The firm built for what's next.
The law is complicated. Your counsel doesn't have to be.
Deep expertise.
Immediate execution.
Stevens & Company was built on a single premise: that sophisticated IP and technology counsel should not require armies of associates, ten-figure retainers, or six weeks to return a redline. Twenty years inside the world's largest legal departments — and across the table from them — proved the model could be different.
The work here is hands-on, partner-led, and shaped by the way modern businesses actually operate. No layered teams. No prepaid weddings before the first date. Scope grows when the work earns it.
Six disciplines. One desk.
Copyright & Emerging IP
Protecting original work and the new categories of intellectual property reshaping creative and technical industries.
Technology Compliance
Privacy, data, and regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions — translated into practical operational guardrails.
Vendor & Emerging Tech Contracts
Negotiation and structuring for software, platform, and emerging technology agreements that scale.
Workplace Technology Law
Employment, monitoring, and policy work at the intersection of people and the systems they use.
IPO Governance & Board Advisory
Public-readiness, board structure, and governance counsel grounded in real transactional experience.
Emerging Technology & Agentic Systems
Counsel on autonomous, agentic, and emerging systems — risk, liability, and the contracts that surround them.
20+ years. Both sides of the table.
High-impact General Counsel and IP strategist with 20+ years at the intersection of intellectual property, technology law, and global business strategy. Architect of one of the industry's first all-access digital subscription licensing frameworks — a foundational move credited by the CEO with a multi-billion dollar company's successful competitive repositioning.
Expert in M&A legal strategy, DOJ regulatory navigation, complex IP licensing, and digital transformation. Equally effective as a long-term executive partner and as a senior advisor engaged for a specific high-stakes transaction. Proven track record of transforming legal departments into high-velocity strategic accelerators through operational rigor and technology-enabled process design.
- ·Cengage Unlimited$1.5B+ revenue transformation — industry-first all-access digital subscription
- ·Cengage–McGraw-Hill MergerLed DOJ advocacy on proposed merger of equals
- ·Legal Operations25%+ outside counsel reduction, $2M+ annual savings
- ·Team Architecture50+ person international legal organization across 20+ countries
- ·Anti-PiracyDouble-digit reduction in counterfeit materials
Seriously, this has to get done today.
Understand your business first
Strategy before paperwork. We learn how you make money before we tell you how to protect it.
Map the actual risk landscape
No theoretical fire drills. We name the risks that are real, ranked by what they cost you.
Deliver work that gets used
Documents your team can actually operate. Plain language. Defined terms. Nothing for the shelf.
Move at your speed
Don't prepay for the wedding before the first date. Scope grows when the work earns it.
Let's talk about what's next.
The law is complicated. Your counsel doesn't have to be.
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