Mr. Mark D. Grossman

Mark Grossman is a 28-year business lawyer who began focusing his practice on technology about 22 years ago. This makes him an old-timer in a new practice area. He is also an author and frequent speaker on technology, business, and the art and science of negotiating deals.

Mark is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level attainable, and has been a member of the Florida Bar's Computer Law Committee. Further, he was chosen by his peers to appear in the last several editions of The Best Lawyers in America. Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Since Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 25,000 leading attorneys cast almost two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

A 1982 cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., Mark started in the big-firm world working on large corporate deals. Then he had his own firm for many years until one of Florida's larger law firms courted him in 1997. They asked him to start and lead their technology practice, which he did until 2005.

Mark started his career as a business lawyer gaining experience as a negotiator and litigator, but then began to focus his practice on technology outsourcing, telecommunications, licensing, and custom development deals. Working on such technology deals led to experience with non-disclosure agreements, software audit disputes, computer use policies, the Internet, privacy policies, online contracts, e-commerce, document destruction policies, intellectual property, employment agreements, and issues unique to start-ups.

Mark also has extensive experience as a litigator. Although he no longer litigates, Mark does consult with other law firms on issues pertaining to electronic discovery and does depositions relating to electronic discovery.

Mark's clients have ranged from clients selling technology-related goods and services who needed a lawyer who understood their industry, to working with clients on the buying side of a transaction. On that side, his clients have included banks, insurance companies, and medium and large sized businesses in many diverse industries. Mark has advised small startups and Fortune 500 companies on their technology deals.

Mark's technology clients all share the need for a lawyer with meaningful experience in technology law. In many cases, his clients are spending large amounts of money buying complex technologies and need to hire a technology attorney to insure that they have a meaningful contract. His general business clients share a need for personalized service from an experienced business lawyer with an attention for detail and a penchant for negotiating deals.

In 1996, Mark started writing about technology law just as technology and the Internet were exploding and the dot com bubble started. He began his writing career with PC World Magazine. In 1997, he created his weekly "CyberLaw" column in South Florida's "Daily Business Review." In 2000, he renamed his column "TechLaw" and moved it to the Miami Herald where the column ran for many years.

Since the mid-1990's, Mark has spoken to hundreds of groups domestically and internationally including multiple appearances at Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced Computer Law Institute, COMDEX in Las Vegas, and seminars offered by the American Corporate Counsel Association. He has also been a guest on many television and radio shows including ABC's "Nightline."

Mark has written for Washington's "Legal Times," the "Texas Lawyer," "The Recorder of San Francisco," the "University of Texas School of Law Review of Litigation," and the Florida Bar's "Computer Law Journal." He also co-authored a chapter called "Web Development Agreements" in the American Bar Association's book titled Internet Law for the Business Lawyer.

Mark has served as a subject matter expert for the State of Florida's Internet Task Force, was a member of the Board of Directors of the InternetCoast, served as General Counsel for the South Florida Interactive Marketing Association, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Coral Gables Museum. Currently, he is Special Counsel for Technology for the X-Prize Foundation (www.xprize.org), a member of the Advisory Board of BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Newsletter, and a member of the Board of Editors of "Internet Law and Strategy," a publication of Law Journal Newsletters.

In 1998, Mark was one of three co-founders of the software company Eisenworld, Inc., which was later acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Microsoft incorporated Eisenworld's "PC Relocator" software into Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Mark received his B.A., with high honors, in 1979 from Stony Brook University. He is a member of the New York and Florida Bars and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida.

Mark's current firm, the Grossman Law Group, has offices in Manhattan and South Florida.

Mark's Representative Transactions and Other Matters This list of representative transactions represents the broad nature, scope, and type of transactions Mark has handled for his clients and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of his technology and telecommunications law experience.

Served as outside counsel and negotiated a multi-million dollar business process outsourcing deal for a Fortune 500 company with the company's Indian service provider. Served as outside counsel and negotiated the licensing of a multi-million dollar claims and risk management system for a Fortune 100 company.

Represented a Fortune 100 company in a negotiation, design, and purchase of an IT system for a new regional distribution center.

Represented software companies in connection with licensing, reseller, distribution, and services agreements.

Served as outside counsel to a Fortune 500 company in structuring, negotiating, and drafting agreements related to the telecommunications transport and managed network services.

Negotiated multimillion dollar settlements for clients relating to a variety of disputes including, but not limited to: software licensing, credit card processing, software development, and intellectual property infringement.

Served as outside counsel and advised a Fortune 300 company on the acquisition of a multi-million dollar database system including software and hardware components.

Represented a major health care IT service provider in a variety of merger and acquisitions transactions.

Served as outside IP counsel with respect to clients' trademark and copyright issues, including the creation and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Serves as outside counsel to a digital media company that licenses video and graphics software to television broadcasting companies worldwide.

Provided a range of services to start-up companies including advice on organizational structure, security matters, initial and venture capital financing, and partnering arrangements.

Represented clients in negotiating various telecommunications master services and network services agreements with Bellsouth, AT&T, and Verizon.

Represented numerous software vendors of all sizes on IT and intellectual property matters including licensing agreements, hosting agreements, development transactions, maintenance and support agreements, consulting, and professional services agreements.

General Counsel to a fast growing telecommunications software company named to the Inc. 500 (Inc. Magazine's annual list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S.), and assisted the company in the licensing of software products to telecommunications carriers.