Devin J. Chwastyk
Advises businesses and public entities on privacy, data security, and complex litigation. Counsels on compliance, breach response, and class action defense.
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Technology decisions can affect operations, data rights, vendor relationships, and regulatory exposure. We help organizations and technology providers structure agreements, govern AI use, protect valuable assets, and resolve disputes.
Our focus
Legal strategy for the technology your business uses, builds, and brings to market
Technology is embedded in how organizations operate, communicate, and grow. A software agreement or AI policy may appear to address one immediate need, but the decisions behind it can affect data rights, intellectual property, business continuity, and future transactions. We help clients consider those consequences before commitments are made.
We advise organizations purchasing and implementing technology, as well as companies developing and providing it. Our attorneys draft and negotiate software licenses, SaaS and cloud agreements, development and implementation contracts, and other technology service agreements. We focus on the terms that determine how the relationship will work in practice, including performance obligations, data security, ownership, support, and transition rights.
We also help organizations establish policies and governance structures for the use of artificial intelligence. Our advice connects AI adoption with the privacy, intellectual property, employment, contractual, and regulatory questions that may shape how a tool can be selected and used.
Technology issues frequently arise in mergers and acquisitions, commercialization efforts, and vendor disputes. We bring together attorneys from corporate, privacy, intellectual property, employment, and litigation when those perspectives affect the matter. This gives clients one coordinated legal team for decisions that might otherwise be divided among several advisors.
We draft, review, and negotiate software licenses, SaaS and cloud service agreements, and development and implementation contracts. Our work also includes service-level agreements, warranties, indemnification, limits of liability, confidentiality, data security, support, and transition obligations.
We help organizations establish policies, approval processes, and governance frameworks for the adoption and use of artificial intelligence. Our attorneys address the contractual, data, privacy, intellectual property, employment, and regulatory issues connected to AI tools and business applications.
We advise businesses, investors, and technology providers on licensing, technology transfers, commercialization arrangements, joint ventures, and transactions involving technology assets. We also address technology due diligence and the transition of software and services during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
We help clients address how data may be collected, accessed, used, stored, transferred, and protected. We coordinate technology initiatives with privacy and cybersecurity requirements and negotiate contract terms that allocate responsibility for sensitive information.
We help organizations establish ownership of software and other technology, protect intellectual property, and structure rights for development and commercialization. Our work includes contractor and development agreements, licensing models, and the integration and use of open-source software.
We represent businesses in disputes involving software licenses, vendor performance, failed implementations, ownership rights, and technology service agreements. Our attorneys assess the operational effect of the dispute while developing a strategy for negotiation or litigation.
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Brian Gregg
Represents businesses on IP protection and licensing. Advises on trademark, copyright, franchising, technology, and artificial intelligence matters.
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