Understanding how IT impacts the business
It is central to our approach to provide advice that adds value to your business. As a specialist discipline within our wider commercial advisory service, our IT lawyers share that broad commercial outlook. We put our advice in context, going beyond addressing the immediate legal issues to have broader discussions about overall business needs and challenges.
The knowledge and experience to protect your interests
There is no business without IT and no IT without contracts. A key part of the advice we provide centres on contracting arrangements, whether at the outset of a relationship—supporting solution selection, guidance on contract reviews and drafting implementation agreements—, or when things don’t go to plan, dealing with service issues and contractual disputes.
We combine commercial understanding with technical legal knowledge and experience to ensure your IT investments deliver the advantages you expect and we support rather than detract from your business progression.
Combining IT experience with IP and data expertise
The breadth of our expertise across our commercial legal advice service allows us to offer comprehensive support on the range of legal issues that surround your IT use.
Our IT, intellectual property and data protection teams leverage the overlap between these three areas, such as in cases of software piracy that involve both IT and IP issues, as well as IT exploitation arrangements where IT issues combine with IP and data considerations.
Howes Percival's IT lawyers support your business in all aspects of IT advice and guidance, including:
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating IT goods and services agreements (e.g. SaaS contracts)
- Advising on IT procurement and solution selection
- Advising on remedies for IT system failures and service disruptions
- Software licensing and compliance issues (e.g. adequacy of licensing, software piracy)
- IT service contract disputes
Our Information Technology solicitors in Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Leicester, Manchester, Northampton, Norwich and Oxford are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
Greener Litigation
Greener Litigation is an initiative to reduce the environmental impact of dispute resolution.
We are a signatory to the Greener Litigation Pledge which means, amongst other things, that we take all reasonable steps to reduce our environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions.
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"Howes Percival LLP’s clients include ATM Automation, Getronics Services UK, the University of Leicester and Retail Assist, for which it continues to provide legal assistance on IT agreements, transactions and software licensing issues. Matthew Talbot comes highly recommended."
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