain entry into systems, and where access control mechanisms failed. Her guidance is used in litigation, institutional reform, and prevention program development.
Katherine’s Negligent Digital Architecture™ framework addresses the root-level design choices that allow abuse, manipulation, or exploitation to occur. As a strategist, she partners with lawyers, tech accountability groups, and regulatory bodies to dissect how platform features, interface logic, and systemic design enabled foreseeable harm. This service is ideal for pre-litigation assessments, strategic filings, or policy design.
Katherine Starr is a powerful and sought-after keynote speaker, known for her ability to speak truth to systems that fail and to inspire action for change. Drawing from her journey as an Olympian, whistleblower, and legal theorist, Katherine delivers compelling talks that bridge lived experience, institutional insight, and actionable frameworks.
Whether addressing legal professionals, tech innovators, educators, or survivor communities, Katherine’s presentations challenge assumptions, reveal systemic blind spots, and offer a forward-looking vision for safety, justice, and accountability.
Katherine Starr’s legal frameworks are available for licensing and partnership in academic, institutional, and legal settings. Organizations interested in applying her frameworks
Negligent Digital Architecture™,
Negligent Digital Access™, and Negligent Dating™
Inquiries regarding non-exclusive or exclusive licensing of Katherine Starr’s proprietary legal frameworks for integration into training curricula, litigation strategy, or institutional compliance protocols are welcomed and may be submitted below.
If you are seeking a deeper strategic collaboration beyond standard service engagement — including exclusive rights, licensing opportunities, or mission-aligned investment partnerships — you are welcome to reach out directly. For time-sensitive matters or proposals that involve institutional-scale application of Katherine Starr’s proprietary frameworks, please email info@katherinestarr.com. These inquiries will be handled with priority and discretion, and are reserved for high-level discussions around impact, implementation, and long-term strategy. This pathway is ideal for organizations, firms, or individuals looking to align with thought leadership at the intersection of law, innovation, and systemic reform.
