Find Lawyers in America for Information Technology Law

Frank focuses on patent procurement and patent portfolio strategizing in electrical, software, electro-mechanical engineering and medical device related technologies. In addition, Frank provides services in licensing, diligence exercises, and validity and infringement studies and opinions, as well as related litigation counseling. Frank counsels a range of businesses from established public companies through early and late stage startup businesses.In addition to his years as a patent attorney...

Ian Ballon is an intellectual property and Internet litigator who represents clients in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, security, software, database and Internet disputes and in the defense of data privacy, behavioral advertising and other Internet-related class action suits. Mr. Ballon, who splits his time between the firm's Silicon Valley and LA offices, is the author of the four-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2...

Rand is the founder of Bateman IP Law Group and specializes in the protection of all forms of Intellectual Property. His experience includes complex litigation, and prosecution of patent, trademark and copyright matters. Rand has represented clients from across the United States and several foreign countries. He has obtained more than 300 patents, and has overseen registration of nearly 300 trademarks. Rand has also litigated numerous patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters ran...

Following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1986 and Harvard University in 1983, Fredric Bellamy began practicing law, accruing 25 years of experience in civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution, focusing on complex "bet-the-company" high-stakes cases relating to many of the most difficult issues facing businesses in the West. His experience includes litigation on behalf of major financial institutions and banks, including lender liability, financial, securities fraud and r...

Tom Bell is a partner at Perkins Coie where he represents leading businesses in Internet, e-commerce, IT, software and wireless law matters. His practice includes both commercial agreements and regulatory compliance counseling. Technology Transactions: Enterprise IT. Tom represents a number of FORTUNE 500 companies in large software and service procurement transactions, including Request for Proposals (RFPs) and enterprise computing contracts. While Tom has worked on a number of commercial of...

With more than 25 years of Intellectual Property experience, Joel actively tries cases in both state and federal courts. A founding member and former co-chair of the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Service Group, he manages all aspects of infringement litigation for both federal and state courts, including trial and appellate practice. He has also prepared and prosecuted trademark and copyright applications, prosecuted and defended trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings...

Heather S. Bethancourt represents clients in business process and information technology outsourcing transactions. She has extensive experience representing healthcare systems, carriers and vendors negotiating revenue cycle management outsourcing agreements and other complex outsourcing and commercial transactions. In addition, she represents clients in strategic supply agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology licensing, technology maintenance and service agreements, ...

Michael B. Bressman is Of Counsel with the firm. Additionally, he serves as Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he has taught a variety of courses such as Contracts, the Law of Cyberspace, and Art Law. Michael directs the law school’s clerkship program, which supports students and graduates applying for post-graduation judicial clerkships. With a career spanning more than 25 years in premier law firms, as in-house corporate counsel, and as a professor at one...

Steve Charkoudian is a partner in Goodwin’s Strategic Technology Transactions and Licensing practice, a practice that he co-founded and led for 15 years. Mr. Charkoudian is a member of the firm’s Technology Companies group. He concentrates on technology, data and intellectual property transactions, including technology and data transfers and licensing; collaboration, strategic alliance and joint development agreements; open source issues; and due diligence and other intellectual p...

Mr. Chu is a partner of Irell & Manella LLP. He was named The Outstanding Intellectual Property Lawyer in the United States in the first Chambers Award for Excellence, 2006. Chambers has described Mr. Chu as “beyond doubt the most gifted trial lawyer in the USA,” who “delivers staggering results for clients.” Mr. Chu was Co-Managing Partner of the firm for two terms from 1997 to 2003 and has been a member of its Executive Committee since 1985. He is presently Chair...

Mr. Coles is an influential leader in advising businesses on all types of technology and intellectual property legal issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, intellectual property transactions, and intellectual property litigation. He has vast experience drafting and negotiating agreements with intellectual property issues and resolving disputes involving technology and intellectual property matters. He helps clients assess their intellectual property assets through consu...

John Delaney is a partner in Perkins Coie's Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. He advises clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies on licensing, intellectual property and technology-related matters. John’s experience includes negotiating complex IT and business process outsourcing contracts and service level agreements, joint ventures, software and content development agreements and licenses and similar transactions. John routinely advises clients on matters r...

Steve has been effectively negotiating, structuring and closing tech transactions from the very infancy of the industry. Steve’s clients include both established and emerging companies and recognizable brands seeking to create and leverage new technological platforms and business models. He has negotiated and closed a broad range of technology transactions, ranging from software, technology and IP licensing, cloud computing, SaaS and digital media and distribution to joint ventures and ...

