Matthew E. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Tasked with supporting Pandora’s ad sales teams, which includes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating master services agreements, insertion orders, and other general technology agreements, developing and leading legal training programs, and designing and implementing a series of scalable self-help tools to meet the growing needs of the sales organization.Additional responsibilities include preparing and producing memoranda on privacy- and regulatory-related matters with work product distributed to executive staff and board members, drafting and negotiating NDAs, IP, and enterprise service agreements, working along with Pandora’s IP AGC to develop and manage our IP portfolio, and actively leading Pandora's IP enforcement program.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Corporate counsel supporting Pandora's ad sales organization. Responsible for reviewing and negotiating Insertion Orders, Master Service Agreements, trademark use agreements, and NDAs, in addition to other legal matters such as approving campaign clearances, obtaining artist appearance releases and enforcing Pandora's IP rights.Paragon Legal is an innovative law firm providing senior attorneys on a project basis to the Fortune 500 and leading bay area companies.

Reviewed documents for relevancy and privilege in complex Patent, U.S. DOJ, and insurance litigation cases, checked and researched legal citations in opposing counsel's briefs, prepared exhibits exposing inconsistencies between witness depositions and opposing counsel's witness declarations, and created charts illustrating factual and legal inaccuracies of opposing counsel's statements and arguments.

Silicon Valley, Ca, Us

Worked with attorneys on startup financings and corporate securities transactions, undertook a number of legal research and writing projects for both corporate and litigation groups, handled pro bono consumer law client intakes, and delivered internal promotional projects for the patent prosecution and corporate groups.- Produced and reviewed documents for Series A and C venture-backed financings of startup companies, including creating and updating minute books.- Wrote various memoranda analyzing the validity of DMCA copyright claims against Internet video postings, determining the necessity of disclosure for use of refurbished parts in medical devices, outlining stockholder information rights under both Delaware and California corporations code, and discussing the effects of the proposed Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009 and new SEC Rule 14a-11.- Interviewed and advised two pro bono legal clients on matters such as consumer contract enforceability and protecting a daughter's right in her recently deceased father's estate.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Supported a team of 30 Cisco lawyers responsible for licensing and technology transactions for Cisco's 40 business units. Projects and responsibilities included researching case law, drafting memos, and reviewing, editing, and negotiating licensing agreements. Highly praised by senior attorneys for efficiency and going "above and beyond" expectations while processing open source licensing requests.- Researched and evaluated Software Development Kit (SDK) licenses including ones for Cisco, Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Apple. Compared and contrasted the licensing terms and conditions in a memo and oral briefing for senior attorneys.- Evaluated and recommended approval for numerous GPL, BSD, MIT, Mozilla, Apache, and Oracle open source software licensing requests for software engineers through Cisco's open source request tool.- Edited and negotiated incoming evaluation licensing agreements.- Researched articles and created playbook materials on nondisclosure agreements and trade secrets.- As part of due diligence, summarized terms and obligations in software licensing and escrow agreements held by a company recently acquired by Cisco.

Initially served as a Webmaster, quickly advancing to senior web developer supporting the development requests of an entire team of business users and web designers. Responsible for proposing, designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining e-commerce platforms, web designer and marketing tools, and content-rich websites embedded within consumer software applications. Received accolades for various web projects, including a "Best of Show" award for a selfservice Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) web portal.

Juris Doctorate, Intellectual Property Law; Corporate Law

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science