SaaS Attorney in Texas

Who We Help

Software and Technology Companies Doing Business in Texas

We work with SaaS, PaaS, and AI-adjacent software companies — from founders signing a first enterprise customer to established companies with a library of customer and vendor paper — that sell to, buy from, or operate in Texas.

Scope

SaaS and Software Agreements We Handle

We work across the documents a software business signs, or asks its customers to sign:

• SaaS subscription agreements and MSAs — with order forms, self-serve terms of service, and enterprise agreements.
• Statements of work (SOWs) — the services layer under a master agreement.
• Data processing agreements (DPAs) — privacy and data-handling terms on either side of the relationship.
• Software licenses and EULAs — on-premise, embedded, and end-user licensing.
• Service level agreements (SLAs) — uptime commitments, credits, and support tiers.
• Reseller, referral, and channel-partner agreements — channel and integration relationships.
• Vendor, API, and platform terms — the agreements that govern what your product is built on.
• NDAs and confidentiality terms — in the context of a software deal.

For the deeper dives, see our guides on enterprise MSAs and DPAs, MSA vs. SOW, SaaS renewal terms and price increases, and reseller and channel-partner agreements for SaaS. The statewide overview is on our SaaS and software agreement attorney page.

Texas

What Texas Adds to a SaaS Agreement

A few Texas topics that bear on SaaS agreements. This page is general information, not legal advice; whether any of them applies depends on your product, your customers, and your agreements.

Texas AI law (TRAIGA)

Texas’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act took effect on January 1, 2026. It prohibits certain harmful AI uses and gives the Texas Attorney General enforcement authority, including civil investigative demands and civil penalties. TRAIGA does not create a private right of action, but Texas companies should not assume they are operating in a light-touch jurisdiction.

Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 551.002 provides that the subtitle applies only to a person who promotes, advertises, or conducts business in Texas; produces a product or service used by Texas residents; or develops or deploys an AI system in Texas. A company with no Texas office can be reached through the second clause alone.

Read the full analysis in Texas’s AI Law: What Applies to Private Companies. If your product uses AI, see our AI governance practice.

Subscription renewal and cancellation

Even where Texas’s specific auto-renewal requirements are lighter than California’s, the DTPA backstop means deceptive or obstructive cancellation practices still carry real risk. The practical takeaway: a Texas business should not assume the lighter statutory framework means lighter exposure. See Click-to-Cancel and SaaS Subscription Law.

Texas data privacy law and your DPAs

The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act is one of the state privacy laws that a SaaS company’s customer agreements and DPAs may need to account for.

The DPA usually defines the customer as the controller or business, and the vendor as the processor or service provider. It then spells out security measures, breach-notification timelines, subprocessor rules, audit rights, data deletion obligations, and sometimes detailed cross-border transfer terms. More in our guide to enterprise MSAs and DPAs.

Governing law and venue

Governing-law and venue clauses decide which state’s law applies to a dispute and where it is heard. In a Texas deal, we check that the clause the paper actually contains is the one the business intended.

Texas customers, wherever you are headquartered

Your customer base, not your headquarters, determines which laws apply to you. A Scottsdale-based SaaS company with users in Los Angeles and Dallas is subject to California and Texas law regardless of where its office sits. See our three-state privacy policy comparison.

Sources

• Texas H.B. 149 (TRAIGA), enrolled text, 89th Legislature (effective Jan. 1, 2026)
• Texas Attorney General, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act

Working With Us

Why Accord & Shield Legal

In-house SaaS experience

Before founding Accord & Shield, Nadine Deeb served as in-house counsel at a SaaS/PaaS technology company.

One attorney, licensed in Texas, Arizona, and California

Nadine Deeb is licensed in Texas, Arizona, and California, so one attorney can advise on matters governed by the law of any of the three states.

Direct access to the attorney

Texas clients work directly with the attorney by phone or video, without travel.