Alumni Offer Expertise on Website Agreements to Entrepreneurship, IP & Cyberlaw Program

Caitlin Johnston (’12) and Samuel Taylor (’12) spoke to clinic students about emerging legal issues for online businesses.

Caitlin Johnston (’12) and Samuel Taylor (’12) returned to Boston University School of Law last week to advise students on emerging legal issues for online businesses and platforms. The event was organized by the Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Program, which consists of two clinics—the Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Clinic and the Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic.

The clinics frequently work with business ventures and academic projects that build and launch websites. In a combined class on Wednesday, November 16, clinic students asked Johnston and Taylor questions about professional best practices around contracts that are developed for websites, and walked through website terms of use and privacy policies from leading products and services.

Johnston and Taylor are both associates at technology law firm Gunderson Dettmer. Before joining Gunderson, Johnston was an associate at White & Case LLP in New York, and Taylor was an associate at Holland & Knight LLP in Boston.

The Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Program is a collaboration between BU Law and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that brings MIT and BU student entrepreneurs and innovators together with future lawyers from BU to address the legal and regulatory compliance issues associated with their academic and extracurricular pursuits and their efforts to turn ideas into businesses. The Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic launched in September 2016, and works with students at MIT and BU who encounter legal questions related to their innovative academic and extracurricular activities. The Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Clinic launched in September 2015, and works with MIT and BU startups on their business-related legal questions.