Lev Berlin & Sousa counsels market research consulting company in sale of stock in acquisition transaction.
Recent Wall Street Journal article highlighting the difficulties the public opinion industry is encountering in conducting telephone surveys quotes Du
Lev Berlin & Sousa forms and launches corporations and limited liability companies based in Connecticut, New York, and Delaware, and assist with g
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents international survey research firm in preparation of form agreement for licensing of API for use with automated surv ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises international survey research firm on trademark issues regarding web-based use of brand name for SaaS offering.
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents venerable US political survey organization in revisions to corporate governance documents.
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major survey research industry organization in connection with quinquennial review of internal corporate governance doc ...
Principal, Duane L. Berlin named in the 2010 edition of the New Canaan/Darien and Stamford Magazines Top Lawyers.
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents international survey research company in three-party data-matching arrangement, including data processing agreement ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents leading conversation market research comapny client in triangular reverse merger with a Canadian publicly held compa
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises market research company on compliance with Telephone Consumer Protection Act and industry ethics codes with regard to &
In 2014, Lev Berlin & Sousa oversees residential and commercial real estate closings, both purchases and sales, as well as negotiates and enters i
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents influential economic survey research company in services agreement with "big three" major television netwo ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises emerging financial services SaaS firm regarding corporate governance matters and term/revolving loan facilities.
Lev Berlin & Sousa counseled clients in closing more than ten private securities financings in 2014, with representation ranging from the underlyi
Duane L. Berlin presents and moderates CASRO Webinar on legal issues for US companies doing business in the EU. Focus was on issues and compliance wit
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents international survey panel company on three-way joint project agreement with UK market research company and Brazilia ...
Thus far in 2016, Lev Berlin & Sousa has counseled clients in closing private securities financings, representing, underlying offering companies,
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents software development employee of shipping company with independent commercial arrangement for sale of software, incl
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major international provider of SaaS test/assessment application in licensing and reseller arrangement with internation ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa is pleased to announce that Jack H. Sousa, Esq. has been named a Principal of the firm. Having joined the firm in 2012, Jack&rs
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises international company with testing/assessment "software-as-a-service" product on revisions to its US form of ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major survey research industry organization on issues related to consumer generated and controlled health care data.
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises international media analysis and monitoring firm in successful resolution of commercial contract dispute.
Duane L. Berlin presented at a webinar sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Marketing Research Group on the use of Social Media in healthcare market resear ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises international "software-as-a-service" media analysis company on revisions to its US and UK forms of standard ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents chapter of national survey research organization on incorporation and IRS approval of tax treatment as 501(c)(6) non ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises international market research firm in negotiation of master services agreement with major U.S. health care insurer, inc ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa negotiates and settles dispute on behalf of its client, a atmospheric pressure plasma technology company, with former director, ...
The use of so-called “flash cookies” and similar objects has become wide spread among various online businesses. Read Lev Berlin & Sou
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major international provider of SaaS test/assessment application on agreement with third-party proctoring service.
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents market research firm in preparation of call center indemnification agreement to address and manage risk under the Te ...
Duane Berlin is quoted in Jeff Henning’s article “ Dolphins in the Tuna Net: Protecting MR from Marketing Regulation ”, which discus
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major market research industry association on pilot program to provide data privacy compliance certifications.
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises market research company on revisions to its standard terms and conditions for coverage of both custom and syndicated re ...
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Attorney Jack H. Sousa was recognized by Super Lawyers® as a 2017 Connecticut Rising Star in the field of Business and Corporate law. For selectio
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major market research industry association on setting up US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor third-party dispute resolution
Jack Sousa represents founders and majority shareholders of web-based software design, development and consulting company in stock sale in excess of $
In the last year, Lev Berlin & Sousa has counseled clients assisting with all phases of corporate governance, from formation, to stucturing, to re
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises major survey research industry organization on issues regarding state statute requiring reporting of fees paid to healt
The FTC has approved Lev & Berlin client Imperium LLC's method for obtaining verified parental consent for COPPA compliance: http://www.ftc.go
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents textile chemical application company on form of license agreement.
Lev Berlin & Sousa counsels software provider entity in stock redemption and corporate restructuring transaction.
