I started writing code before I understood I would also write briefs. The two felt like separate disciplines for a long time — engineering on weekdays, the law on long evenings — until they didn't anymore. The work that turns out to matter most happens in the place where the two languages translate each other.
The firm exists for that work. The cases that go badly almost always go badly for the same reason: counsel who cannot speak credibly to the technical substance, paired with engineers who cannot speak to the legal one. A bilingual desk is rare. One that practices both disciplines in the same hand is rarer still. That's the practice.
What the work looks like.
M&A in which the diligence is performed at the same desk as the legal opinion. Venture rounds where the term sheet is modeled before it is signed. Technology litigation in which the brief is written by counsel who has read the repository. Securities and quant work that reads the backtest before the PPM.
"The contract is one description of the same problem the code is solving."
What I will not do.
I will not bill for emails that should have been a paragraph. I will not staff matters with associates who are learning on your dime. I will not take work where the client is buying advice they have already decided not to take.
How to start.
The first conversation is free. The first matter is fixed-fee where possible. The relationship is built on the assumption that you will refer the next one if I get this one right. That has been the working model since the firm was founded; it has worked.
David Awad, Esq.
Awad Law P.C., MMXXVI