March 16, 2020 Dear Clients, Colleagues, & Friends, With the rapidly evolving nature of the COVID-19 outbreak, we want to provide you all with a brief update on our firm’s operations. Remote Work. All attorneys and staff will be working remotely. Our systems are designed to be...
Kubernetes continues to gain ground as a container-orchestration platform of choice for many companies. Four years after Google's release of Kubernetes 1.0, the platform holds ninth place in GitHub commits. Major firms such as VMWare and NetApp are doubling down on it, investing in Kubernetes...
Maine in June 2019 significantly changed its laws governing noncompete agreements. The new rules will make it harder for employers to enforce these contracts, with a goal of allowing talent to switch jobs more freely and more often. In a noncompete, an employee agrees not to...
The NDA is possibly the most overrated type of legal document that companies will ever use, but still a critical tool to use when you need to. This article will answer the when do you need to? question. NDAs: The Basics Every company at some point will encounter...
This is a guide to the key provisions that every Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company should include in its agreements with its users. It applies both to B2C and B2B SaaS products. The list is not exhaustive, but it covers the most important clauses (which I often...
If you make, sell or license software, you'll want to have a basic understanding of the common legal documents that are used in your profession. Here's a field guide to these documents. My goal here is to demystify some terminology that can be confusing, explain what...
We represent service providers of all types: software developers, commercial photographers, graphic designers, I.T. firms, and many more. The single most common piece of legal advice I give them is: always get paid in advance. Require your clients to pay at least a portion of your expected...
This article is written by Emily Brackett, CEO of Visible Logic, an award-winning Portland, Maine website development and branding firm, and Adam Nyhan, a software attorney at Portland, Maine law firm Opticliff Law, LLC. Many businesses hire professional website development firms to build their websites. And...
As a boutique law firm, we are fortunate and grateful to be a go-to resource for so many people who seek to start a company and want “to do it right” (their words, not mine). In fact, I’m not sure there is a part of...
Our clients have lots of questions about two related issues involving their business websites: Terms of Use and privacy policies. Here's our breakdown of these common questions and what you need to know as the operator of a business website. What's the difference between a website's...