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Mar. 7, 2013

Fenwick hosts its seed-funding legal documents through GitHub

Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday that the latest version of its Series Seed documents have been hosted on the widely-used, code sharing website GitHub Inc. in what a Fenwick lawyer calls an evolution of the startup legal practice.


By David Ruiz


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday that the latest version of its seed fundraising round legal documents, curated by Mountain View-based corporate partner Ted G. Wang, have been hosted on the widely-used code sharing website GitHub Inc.


Open source documents on an open source forum - is this the direction the startup legal practice is headed?


"We're just trying to make it ea...

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