Corey Gerson

Attorney

Corey is a business and technology lawyer. He focuses on structuring, negotiating, and managing a wide variety of commercial contracts, data privacy concerns, and other day-to-day “in-house” legal matters. Corey’s clients range from high-growth startups to Fortune 100 companies, and he routinely advises businesses and executives in industries such as SaaS, AI, data and analytics, marketing, software, hardware, and professional services.

Corey started his career at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York City, where he focused on both litigation and transactional legal matters. After several years in Big Law, Corey transitioned in-house to join the commercial legal team at Nearmap and then at Databricks. These experiences drove Corey to launch his own law firm before joining Founders Law, where he now helps his clients overcome the same types of legal challenges that he successfully resolved earlier in his career.

Corey earned his J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law, where he was a member of the American University Business Law Review, and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with honors and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. When not working, he can be found outside hiking, camping, and skiing across Colorado.

Corey is admitted to practice in Colorado and New York.

Insights & Articles

April 29, 2026
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Many startups are cost conscious and have to think carefully about whether they spend limited funds. Many are also technology-focused, and their value depends heavily on their ability to identify, protect, and commercialize core intellectual property. Patents can provide meaningful exclusivity for the right inventions, but the expense, lead time, and procedural friction involved means they are not always the most efficient tool for every category of IP.
April 27, 2026
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Few areas might seem further apart than the arts and the law. One deals with the expression of emotion and ideas with the goal of connecting and moving others, and the other operates in the realm of technicalities and minute detail. Outside of dealing with copyrights, most creatives rarely consider how the law might impact or even help them, and instead focus on what they do best: create.