Shane ODriscoll

I am currently employed by Nuance Communications, as their in-house lawyer. Nuance are a technology company involved in the speech processing area and have a significant patent portfolio and other intellectual property which needs to be protected. I provide legal support to Nuance’s enterprise business unit with responsibility for the Southern European region including the German speaking region, Russia, Israel and South Africa. I also support the Healthcare division in Southern Europe.

Recent experience includes: · Advising on IT agreements (project delay/ function creep); · Drafting of Hosting, Software Licence and distribution contracts; · Drafting of privacy policies and standard terms and conditions; · Advising on data protection issues, and compliance with same; · Reviewing / amending and negotiating a strategic software licensing and bespoke development agreement for a financial institution (as part-time in house counsel for that project); · Advising on company law/corporate..

Public Affairs Ireland - Data Protection - Records Management - Freedom of Information Business Management Institute - Business Law Communications and Management Institute - Media Law

Litigation; Commercial; Civil Procedure; Employment; Negotiation; Insolvency; Advocacy; Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Administrative law

Company; Tort; Contract; EU Law; Evidence; Land Law; Jurispridence; Family Law; Criminal Law; Constitutional Law;

Speech Processing; Machine translation; Linguistics; Computer Programming; Architecuture; Algorithms; Java; C++; Unix; Linux; Database Design; Information Security