Peter Seeger Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the Product Legal team responsible for supporting the DocuSign platform globally and across all product lines. Lead our Commercial Legal team responsible for all inbound and outbound contracting (direct sales, procurement, real estate and partner ecosystem transactions).

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the Product & Technology Legal team responsible for supporting the DocuSign platform globally and across all product lines. My team supports DocuSign's world-class product and engineering teams on a wide variety of legal and compliance issues including data privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, intellectual property, consumer protection and regulatory requirements, among many others.From June 2023 to March 2024 I served as the acting Deputy General Counsel leading our Commercial Legal function -- a team of 24 legal professionals responsible for all inbound and outbound contracting.

Product leader serving as legal and regulatory SME and evangelist across our ecosystem, helping DocuSign build world-class services with a “legal by design” philosophy. Focus areas include:- Lead Product Manager of highly regulated digital identity product- Legal SME supporting entire DocuSign Agreement Platform, ensuring compliance is part of our product DNA- Product SME helping to drive our industry engagement strategy, ensuring DocuSign is a leader in key industry ecosystems including digital identity, electronic signature and digital signature- Product/Legal Evangelist helping our customers succeed using DocuSign's products in complex legal and technical use cases

San Francisco Bay Area

I led the Product Counsel function within Legal, leading a team supporting Product, Engineering and Developer teams globally and across all product lines. Supported platform and product teams on an array of complex legal issues including data privacy, AI/ML, intellectual property, consumer protection and regulatory requirements, among many others. Passionate product attorney serving as embedded counselor to the business.

San Francisco Bay Area

I served as corporate counsel for Axiom clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a practice focused on supporting technology sector companies. My work included product counseling, data privacy support and commercial contracting support across several industry sectors.

San Francisco, Ca

I supported Uber's Privacy team with data privacy compliance initiatives, including ensuring that Uber's contractual relationships with vendors and strategic partners continued to be compliant with US and international data privacy laws, including GDPR.

San Francisco, Ca

Through an engagement with Axiom, I supported Square by counseling internal clients on commercial transactions and consumer-facing technology product compliance. I supported the Cash product, Payroll product, Facilities and Risk teams. Product work included advising product and engineering teams on regulatory and compliance issues, intellectual property issues and consumer protection. I counseled product teams on building products and features compliant with credit & lending and labor & employment regulatory regimes, among others. Commercial work included drafting and negotiating an array of agreements including strategic partnerships, lease agreements and licensing agreements, among others.

San Francisco, Ca And Mountain View, Ca

Through an engagement with Axiom, I supported Mozilla by counseling internal clients on commercial transactions, consumer-facing technology product compliance and data privacy. Product work included:- advising product and engineering teams on data privacy matters, intellectual property issues, email marketing, digital marketing (including social), digital advertising, consumer protection and unfair competition laws. - supporting teams building products in the IoT, mobile, augmented reality, speech recognition and machine learning spaces, among others. Privacy work included: - partnering cross-functionally with trust and security, procurement, engineering and product teams to advise on data uses while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance.- routinely advising product teams on compliance with company privacy policies and global data privacy laws, including GDPR. - assisting with advising on and implementing data protection policies and practices, designing privacy enhancing products and functionality, and supporting the oversight of data privacy legal compliance.Commercial work included:- drafting and negotiating an array of agreements including NDAs, vendor agreements, independent contractor agreements and license agreements, among others. - working cross-functionally with the procurement, finance and trust & security teams on commercial agreements in a variety of domains.

Walnut Creek, Ca

I served as corporate legal counsel to Plexuss, an online college recruiting, marketing and communications platform. I advised corporate leadership on an array of issues including corporate governance, data privacy and compliance matters, capital structure, risk management, employment issues and strategic ventures. My product counsel work involved advising engineering and product teams on global compliance in the areas of intellectual property, consumer protection, data privacy and marketing. I initiated and authored the company’s first data privacy plan. I developed and updated the company website's terms of use and privacy policy. I advised the mobile product team on the launch of the company’s first mobile application. I counseled corporate leadership and product teams on data privacy compliance, with emphasis on compliance with GDPR. My commercial counsel work involved drafting, negotiating and developing a variety of agreements including those with customers, vendors, consultants and strategic partners. I negotiated a complex data licensing agreement with an education technology partner. I routinely developed and drafted subscription, non-disclosure, employment, licensing and revenue sharing agreements.

Redwood Shores, Ca

I served as outside general counsel to early stage companies, advising technology clients on a wide range of business and legal matters including entity formation and structure, trademarks, compliance matters, corporate governance, strategic relationships, capital financing, employment matters and SaaS licensing matters.

Oakland, Ca

For over 5 years I served as a program/operations manager and corporate attorney providing "private attorney general" services to the U.S. E.P.A. on several large federal contracts. I also served as an in-house legal resource to the company, providing support in the following areas: government contracting and procurements; employment issues; contract management; subcontracting agreements with vendors; and agreements with strategic partners.

Oakland, Ca

I provided environmental legal consulting services to several government customers, including the U.S. E.P.A. and the U.S. Forest Service. My primary role at SAIC, a Fortune 300 company, was as a project manager of several large-scale Superfund Sites located in Southern California, providing CERCLA enforcement support services to the U.S. E.P.A. I also served as the project manager of a large-scale Superfund Site located on a heavily contaminated federal Indian reservation. I managed all aspects of projects including overall strategy, staffing, budget, client management, scheduling and quality control of deliverables.

San Francisco, Ca

My practice at McQuaid Bedford (acquired by Hanson Bridgett LLP) included corporate transactional work and also environmental litigation. My transactional practice involved serving as outside general counsel to a range of companies, advising them on a wide array of business and legal matters including technology licensing transactions, corporate governance matters, Securities Act compliance, stockholder issues, strategic planning advice as to entity formation and structure, trademark registration and employment issues. I represented entrepreneurs, angel and early stage venture capital funds and investor groups on matters including structure, negotiation and management of seed and later-stage financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic partnering agreements.My litigation practice included representation in the areas of natural resource and environmental matters. I represented clients before state and federal administrative bodies and courts in water rights disputes throughout the western states, with particular emphasis on disputes involving the impact of federal law and policy on client water rights. I assisted clients in the management, protection and perfection of water rights throughout the western United States.

San Francisco, Ca

At Niesar & Diamond LLP I served as a corporate and transactional attorney, providing outside legal counsel to a range of companies and advising them on a wide array of business and legal matters including technology licensing transactions, corporate governance matters, Securities Act compliance, stockholder issues, strategic planning advice as to entity formation and structure, trademark registration and employment issues. I represented entrepreneurs, angel and early stage venture capital funds and investor groups on matters including structure, negotiation and management of seed and later-stage financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic partnering agreements.

Jd, Law

B.A., German

High School Diploma