Sassoon & Cymrot, LLP | Attorneys At Law | Profile: David J. Coughlin

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David J. Coughlin

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	David J. Coughlin Admitted to Practice – 2007 General Business Counsel, Technology Matters, and Legal Issues Impacting the Alarm and Security Services Industries email

David helps clients protect and grow their businesses by providing legal consultation seasoned with nearly 20 years of successful corporate experience. By listening to clients, he understands their unique goals and hurdles, then creates and clearly communicates effective solutions. David’s experience as an attorney along with strong entrepreneurial skills, attention to detail, creativity, and tenacious competitive attitude combine to help his clients succeed. David’s exceptional corporate acumen was developed through extremely successful business development and general management experience with ADT Security, MAC Systems, and Johnson Controls. In 2002, he earned a designation as a Certified Protection Professional through the American Society of Industrial Security and has advised business leaders on all areas of commercial, industrial, and institutional security. Prior to joining Sasson & Cymrot, David served as in-house Corporate Counsel, Contracts/Risk Manager for technology subsidiaries of G4S, the world’s largest security services organization with over 625,000 employees.
Practice and Industry Focus Areas Include:
Alarm and Security Services Industry Matters • Client, Subcontractor, and Dealer Agreements • Licensing and Regulations Requirements • Bid Disputes • Mergers and Acquisitions • Homeland Security Issues • Risk Issues Unique to the Alarm and Security Industries Including - Insurance Coverage - Surety/Bonding - Cyber Insurance • Litigation Matters Including - Property Damage, Personal Injury, and Business Losses Due to Negligence, Criminal Acts, and Natural Causes and Other Losses - Product Liability - Indemnification - Premise Liability Corporate Matters • General Business Counsel • Entity Formation and Business Planning • Corporate Governance • Insurance and Risk Management • Contract Analysis, Drafting, Review, and Negotiation • Labor and Employment Law Counsel and - Employee Manuals - Policy/Procedures Intellectual Property Protection Matters • Copyright Registration and Prosecution • Trademark Registration and Enforcement • Trade Secret Protection • Technology Licensing Agreements
Education:
•Suffolk University Law School, Juris Doctor, September 2006 -American Jurisprudence Award for #1 Ranked in Contracts Law -Summer International Law Study Program - Intellectual Property and Transactions, Lund University, Sweden, 2004 •Illinois State University, Bachelors of Science in Marketing and Criminal Justice, 1990
Court Admissions:
• The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2007 • U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 2009
Associations and Community Involvement:
• American Bar Association, Member • Massachusetts Bar Association, Member • Suffolk University Law School Alumni Association, Member • The Irish Voice, Irish Legal 100, Honoree in 2010 and 2011 • Rotary Club International, Winchester, Massachusetts, Sergeant-at-Arms
Articles and Writing Contributions
• Author – “Ask the Expert – Museum Security,” Security Products, p46, June 2007. • Editor, Understanding Sales, Leases, and Licenses in a Global Perspective, Carolina Academic Press, Michael L. Rustad, 2007. • Editorial Assistant and Researcher, An Unhurried View of Copyright in a Hurried World, Republished (and with Contributions from Friends) Lexis 2005, Kaplan – Copyright law treaties most referenced by the United States Supreme Court. • Author – Law Book Review, “Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen,” by Alicia Mundy for the Bimonthly Review of Law Books, Volume 15, No. 4 July/August 2004