Recent work has included the following work for clients. Please click a bullet below to read a fuller description.

• Contracts
• Corporate
• E-Commerce
• Finance
• FOIA
• HR/Employment
• Intellectual Property (Copyright)
• Intellectual Property (Licensing)
• Intellectual Property (Trademark)
• Libel and Defamation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Noncompetition Agreements
• Nondisclosure Agreements (NDAs)/Confidentiality Agreements
• Nonprofits
• Outsourcing (Business Process)
• Privacy
• Software
• Sweepstakes and Contests
• Website Policies

Contracts

• Advertising services (new media and publishing)
• Consulting services
• Joint venture agreements
• Licensing agreements for software (copyright), patents and trademarks
• Master services agreements (MSAs)
• Settlement and release agreements
• Technology contracts, vendor contracts, technology development, employment contracts
• Technology statements of work (SOWs)
• Technology contracts, vendor contracts, technology development, employment contracts
• Technology statements of work (SOWs)

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• Corporate structuring
• Equity ownership and partner relations (LLCs and S corps)
• IRC Section 83(b) elections
• LLC agreements (LLCs)
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Stock option grants and warrants
• Structuring and negotiating partner terms: profit/loss allocations, leaving the business, buyout terms, terminations, etc. (LLCs and S corps))

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• Advising on US laws, privacy, transactional compliance and disclosures
• Email communication practices, compliance with federal and state email laws (CAN-SPAM)

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• Angel and “Series A” offerings
• Bridge and receivables financings
• Finance: Convertible debt
• Finance: “Investment Adviser” compliance
• Finance: Regulation D offerings (private placements)
• Finance: State law compliance and filings for “blue sky” requirements (private placements)
• Advising minority-owned small business seeking to enforce the terms of its Teaming Agreement with a large Federal contractor.

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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (new media and publishing)

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• Employment agreements
• Inventions agreements
• Personnel policies
• Personnel training, supervision, reviews, anti-discrimination, risk management
• Technology use policies
• HR/Employment: Overtime (exempt/non-exempt) and Fair Labor Standards (FLSA) compliance

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• Author and freelancer agreements
• Fair use guidelines and review
• Photo use issues
• Open source software licenses (GNU/GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons)
• Rights clearance, rights access
• US registrations (software)
• Work for hire agreements

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• US trademark registrations
• US trademark search

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• Advice on threats of legal action for non-retraction (new media and publishing)
• Prepublication review (new media and publishing)
• Privacy issue compliance (new media and publishing)

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NDAs and confidentiality agreements.

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• “Friends of” international organizations for US nonprofits grantmaking
• Formation of microfinance foundation and qualification for exemption
• Governance issues
• Grant restrictions and endowment versus program use of restricted grant funds
• Tax Exemption registrations (501(c)(3), 501(c)(4)) and compliance

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Technology BPO for client customers.

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• Compliance with Mass. law on identity-theft information (ITI)
• Data Security: EU Data Security Directive
• Privacy Policies
• Self-Certification under US Department of Commerce Safe Harbor
• State Law compliance

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• Development Agreement
• Hosting Agreements
• License Agreements
• Master Services Agreements (MSAs)
• Open source software licenses (GNU/GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons)
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Source Code Escrow Agreements

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Sweepstakes and contests (new media)

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• Privacy Policies
• Terms of Use (TOU)/Terms of Service (TOS)

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