Lawrence Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. He is founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm that specializes in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies.
In addition to this law practice, Larry also served for many years as general counsel of the non-profit Open Source Initiative (OSI). He currently advises many open source companies and non-profit open source projects, including as member of and counsel to Apache Software Foundation and as a member of the board of directors of Open Web Foundation.
Larry currently serves on the board of directors of International Characters, and on the advisory boards of SpikeSource, Black Duck Software, and Jaspersoft. Larry's book, Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, was published by Prentice Hall in 2004. He is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School.
Before he became an attorney, Larry was a computer technologist. He managed computer activities and taught computer programming and data base design at Stanford University, later going into industry where he coordinated the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of data communications products. In addition to helping bring a number of technology companies to profitability, Larry also served for many years as chair and member of the board of directors of Silicon Valley Credit Union, and has helped form and served on the boards of several non-profit charitable and mutual benefit organizations. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, went to graduate school in computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his law degree from Santa Clara University. His law firm has offices in Ukiah and Los Alto Hills, California, and on the web.
Larry often publishes and speaks around the world on open source and intellectual property issues.