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Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Reviewed for Highest Level of Professional Excellence. Connecticut Law Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. Licensed in Connecticut and New York. I primarily represent entrepreneurs, startups, established and early stage companies and provide strategic and practical legal solutions to help leverage their branding, products and technology. I also represent individuals with employment-related issues. My focus is handling employment and business dispute resolutions, buying and selling businesses, formation of joint ventures and strategic alliances, complying with regulations, and technology licensing. At my firm, we also represent clients in bringing and defending lawsuits in Federal and state court. We are ever mindful of providing the best representation and results possible at the most reasonable cost.

Wright provides legal guidance to startups, entrepreneurs and small and medium sized enterprises to help them navigate legal challenges from entity formation through exit, including:. • Contracts. Wright has drafted and negotiated master service agreements, customer agreements, nondisclosure agreements, license agreements, privacy policies, vendor agreements, independent contractor/consulting agreements, subcontractor agreements, employment agreements, and settlement and release agreements.. • Mergers & Acquisitions. Wright has represented purchasers and sellers in M&A transactions, including the drafting and negotiation of letters of intent, stock/asset purchase agreements, escrow agreements, lease assignments, and settlement statements.. • Debt & Equity Financing. Wright has represented lenders and borrowers in secured transactions, including the drafting and negotiation of promissory notes, security agreements, guarantees, and UCC filings. Wright has drafted and reviewed term sheets, stock purchase agreements, convertible notes, SAFEs, warrants, and investor questionnaires.. • Corporate Governance. Wright has set up numerous business entities and drafted articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholders agreements, operating agreements, voting agreements, minutes, and consents. Wright has also drafted equity compensation plans including restricted stock, options, and synthetic equity agreements.. • Estate Planning. Wright also provides estate planning to address entrepreneurs’ and executives’ concerns regarding estate taxes, succession and legacy planning, asset protection, and probate avoidance. Wright has drafted revocable and irrevocable trusts, wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives.

In the courtroom, Mr. Bowser has litigated cases and counseled clients in a wide variety of complex disputes, including individual and class-action cases arising out of contract, tariff, commercial tort, consumer-protection, privacy laws, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in particular. Mr. Bowser has tried cases in federal and state court, and helped clients reach key victories through briefing at both the trial and appellate levels.. Outside the courtroom, Mr. Bowser advises numerous emerging telecommunications companies, helping them navigate regulatory hurdles from initial registration, to on-going compliance and regulatory advocacy, to complex dispute resolution. He also drafts and negotiates a wide variety of contracts, such as telecommunications/ISP service agreements, software/platform/infrastructure-as-a-service agreements, and reseller and marketing agent agreements.. In addition to defending clients in individual and class-action litigation throughout the country, he provides counseling to mitigate the litigation risk, including auditing marketing campaigns, developing compliant website and consent-based opt-ins, and preparing terms of service for direct-marketing campaigns that implicate the TCPA and related marketing and privacy laws. Having litigated many of these issues, Mr. Bowser knows where the proverbial mines are, and helps his clients sidestep them.

Serves as legal analyst on breaking news for various national and local television stations, including CNN, HLN, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CBS and NBC.

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago."-- Warren Buffet. Attorney S. Natasha Gillis launched The Gillis Firm, PLLC in 2009 with a vision of being the soil upon which the tree could sprout and thrive.  What was once a goal has now grown into a passion to make a real and memorable difference in the lives of her clients rather than being the forgotten attorney who once handled a case.. Natasha's main focus and passion involves healthcare businesses, mainly medical and dental practices.  She is well hearsed in acquisition, partnership buy-ins/outs, new practice start-ups, commercial leases, and commercial real estate acquisitions.. Natasha strives to find feasible and uncomplicated solutions. From the moment that you engage her, her goal is to untangle your legal issues and deliver simple yet effective results with minimal stress on you so that you can focus on growing your practice.. After all, isn't that what you should expect from your law firm?

