Author Archives: mwillee

In what can be a cutthroat competitive landscape, small margins can have a big impact. It’s small differences that can help to set one company ahead of another in the marketplace, and every business is striving to establish its own competitive edge. While most play within the rules (or at least keep their malfeasance fromContinue reading “Bumble, Tinder Battle Over Trade Secrets”

This is a guest post by Keri Norris, SVP of Legal and Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel for LegalShield, a legal services provider offering coverage plans and memberships to individuals and businesses. It was originally featured on smith.ai.

This post was originally featured in Above the Law

No stranger to podcasts herself, our own Mary Juetten sat down with Lawdroid Founder and CEO for a wide-ranging interview. The conversation touched on her life, career and education before legal tech and the lessons and influences she took from each and the path that brought her to the law and legal tech. They alsoContinue reading “Mary Juetten Talks with Tom Martin on LawDroid Podcast”

Fighting piracy has proven to be one of the greatest challenges facing content creators in this century, and has proven troublesome ever since there existed the means to replicate the work of others. Creators lose billions collectively to piracy and theft, as too many others are all too willing to perpetrate a seemingly victimless crime.Continue reading “Supreme Court Copyright Ruling a Setback for Creators”

One truth about startups and innovation is that you need to build your product upon what is already there, to some degree. There are certain ideas that become accepted wisdom and certain things that are universally accepted features, and to go against those things would be setting yourself on an uphill path towards success. ThatContinue reading “Microsoft Offers Patents to Startups”

This is a guest post from Matt Troyer,  Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua.

You can read the first part of this post here.

When you’re starting your business, it’s natural to want to focus on the things that you want to do and accomplish and put some of the more tedious chores to the back-burner. You are the innovator, the dreamer, and what creative wants to be bogged down with the nitty-gritty of paperwork and forms and contracts?Continue reading “Potential Legal Issues Facing Startups”

This article was originally featured on Forbes.  Last fall I had the pleasure of interviewing Adam Camras, Lawgical co-founder and CEO on the topic of podcasting — more here.  Adam leads the popular Legal Talk Network, one of Lawgical’s brands, all headquartered in Denver, with an office in Los Angeles and a handful of remoteContinue reading “Lawgical: The Pros And Cons Of Bootstrapping Your Startup”