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David M. Fogg is the founder and principal attorney of Cornerstone Tech and Estate Advisors, PLLC, a forward-thinking law firm licensed in Idaho, Washington, and Arizona. He brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise, executive leadership, and legal acumen developed across four decades in aerospace engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, international business, and law. His practice focuses on business law, estate planning, real estate, and technology matters, with a particular emphasis on how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping legal services and industry.

David holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Technology from Brigham Young University, where he later returned to complete a Master’s in Manufacturing Engineering and Technology with specializations in robotics, automation, and advanced materials. He began his career as a technical designer at General Dynamics, contributing to the F-16 aircraft program with a focus on surface design and pioneering 3D modeling-based manufacturing design automation — a first-of-its-kind systems approach in aerospace fabrication. He subsequently joined Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he automated design and manufacturing fabrication processes and served as a member of the NIST Systems and Network Architecture working group. In that capacity, he contributed to the IETF’s development of TCP/IP protocols and open systems interconnection models that would become foundational to global communications infrastructure.

David spent a significant portion of his technical career at IBM, holding a series of progressively senior engineering and management roles at the company’s Vermont semiconductor fabrication facility, with responsibilities spanning process fabrication, equipment controls, communication systems, and Bond, Assembly, and Test (BAT) operations.

From 1991 to 1994, David served as IBM’s Hot Process Best of Breed (BOB) Equipment Manager, leading the structured evaluation and selection of top-performing commercial tools for the most process-critical thermal operations in the fab — including diffusion furnaces, oxidation systems, LPCVD reactors, and epitaxial growth equipment operating at temperatures often exceeding 1,000°C. The BOB methodology involved systematic head-to-head benchmarking of competing vendors across temperature uniformity, thin-film deposition consistency, particle contamination control, and long-term reliability, as well as assessment of vendor quality systems, field service capability, and technology roadmap alignment. Equipment earning BOB designation became the standard procurement choice across IBM’s fabrication operations for that process category.

From 1992 to 1995, David was assigned to the SEMATECH consortium in Austin, Texas, as part of IBM’s participation in the Standardized Supplier Quality Assessment (SSQA) program. SEMATECH was a landmark government-industry partnership — co-funded by DARPA and 14 U.S. semiconductor manufacturers representing approximately 85% of domestic chip production — formed to restore American competitiveness in the global semiconductor market. As a member of the SSQA team, David contributed to developing and deploying the standardized assessment framework that replaced a costly, redundant system of independent audits with cooperative, joint supplier evaluations using common scoring criteria and shared documentation. The SSQA model became a lasting industry template for supply-chain quality management and directly supported the strengthening of the U.S. semiconductor equipment supply base.

David’s career at IBM culminated in his appointment as Director of Engineering and Manufacturing for the Semiconductor BAT facility in Singapore, where he led complex technological and operational initiatives at one of IBM’s most strategically significant international manufacturing sites.

Following his tenure at IBM, David served as Chief Executive Officer of Nano Silicon Technologies, Ltd., a Singapore-based, fabless design technology venture, from 2000 to 2003.

David earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Idaho in 2007, launching a second career at the intersection of law and technology. He currently chairs the newly formed Technology and Management Bar Section of the Idaho State Bar, with a significant focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large language models. He has also been appointed to a three-year term on the Technology Working Group of the Arizona State Bar.

“Effective solutions emerge from understanding both technical details and human needs.”

At Cornerstone Tech and Estate Advisors, David has made it a priority to reimagine legal services through a product-based model — one that is transparent, efficient, and tailored to each client’s needs. His practice increasingly focuses on how emerging technologies, particularly AI, can transform legal service delivery, moving the profession beyond traditional frameworks toward a more dynamic, client-centric approach reflective of the innovation he has championed throughout his engineering career.

Outside of his professional work, David is an avid runner and cyclist, logging hundreds of miles annually. A certified divemaster with more than 500 logged dives since 2000, he has explored underwater environments from Cozumel to the waters of Southeast Asia. His travels across multiple continents have reinforced a lifelong commitment to continuous learning and an expansive view of the world’s possibilities.