I'm a seasoned veteran with two decades in the trenches of the tech industry, who took the road less traveled and returned to school to get a law degree and become an attorney. This year I graduated from GW Law in our nation's capital, and plan to leverage my well-earned law degree and my tech background to create a nimble, adaptable and sensible legal practice. My firm will be laser focused on the legal needs of tech savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of working smarter, not harder. My background gives me a unique skillset among 99% of practicing attorneys. I am well-versed on network topology, system engineering and best practices for cybersecurity; yet, I also have a deep understanding of how administrative regulatory structures of government agencies like the FCC and the FTC impact the day to day operations of small business android or iOS app developers. From the requirements to protect children under COPPA to the mandate for large telecom carriers to provide access to their networks for law enforcement set forth in CALEA, you will find that a lawyer who knows the inner workings of your tech business is an invaluable asset.

Not only are there federal and state regulations, but modern businesses have to adapt to international regulations such as the new EU-US data privacy rules the EU enacted recently. Any time your business conducts a sales transaction with a customer with a passport from an EU country anywhere in the world, the restrictive personal information transport rules will apply to how you conduct that transaction. And this is just the beginning of the legislation that will start to weigh heavily on businesses that are not prepared to deal with the complexities that will be inherent to doing business in a shrinking global economy while juggling regulatory requirements of every country's border you transfer data across.

Don't put off preparing your strategy for dealing with these eventualities until they're on top of you threatening to shut your flow of business down. Act now, and be well-prepared for the hyperconnected, data driven ultra-tech future where the telecommunications laws of 200 other countries that you may do business with are just as important to you as those of the U.S.A. because failure costs money.

The first step in the right direction is hiring the right person to analyze your business structure and determine what needs to be done to future proof your business platform so that you're racing to the top while the other guys are bogged down with red tape.