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LAW OFFICE OF BRUCE
D. LATHROP
Bruce Lathrop has
been a business lawyer in the Los Angeles area for over 19 years, providing
strategic legal counseling in
intellectual property,
corporate law,
government contracts, and
dispute resolution, and serving as
in-house or outsourced corporate counsel to clients, managing day-to-day
business and legal affairs.
Bruce has significant experience in government contractor internal investigation
and compliance matters, and in intellectual property, licensing, and contract matters involving
computer hardware and software, geographic information systems or GIS software,
graphical user interfaces, avionics, the Internet, and system design, development,
and testing.
Establishing the firm in 1996 to provide the highest quality legal representation to technology-driven companies, Bruce approaches his legal practice with a cost-effective, but unwavering focus on the interests of his clients.
Bruce previously was associated with the international law firm of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, representing environmental and aerospace and defense companies in corporate, intellectual property, litigation, and government and commercial contract matters.
Beginning in 1998, Bruce served more than eight years as in-house counsel to a large multinational software and services company with a broad-base of commercial and government customers. His corporate and transactional experience centered on acquisitions, licensing, and service agreements, and a proactive approach to intellectual property protection and dispute resolution and avoidance.
Bruce is a registered patent attorney, member of the American Bar Association’s Business, Intellectual Property, and Public Contracts Law Sections, and he is a member of the Pasadena Angels and serves as a councilmember for the City of Bradbury.
Bruce received his law degree with honors from the University of Southern California and his engineering degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where his upper division coursework focused on industrial engineering, ergonomics, user interface design, and man-machine systems.
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