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Our Success |
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| Our success depends on our clients’ success. We provide companies, entrepreneurs and investors with strategic legal resources for their growing businesses. We embrace innovation and collaboration and work with our clients as an extension of their team. We are a trusted advisor and can serve as outside general counsel, special advisor or expert counsel, and a referral resource. We bring a network built over two decades of large law firm experience. |
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Our Experience |
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Deborah J. Ludewig
Founder and Legal Counsel
Deborah J. Ludewig founded DJL Corporate Law in March 2008. Deborah practiced law during the last 17 years at several large law firms based in Silicon Valley and has been a partner at K&L Gates, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Cooley Godward. She has worked with hundreds of companies in corporate formations, venture capital financings, joint ventures, public and private offerings, merger and acquisition transactions and as special advisor on board and governance matters. Deborah’s experience includes serving as a general counsel of an internet start-up.
Deborah currently works with private and public companies on a range of projects typically managed by a general counsel. She has supported early stage clients engaged in financing and team building matters and late stage companies in negotiating strategic commercial agreements and supervising the growth of IP portfolios. Her collaboration network includes her contacts and former colleagues in several large firms as well as specialists in a wide array of practices around the country.
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Deborah is a frequent speaker and educator on topics relevant to entrepreneurs and executives. She has developed governance seminars for board members and other educational programs of interest to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Deborah is a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute and Chair of the PLI’s annual program in San Francisco on Drafting Corporate Agreements.
Deborah is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Silicon Valley Chapter, www.svnacd.org, the oldest corporate governance non-profit institution in the US.
Deborah is a member of the Board of Directors of Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives, www.fweande.org, an organization serving the growth and leadership development needs of entrepreneurs and senior level executives.
Deborah is a member of the Board of Directors of Girls for a Change, www.girlsforachange.org, a national organization that empowers teen age girls to create and lead social change.
JD – 1991, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
BS – 1980, College of Notre Dame (summa cum laude)
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Jessica Kleinschmidt
Associate
Jessica attended the University of Texas School of Law, where she worked with the Children’s Rights Clinic, the Action Committee for Career Services, and the Standards and Rules Committee. She was presented with the Dean’s Achievement Award in Employment Law and was a semi-finalist in the Gardere Mock Trial Competition. Jessica was a summer associate at the Silicon Valley office of O’Melveny and Myers and worked in their Corporate department.
Jessica is a native Californian and grew up in the Silicon Valley. She attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she received a B.S. in Economics cum laude with a minor in Music. During college, Jessica was road manager to Maria Muldaur on a national tour and was campaign manager on a State Assembly Campaign.
Jessica is thrilled to be working at DJL Corporate Law. She is passionate about community service and is already working on pro bono projects for Girls For a Change, a non-profit organization that empowers girls to create and lead social change.
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Aurora Thiede
Administration/Paralegal
On March 31, 2008, Aurora Thiede reunited with Deborah Ludewig. Aurora worked with Deborah for many years at Cooley Godward and Pillsbury Winthrop, and has extensive experience providing paralegal and administration support to attorneys and clients in a wide range of practice. A big milestone in her career was when she first worked for a law firm in San Francisco and supported a partner in 1988. She worked with partners and associates in the bay area, Sacramento, plus, a prestigious law firm in Dayton, Ohio. Since then, Aurora earned an exceptional reputation which she carried throughout her career. She has experience in corporate transaction, securities and mergers and acquisition. Among other areas of law with which she became familiar were estate planning, probate, tax, real estate, intellectual property and recently, in litigation. Her high regard for lawyers she worked with increased her desire to continue working in the legal field.
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