Business Attorney in San Jose
Accord & Shield Legal advises San Jose and Silicon Valley companies — the technology startups, hardware and software firms, and founders at the center of the Valley. California is our founding jurisdiction, and the Valley's startup ecosystem is the kind of work this firm was built on.
Silicon Valley Startups, California Standards
San Jose and Silicon Valley generate more business and IP agreements than almost anywhere on earth — and California enforces them with exacting employment and contract rules. California was attorney Nadine Deeb's first bar admission, and our experience with technology startups runs deep: formation, founder and IP-assignment agreements, equity-adjacent documents, customer and vendor contracts, and scaling-stage employment. We serve Valley companies by phone and video.
How We Help San Jose Businesses
Silicon Valley companies live and die by their IP and their agreements — from founder equity to customer contracts to the assignment of every line of code. Whatever stage your San Jose company is at, we help with:
- Business formation — choosing and setting up the right entity
- Contract drafting and review — the agreements that run your business
- Mergers and acquisitions — buying or selling a business
- Negotiations — getting the best terms and protecting your position
- Partnership dissolution — partner buyouts and clean exits
- Business disputes — resolving conflicts efficiently
- Intellectual property and trademarks — protecting what you build
Serving San Jose and Silicon Valley
From downtown San Jose and North San Jose to the broader Silicon Valley and South Bay, we work with founders and companies across the region. Learn more about our California business law practice, or see all the areas we serve on our service areas page.
San Jose Business Law FAQs
We don't keep a San Jose office, and for business law that's by design — most of our work (contracts, formation, M&A, advisory) is handled efficiently by phone and video. What matters is that attorney Nadine Deeb is admitted to the State Bar of California, so your San Jose matters are handled under California law by a California-licensed attorney.
California's business and employment rules are among the strictest in the country — the ABC test for worker classification, pay transparency requirements, and consumer-protection statutes that don't exist elsewhere. Contracts drafted to another state's standard often fail here. Because California was Nadine Deeb's first bar admission, we draft and review with California's standards as the baseline.
Yes. California — and its technology sector in particular — is where much of our business-law experience was built. We help founders and growing companies with formation, founder and IP-assignment agreements, customer and vendor contracts, fundraising-adjacent documents, and the employment issues that come with scaling a team.
Protect Your San Jose Business
Whether you're forming a company, signing a deal, or facing a dispute, we'll help you do it right. Serving San Jose and all of California — plus our home base in Arizona, and our growing Texas practice.