Jeffrey Squires formed SquiresLaw, PLLC in January 2008, to conduct a general practice of law.  Prior to that, he had practiced law for over 30 years in the Nation’s capital.

During his career he served as staff counsel to the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU), a Presidential Commission created to recommend changes to the Copyright Act of 1976; he served for three years as an associate attorney at the firm of Fortas & Koven, where he was primarily engaged in assisting former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas in representing large financial institutions and business corporations in litigation before various federal agencies and courts; he then practiced law for 15 years in firms in which he was a principal partner; and in 2002 his former firm joined Garvey Schubert Barer’s Washington, DC office.  He left that firm in January 2008 to form SquiresLaw.

Mr. Squires’ principal areas of practice have included corporate, securities and intellectual property litigation, corporate and commercial law, copyright, trademark and information technology, and international trade litigation.  He currently represents business entities and individuals in a wide variety of forms of dispute resolution and business transactions.

Mr. Squires is a member of the D.C. Bar, the Maryland Bar and the Virginia State Bar.  He has been admitted to practice in other states on a case-by-case basis.  He has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.

Mr. Squires has been a member of the American Bar Association, the Copyright Society of the USA, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now the American Association for Justice), the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the International Trademark Association.  He has been an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the National Association of Securities Dealers (now FINRA).  He has taught copyright law as an adjunct faculty member at American University’s Washington College of Law.  He has authored a number of publications in the area of copyright law and computer law, including the following:

“Copyright and Compilations in the Computer Era: Old Wine in New Bottles,” 24 Bulletin of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 18 (1976)

“Notice, Deposit and Registration: The Importance of Being Formal,” 24 U.C.L.A. Law Review 1232 (1977) (with Arthur J. Levine)

“Can We Stop Software Theft,” 2 IEEE Micro 12 (1982) (with Richard H. Stern)

International Study of Copyright of Bibliographic Records in Machine-Readable Form (D. McDonald, E. Rodger and J. Squires) K.G. Saur (1983)

Mr. Squires was educated at Washington University in St. Louis where he received his B.A., cum laude, in 1968; the University of Chicago where he completed course work for an M.A. in International Relations; and the University of Wisconsin where he received his J.D. in 1973, having been an editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and a teaching assistant in the legal writing program.  He received a certificat d’etude from the University of Grenoble in France, where he studied French in 1969.

He presently maintains his offices in Washington, DC at the address, and with contact information, shown on the Contact page.