Deborah B. Dong, LL.M.
Professional Background
Deborah has over twenty years of experience in business, law and technology, having worked on the legal as well as the business and technology sides. For over eight years, Deborah practiced corporate, intellectual property and technology law at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, where she was a founding member of the Technology Transfer and Licensing Group and served as the primary advisor to attorneys in the Business Practice Group on technology and intellectual property licensing contracts and commercial agreements. She was a founding partner of Tremont Law Group LLP, and was associated with Bove & Langa, P.C. Prior to practicing law, Deborah worked in the financial services and information technology fields, including as an Information Systems Manager and Senior Telecommunications Analyst with The Travelers and a Computer Programmer/Analyst with Bank of New England.
Seminars and Presentations
Deborah also serves as an advisor to other attorneys and has presented numerous seminars to law firms, law associations, businesses, and educational institutions, including Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association, Boston University's Questrom School of Business and School of Law, and the Center for Women & Enterprise. Her presentations have included:
- Distributing & Licensing Software and Other Technologies – “Containing Liability: Indemnification, Warranties and Risk Coverage” and “Clauses that Cause Consternation”
- Commercial Agreements for Corporate and Intellectual Property Attorneys (a six-part/ten-hour course on drafting and negotiating technology contracts)
- Customer Agreements for Technology Companies
- Indirect Sales Channels: Distributors, Resellers and System Integrators
- Intellectual Property and Employment Agreements
- Licensor-Side and Licensee-Side End User License Agreements
- What Every Corporate and Intellectual Property Attorney Ought To Know About Employment Law
- Walking Through a License Agreement: Legal Terminology and Provisions
- An Intellectual Property Primer for Entrepreneurs
- Intellectual Property Law for Business Students
- Choice of Legal Entities & Intellectual Property Law
- Estate Taxes, Uncle Sam and You
- The Basic Estate Plan – Lifetime Giving
Education
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LL.M. in Taxation, Boston University School of Law
- First Prize, ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition
(for excellence in copyright law)
J.D., with honors, University of Connecticut School of Law
- B.S.B.A., magna cum laude, Boston University Questrom School of Business (School of Management)
- Boston Scholar (full-tuition merit-based academic scholarship)
- Boston Latin School
Professional Affiliations
- Boston Bar Association
- IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals)
- New England Corporate Counsel Association
- New York State Bar Association
Community Service
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Boston Bar Association Financial Literacy Program
- Volunteer High School Lecturer
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Chinese American Women Oral History Project of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
- Advisory Committee Member
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Chinese Historical Society of New England
- Past President of the Board of Directors
- Co-Chair of the Chinese Immigrant Memorial Project Committee
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LeadBoston Program (YW Boston / Boston Center for Community and Justice)
- Member, Class of 2000
Bar & Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New York
- United States Tax Court