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents client in the sale of multiple historic properties at the top of Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut, in comb
Australian Market and Social Research Society's Research News interviews Duane Berlin regarding federal U.S. privacy regulation
Connecticut has recently amended it's data breach notice law. Under the amended version of the statute (which takes effect on October 1, 2012), en
Lev Berlin & Sousa counseled clients in closing over a dozen private securities financings in 2015, with representation ranging from the underlyin
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents major survey research company in successful opposition to claim asserting violations of Telephone Consumer Protectio ...
Duane L. Berlin participates in the World Wide Web Consortium on Web Tracking and User Privacy at Princeton University. The W3C is an is an internatio
Duane L. Berlin has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (www.ropercenter.uconn.edu). The Roper Cent
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents UK market research firm in preparation of form master services agreement.
Lev Berlin & Sousa has recently assisted clients in leading internal investigations to review, analyze, and determine to what level certain of a c
Duane L. Berlin is co-founding member of CASRO’s Social Media Research Task Force. CASRO announced the formation and purpose of the group as fol
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents local bank in several recent refinancings for various properties in Norwalk, Connecticut, including residential, com
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents international survey research company in licensing arrangement to provide proprietary SaaS survey offering on a &ldq
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises international media analysis and monitoring firm in revisions to its form of master services agreement to account for c ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa continues to advise market research companies and industry organizations on compliance issues regarding the Telephone Consumer
Lev Berlin & Sousa issues memorandum discussing the recent ruling by the Securities Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets gran
Duane Berlin leads session at the CASRO Annual Conference in Scottsdale Arizona on Mergers, Acquisitions and Investment in the Marketing Research Indu
Duane L. Berlin presents at the Counsel of American Survey Research Organization’s 2010 Research Panel Conference. Mr. Berlin spoke on the subje
Lev Berlin & Sousa negotiates and closes asset deal on behalf of its client, a real-time weather forecasting company, which sold its assets to a d
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents Langer Research Associates in its agreement with Bloomberg News for the production and publication of the Bloomberg
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents client in the sale of commercial property at the top of Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut for $5.75 million ...
Thus far in 2016, Lev Berlin & Sousa has closed over a dozen real estate transactions for its clients, including sales, purchases, and refinancing
Lev Berlin & Sousa has recently counseled clients across industries in seeking federal trademark approval (including overcoming office actions for
Lev Berlin & Sousa represented the purchasers of a regional specialty retailer in a stock purchase transaction and associated debt and equity fina ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa closes real estate transactions for its clients in 2015 for purchases, sales, and refinancings of residential homes, commercial
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents "shell" public company on private placement sale of controlling equity interest and related securities fil ...
Lev Berlin & Sousa represents video advertising company in capital reorganization, including debt and equity restructuring.
Lev Berlin & Sousa advises market research company regarding applicability of consumer consent obtained from retail partner for purposes of Teleph ...
Duane L. Berlin served as co-presenter for CASRO Webinar on the negotiation of legal agreements related to the survey research business. A recording o
CBRE General Counsel discusses with Law360 the influence that Lev Berlin & Sousa counsel and founder Bruce Lev had on his career. To review the ar ...
Duane Berlin has practiced business law for more than over 30 years, advising clients on corporate, securities and commercial matters, representing investors, entrepreneurs and businesses at all levels of development. His areas of expertise span private equity, public securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, marketing and privacy law. Duane is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers as an AV Preeminent attorney.
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Duane received his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in Philosophy and Politics in 1980 and his Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, from the University of Miami in 1983, where he served as an associate editor of the University of Miami Law Review and a member of the Society of the Wig and Robe. Duane also completed studies at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Duane was admitted both to the Connecticut State and U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut in 1984. Prior to Lev Berlin & Sousa, Duane was with Cummings & Lockwood.
Duane has served as General Counsel for the Counsel of American Survey Research Organizations since 1998, Non-Public Arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers since 2004, member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals since 2005, a Licensed U.S. Coast Guard Captain since 2007, and member of the Board of Directors for The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research since 2011.
Duane is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and American Bar Association, with focuses in the Corporations, Banking and Business Law, Science and Technology Law Sections, having served on the Business Law, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Privacy and Computer crime, and E-Privacy Law Committees, and having founded and co-chaired the Regional Bar Association Privacy Law Committee in Stamford, Connecticut.
Duane lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut with his wife and two daughters. Contact Duane L. Berlin Telephone: (203) 838-8500 Ext. 115 Fax: (203) 854-1652 Email: dberlin@levberlin.com