Jason Epstein is a business attorney and a partner in the Nashville and New York office. Mr. Epstein is the co-head of the Technology and Procurement Industry Group for the Firm. Mr. Epstein and the technology team provide legal services to buyers and sellers of technology both domestically and internationally in various industries, from Fintech and HealthIT to auto and manufacturing. Mr. Epstein has experience in business and technology negotiations from both the vendor and buyer perspective...

Served as Special Counsel to Chapter 7 trustee in liquidation of Just for Feet, Inc. (the second largest national shoe and sporting apparel retailer) and successfully litigated against its former officers, directors, and independent accounting and auditing firm Represented mobile office and storage leasing company in patent infringement matter Successfully represented employers in enforcing non-competition agreements with former employees Successfully represented client in enjoining terminati...

BACKGROUND Bill Ferron has counseled leading Northwest clients on patent, trademark and copyright matters for more than thirty years, with an emphasis on strategic protection, licensing, dispute resolution, litigation, and mediation. He graduated cum laude from the University of Dayton School of Engineering (1978) and received a J.D. from the University of Washington (1981). EXPERIENCE Bill has lectured on patent, trademark and copyright law at the University of Washington (1984-1995), has pu...

Ury Fischer is a founding partner at Lott & Fischer, PL. Mr. Fischer dedicates his practice to patent and trademark procurement and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Fischer's patent procurement practice concentrates in the areas of mechanical and electrical arts, software and business methods. Mr. Fischer has represented a diverse group of U.S. and foreign-based clients in patent, trademark, copyright and computer law litigation matters. Prior to commencing his legal career in 1996, ...

Mark Foley is a Shareholder with more than 40 years experience meeting the complex business and legal needs of clients ranging from individual business owners to industry trade associations and Global 500 companies. Mark has successfully tried cases before judges and juries in federal and state courts, represented debtors and creditors in bankruptcy courts throughout the United States, and arbitrated matters before AAA and NASD panels. He has directed and conducted the nationwide defense of r...

Chris Ford is the chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group. His practice focuses on advising customers on the full life cycle of their complex information technology and business process outsourcing transactions. Mr. Ford also advises clients on joint ventures and telecommunications and licensing transactions, as well as enterprise resource planning and other systems integration. Mr. Ford works closely with some of the leading global outsourcing consultancies and has a d...

Greg Gemignani's practice focuses primarily on intellectual property law, gaming law, technology law, internet law, online gaming law, and online promotions law. He has represented many clients ranging from the largest casino companies to start-up internet ventures.

Francoise Gilbert is the Founder and Managing Director of the IT Law Group (www.itlawgroup.com), a niche law firm that provides strategic legal counseling and services on information privacy and security, cloud computing, and data governance to a wide range of global or publicly held companies and selected start-ups. An internationally recognized thought leader and expert in privacy and data protection law, Francoise has been named Best Lawyers’ 2014 San Francisco “Lawyer of the Y...

David Guedry is a partner in the Dallas office. He is nationally recognized for more than 25 years of leadership in advising global service providers and Fortune 1000 companies on complex outsourcing relationships, including assisting with developing legal, operational, and business strategies, and translating strategy into the practical negotiation and documentation of deals. David has significant experience managing the complexities of IT and telecommunication outsourcing agreements; busine...

Vivian Hanson is Co-Head of the U.S. Sourcing Group. Her practice is focused primarily on complex, large-scale outsourcing transactions, as well as domestic and cross-border transactions involving the transfer of intellectual property rights in a variety of industries, including information services, information technologies, financial services, life sciences, new media, and entertainment. She also advises Japanese clients and is fluent in Japanese. She has extensive experience in outsourcing...

Brett Harris is a shareholder on the Corporate team at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. Her corporate practice includes transactional matters and counseling, including stock and asset acquisitions, document drafting and negotiation and regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Harris has a particular focus on counseling non-profit organizations including entity formation, establishing and maintaining tax exempt status and complying with fundraising regulations. She has also developed a corporate...

Jim is a partner in the Technology and Privacy Group and co-chairs the firm’s Privacy & Security task force and the firm’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team . Jim’s practice involves board-level and enterprise-wide issues at the intersection of global cybersecurity, privacy, technology and data initiatives. Given his decades-long experience in the technology space, Jim was one of the first lawyers in the United States to focus on the criticality of privacy a...

Shawn C. Helms is co-head of the Firm’s Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice. Shawn has broad experience in the areas of information technology, digital health, AI, telecommunications and outsourcing. He focuses his practice on complex transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO), licensing, cloud computing arrangements (infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as ...

Jerry is a founding member of Matheson Keys & Kordzik PLLC. Previously, Jerry had more than thirty years of legal experience with large law firms and as company general counsel. He has broad experience in representing technology, industrial and other intellectual property-based enterprises ranging from Fortune 500 companies, multinationals and universities to startups in both domestic and international matters. Jerry’s legal practice focuses on technology business, intellectual prop...

