FRONT RANGE LEGAL SERVICES - Key Persons
Eric developed his passion for law as an undergraduate in Austin, Texas. During law school at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, Eric focused his studies on business law and contracts because he knew that he wanted to assist small and medium sized business owners realize their entrepreneurial dreams. After law school, Eric completed his M.B.A. in Germany at the University of Stuttgart in 2008.
As an attorney Eric has experience practicing in front of the Colorado Court of Appeals and in courts throughout the Denver metro area. Eric has also successfully navigated the bureaucratic morass of federal and Colorado state administrative law on behalf of his clients. He has also dedicated a portion of his time pro-bono legal work with Denver Metro Volunteer Lawyer's Family Law Court Program, a program which assists and represents litigants in family proceedings who may otherwise be unable to afford representation.
Eric understands the complexities of starting and maintaining a business and can guide a small business through the start up process, acquisition of capital, employer/employee relationships, changing business entity status, mergers, and handling international disputes. As a German speaker and a former resident of Germany, Eric also has an advanced understanding of German business practices and economics that he uses to assist clients as they develop their businesses in the German market.
John Arsenault represents clients in business, infringement, and/or licensing disputes. John's previous background in the software industry and knowledge of open source software licenses places him in a unique position to accurately and efficiently answer intellectual property and computer law questions for clients as both an expert in technology and as an intellectual property attorney.
After working at two software companies in Austin, Texas, John began law school in 2005 at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon. During law school, John served as associate editor for the Oregon International Review of Law and as an on-campus research assistant for two professors at the Knight Law School. Knowing the areas of law he wished to specialize in after law school, John focused his legal studies on intellectual property, business law, and computer law.
John enjoys both college and professional sports in addition to snowboarding, tennis, computer technology, video games, and trivia.
John A. Arsenault focuses on transactional and corporate law, most specifically with software companies and online service providers. Prior to law school, Mr. Arsenault worked at several software companies that provided online services to millions og subscribers around the world companies and had an early interest in how computer technology intersected. At these companies and as an attorney Mr. Arsenault became intimately associated with the daily operations of the service and the legal needs of software companies including evaluating use of open source licenses, media licensing agreements, assignment of work product and intellectual property rights, patent protection, trademark rights, avoiding copyright infringement, protection of trade secrets, drafting enforceable non-competes, and how to evaluate foreign independent contractors.