Attorney List: Paul David Marotta Hans Christian N. Ruschke Megan N. Jeanne Gerald Lau

Contact:

TEL: (650) 227-8000 x 204

FAX: (650) 227-8001

Paul@tclg.com

PAUL MAROTTA has practiced law in California for over 25 years.  Paul has helped businesses of every size, shape, and kind.  He was admitted to the California State Bar, and the Federal District Court bar for the Northern District of California in 1983; and admitted to the bar of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1986.

Paul’s practice focuses on helping emerging growth companies with general corporate matters, venture capital and other financings, mergers, licensing, acquisitions, stock options, intellectual property matters, and business disputes and litigation.  

Paul attended The University of Southern California (B.A., 1980) and Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1983).  Paul is a member of Phi Delta Phi and a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award for Conflicts of Law.  He is the author of “Rejection of Executory Contracts in the Context of Software License Agreements: The Problems and Some Suggested Solutions,” Vol. 10, No. 1, The Business Law News (1987); “The Injunction Bond in High Technology Litigation: The Need for Reform” 4 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 19 (1988) and “The Best Practices In Stock Option Grants” in 2007.  He was a member of the Editorial Board for The Business Law News from 1987-1990, and is a member of The State Bar of California. 

Paul came close to playing jazz drums professionally but chickened out.  He's also a San Jose Earthquakes season ticket holder, happily married for 23 years to Kimm Edwards, and father of a USC sophomore, identical high school twin girls, and a son with a heart for building homes in Juarez.

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