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Carver Esq.
California Bar No. 347496 · Los Angeles

StartupsEngineeringPrivacy

A startup lawyer for technology founders: entity formation, contracts, IP, and privacy counsel from an IAPP-certified attorney.

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Practice areas

Four verticals. One point of contact.

01

Intellectual Property

U.S. Trademarks - Copyrights

U.S. trademark clearance, filing, and prosecution before the USPTO, plus copyright registration where it matters. International brands and foreign counsel: direct U.S. representation, foreign-associate rates by email.

Search the registers first
Opens the WIPO Global Brand Database in a new tab and copies your search term to the clipboard.
Flat legal fee$500+ USPTO filing feesscope confirmed at intake
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02

Entities

LLC - C-Corp - S-Corp - Nonprofit

Formation plus the governance documents needed to actually operate the company: operating agreement or bylaws and initial consents, EIN, ownership and capitalization basics, and initial state filings.

Start here, free
Flat legal fee$500+ state filing feesscope confirmed at intake
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03

Data & Privacy

CCPA - CPRA - GDPR - AI governance

Privacy policies and notices, CCPA/CPRA and GDPR issue spotting, data governance, and AI governance from IAPP-certified counsel. Further work is scoped separately where your data practices or regulatory footprint require it.

Read the law first
Flat legal fee$500scope confirmed at intake
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04

Contracts

NVCA Series A - Drafting - Review

The NVCA model Series A financing set at a flat fee, plus NDAs, Terms of Service, services agreements, SaaS and licensing paper, and vendor contracts - drafted or reviewed and redlined against the deal you're actually doing.

Free, no engagement
Flat legal feefrom $100scope confirmed at intake
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How it works

Four steps, in order.

Step 01

Tell me about your matter

A short questionnaire, scoped to what's reasonably necessary to evaluate the matter - nothing more.

Step 02

Conflict check and scoping

A conflict check runs before anything substantive is discussed, then the scope and fee structure are confirmed.

Step 03

Engagement letter, e-signed

A clear, written agreement with every required disclosure, signed before work begins.

Step 04

Work begins

You get a direct line to the attorney handling your matter - not a triage queue.

Attorney

Eric Adar Carver, Esq.

Trained at UC Berkeley School of Law (Law & Technology certificate, Berkeley Technology Law Journal). Advised the European Parliament in Brussels with the Center for Democracy & Technology on net neutrality, IP protection, and data privacy. Prior experience at Fenwick & West and Ballard Spahr on technology, IP, and privacy matters. Built compliance, terms of service, and privacy infrastructure at Squire Technologies for Apple Tap to Pay with Stripe, and led engineering as founder/CTO of Knowbody, Inc.

Certifications
CIPP/US
Certified Information Privacy Professional / United States
CIPP/E
Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe
CIPM
Certified Information Privacy Manager
CIPT
Certified Information Privacy Technologist
Education & training
UC Berkeley School of Law
Juris DoctorBerkeley Technology Law Journal
PRO BONOLAW & TECHGEN AI
UCLA
B.A. of Philosophy
DEAN'S HONORSCLUB QUIDDITCH

Certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), not the State Bar of California. CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, and CIPT are certification marks of the IAPP.

Bar admission

California

State Bar No. 347496

Admitted in California only. This site does not represent admission in any other jurisdiction.
Subscription

General Counsel

Monthly access for day-to-day legal questions and quick contract reviews.

Monthly subscription$99/month

Billed automatically every month until cancelled. Cancel any time before your next billing date - no cancellation fee, and no partial-month refund for the then-current billing period. A cancellation link is included in every receipt and confirmation email.

What I read

Privacy, IP and tech law, as it lands.

Filings, decisions and preprints, nightly from public feeds. Every card opens at the publisher.

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Published elsewhere and linked as published. Nothing here is checked against a docket by this site, a link is not an endorsement of the publication or a comment on the matter, and none of it is legal advice.