Related Practice Areas:
Corporate
Data Security
Electronic Transactions
Intellectual Property
Media & Entertainment
Trade Secrets
Partners:
Michael P. Bennett
William J. Cook
Alan L. Friel
Justine Young Gottshall
Carole E. Handler
James D. Nguyen
Jamie Rubin
Thomas J. Smedinghoff
M. Kenneth Suddleson
Technology
Wildman Harrold’s information technology attorneys counsel clients on a wide-range of technology issues, whether inbound, outbound, business-to-business, or consumer-oriented. The group’s collective experience includes counseling related to international outsourcing, in-sourcing, software licensing, acquisition of professional services, electronic contracting and website management, copyrights, privacy, security, on-line sale, compliance, and taxation issues. We are experienced in negotiating electronic data interchange and integration agreements that help enable clients to maintain the viability of their relationships with suppliers and customers seamlessly.
- Represented one of the world's leading advertising and marketing conglomerates in over fifty information technology transactions, including software licenses, ERP implementations, software development agreements, hosted services agreements, and telecommunications transport agreements
- Served as lead counsel to longtime client in its recent negotiations for providing information technology services to the Commonwealth of Virginia. The 10-year IT outsourcing agreement is valued at $2 billion and represents the largest private/public outsourcing agreement
- Advised a provider of specialty hardware and software for a multi-billion dollar industry on issues related to open source software and compliance in terms of the general public license (GPL) and advise how to minimize their tax exposure across multiple jurisdictions

