Of Counsel |  TWeitz@FIPLawGroup.com

Theodore Weitz has over 45 years of experience as both in house and outside counsel, including principal legal responsibility for major matters, such as acquisi­tions, dispositions, mergers, and invest­ments for both acquiring and target com­panies; joint ventures and licensing agree­ments; general commercial matters; cor­porate governance and compliance; securities law compliance; human resource and compensation matters; intellectual prop­erty licensing and acquisition; major litigation including securities, intellectual property, commercial and antitrust; and regulatory matters.

His practice now centers on general corporate matters for emerging companies, including organization, financing, contracts, compliance, and mergers and acquisitions; and on transactional work for entities of all sizes. He has also acted as advisor to companies on managing legal organizations and related functions. Ted is an Adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, having established and now directing their clinical program in Entrepreneurship Law, and previously was an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School. 

He has been general counsel of four different technology and telecommunications companies, and spent time in house at Intel, Lucent, AT&T and UNIX System Laboratories.  He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars as well as the bar of the United States Supreme Court and several federal circuit and district courts.  He has been active in bar association activities and public speaking, including acting as chair of the Computer Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and has been a member of a number of bar association committees. 

He has spoken before programs at, among others, the Rutgers Center for Law and Governance, Boston University Law School, the Licensing Executives Society, Columbia University, the New York Academy of Science and the American Corporate Counsel Association.