StartupLawTalk hosts monthly workshops and publishes this website to help educate entrepreneurs about legal issues faced by startup companies. Entrepreneurs are welcome to treat our workshops like office hours. We are happy to address issues that you would like to cover. Preferably, send us a note in advance indicating the topic you would like covered.
The StartupLawTalk Team:
Carter Mackley – Co-Founder of Mackley & Mackley PLLC: Carter is a startup company lawyer who has practiced law since 1988. After earning his law degree at Columbia Law School in New York City he went to work for a prominent Wall Street firm. He “retired” after three years to pursue mountain climbing. Taking a part-time job as a deputy prosecutor in Blackfoot, Idaho, he eventually served as the county prosecutor. While in Idaho, he formed his own startup, a print magazine about bears. In 2000 Carter returned to business law, working at the Seattle office of an international law firm for 10 years. In 2010, Carter opted for the low-overhead, virtual-firm style of practice, forming Mackley & Mackley PLLC with his wife Jennifer. They provide experienced, cost-effective counsel to start-up companies of all types, assisting entrepreneurs with entity formation, fundraising, general outside counsel matters, and exit transactions. Mackley & Mackley PLLC is an active sponsor of the Northwest Chapter of Keiretsu Forum, a collaboration by angel investors to screen, finance and promote the growth of start-up companies. Contact Carter.