Stephen Hollman | San Jose Business Lawyer | California

Steve, a principal of Business & Technology Law Group in the Silicon Valley, emphasizes in his practice both the transactional and litigation aspects of business, technology, Internet and electronic commerce, cloud computing, intellectual property and unfair competition, and commercial matters.

As one of the early pioneers in the computer and technology law fields, he is a recognized author and frequent lecturer on, and practitioner in, domestic and international cloud computing, outsourcing arrangements, and related service level commitments; intellectual property protection and infringements, maximization of value from such assets, and enforcement and infringement of proprietary rights; Internet contracting and commerce; privacy rights and security issues emanating from usage of the Internet; U.S. and worldwide licensing and distribution transactions; start- up companies and related financing strategies; and alternative dispute resolution approaches and tactics.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Steve was a systems analyst and an advanced programmer on mainframe computer equipment in the Boston area.

After being graduated from lawschool, he practiced for several years as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in both unfair competition matters and large- scale antitrust litigation. Following his relocating to California, Steve rose to become Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of a computer services firm that in a short period of time grew from $40M to $200M in gross revenues as the country’s first pre-Internet application services provider, after which he entered private practice.

For more than two decades, Steve has been the author and editor of Thomson Reuters’ multi-volume authoritative and regularly cited work on the Uniform Commercial Code, West’s California Code Forms – Commercial, and serves on the Board of Editors of both Aspen Publisher’s Computer and Internet Lawyer and BNA’s Computer Technology Report.

Steve received an A.B. with Honors in Economics from Clark University in Worcester, MA, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA, and an Executive Management Program Certificate from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

In March 2012, he was honored by President David Angel of Clark University by being invited to be one of the Alumni in Residence for several days in Worcester, MA. Currently, Steve is working with the administration and faculty of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA on the birth and implementation for a first of its kind at any law school in the United States of an Institute on Law Practice and Innovation.

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Suffolk University Law School	J.D.	Law School	N/A
Clark University	A.B.	Economics	N/A

State / Court	Date
CA	1973

• Steve is the Chair of the of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law’s Committee on Internet Relationships and Cloud Computing that has now grown to over one hundred members with significant initiatives that have been completed and are in process. In 1999, as a member of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), he made strategic contributions to the drafting and lobbying of both the Year 2000
  Information and Readiness Disclosure Act and the Y2K Act.

• Based upon voting by his peers, Steve was named in each of years 2002 through
  2009 as one of the top technology attorneys in the United States by The Best Lawyers in America. For the past four years, he has been identified in the International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers as one of the foremost Internet lawyers in the world, and for 2009 is one of the selected lawyers worldwide who was invited to participate in this prestigious network.

• Thomson Reuters’ multivolume authoritative work on the California Uniform Commercial Code, West’s California Code Forms – Commercial
  
  Board of Editors of The Computer Lawyer and BNA’s Computer Technology Report.

• Business & Technology Law Group
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