Brad Newman Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Palo Alto, CA, US

Helping Cooley execute on plans to apply process and technology innovation, as well as innovating in how Cooley lawyers apply their extensive legal knowledge to the problems of their clients.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Palo Alto, California, US

• Legal
• Management of in-house legal affairs (corporate governance, licensing, contracts, strategic partnerships)
• Providing dozens of startups with strategic advice and introducing them to seasoned Silicon Valley practitionersBusiness
• Responsible for executing interview process for prospective participants in the StartX accelerator program.
• In charge of ongoing process to document entire StartX program
• Go-to for solving a wide variety of organizational, communications and technical problems

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Providing research assistance in core areas being investigated by SIPX, a CodeX project. Also conducting due diligence and creating synthesized databases for compliance testing.

Worked with editors-in-chief to review and edit journal articles to-be-published.

Global, GB

• Practiced in the business law practice group of Ogilvy Renault LLP, rated as the Best Canadian Law Firm 2008 & 2009 by the International Legal Alliance Summit, in all areas of corporate/commercial law, with an emphasis.
• Regularly drafted software license, development, support and maintenance, escrow, non-competition and various other forms of agreements as well as letters of intent for acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements.
• Represented Nortel Networks Limited in the sale of its various business units pursuant to the court-monitored bankruptcy process, including the sale of its Enterprise Solutions (US$915 million), Optical Networking and.
• Negotiated development, hosting and maintenance agreements for clients of cloud-based mobile content providers and iPhone application developers.
• Member of the Business Technology Group – responsible for organizing monthly group meetings.
• Seconded to the Royal Bank of Canada (Canadian Banking division) for a 10-week duration.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Seconded to the RBC (Canadian Banking division) for a 10-week duration. Responsibilities included:
• Drafting institution-wide social networking guidelines
• Preparing legal memoranda regarding defamation and employer vicarious liability
• Maintaining ongoing memoranda detailing nation-wide legislative updates

Conducted legal research and prepared legal memoranda and presentations in the areas of intellectual property law, tort law, employment law, privacy law and Internet law.Drafted a critical analysis of economic data regarding the Canadian and American economies generally, as well as the information and communication technologies sector specifically.

Questioned agents and civilians before releasing shipments. Performed searches of cargo upon arrival at Pearson International Airport. Studied and applied rules and regulations from various federal and provincial statutes.

Ll.M., Law, Science & Technology

J.D., Law

B.A. (Hons.), Media, Information And Technoculture

Education record