The firm built for what's next.
The law is complicated. Your counsel doesn't have to be.
Deep expertise.
Immediate execution.
Stevens & Company is a boutique Intellectual Property and Technology Law practice, drawing on two decades in-house at Thomson and Cengage — from second lawyer in the Learning division to General Counsel — and earlier years in private practice.
The work is hands-on and direct: Laura serves as a Strategic Advisor on every matter, with engagements scoped to what's in front of you and expanded as the relationship grows.
Eight disciplines. One desk.
Copyright & Emerging IP
Protecting original work and the new categories of intellectual property reshaping creative and technical industries.
Technology Compliance
Privacy, data, and regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions — translated into practical operational guardrails.
Vendor & Emerging Tech Contracts
Negotiation and structuring for software, platform, and emerging technology agreements that scale.
Workplace Technology Law
Employment, monitoring, and policy work at the intersection of people and the systems they use.
IPO Governance & Board Advisory
Public-readiness, board structure, and governance counsel grounded in real transactional experience.
Emerging Technology & Agentic Systems
Counsel on autonomous, agentic, and emerging systems — risk, liability, and the contracts that surround them.
Data Processing Agreements
Drafting and negotiation of DPAs and data terms that satisfy regulators, counterparties, and the business — without stalling the deal.
Large-Scale AI Commercial Agreements
Structuring and negotiating enterprise-scale AI transactions — licensing, deployment, and commercial frameworks for frontier systems.
20+ years. Both sides of the table.
Laura currently serves as commercial counsel at a Fortune 50 technology company, negotiating large-scale commercial AI agreements — the same class of transactions she now structures for clients. High-impact General Counsel and IP strategist with 20+ years at the intersection of intellectual property, technology law, and global business strategy. Architect of one of the industry's first all-access digital subscription licensing frameworks — a foundational move credited by the CEO with a multi-billion dollar company's successful competitive repositioning.
Expert in M&A legal strategy, DOJ regulatory navigation, complex IP licensing, and digital transformation. Equally effective as a long-term executive partner and as a senior advisor engaged for a specific high-stakes transaction. Proven track record of transforming legal departments into high-velocity strategic accelerators through operational rigor and technology-enabled process design.
- ·Cengage Unlimited$1.5B+ revenue transformation — industry-first all-access digital subscription
- ·Cengage–McGraw-Hill MergerLed DOJ advocacy on proposed merger of equals
- ·Legal Operations25%+ outside counsel reduction, $2M+ annual savings
- ·Team Architecture50+ person international legal organization across 20+ countries
- ·Anti-PiracyDouble-digit reduction in counterfeit materials
Let's talk about what's next.
The law is complicated. Your counsel doesn't have to be.