Lawyers

Experience

IP, Technology & Software Protection, Licensing, Distribution & Services

• Represented various open source vendors, including: dbms vendor MySQL AB through $1 billion sale to Sun Microsystems; hypervisor vendor XenSource through $500 million sale to Citrix Systems; network monitoring and systems management vendor Zenoss Inc.; nonprofit owner of the Joomla! brands (Open Source Matters, Inc.)
• Represented mobile switching center system developer in purchasing and sales, including international resale arrangement with Fortune 100 Company.
• Represented developer in drafting and negotiating license and ASP leases for complex scanning system, including license to one of world's top-five media companies
• Represented ASP, SaaS and Cloud Computing providers in development and negotiation of alliance, SLA, subscriber, user, file sharing, reseller and other agreements
• Represented developer of cashless, Internet-based payment processing system
• Represented licensee of exclusive, worldwide distribution rights in intelligent data system from a Fortune 500 company
• Represented digital wireless carrier in outsourcing arrangements, including 411 service, telemarketing & negotiation of international roaming agreements
• Represented various distance learning providers in negotiating licenses and delivery systems
• Represented clients with respect to a range of other tech-related legal issues, including privacy policies and compliance, file-sharing, music and video downloading, publishing, software development certification programs, electronic commerce, cyber-security, OS license compliance programs and other IP issues

Cyber Security and Information Privacy

• Represented client in developing strategies to reduce phishing attempts.
• Represented cyber security software developer in connection with licensing, IP, open source, government contracting and corporate issues.
• Represented various organizations in connection with security breach attempts (due to theft, SQL injection attacks and brute-force attacks), and lead cross-functional assessment, containment and response efforts, developed mitigation strategies, and assisted clients in assessing and complying with statutory notification requirements and preparing information security policies.
• Represented cloud computing company in connection with data security compliance.

Clean Energy Technology

• Represented manufacturer of regenerative electric propulsion system for sailboats
• Represented startup of first-ever, online electric energy marketplace for consumers
• Represented U.S. biodiesel processor seeking West African jatropha sources

International

• seconded to Ghana, West Africa for 3.5 years
• travelled extensively internationally, both for business and adventure
• Negotiated license, distribution, development, manufacturing or other agreements in connection with assets or companies in many countries, including Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

General Information

Awards

• Listed in the Best Lawyers in America, 2006
• Listed in Baltimore's Legal Elite, 2006 - Baltimore SmartCEO Magazine
• Included among "Who's Who In Law" in Baltimore Business Journal, May 30, 2003 & December 1, 2000
• Judge: Daily Record 2003 Innovator of the Year
• BV Peer Review Rated: Martindale-Hubbell

Leadership

• Member, Advisory Board, Cyber Incubator, UMBC
• Affiliate Professor of Cybersecurity Law in the MBA Program at Loyola University Maryland
• Chair: IP Committee of MSBA Business Section (2000-2002) (Vice-Chair 1998-2000)
• Appointed by Governor Glendenning to Governor's Task Force on e-Commerce (1999)
• Board Member, Anne Arundel Tech Council (now known as Chesapeake Regional Tech Council) (2003-2007)
• Advisory Committee Member, Chesapeake Innovation Center (2003-2006)
• At WTP: Co-Chair, Clean Energy Technology Group; Co-Chair, Cybersecurity & Information Privacy Group; Co-founder, past-Chair and current member of Technology & IP Section

Selected Speaking

• International Information Privacy Compliance, eZ Systems Conference, Skein, Norway (2006)
• Managing Success in a Post-9/11 World, techcenter@UMBC (2004)
• Understanding Open Source & Its Business Implications, Greater Baltimore Tech Council (2004)
• U.S. & Int'l IP Protection Strategies, Loyola College Exec. MBA Program (2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 & 2001)
• Issues in Technology Contracting, Maryland Judicial Institute for Judges Assigned to Business & Technology Case Management Program (2003)
• Whose Design Is it Anyway?, Whitmore Lunch & Learn Series (2003) & AIGA Seminar (2002)
• Assessing & Managing Your IP Risk, Marsh/WTP Seminar (2002)
• Open Source Software Licensing, U. Balt. School of Law (2002)
• Maryland IP Law Update, U. Balt. School of Law (2001)
• Emerging Privacy Laws (2001); Facets of Law as Applied to Technology, Loyola College Exec. MBA Program (2000 & 1999)
• IP Issues in the Workplace, Lorman Seminar on Covenants Not to Compete (2000)
• International IP & Technology Transfer Strategies, Ukraine Technopark Managers Course, Loyola College Int'l Technology Research Institute (2000)
• Practical Legal Issues in e-Commerce, MICPEL Seminar (2000) (also, co-chair)
• Facing E-Commerce Head On; International E-Commerce: Order Out of Chaos, IP Licensing Skills Workshop, WT&P Technology and IP Legal Issues Workshop (1999)
• Trademarks, Digital Signatures & Privacy Issues on the Internet, MSBA Annual Meeting, (1999)
• Electronic Commerce and the New Millennium - Current Issues From a Practitioner's Perspective, U. of Baltimore School of Law IP Law Society (1999)
• Strategies for Protection of U.S. IP; Webpage Do's & Don'ts; Fundamentals of Trademark Law, WT&P Technology and IP Legal Issues Workshop (1998)
• Electronic Commerce, MICPEL (1998)
• IP Issues in the Workplace, WT&P Employment Law Seminar (1998)
• Computer Software Copyright Infringement Analysis and Resolution, IP Committee of MSBA Business Section (1998)
• Selected Internet Domain Name and Jurisdiction Issues, IP Committee of MSBA Business Section (1997)
• U.S. Trademark Registration Practice, full-day lecture to Chinese IP Lawyers and Judges (1996)

Selected Writing as Co-Author

• UCITA Spells Controversy, The Business Monthly (2001) and The Maryland Bar Journal (2000)
• Kids Say The Darnedest Things, The Advocate, (1999)
• Businesses May Get Burned By New Online Law, Baltimore Business Journal (1999)
• The New Millennium: Don't Let It Bug Your Practice, TortSource (1999) and Bar Bulletin (1999)
• Who's Minding The Store?; Protecting Your Company's Trade Secrets, The Business Monthly (1998)
• The Internet: Spamming, Framing and Free Speech, The Maryland Bar Journal (1998)

Education

• James Madison University (B.B.A. 1989) cum laude
• University of Baltimore School of Law (J.D. 1993) cum laude
• University of Baltimore (M.B.A. 1993) cum laude