Michael R. Overly focuses his practice on drafting and negotiating technology related agreements, software licenses, hardware acquisition, development, disaster recovery, outsourcing agreements, information security agreements, e-commerce agreements, and technology use policies. He counsels clients in the areas of technology acquisition, information security, electronic commerce, and online law.
Steve Millendorf is a seasoned privacy and cybersecurity attorney with over two decades of experience as an engineer. Steve’s practice focuses on counseling a broad range of clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property matters. He is a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practice and is recognized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Fellow of Information Privacy.
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This session will focus on critical contractual terms that impact financial, operational, and legal considerations. Topics include structuring fees and costs, defining term and termination clauses, and addressing intellectual property rights, feedback, residual knowledge, and AI-related provisions. Participants will also explore key issues related to customer data, open-source software, and service level commitments. Additionally, the session will cover force majeure clauses and effective negotiation strategies to achieve balanced and enforceable agreements.
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Date / Time: May 15, 2025
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Michael R. Overly | Foley & Lardner LLP
Michael R. Overly focuses his practice on drafting and negotiating technology related agreements, software licenses, hardware acquisition, development, disaster recovery, outsourcing agreements, information security agreements, e commerce agreements, and technology use policies. He counsels clients in the areas of technology acquisition, information security, electronic commerce, and online law. Michael is a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions, Cybersecurity, and Privacy and Privacy, Security & Information Management Practices.
Michael is one of the few practicing lawyers who has satisfied the rigorous requirements necessary to obtain the Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP), Certified Risk and Information System Controls (CRISC), and Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP) certifications.
Steven M. Millendorf | Foley & Lardner LLP
Steve Millendorf is a seasoned privacy and cybersecurity attorney with over two decades of experience as an engineer. Steve’s practice focuses on counseling a broad range of clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property matters. He is a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practice and is recognized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Fellow of Information Privacy. He holds certifications from the IAPP as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States and European privacy laws (CIPP/US and CIPP/E), as well as a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).
Privacy and Cybersecurity Steve is a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer with a broad range of experience assisting clients with their privacy and cybersecurity issues, including data mapping activities, data ownership and monetization, data incident management, breach response and recovery, data subject request policies and form responses, privacy notices, and the development and maintenance of various privacy and cybersecurity policies and procedures that include industry best practices and guidance together with evolving legal requirements.
Steve’s experience includes all aspects of developing and maintaining compliance programs for many U.S. and international general privacy and security laws, including:
Technology Transactions and Intellectual Property Counselling Technology Transactions and intellectual property counseling are also a major focus of Steve’s practice. He regularly advises clients on open source software license issues, and prepares and negotiates data processing agreements, data sharing agreements, open source policies and procedures, protection of intellectual property policies and procedures, professional service agreements, software license agreements, software as a service agreements, development agreements, website and application terms of use and end user license agreements (EULA), cloud agreements, artificial intelligence & machine learning development and use agreements, patent license agreements, and many other types of technology agreements, policies, and procedures.
Steve regularly leverages his breadth and depth in these areas to address the complexities of privacy and cybersecurity issues that are present in almost every technology transaction, as well as to support various M&A activities in the areas of privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and information technology.
Trusted, Practical, and Actionable Advice With more than two decades of engineering experience on the cutting edge of technology, Steve is regularly viewed as a “trusted advisor” to his clients and regularly collaborates with R&D, IT, risk, forensics, dark web, communications, and other professionals together with senior management, c-suite, and board members to bring a practical, multidisciplinary approach help his clients navigate today’s complex legal framework and solve our client’s complex technology and business problems.
Prior Experience Steve’s engineering experience prior to his legal career spans over two decades. While attending law school, Steve was a senior staff hardware security engineer at Qualcomm, where he led the design and development activities for the security features for most of Qualcomm’s chip devices used in smartphones, tablets, cellular modems, and other personal computing devices. He was also recognized as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) by Qualcomm’s Government Technologies Division, where he previously held U.S. security clearance and supported the company’s federal, state, and local government partners in understanding the security of mobile devices.
Before his employment at Qualcomm, Steve worked as an ASIC design engineer in various ground-breaking technologies, such as network security processors for HIFN, some of the first broadband modems for General Instruments (now ARRIS), tape and floppy disk storage as a consultant for iOmega, and text terminals for the Applied Digital Data Systems division of NCR/AT&T. Steve is an inventor on over 10 U.S. and international patents in the areas of cryptography and security.
I. Fees and costs | 1:00pm – 1:15pm
II. Term and termination | 1:15pm – 1:30pm
III. Intellectual property/feedback/residual knowledge/AI | 1:30pm – 1:45pm
IV. Customer data | 1:45pm – 2:00pm
Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm
V. Open source | 2:10pm – 2:30pm
VI. Service levels | 2:30pm – 2:45pm
VII. Force majeure | 2:45pm – 3:00pm
VIII. Approaches to negotiations | 3:00pm – 3:10pm
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Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved via Attorney Submission
2.5 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 Substantive
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
120 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
Not Eligible
2 General Hours
Approved for CLE Credits
2 General
Approved via Attorney Submission
2 Law & Legal
Pending CLE Approval
2.4 General
Pending CLE Approval
2.4 General
Pending CLE Approval
2 General
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