Attorneys - Edwards Law Group

Mark S. Edwards

Mark S. Edwards is the founding member of Edwards Law Group, Inc. Mark is a results-driven business attorney who approaches projects and issues on an integrated business and legal basis. Mr. Edwards focuses on achieving meaningful solutions with financial effectiveness and positive long-term results for his clients. He has over 25 years experience supporting high-technology companies in transactional and business matters. His experience includes both in-house counsel and law firm practice, working and negotiating with organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Edwards has managed the legal departments and affairs for multinational corporations, where he and his team were integrally involved in all material, domestic and international transactions and all legal matters, and where he managed the intellectual property portfolio of the company. He has served as an officer of a high tech corporation with responsibilities covering not only legal, but also a number of business and operations matters. With this background, Mr. Edwards understands the company and its challenges from both a lawyer's and a business person's point of view.

A few example activities and responsibilities displaying Mr. Edwards command of both business and law follow from a review of his last in-house assignment where he:

Formed and operated the Company's first ever legal department;
Re-negotiated certain non-cancelable infrastructure contracts resulting in reductions of approximately $7 Million from fixed costs;
Drafted and revised policies and supported roll-out of the Company's first Electronic Employee Handbook;
Attended and acted as Secretary at all Board Meetings;
Negotiated the company's first ever reseller agreement, with IBM;
Liaised with investors and renegotiated articles and financing documents;
Served as an officer of the parent and a director of its UK subsidiary;
Served as one of three signatories for both the parent company and its UK subsidiary; and
Designed and ran the company's first Intellectual Property proliferation program.

Mr. Edwards is admitted to practice law in California and before the U.S. District Court and The Northern District Court in California (1995). He holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a B.S.C. in Finance from Santa Clara University.

Parini Shroff

Parini Shroff is Of Counsel to Edwards Law Group, Inc. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2006 and received her Juris Doctorate in 2009 from Loyola Law School and worked as an employment and labor attorney for Littler Mendelson in Los Angeles for four years. She received her Masters from the University of Texas in Austin in 2015. Parini formed Shroff Law in 2015 to focus on business and corporate law. She's also been working with Edwards Law Group, Inc. and its clients since that time.