The AI Law Firm For Software Companies

SaaS Attorney and Software Lawyer for Software Vendors

Aber Law Firm is a law firm with SaaS attorneys and software lawyers for one kind of client: SaaS and software vendors. That’s all we do. We focus on the contracts, privacy, and copyright matters that software companies live on: SaaS agreements, EULAs and software licenses, data processing addenda (DPAs), and the reseller and OEM deals underneath them.

A good SaaS attorney does more than paper a deal. We draft and negotiate the agreements your business actually runs on: SaaS subscription agreements and master services agreements (MSAs), order forms, software license agreements and EULAs, cloud services agreements, and the data processing addenda (DPAs) that sit alongside them. When a deal moves through a channel, we handle the reseller, OEM, and distribution agreements too. Every document is written in plain English, so your customers can actually read it and your sales team can actually sell it.

You can learn just as much about us from what we don’t do: we don’t handle litigation (though we help you avoid it), we don’t file patent applications, and we don’t do corporate or employment work. What we do, every day, is make your contracting faster, your sales cycle shorter, and try to make your everyday contracting headaches go away, whether you sell to consumers, small and mid-size businesses, or the enterprise.

As SaaS lawyers, we specialize in the ever more demanding enterprise customer (if you sell to the enterprise, you know exactly what we mean). It’s hard, but there’s a path through it, and we’ve learned it across 650+ clients and more than 2,500 deals.

What does a SaaS attorney do?

A SaaS attorney (sometimes called a SaaS lawyer or software lawyer) advises software vendors on the commercial contracts and legal issues that are unique to selling software as a service. That means drafting your SaaS agreement and terms of service, negotiating customer paper, getting the limitation of liability and indemnification clauses right, protecting your intellectual property and copyright, and keeping your privacy terms (GDPR, CCPA, and your DPA) in line with the law. We do this work all day, every day, for SaaS and software companies.

When should a SaaS company hire a software attorney?

The honest answer is before you think you need one. The best time to bring in a software attorney is when you are building your standard SaaS contract, before a big enterprise customer sends you their order form and their forty pages of vendor paper. If you are already staring at a customer’s agreement and the limitation of liability or indemnification language is keeping you up at night, that is the second best time. Either way, we can help you move faster and sign with confidence.

SaaS agreement or software license (EULA): which one do you need?

It depends on how your software is delivered. If your customers access the product in the cloud, you want a SaaS subscription agreement. If they install or download it, you want a software license agreement or EULA. Plenty of vendors need both, plus a DPA for the data and an MSA with order forms for larger enterprise deals. We help you choose the right structure and then build the templates, so you are not reinventing your contracts on every deal.