Our IT lawyers are members of the British Computer Society and have years of industry experience drafting technology contracts and dealing with technology related disputes and litigation.

We use our backgrounds to enhance our legal services, which we find saves our clients time and expense when instructing us. Our IT solicitors & lawyers represent businesses that are involved in online & technology services who benefit from our technology backgrounds and those wanting to enforce technology contracts and intellectual property rights.

Our experience takes in the management of the regulatory structure that IT companies compete within, seeing through the IT issues and giving clear and concise legal advice in plain English.

Our technology team of young and vibrant lawyers, have spent considerable time as consultants, programmers and analysts in the IT industry prior to moving to the law. As lawyers, we have advised on a wide variety of intellectual property matters, online defamation of UK companies and ISPs, outsourcing contracts and corporate risk management, including corporate structures to preserve IP in disasters and disputes.

One of our real strengths has nothing to do with the law. We understand the infrastructure of the Internet and technologies - both on a technical basis and the legal regulatory framework that has been the subject of so much reform in recent years. As programmers and systems analysts ourselves we appreciate many of the constraints our clients operate under. By and large this also means that we do not have to be trained in how technologies work, as we have worked with a broad diversity of technologies for some time. We are young enough not to be set in our ways in approaching contracts and disputes: it is our clients' venture or dispute and not ours which calls for cool calculated legal advice that focuses on solutions. This experience and know-how allows us to nail down the legal issues tied up and otherwise veiled in technologies and resolve them. At the end of the day, without wanting to sound conceited, we do not think most technology is that difficult to deal with in the application of the law. Our intellectual property specialists readily carve up rights and know the responsibilities that each party should be taking.

We also come into our own in disputes and commercial litigation. At the centre of understanding a dispute is understanding the technical facts and applying the relevant law to those facts.

Our Work

We prepare these technology contracts, amongst many others:

• data hosting agreements
• software licences
• software marketing licences
• data hosting contracts
• electronic subscription agreements
• data usage terms
• institutional site licenses
• web server facilities agreements
• commissioning agreements
• database usuage terms

Publishing

• electronic publishing agreements
• electronic subscription contracts
• co-publishing contracts

Technology Transfer

• joint development agreements
• cross-licences of technology
• digital rights management advice
• online products and services
• exploitation agreements