Why Law Firms are Interested in Soft-Aid's Services

Your client has purchased either too few or too many software licenses to cover usage. The former, which infringes software copyrights, subjects them to great risks.

Whatever the reason, your client's lack of compliance exposes them to substantial financial penalties, unwanted press, or significant business disruption; over-buying licenses may not have the same penalties but is equally problematic. Funds are then dedicated to quickly depreciating assets that have no business value.

According to Gartner, a typical $25 million revenue company has over $3 million invested in software with annual purchases greater than $500,000. These numbers are not small!

Besides forced compliance, there are several reasons why an organization should conduct a software audit: to help with manage assets effectively, to valuate the assets, to identify opportunities to further exploit the assets, and to identify misuses of the assets.

Why Partner with Soft-Aid

Partnering with Soft-Aid leads to improved client satisfaction and additional billings for your law firm. With our offerings, you can provide more complete Intellectual Property (IP) services to your clients.

Soft-Aid actively seeks complementary alliances with law firms. Together, we form the core of a compliance or IP audit project team. Soft-Aid's expertise in the business issues of software license compliance are matched by your own firm's proficiency in its legal aspects. We actively employ lawyers for legal advice during compliance resolution.

We rely on lawyers for the following services:

• Your fiduciary responsibilities and the need for our work to be subsumed under attorney-client privilege

• Shield company from any future liability

• Interpret and negotiate license terms (where possible)

• Advise Soft-Aid of client's risk tolerances

• Negotiate license terms (where applicable)

• Sign-off on vendor/BSA settlement terms

• Convey client's legal and business needs to Soft-Aid

• Serve as go-between to Board of Directors

• Review formal audit results as applicable

Further Inquiries ...

To inquire about partnership opportunities and view a no-obligation presention of our services, please e-mail us at info at aid.com or call us at 781-569-0410

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