Law is not a black art, and the best results do not always come from hiring the most expensive lawyers or the biggest firms.
You should expect your lawyer to understand your business model and your technology as well as you do, and you should also expect him to come up with a plan forward through both your litigation and your business problems – for most small firms you cannot adequately deal with them separately.
All commercial disputes should be approached from an economic perspective – this is critical for start-ups, who cannot afford to have limited cash reserves burned up in legal bills that do not produce tangible results.
Robbie is an entrepreneur as well as a lawyer, and has been involved in a number of start-ups.
- Founded Archipelago Technology Network, and submitted a €50 million proposal to Enterprise Ireland to seed a new early stage venture capital fund.
- Business Development Director at Clera Inc., a Vancouver biotech firm
- Advised Sentec, a Cambridge technology house, on the commercialization of a new gas metering technology.
- General Counsel for a Dublin web 2.0 start-up
- Founded a Cambridge-based start up to commercialize business process management software (a species of enterprise software) from a European research facility,
- Business Development Director at Gambling Compliance, a London-based online publishing firm providing market and legal intelligence to the gambling sector world-wide.
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