I’m an attorney with over 15 years of experience specializing in intellectual property, commercial, and corporate matters for high-growth technology companies, particularly in the edtech sector. Most recently, I spent a decade as Deputy General Counsel at Amplify, a leading provider of curriculum, supplemental, and assessment products.

I’m available for standard outside counsel engagements, and also fractional general counsel arrangements, product-specific counsel, or to add on-demand capacity to in-house legal teams.

My firm can help with the legal complexities of building and selling technology products, especially for K-12 schools. My experience has given me a specific set of skills that clients find valuable, including:

• Deep knowledge of the K-12 market dynamics, regulatory environments, and cultures

• Experience forming great working relationships with senior administrators, lawyers, and other counterparts at state DOEs and school districts, ranging from the largest US urban districts down to the smallest.

• Lived understanding of the challenges faced by in-house counsel and how outside counsel can best support their work

I can help your company with strategic partnerships and licensing negotiations, especially where OER, FOSS, or AI-related issues are involved. I can also help with matters like company formation and governance, raising money, standard customer terms and policies, commercial agreements, agreements with employees, equity compensation, trademark filings and prosecution, and pre-litigation disputes.

I work with edtech and other technology companies of all sizes. I’ve got experience working with companies that have thousands of employees, and companies that have just a handful of people wearing many different hats. I also work with venture-backed companies at different stages, from pre-seed startups up to growth stage companies looking towards an acquisition or an IPO. I have experience working with a variety of different types of software products including mobile applications, social media products, software as a service products, platform as a service products, other cloud/hybrid cloud offerings, as well as bundled physical products like science classroom kits.