Areas of Practice
BUSINESS STRATEGY
The startup and small business marketplace requires legal advice from counsel entrenched in the particulars of venture financing. CIP Law represents large and small entities alike, including non-profits, start-ups, corporations, health care organizations, and directors. We’ve steered corporations with a balance of legal, business, operational, and financial strategies incorporating clear execution and problem-solving contingencies. We strive to balance your goals with executable strategies applicable to your organization.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Board of Directors is a critical aspect to a successful corporation. CIP Law supports effective communication between the Board and the corporation, efficient Board meetings, and well documented decision-making. Serving as corporate secretary or as support to in-house counsel, we can tailor our role to suit the needs of your corporation.
Law Firm Support
CIP Law has experience as firm counsel and the time sensitive demands they face. With our experience, we are available to support counsel to meet those demands and represent your clients with diligence reviews, research, contract review, drafting, and negotiation.
DIGITAL MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY
Internet, software, and technology are critical to every business. Taking the time to listen and understand the goals and needs of your organization is the foundation of this law practice. We’ve helped engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs develop, license, sell, and maintain ownership over their creations. Balancing the commercial goals of your organization with your overall corporate goals is an inherent part of our approach to your legal representation. We’ve crafted partnerships with a range of entities across industries, including Epic, IBM, Iatric, and Interfaceware.
contracts
Contracts encompass almost every aspect of an organization. Whether your organization is the licensor or licensee, the vendor or customer, CIP Law understands the terms critical to your business and how to represent those interests in a binding agreement structured to meet your needs in the short- and long-term. We evaluate the terms of contracts as a whole, taking into consideration our client’s risk profile. Our negotiation style provides strong client representation balanced with relationship building. We represent your organization and its values throughout the process.
Human Resources
Human Resources departments often encounter day-to-day questions related to confidentiality, intellectual property assignments, and documentation. With our in-house counsel experience, we can provide your organization support for those matters. We understand the nuances and can refer your team to our network of outside counsel should your matters require additional employment/labor law or litigation expertise.
HEALTH CARE SECTOR
The healthcare sector presents transaction complexities unlike any other. Privacy and data protection, insurance, and regulatory requirements are only a few of the aspects impacting healthcare organizations and their vendors. CIP Law understands these nuances and have successfully negotiated partnerships and commercial arrangements with the largest and smallest of healthcare systems and community medical centers, including Partners HealthCare, HCA Healthcare, Sentara Healthcare, Sutter Health, Tenet Health, University Hospitals; as well as vendors such as Dexcom, Glytec, Livongo, and PatientKeeper.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Protecting the confidentiality of your intellectual property is a critical aspect to any organization. In addition to confidentiality agreements, CIP Law can provide your organization with guidance to protect your valuable information, including trade secrets, customer information, source code, and strategic plans.
General Counsel
In-house counsel are agile multi-taskers, facing a spectrum of legal and human needs on a daily basis. With our general counsel experience, we understand the interests of your client base. We can support your commercial transactions, human resources, corporate governance, research needs.