We understand how frustrating it is for technology companies to deal with complex sales, capital raising, strategic contracts, and patent applications.At Founders Legal®, it is our job to remove or minimize the legal obstacles that keep you from reaching your goals. Our professionals have helped fast-growing technology companies expand and improve their operations with precise and practical advice for many years.Our partners, attorneys, and staff have deep experience in the legal field, but also come from a wide range of business backgrounds. Many of our legal professionals have worked as entrepreneurs in areas such as health care and pharmaceutical companies, science and engineering, tax and accounting, enterprise software, communications technology sales, corporate governance, computer engineering, nuclear physics, revenue management, and more. These diverse backgrounds help Founders Legal® personnel approach clients’ needs from legal and business perspectives.

At Founders Legal®, we know firsthand how difficult it can be to start and grow a business. That is why we are here to help new and growth companies get things right from the beginning. We always strive to work by a few simple, yet intuitive principals: To always be clear and transparent with you, our client. To always provide quality legal work. And to always be efficient and conscious of costs. BUSINESS & CORPORATE LAW Business Entity FormationSecurities & CapitalizationHiring of Employees, Independent Contractors & ConsultantsBusiness OperationsTransactions, Including Asset Purchases & LeasesINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW PatentsTrademarksCopyrightsTrade SecretsTechnology and Internet Law

Briskin, Cross & Sanford, LLC, is a full-service business, technology and commercial law firm located in Alpharetta, Georgia. In my capacity as law clerk, I assisted companies, entrepreneurs, investors, officers and decision-makers at companies throughout the Greater Atlanta area by drafting corporate documents relating to formation, M&A, and partnership.

Aptean is a leading provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions. We build and acquire solutions to support the evolving operational needs of our customers. As a legal intern, I review Master Solutions Agreements and End User License Agreements to ensure that the terms effectuate Aptean corporate policy. Assist account management team reconcile license misuse through license enforcement and by facilitating true-ups. Review various agreements of acquired companies, and grade strength of key provisions.

AT&T Intellectual Property develops, protects, and monitizes AT&T's patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property. As an intern in the IP ownership group, my role is to 1) audit supplier contracts to ensure compliance with AT&T IP ownership policy, and 2) assist in software licensing negotiations.

Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet Service Provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Our primary service offering consists of Internet access and data transport, offered over our award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in any of our 49 Internet data centers.

Comcast was founded in 1963 as a single-system cable operator and now is the nation’s largest with over $35 billion in revenue in 2009. We are one of the nation’s leading providers of information, communications and entertainment products and services with over 16 million Internet customers, 8 million digital voice customers, 23 million video customers and hundreds of thousands of business customers. With over 100,000 employees, we currently serve 18 of the top Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the U.S. and provide service to customers in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Our high-speed, high-capacity broadband and Ethernet services operate across our private, diverse enhanced fiber network. With over 147,000 national route miles of fiber, our network is the largest facilities-based last mile alternative to the phone company. With the first and largest fully 40G backbone, and the deployment of the first 100G router interface, Comcast’s advanced network delivers reliable and scalable services for businesses of any size.

EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) is a leading IT services, network and communications provider to more than 150,000 businesses and over one million consumers nationwide. EarthLink empowers customers with managed IT services including cloud computing, data centers, virtualization, security, applications and support services, in addition to nationwide data and voice IP services.Specialties:IT Services, Cloud, Data Centers, Broadband and Narrowband Internet Services, Data, Voice, Video, Networks, VPN

The International Leadership Council is a forum where the senior leaders of the bilateral and multilateral chambers of commerce and business organizations in Atlanta can come together as individuals in an atmosphere of congeniality to discuss issues of common interest, to learn more about the broad international business community, and to develop friendships among peers.

Using a 100% private all IP network, Cbeyond provides IT and communications services to businesses throughout the United States. We offer more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications, including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile services including BlackBerry® and Android® devices, broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing, virtual private networking and cloud servers.