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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Technology Law @ Gross & Romanick

Gross & Romanick represents a number of technology businesses including software programmers, website developers, telecommunications firms, and information technology organizations.

Gross & Romanick's seasoned team aids technology businesses with legal structuring, contracting, licensing, employment issues, management, litigation, acquisition and other business issues.

Gross & Romanick’s broad range of services for technology clients include:

Company Structure
Gross & Romanick can assist with choosing between a corporation (Sub-S or C), limited liability company, or other entity. The firm has helped many clients this way, and in some cases has even acted as a registered agent for a significant number of companies.

Business Acquisition
Gross & Romanick can assist in the purchase and sale of businesses through stock, membership and asset sales. The firm has experience in such transactions including software source codes, data, inventory, client lists, non-compete agreements, licensing and trademarks.

Product Licensing
Gross & Romanick can assist with licensing agreements for software, hardware, publications and other high tech products.

Contracts
Gross & Romanick has written hundreds of contracts for their technology clients, including non-disclosure agreements, web-site development agreements, leases, programming agreements, software maintenance and joint development/marketing contracts.

Employment Law
Gross & Romanick’s in-depth understanding of employment law has made them invaluable to their technology clients. Their services include advice, contracts, investigations, Employee Benefits Handbooks and other services.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Ash Charles Dean Joins Gross & Romanick

Ash Charles Dean joined the Gross & Romanick team as a law clerk in 2006. Born in Alexandria, Ash is a lifelong resident of Northern Virginia. He was raised in Manassas and Loudoun County, received his legal education in Arlington and now lives and works in Fairfax.

Before joining Gross & Romanick as a law clerk in 2006, Ash was an intern at the Public Defender’s Office in Loudoun County, where he was able to learn strategies for dealing with all manners of criminal and traffic matters. Ash was able to parlay these strategies into success in the courtrooms of law school, qualifying for the regional rounds of the National Trial Competition and eventually serving as President of the Trial Advocacy Association.

His legal education focused on business litigation, with electives in Business Associations, Income Taxation, Government Contracts, Proof and Commercial Paper. As a law clerk with Gross & Romanick, he gained valuable experience assisting the attorneys with all aspects of litigation, including the research and drafting of motions and pleadings. Ash gained valuable hands-on experience with significant client contact including witness and deposition preparation.

His education in computer science and his logical approach to dealing with technology makes him a natural fit to the technology law practice at Gross & Romanick, where he provides new and innovative services for both the internal operations of the firm and for the firm’s clients.

In his free time, Ash enjoys antiquing with his wife and reading historical non-fiction and political biographies. Ash is also the co-chair of the Dickinson College Washington, D.C. Alumni Association and a former Assistant Policy Debate Coach at Potomac Falls High School.

Education:
Dickinson College (B.A. Summa cum Laude, Computer Science and Political Science with minor in Philosophy, 2003); George Mason University (M.S., Computer Science, expected January 2008); George Mason University School of Law (J.D. Magna cum Laude, 2007).
Bar Admissions: 2007, Commonwealth of Virginia.

Professional Memberships:
American Bar Association; Fairfax Bar Association; Loudoun County Bar Association; Association of Computing Machinery.

Academic Honor Societies:
Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Sigma Alpha; Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
Publications: “The Effects of Learning on the Roles of Chance, History and Adaptation in Evolving Neural Networks”, selected for publication in the Proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (December 2007) (with Dr. Grant Braught).