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STEPHEN H. LACOUNT Attorney Prior to founding his own law firm in February of 2005, Stephen LaCount was affiliated with Nixon Peabody LLP, a top-50 law firm headquartered in the Northeast. He was previously a partner (and member of the Executive Committee) in the national law firm of Arter & Hadden from 1992-2003. He attended Boston University (B.A., cum laude), New York Law School (J.D.) and New York University School of Law (LL.M., Trade Regulation). Mr. LaCount has extensive experience representing a broad range of corporate clients and has served as in-house counsel with a number of prominent multinationals, including Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Esterline Technologies. In 1987, he relocated from Fairfield, Connecticut to Irvine, California to join AST Research, Inc., a Fortune 500 personal computer manufacturer, where he served as General Counsel for three years before entering private practice. His practice emphasizes domestic and international business transactions, including acquisition of technology companies, general counseling/emerging growth companies, patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection and exploitation, technology development and strategic partnering, software licensing and information technology contracting, international distribution and representative agreements, outsourcing, internet, e-business, privacy and data protection, antitrust, and specialized regulatory matters involving national security and foreign investment review, including foreign trade control compliance (e.g., Export Administration Regulations and International Traffic-in-Arms Regulations). He is also a long-standing member of the American Arbitration Association's National Roster of Neutrals and has resolved a wide variety of disputes involving intellectual property rights and technology-related agreements and transactions. Mr. LaCount served as a Director of the Computer Law Association from 1992-1998. In 1991, 1995 and 1999, he chaired the CLA’s biennial Pacific Rim Computer Law Conferences in Newport Beach and San Francisco. He is a long-standing member of the Executive Council of the American Electronics Association in Orange County and co-founded the AEA High-Tech Innovation Awards, an annual Orange County technology company showcase. In May of 2007, he was awarded the AeA's prestigious Greg Ross Community Service Award. In addition to his professional and trade association involvement, Mr. LaCount is an advisor to the Harvey Mudd College Entrepreneur Network (the science and engineering school of the Claremont Colleges) and a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Southern California District Export Council. He is a nationally recognized speaker and author on technology, privacy and international trade regulation subjects and is included in the International Who’s Who of Internet And E-Commerce Lawyers. Stephen LaCount is admitted to the state bars of New York and California. |
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