California Bar No. 347496 · Los Angeles

StartupsEngineeringPrivacy

A California solo practice for founders and engineers: entity formation, contracts, IP, and privacy counsel from an IAPP-certified attorney who has built the products, not just reviewed them.

Practice areas

Four verticals. One point of contact.

01

Intellectual Property

Trademarks - Copyrights

Clearance, filing, prosecution, and enforcement for marks and creative works, scoped to what a growing company actually owns.

Flat feefrom $1,250scope confirmed at intake
02

Entities

LLC - C-Corp - S-Corp - Nonprofit

Formation, cap table basics, registered agent, EIN/ITIN, and Beneficial Ownership Information filing - set up correctly the first time.

Flat feefrom $1,500scope confirmed at intake
03

Data & Privacy

CCPA - CPRA - GDPR - AI governance

Privacy notices and policies, risk and impact assessments, incident response, and AI-system governance built by IAPP-certified counsel.

Flat feefrom $2,000scope confirmed at intake
04

Contracts

Drafting - Review - Negotiation

NDAs, services agreements, licensing, vendor paper, and terms of service, drafted or reviewed against the deal you're actually doing.

Flat feefrom $500scope confirmed at intake
Bundled

Startup Bundle

Entity formation, a CCPA/CPRA-scoped privacy notice, and a mutual NDA - scoped together in one engagement rather than three.

$3,400vs. $4,000 separately
How it works

Four steps, in order.

Step 01

Tell me about your matter

A short questionnaire, scoped to what's reasonably necessary to evaluate the matter - nothing more.

Step 02

Conflict check and scoping

A conflict check runs before anything substantive is discussed, then the scope and fee structure are confirmed.

Step 03

Engagement letter, e-signed

A clear, written agreement with every required disclosure, signed before work begins.

Step 04

Work begins

You get a direct line to the attorney handling your matter - not a triage queue.

Attorney

Eric Adar Carver, Esq.

Trained at UC Berkeley School of Law (Law & Technology certificate, Berkeley Technology Law Journal) with prior experience at Fenwick & West and Ballard Spahr on technology, IP, and privacy matters. Built compliance, terms of service, and privacy infrastructure at Squire Technologies for Apple Tap to Pay with Stripe, and led engineering as founder/CTO of Knowbody, Inc. Currently a staff attorney at Public Counsel, advising small businesses on contracts, IP portfolios, and CCPA/CPRA/GDPR compliance.

Certifications
CIPP/US
Certified Information Privacy Professional / United States
CIPP/E
Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe
CIPM
Certified Information Privacy Manager
CIPT
Certified Information Privacy Technologist
Education & training
UC Berkeley School of Law
Juris DoctorLaw & Technology certificate · Berkeley Technology Law Journal
UCLA
B.A.
Berkeley Law Executive Education
Generative AI for the Legal ProfessionJune 2025

Certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), not the State Bar of California. CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, and CIPT are certification marks of the IAPP.

Bar admission

California

State Bar No. 347496

Admitted in California only. This site does not represent admission in any other jurisdiction.
Before you book

Startup Readiness Checklist

A short, interactive checklist covering the business and technical basics - entity, IP, contracts, data handling - so your consultation starts from where you actually are.