IT Legal Services: Attorney-at-law and IT Lawyer in the Tricity (Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia)

As an IT lawyer I can help:

• software houses and all other businesses focused on developing software or providing programming services,
• programmers, in disputes with employers or clients,
• businesses and companies in the new technologies sector, in particular those working with blockchain technology,
• large organisations from other sectors that plan to digitise their services or are already doing so,
• e-commerce companies.

• A large part of an IT lawyer’s work is drafting, negotiating and reviewing IT contracts. IT contracts are mainly:

  • implementation agreements, that is, agreements for developing specific software and implementing it in the client’s IT systems and organisation,
  • agreements for software maintenance and development services: in practice you also often see maintenance agreements on their own, also called “IT service agreements”. It is often the case that an organisation already holds licences for a given piece of software but would like to use additional support services, or simply its existing contract will soon expire. Pure software development agreements are less common, although not ruled out, for example where the commissioning party holds all the economic copyrights to the software and wants to outsource its development to an external partner,
  • IT outsourcing agreements and body leasing agreements,
  • contracts and terms of service for services based on the IaaS, SaaS and PaaS models,
  • agreements transferring economic copyrights to software, or software licence agreements,
  • legal support in preparing schedules covering, among other things, the parameters of the services provided (SLA),
  • employment contracts with programmers, and service agreements or contracts for specific work (umowa o dzieło) with programmers.

As an attorney handling litigation, I can also help with matters involving non-performance or improper performance of an IT contract. Contrary to appearances, disputes over IT contracts are not that rare and usually concern:

• non-performance or improper performance of an implementation agreement or a software development agreement, resulting in a refusal to accept the work, a dispute over the quality of the work, a dispute over the installation of the software and its compatibility with the client’s systems,
• claims for contractual penalties under the contract,
• breach of licence terms,
• breach of the terms of agreements transferring economic copyrights
• non-payment of remuneration for work or services performed,
• pursuing claims under the statutory warranty (rękojmia) or guarantee for software,
• breach of the terms of an NDA or other breach of confidentiality obligations.

Legal services for an IT company or other businesses connected with modern technologies also include support in the field of personal data protection. Personal data protection means above all implementing the GDPR (RODO) and adapting the company’s activities to the requirements of the regulation. More on this topic in the section “Attorney Gdynia specialisations: GDPR and personal data protection”.

As I mentioned earlier, most of my firm’s clients are businesses from the Tricity (Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot). If distance and communicating online are not a problem for you, and you are looking for a committed person to provide IT legal services to your business, you are very welcome to get in touch.