In-house trademark lawyer protecting Invisalign, iTero, and other brands.Driving rapid modernization of a global legal team with data, service design, technology, and smart vendor selection.

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software and data to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. Major projects include CourtListener and RECAP.

I worked in-house with high-tech clients in the San Francisco Bay Area. Paragon Legal is an innovative legal services firm providing experienced legal professionals on a project basis to the Fortune 500 and leading Bay Area companies.

Building the future of document analytics

I worked as a full-stack engineer on Project Leibniz, a contract analytics initiative, and prepared for its spin-out as Syntexys.

My transactional practice focused on starting startups, advising entrepreneurs, and building strong IP portfolios.- Company formation- Financing and due diligence work for rapidly growing startups- Website Terms of Service and Privacy Policies- Open source software compliance reviews- SaaS agreements- Software licensing- Trademark registration clearance searches, prosecution, and portfolio maintenance- Copyright registration applications for software and mediaI also worked on data-heavy litigation.- Complex copyright and computer fraud litigation- Criminal defense in hacking and email spam case (CFAA and CAN-SPAM)- Coordinating and deposing technical experts in cases involving Tor, large databases, and complex data collections

Halliburton Legal's focus was on helping startups and founders build solid foundations: forming the right kind of company the right way, closing investment and M&A deals, and building strong IP portfolios.

Litigation in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, securities fraud, and other cases in federal and state courts, as well as appeals and arbitration. Hearings, motion drafting, discovery, taking and defending depositions, legal research, settlement negotiations and closing, selecting and working with technical and damages experts, etc. Second-chair lawyer in trademark jury trial and business fraud bench trial.Transactional work for startups, including client counseling, licensing, contract drafting and reviews, incorporation, financing, data privacy, and IP protection (patent strategy, trademark registration, copyright registration, trade secret protection).

Legal research, drafting, and discovery in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, securities, and corporate litigation.

Represented clients in civil and family law cases arising from domestic violence and sexual assault. Litigated to position of strength and obtained highly favorable settlement.

Summer externship at UC Davis’ in-house patent-law and technology-transfer office. Patentability and marketability analyses; patent and materials licensing in biotechnology, nanotechnology, software, medical devices, mechanical engineering, and agriculture. Delivered staff presentation on Supreme Court’s Bilski v. Kappos decision. Legal research on international patent prosecution, Bayh-Dole Act, and licensee bankruptcies.

Assisted Professor Madhavi Sunder with updating intellectual-property course and with work on faculty-appointments committee.

Second employee in entrepreneurial/academic organization tasked with providing data and analysis on all U.S. intellectual property litigation. Built software systems for acquisition and machine-assisted case analysis, including a rules engine and a distributed multi-threaded PACER crawler. Spent a week in Wisconsin in the dead of winter with local volunteers and a scanner to collect court documents only available on paper.The Clearinghouse was later spun out from the law school as Lex Machina, Inc., which was acquired by LexisNexis in 2015.

Supported IP and business litigation—mainly trade secret and copyright cases for software companies. Handled cases in state and federal court, as well as domestic and international arbitration. Researched and drafted motions, attended hearings and a two-week bench trial, coordinated expert witnesses, and ran a mock trial. Performed initial assessment of source code copying and lent technical assistance for e-discovery. Trained new legal assistants and handled vendor relationships.

Web application back-end and tool development. Integrated third-party e-commerce platform. Used open-source software development stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, bash, BIND). Handled network and application security and reliability (Nagios, Snort IDS, security audits).

Web and database development, Linux system administration, training, troubleshooting, and network security. Clients spanned the software, manufacturing, legal services outsourcing, and life sciences industries.

Co-developer of a 3D information search and browsing environment from prototype to public demo. Helped staff company's booth at COMDEX Fall 2000 just before the bubble burst.