Our experience

We bring extensive experience to our work: 

Transactional and Litigation Experience. Collectively, our lawyers have spent over 60 years in both transactional and trial work in technology matters – not only writing and negotiating many varied, complex, and detailed agreements, but sitting with their clients as trial counsel “in every seat in the courtroom,” representing technology developers, vendors, and customers, as buyers or sellers, claimants or respondents, for technology development, application, service, licensing, or more; as mediator helping litigants resolve disagreements; and as arbitrator hearing both sides and deciding the issues where the parties cannot agree. Decades of first-chair and neutral experience with “what these contracts look like with trial-exhibit stickers on them” are of great help in writing and negotiating technology contracts.

Privacy Depth. Kate Morris is a Privacy Law Specialist, and both Charles Hosch and Kate Morris are triple-certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals with the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and CIPM certifications. They use their privacy knowledge daily, focusing on the detailed work required for data-mapping, “vendor management,” data-subject access requests and other detailed contracting and operational requirements of the emerging world of privacy, and helping the firm solve problems for its clients in a manner that looks to the future.

Technology Depth. After pursuing a master’s degree in artificial intelligence, Russ Pearlman’s career in technology has spanned 25 years from hands-on system implementation through technology architecture and digital strategy. Having worked as both a consultant and executive (including years as Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer at various companies), his experience is of great help to our clients. Especially invaluable is his ability to dive deep into complex technology problems while explaining it to non-technology executives in plain English. Now as an attorney, Russ Pearlman is able to bring learnings from his career in technology and business to aid our clients in interpreting their needs, developing their requirements, and assisting in vendor agreements.

Breadth of Perspective. In addition to our expertise in data privacy and technology, we bring years of experience across many different industries in distribution, marketing, finance, employment, competition, intellectual property, and professional services.

Client Focus. We learn our clients’ businesses and focus on what they need.  We do not take on work that is outside of our areas of expertise, and we regularly refer our clients to other lawyers when we believe it would be best for them. 

WBE. Our firm is a certified Woman Business Enterprise.

Our mission

We aim to grow, improve and maximize the value of the data and technologies on which our clients’ businesses are built.

Our core values

Our core values are at the heart of our firm’s approach to every issue. They are:

• · Legal excellence in what we do;

• · Courage to always do what is right, and in the best interests of our clients;

• · Service with the highest level of ethics, integrity and professionalism;

• · Devotion to clients, community and the legal system;

• · Progressiveness, innovation and constant improvement;

• · Respect, collaboration and collegiality; and

• · Unity of purpose.

Our purpose

To serve our clients, our community and our legal system with an unshakable commitment to our mission and our core values.