Kathleen Horne is Of Counsel to Sevila, Saunders, Huddleston & White. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Horne was employed as a senior executive and General Counsel of PSINet, Inc., where she built and managed an international legal team of 20+ lawyers and oversaw all legal matters involving PSINet, with an emphasis on transactional matters, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions, debt and equity financings and general corporate matters. While at PSINet, Ms. Horne was recognized by the Fairfax County Commission for Women for her contributions to Fairfax County’s technology industry.. Before moving to Virginia, Ms. Horne practiced corporate and securities law as a partner in the New York City office of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now Nixon Peabody).. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of Loudoun Interfaith Relief and has volunteered on community projects involving the arts.. Ms. Horne focuses her current practice on assisting clients with a wide range of corporate and business needs, employment contracts and employment related issues and land use.. Ms. Horne received her B.S. in Psychology and minor in secondary education, cum laude, from St. Lawrence University and her JD from Albany Law School, Union University. She is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the Loudoun County Bar Association and the New York State Bar.

Mr. Valine started his career in and around the silicon valley. He was the first non-founder employee for a San Francisco-based start-up software company. He then went on to start his own software and services company, achieving funding, expanding to offices in the United States and South America, before his exit. He has since been employed by the Fortune 500, to stand-up and run organizations in the United States and abroad. His technical experience spans from software to hardware, from traditional on-premise offerings to the largest of clouds.. Mr. Valine is from Sacramento, California. He received his bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Virginia and his Juris Doctorate from George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law. He calls Northern Virginia home.. Mr. Valine is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my page. I'm a Virginia attorney who specializes in the fields of Commercial Law and Intellectual Property Law. I'm also experienced in the fields of Employment Law, Veterans Law, Administrative Law, and Auction Law. My typical clients are businesses and executives looking to grow their operations and evaluate their strategic options. I often aid clients in the drafting and interpretation of contracts, resolution of business and IP-related disputes, and development of new company programs.Outside of work, I love to cook, travel, and read up on pop-cultural theory.You can reach me at or by phone at .

Put my experience to work for you!  Experienced civil, probate and criminal litigator.  Dedicated to solving your problems.  Call for a free consultation.

I am the founder of the Law Firm of Gross, Romanick, Dean & DeSimone, P.C., located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia. Over the course of my career, I have represented businesses and individuals in thousands of cases involving business contracts, civil litigation, landlord/tenant matters, criminal defense, personal injury and debt collections. My extensive courtroom experience allows me to provide practical and tested legal solutions to my clients on a wide range of legal matters, including business transactions, debt collection and landlord/tenant disputes. I have the highest ethical rating published by Martindale Hubbell, and my peers have rated me a 5 out of 5. I represent my clients in an honest, competent and aggressive manner, and I hold our law firm to the same standard.

Scott R. Sexauer obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from George Mason University.  He has been in private practice for over 30 years, and has earned a BV-Distinguished Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell.  He will use his experience and knowledge of different areas of the law to obtain the best result for you. Your case will get his personal attention.. Scott  practices in a number of different areas of the law, including, but not limited to, family law, bankruptcy, traffic and criminal cases, real estate, wills, and personal injury.. You can check out his website:  , or his facebook page:  .  The facebook page has personal posts about different areas of the law.

Sara Shariff is a North Carolina native and earned her B.A., with a dual-major in Political Science and Global Studies and a minor in Arabic language, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.. While earning her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law, Sara became involved in various interest areas. Sara was a member of the Mock Trial team and competed at the South Texas Mock Trial Invitationnal and AAJ Student Trial Advocacy Competition. Sara was also a middle-school students' mentor in the Constitutional Scholars Mentorship program and a student attorney in the Special Education Advocacy Clinic, where she represented local, low-income students with special needs. She received the Dean's List recognition and was inducted into the Order of the Litigators while at USC Law.. Sara earned a certificate in Bioethics with a focus in Health and Policy Law from Yale University, where she received the Pollard Prize for best graduate level research presentation.. Throughout law school, Sara worked as a law clerk at a foreclosure defense litigation and real estate firm. After being admitted to practice by the N.C. Bar, Sara has worked as a removal and deportation defense attorney and civil litigator.. Sara has an accomplished array of experiences, and she works diligently to produce the best quality results for her clients.