Adam Ruttenberg – Partner at Cooley LLP

Adam Ruttenberg is an eminent attorney, well-versed in Bankruptcy: Business Law and representing clients dealing with various legal matters. Additionally, he boasts expertise in other legal fields.

His expertise includes patent licensing, technology transactions and internet law. In addition, he has helped develop legal tech tools like Lupl, an organizer that helps lawyers manage emails and documents for one matter in one convenient place.

Early Life and Education

Ruttenberg’s ceramic sculptures create an intriguing world where species mix and figures serve as landscapes. Her groundbreaking, innovative, imaginative feminist sculptures are materially and conceptually groundbreaking; she disarms viewers by offering dolls with sensually feminine forms that shed their preconceptions, so that they may become immersed more deeply into Ruttenberg’s visceral visions of corporeal fantasy.

Ruttenberg earned his Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from Yale University before enrolling in Harvard University Law School to study law, where he received his Juris Doctorate and was later admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

He is a partner at BINGHAM, DANA & GOULD and has experience in general practice areas like corporate law, commercial banking, admiralty law, labor taxation law, real estate litigation and probate litigation. Martindale-Hubbell lists him as an exceptional attorney. Additionally he holds memberships at both Boston Massachusetts Bar Associations as well as American Bar Association.

Professional Career

Adam Ruttenberg has dedicated himself as a partner of Cooley to developing tech tools and systems to enhance law firm workflows and client services. As chairman of their technology committee and founder of Lupl, an online legal technology start-up dedicated to organizing all emails, documents, conversations and data related to legal matters into one convenient platform.

Daniel specialises in technology transactions and has extensive experience representing emerging companies as well as large corporate clients in technology and intellectual property matters. Additionally, he considers himself an “omnivore” of bankruptcy matters having handled several Chapter 7 bankruptcies both individually and business clients alike.

Adam earned both his undergraduate degree from Yale University and Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. After being admitted to practice law in Massachusetts in 1989.

Achievement and Honors

Ruttenberg serves as chair of Cooley’s Technology Committee and is dedicated to using tech tools, systems and processes to enrich both clients and lawyers experiences with Cooley. As part of that committee, he often pushes Cooley at the cutting-edge of legal tech innovation through projects such as Lupl (a collaboration with CMS and Rajah & Tann), automation workflows which streamline core processes and FINIQ’s advanced analytics tool for both client and firm data.

Ruttenberg’s practice specializes in business transactions, technology transfer and intellectual property law. He has been recognized as a top attorney by national and state publications such as Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers Massachusetts Super Lawyers Chambers USA Legal 500 as a premier practitioner. Ruttenberg also regularly speaks on emerging technologies in legal industry settings.

Personal Life

Ruttenberg’s narrative feminist ceramic sculptures depicting an imaginary world where species mingle and figures function as landscapes encourage thought about gender rhetoric, particularly feminism as corporeal consciousness and pure imagination. Her works have been featured in over 35 solo shows as well as over 100 group exhibitions.

Adam Ruthtenberg holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Yale University and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, both obtained through postgraduate study. After being admitted to practice law in 1989 as part of Massachusetts Bar Association membership and becoming licensed, she made numerous noteworthy representations including representing Chapter 7 trustees in multiple sales of partial interests in real estate achieving very favorable results; representing clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board against patentability claims; defending clients in litigation prior to trial on their remaining patent; and limiting exposure during litigation at trial on one such patent that survived patent.

Net Worth

Adam Ruttenberg currently serves as Senior Associate at Cerity Partners, providing comprehensive wealth management plans for high net-worth families and executives, working closely with accountants and estate attorneys to maximize clients’ chances of achieving their life goals.

From our Palo Alto office, he brings vast experience in technology transactions such as cloud computing, big data, patent licensing agreements, software licensing contracts, hardware purchases, Internet services and new media for new media/edtech applications. Additionally, he is an accomplished author and speaker.