Legal

The legal team is responsible for helping every team at Sourcegraph to be responsible while moving quickly. The legal team supports Sourcegraph’s sales efforts by helping with contract templates and negotiations, people ops team with hiring and contracting documents, finance team with fundraising and partnership agreements, and more.

Team

We are hiring for the legal team! See all open positions.

Until the team grows, Dan and our outside counsel will provide legal support.

Members

• T.Z., Director of Legal (starting 2021-02-22)

Roles

See the Operations roles page.

Goals

TODO

Requesting legal support

Reach out to [email protected], or Dan directly, for support with any legal matters, including employment-related questions, contracts, etc.

Outside counsel

We work with external law firms as needed.

Corporate

We work with Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe (Orrick) for general corporate matters.

Contacts

• Anik Guha
• Brandon Sanders.

Commercial transactions

We typically work with Orrick for commercial transactions (i.e., sales contracts or partnerships).

If Orrick has a conflict (i..e, if they also serve the other side of the deal), we will seek a waiver, or if necessary work with another firm, often O’Melveny.

Contacts

• Tim Greene

Employment and immigration

We work with Orrick for general employment matters, and with Wolfsdorf Rosenthal for visa and immigration matters.

Contacts

• Mike Yang

Intellectual property

We work with Orrick for most intellectual property work, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

Contacts

• Kristin Cornuelle

Licensing

We work with Heather Meeker of O’Melveny for open source and related software licensing matters.