Peter Kinsella is a partner in the firm's Technology Transactions & Privacy and Intellectual Property practices. His practice is focused on advising start-up, emerging and large companies on intellectual property, technology, licensing and transaction matters. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Pete was a partner with Faegre & Benson LLP. Prior to that, he worked in various legal capacities with Qwest Communications International Inc. (formerly US WEST Inc.) in Denver, CO and Honeywel...

Building on work experience in the computer industry, Gregg Kirchhoefer's practice is focused on transactional and counseling matters primarily involving information technology, telecommunications, eCommerce, artificial intelligence, robotics, life sciences, pharma, biotechnology, other technologies, and intellectual property, corporate and commercial issues. Gregg founded the Firm’s intellectual property/technology transactions and outsourcing practice groups. In addition, Gregg works ...

Jason Krieser advises clients on all aspects of technology transactions, outsourcing matters, telecommunications and other complex commercial contracts. He is an internationally recognized advisor on business process and information technology outsourcing matters, including offshore outsourcing. He also handles technology development and licensing matters, joint ventures, key supply and distribution agreements, manufacturing arrangements, strategic alliances, ecommerce matters and other techn...

MARGARET AVRIL LAWSONjoined the firm in 1982 and is chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice. Ms. Lawson graduated from Dartmouth College, summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa, and Harvard Law School. Her intellectual property practice includes trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy and data security, and right of publicity. Ms. Lawson has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating license agreements, technology transfer agreements and other contracts in areas that include bi...

Stuart D. Levi is co-head of Skadden’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group, and coordinates the firm’s outsourcing and privacy practices. He has a broad and diverse practice that includes outsourcing transactions, technology and intellectual property licensing, privacy and cyber security advice, branding and distribution agreements, cloud computing agreements, technology transfers, strategic alliances and joint ventures. Mr. Levi also counsels clients on a variety of issues...

Samuel focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and transactional matters involving computer, technology, and Internet-related issues. He has represented a wide variety of clients including motion picture companies, photographers, internet and computer-related companies, health care providers, and various other corporations seeking to secure rights, protect their intellectual property and defend their rights on the internet. He has also served as outside general counsel to a v...

J. Thomas McCarthy is a nationally renowned authority on trademarks and unfair competition and on the rights of publicity. He is a Senior Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and founding director of the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property & Technology Law. Mr. McCarthy is the author of the well-known seven-volume treatise, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition (published by Thomson-Reuters-West), which has been relied upon as authority in over 3,500 judici...

Todd is a member of Alston & Bird's Security Incident Management and Response Team, advising clients in connection with incident response and other information security-related issues. Todd has particular experience with PCI/payment system compliance, HIPAA-related incidents, critical infrastructure security, global privacy compliance, risk assessments, and IP theft. Todd also represents clients in connection with outsourcing transactions, IP licensing and audits, and cloud transactions. ...

Diana McKenzie is a partner and chair of HunterMaclean’s information technology and outsourcing practice group . She is internationally recognized for her work in information technology and outsourcing matters and is best known for her ability to provide practical, efficient, and strategic legal counsel. For over twenty-five years, Diana has practiced exclusively in information technology and outsourcing law. This experience makes her uniquely qualified to offer unparalleled perspective...

Dan McMullen is a Partner with Calfee's Intellectual Property practice group and leads the firm’s Information Technology practice. He provides skilled counsel to address clients’ legal needs regarding computer software and content development, licensing, cloud computing and SaaS subscriptions, hosting and service level agreements, outsourcing, data rights, privacy, cybersecurity, blockchain and other online/Internet, website and e-commerce matters. Dan also handles intellectual pr...

Julian S. Millstein, an attorney with over 45 years combined experience in business, technology and law, began his career as a computer programmer, systems analyst and IT consultant. His extensive legal career includes both litigation and transactional practice. As a litigator, he has represented international accounting and consulting firms, software and IT developers, and large- and small-scale users of IT and e-commerce services. Always on the forefront of developments, he represented a pa...

A veteran trial attorney with comprehensive experience in intellectual property and other complex business litigation. I've litigated dozens of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, licensing, false advertising, unfair competition, and other technology disputes in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels. I also have particular experience in software development and licensing, counseling software developers on licensing and strategies for embracing, and managing the risks ...

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Mr. Oliver concentrates his practice in transactional technology law - with an emphasis on technology deals (including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures) and in transactional intellectual property matters, including acquisition, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in computer software and internet technology. Mr. Oliver has extensive experience negotiating licensing of computer software, and licensing and ownership resolution of digital information on the interne...