Ian Wade is a longtime civil litigator turned law enforcement insider who now serves as Vice President and General Counsel of the Crimes Against Children Foundation. For nearly two decades before that, he represented public agencies and corporations in workplace safety, labor, and civil rights disputes—advocating from the management side in cases involving employees and workers’ rights. Wade has long worked closely with police and sheriff departments and currently serves as both a sheriff’s deputy and a reserve police officer. A regular donor to Republican candidates, he represents the intersection of management-side law, pro-police politics, and conservative influence in Los Angeles.