With a strong background as vice president and counsel at two leading retail and consumer companies, Clay brings a unique blend of industry insight and legal insight to his practice. Clay is regularly called upon to evaluate, manage, and fix complex, high-risk situations. He strategically navigates business problems by assessing obstacles, determining best outcomes, and presenting his clients with creative solutions and alternative approaches tailored to their risk tolerance.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Clay served as senior corporate counsel at Amazon leading the Regulatory Intelligence Safety & Compliance Legal Team in supporting product safety and compliance efforts in North America. In this role, Clay acted as Amazon's principal point of contact for the CPSC and was responsible for developing comprehensive worldwide product safety and compliance strategies with a focus on Amazon's CPSC relationship and related business, policy, and legal objectives. Prior to Amazon, Clay served as vice president and senior counsel for product and vendor compliance at Restoration Hardware, where he similarly led the team responsible for company-wide product testing and vendor validation, product incident investigations and failure analyses, evaluation of reporting obligations, and coordination of public recall efforts. Prior to working in-house, Clay worked as an associate and counsel for more than 10 years at two different AmLaw 50 litigation firms.