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Arthur G. House
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Arthur G. House chairs Paley Rothman’s Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group, and is a senior member of the firm’s Business/Commercial Transactions and Computer, Internet & Technology groups. He focuses his practice on enterprise development, licensing for technology-based companies and assisting both established and start-up businesses to develop legal, business alliance and acquisition strategies. His representation of companies covers a wide scope of services, including privacy and theft protection, equipment manufacturing and distribution, systems integration, ISPs, ASPs, information technology, biotechnology, medical device, telephony and cable TV companies.
Mr. House’s professional credentials place him among the area’s leading Alternative Dispute Resolution attorneys in the Washington metro area. He is certified as a commercial arbitrator and an international mediator, and is a member of both the American Arbitration Association’s Panel of Neutral Arbitrators and the Panel of Mediators of the International Mediation Institute (IMI), located in The Hague, Netherlands.
Among the matters on which Mr. House advises clients are legal and regulatory compliance for information security, the negotiation and preparation of licensing and co-venture agreements, software and hardware industry agreements, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and commercial leasing and real estate acquisitions. He has over three decades of litigation experience representing financial institutions, intellectual property and patent owners, insurers and businesses in contract, tort, lender liability, real estate, employment discrimination and other commercial claims in court, arbitration and mediation proceedings. He was included among business law “go to attorneys” in a reader poll conducted by Washington SmartCEO Magazine.
As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, Mr. House lectures on intellectual property, business formation, licensing and entrepreneurship in the University’s Masters Degree Program in Biotechnology and Microbiology. He has also been a frequent guest speaker at the University of Maryland’s R.H. Smith Business School.
A Cum Laude graduate of Tufts University, Mr. House earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Education
J.D., University of Virginia, 1972
B.A., Cum Laude, Tufts University, 1969
Publications
“Technology and Intellectual Property,” Gazette of Politics and Business—Legal Review, April 29, 2005
“Is Your Presentation C3 – Clear, Compelling, Concise?” (Dingman Seminar Series, 2000)
E-Health Business and Transactional Law, Chapter on “Due Diligence in eHealth Transactions,” published by the Health Law Section of the ABA, co-author (BNA 2002)
“Proposed Changes in Statutory Regulation of Obscenity,” 57 Virginia Law Review 1636, 1971, co-author
Past Editor, West’s Federal Practice Manual, Federal Communications Practice