Phil Weiss
City of Peekskill, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Weiss is a New York and Massachusetts-licensed attorney with 11 years of experience advising startups on transactional matters, intellectual property (especially trademarks and copyrights), corporate structuring, and digital/film production. As founder of LegalHackers and Managing Member of Ascend Law, he blends legal practice with entrepreneurship and hands-on technical skills—he studied JavaScript and front-end development and codes alongside his counsel work. He serves as General Counsel at Phreeli and teaches Startup Law at Brooklyn Law School, bringing practical classroom insights from running a law firm and incubator clinic. Based in Peekskill, NY, Phil combines courtroom-caliber legal training with a creator’s mindset, helping creative and tech clients navigate IP and business risk while shipping products.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript Development, Javascript Development at General AssemblyDoctor of Law (J.D.), Information Law, Doctor of Law (J.D.), Information Law at Brooklyn Law SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Boston University
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
LegalHackers/legalhackers.github.io
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 7 PRs, 69 pushes in 10 days
philfw/philfw.github.io
Jan 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 9 months
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