William Galkin

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William has more than 20 years experience advising companies at all stages of development on entering into, structuring and managing a wide variety of relationships in the areas of information technology, Internet, e-commerce, content, and computer law, including licensing, development, alliance, distribution and outsourcing arrangements.

He also provides general advice in the area of intellectual property. William has served as an adjunct professor of Computer Law at the University of Maryland School of Law; an adjunct professor of Business Law at the Merrick School of Business at the University of Baltimore; Special Intellectual Property Counsel for the Office of the Maryland Attorney General; and Chairperson of the “Crimes in Cyberspace Panel” for the 19th National Information Systems Security Conference (Sponsored by the National Security Agency).

William has also authored numerous articles on information technology as well as the Maryland Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions Forms and Practice Manual, published by Data Trace Publishing in 2009.

Representative Matters

• Representing multinational telecommunications software company in multiple large and long term development and outsourcing projects.
• Representing web-based companies in development of internationally recognized privacy policies.
• Representing software development companies in use and distribution of products incorporating open source code and applications.
• Representing blog aggregator in content development, alliance and licensing transactions.
• Representing technology companies in the licensing, distribution and other commercialization of products.
• Representing bioinformatics company in licensing out access to bioinformatics database.
• Representing web security solutions companies in developing OEM relationships.
• Representing enterprise-wide application access solutions company in developing multiple alliance arrangements.

Interview with William Galkin

• What do you enjoy about your area of law?

It is fun to see how technology changes so quickly and challenging to apply laws and regulations that often don’t keep pace with the technology.  I also enjoy working with creative clients in the technology space and helping them build, market, and exploit their technology through legal representation, which often includes critical business advice gained from years of experience.

• What was the best piece of advice you got from a mentor?

The best advice I ever got from a mentor was to not just perform a task the way you were asked to do it, but to consider, if there was a more efficient way of performing that same task that would also help the client.