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Law that speaks engineering.

Technology companies face a distinctive legal challenge: their most consequential decisions are made by engineers and product teams, not by lawyers. Standard legal counsel reviews contracts and filings after the fact. guibert.law engages upstream — advising during architecture decisions, IP strategy sessions, and safety case reviews, where the real legal risk is created.

With professional certifications in ISO 26262 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434 automotive cybersecurity, and three decades of hands-on embedded systems engineering leadership, the practice can evaluate your HARA, read your TARA, and understand your FMEA — not just the legal documents around them.

From trade secret strategy to patent portfolio management to licensing and enforcement, guibert.law provides full-spectrum IP counsel with engineering depth. The practice is uniquely positioned to evaluate the technical merits and commercial significance of software, firmware, and hardware inventions — not just the legal formalities around them.

Services include: copyrights, trademarks, patents (preparation strategy and prosecution management), trade secrets, licensing agreements, technology transfers, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and IP litigation support. The practice works with your engineers and product managers to identify protectable innovations before they are inadvertently disclosed or lost.

Privacy law and cybersecurity law are increasingly inseparable. guibert.law advises on GDPR, CCPA, and cross-border data privacy compliance; cybersecurity regulatory obligations including CISA reporting requirements and SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules; and incident response planning. For automotive and industrial clients, this includes ISO/SAE 21434 compliance and the UNECE WP.29 Regulation No. 155 framework.

In-house legal counsel at technology companies often find cybersecurity decisions difficult to evaluate without an engineering background. The practice bridges that gap: helping counsel understand the technical decisions their engineering teams are making, and whether those decisions create legal exposure.

This is the most distinctive practice area at guibert.law, and the one most underserved in the legal market. As ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 transition from industry best practices into de facto legal benchmarks, the documentation your engineering teams produce — HARAs, TARAs, FMEAs, safety cases — becomes discoverable evidence in product liability proceedings and regulatory investigations.

guibert.law advises Functional Safety Managers, Chief Product Security Officers, and in-house counsel on the legal dimensions of safety and security engineering decisions: when a deviation from a standard creates liability exposure, how to structure Integrated Lifecycle Management documentation to withstand legal scrutiny, and how to resolve apparent conflicts between ISO 26262 (functional safety) and ISO/SAE 21434 (cybersecurity) obligations. Clients include automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and companies deploying real-time embedded systems in industrial, aerospace, and medical device applications.

Aviation law at guibert.law spans both manned aircraft and unmanned aerial systems (UAS/drones). On the manned side, the practice handles aircraft transactions, title examination and lien searches (including cross-border), FAA regulatory compliance, and homologation services. On the UAS side, the practice advises on Remote ID compliance, BVLOS waiver applications, Part 107 regulatory matters, and the evolving legal framework for autonomous aerial operations.

The convergence of embedded systems expertise and aviation law is rare. For clients developing avionics electronics, drone flight control systems, or sense-and-avoid technology, guibert.law can engage at both the engineering and legal levels simultaneously.

For technology companies raising capital or expanding internationally, guibert.law handles SEC filings, private placements and subscription agreements, Blue Sky compliance across jurisdictions, technology transfer agreements, letters of credit, foreign subsidiary formation, and cross-border regulatory compliance. The practice has experience navigating the intersection of U.S. securities law and international commercial activity for engineering-intensive ventures.

For technology companies that need comprehensive legal coverage without the overhead of an in-house legal department, guibert.law offers outside general counsel services — acting as your legal team across all practice areas, on a flexible engagement model. This includes business consulting, technology evaluations, corporate governance, contract review, and strategic advice at the intersection of law, engineering, and business.

In-house counsel at larger companies also engage the practice for specialized technical-legal issues that fall outside their team's engineering expertise — particularly in embedded systems safety, automotive cybersecurity, and IP strategy for hardware-software products.