About
Carney Legal Works (CLW) provides high quality business law services to entrepreneurial companies and individuals in technology industries.

By focusing on the technology sector and a limited number of clients, CLW can provide significant attention per client, fast response times and better service through enhanced understanding of client business needs. Clients can also benefit from CLW's business judgment and hands-on experience gained from years of working inside private and public companies.CLW often serves as an outsourced General Counsel for small companies on an as-needed basis, delivering high quality results in a cost effective manner.

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Services offered include:
  • Contract Preparation and Review

  • Business and Legal Negotiations

  • General Counsel on an Outsourced, As-Needed Basis

  • Corporate Formation and Maintenance

  • Employee/ Equity Compensation Arrangements

  • Equity and Debt Financings

  • Software and Technology License Transactions

  • Attendance at Board and Strategy Meetings

  • Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

  • Practical Advice and Solutions for Clients with Limited Legal Budgets

Other Benefits:
  • Knowing How to Get Deals Done - Combination of Business Development and Business Law Experience

  • Entrepreneurial Background and Understanding of Small Business

  • Access to a Large Network of Business Contacts, including, Accountants, Attorneys, Business Consultants, Human Resource Professionals, Insurance Agents, Potential Investors and Real Estate Agents


  • Referrals to and Coordination with Larger Law Firms as Clients Grow

  • Referrals to Other Law Firms for Specialized Needs (e.g., litigation, patents, immigration, employment law, etc.)
Tom Carney, founder of CLW, is an experienced General Counsel with over 17 years of business development
and business law experience representing clients in the following industries:

  • software

  • biotechnology

  • computers

  • equipment manufacturing
  • Internet

  • wireless telecommunications

  • venture capital

  • Carney has been a vice president of corporate development and general counsel of private and public technology companies. He has negotiated with Fortune 500 and other major companies on behalf of smaller clients, and has also worked in and supervised law firms specializing in technology practices.

  • He has a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Learn more...