Christopher Reid Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, Us

Secondment to cover Senior Counsel duties in the Product and Commercial legal group. Responsibilities include:• Provide full-service product counseling for multiple live-service mobile game development teams, assisting with privacy and consumer protection compliance, IP risk assessment and enforcement, terms of service, app-store platform relations, and customer service escalation matters.• Research and provide practical, actionable advice on emerging legal and regulatory issues related to video game publishing and development, including data privacy, loot boxes, influencer marketing, generative AI risk assessment, and contest offerings.• Coordinate cross functionally to solve urgent legal hurdles in fast-paced environment, balancing legal risk assessment with a deep and practical understanding of the business realities and priorities underlying mobile game publishing.

Founder and Managing Partner of boutique law practice serving entertainment and tech industry companies as "outside inside counsel". Providing expert legal services on both a project and extended engagement basis to enable lean in-house legal departments to expand their capabilities in a cost-effective and flexible manner. Services include:• Negotiate and draft complex publishing and game development agreements.• Advise on structuring and long term strategy with 3rd party licensing agreements• Work with client c-suite executives to identify and prioritize key legal issues and risks for the business and to develop cost-effective plans to address them.• Organize company IP protection strategy including copyright and trademark registration, outbound licensing, and enforcement.• Partner with product teams on a wide range of compliance issues including data privacy, consumer protection, advertising law, and IP infringement risk assessments.• Implement cost-conscious privacy compliance and advise on product design to avoid privacy pitfalls.

New York, Ny, Us

Head of legal for a high growth global mobile games publisher. Key responsibilities included:• Guided company's legal strategy across a broad range of areas, working directly with department leads and c-suite.• Negotiated and drafted over 20 major video game IP licensing deals with global entertainment and consumer properties, along with related third party game development and publishing contracts.• Optimized core commercial contract templates to enable self-service use by business teams, increasing drafting efficiency and streamlining deal flow 200%.• Led company's data privacy strategy implementation, including ongoing updates to the privacy policy and product best practices in light of GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, and other applicable data privacy regulations.• Provided expert product counseling to all mobile game teams, advising on privacy implementation, digital advertising integration, consumer protection compliance, copyright and trademark infringement risk assessment, and terms of service implementation.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Founder and principal of one of the first games industry focused boutique law firms. Served 300+ game industry, tech startup, and creative services clients on a wide range of matters, including:• Negotiated and drafted game development and game publishing agreements with complex terms while protecting clients’ interests and priorities.• Assisted clients with broad range of trademark matters, including portfolio strategy, knock-out searches, filing & office action response for over 50 applications, licensing, executing enforcement actions, and responding to alleged infringement.• Counseled clients on copyright matters, including registration, portfolio protection, licensing, dispute resolution, fair use analysis, enforcement actions, and responses to alleged infringement.• Assisted clients with privacy compliance, including COPPA and GDPR; drafted privacy policies.• Counseled clients on company formation, governance, and early round financing, including 15+ seed round and Series A financing.• Negotiated and drafted influencer agreements and advised clients on FTC enforcement risk.• Represented clients in pre-litigation disputes; resolved non-payments and other contract matters.• Crafted Terms of Service and EULAs for live online and game developer clients.

Boston, Ma, Us

Associate in the Intellectual Property division. Advised global technology companies on large-scale patent, trademark, and copyright litigation and transactional matters. Duties included:• Performed Patent and Trademark due diligence in connection client’s IP acquisitions.• Prepared detailed legal research memos on novel areas of patent and trademark law.• Collaborated with litigation team in drafting over 20 patent reexamination requests as part of major litigation.

New York, Ny, Us

Housing Attorney with the Housing Help Program in the Brooklyn Neighborhood Office. Responsibilities included:• Represented pro-bono clients with landlord disputes and eviction prevention in Brooklyn Housing Court• Made weekly court appearances representing families facing eviction.• Filed and argued motions with the court in support of client's housing needs.• Negotiated practical settlements with landlords and assisted clients in navigating public assistance to solve housing issues.

Boston, Ma, Us

Summer Associate working with the IP Litigation department. Duties included:• Legal research on emerging Trademark, Copyright, and Patent issues.• Preparing diligence for litigation strategy.

Judicial Intern for Manhattan New York Supreme Court Commercial Part judge. Responsibilities included:• Preparing and editing judicial opinions.• Performing detail legal research and summarizing case law to support major class action commercial litigation before the Court.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Office Administrator for major New York corporate real estate brokerage. Duties inclued:• Researched and prepared detailed real estate market analysis and synthesized information into clear presentations for brokers.• Managing office administrative duties.• Acting as liaison for IT and technical matters between headquarters and local office.

B.A, Chemistry, Philosophy

J.D., Intellectual Property, Privacy Law, Copyright, Trademark, Patents, Constitutional Law

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