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About George Grellas Esq.

I am a startup business lawyer and litigator practicing in Silicon Valley as head of a 4-lawyer boutique firm, George Grellas & Associates.

We are business lawyers with a specialty in early-stage tech startups. Since 1984, we have helped small to medium-sized businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and executives - several thousand in all. We help form companies - fund them - sell or merge or acquire them - sell their assets - do their corporate work, employment work, contracts, leases, and standard terms - licensing, trademark, and IP work - founder and equity incentive structures - commercial deals of all types. We also do litigation: business - corporate - contract - fraud - trade secret - unfair competition - employment - business break-ups - commercial litigation generally.

I am a member of the State Bar-CEB Business and Intellectual Property Law Advisory Committee and a frequent contributing author to CEB business publications (Counseling California Corporations (3rd edition 2008); Advising California Partnerships (3rd edition 2009); California Business Law Practitioner Journal)). CEB stands for Continuing Education of the Bar and has been a leading publisher of lawyer practitioner treatises in California, in affiliation with our State Bar, for over 70 years.

Years ago, in law school, I also served as Chief Technical Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review.

I recently served as President of the Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association (2008-09) and have served on its board of directors for many years.

I also am a member of the Santa Clara Bar Association and the State Bar of California.

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Professional Experience
ExperienceYears
Founder and Principal, George Grellas & Associates1984-Current
Senior attorney in Silicon Valley business and corporate law firm with a specialty in early-stage tech startups.
Associate Attorney, Bingham McCutchen1980-1984
Litigation attorney in then-250 lawyer San Francisco firm representing primarily Fortune 500 companies in commercial litigation matters.
Federal Law Clerk, United States District Court (N.D. Cal.)1979-1980
Federal judicial clerkship with the Honorable William A. Ingram.
Education
SchoolFocusDegreeYear
Santa Clara University School of Law - Santa Clara UniversityLawJ.D.1978
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
University of California - Santa CruzHistoryB.A.1974
Honors: Highest honors in history
Professional Activities
ActivityOrganizationStart YearEnd Year
MemberState Bar-CEB Business and Intellectual Property Law Advisory Committee2009
PresidentSunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association20082009
DirectorSunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association20032009
Awards
AwardOrganizationYear
Best LawyersSan Jose Magazine2002
Best LawyersSan Jose Magazine2001
Best LawyersSan Jose Magazine2000
Professional Affiliations
PositionYears
Member, California State Bar1978-Current
Member, Santa Clara County Bar Association1984-Current
Member, Sunnyvale-Cupertino Bar Association2003-Current

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TitlePublisherPublished
Advising California PartnershipsCEB2009
Contributing author to this legal treatise for California business law practitioners.
California Business Law PractitionerCEBApril, 2008
Author, "Tips, Traps, and Strategies for Representing Early-Stage Startups" (Spring 2008)(for California business law practitioners).
Counseling California CorporationsCEB2008
Contributing Author to this legal treatise for California corporate practitioners.

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