Mission

Pitegoff Law Office PLLC is a high-quality business law firm located in White Plains, New York. The firm is committed to creating the legal foundation for the success of our clients’ businesses. We provide excellent service while seeking to develop long-term relationships with growing companies. We strive to offer thoughtful, practical advice and representation at rates commensurate with the value of the project. The firm's attorneys and staff endeavor to be easily accessible and to respond quickly to client needs.

Scope of Practice

Pitegoff Law Office PLLC limits its practice to business law. The firm's services in the fields of franchising, information technology and intellectual property are focus areas of the firm's broader business law practice. The firm represents companies large and small, from the New York metropolitan area and worldwide.

In franchising, Pitegoff Law Office PLLC represents franchisors, franchisees and area developers. When appropriate, we also help companies to establish distribution and licensing systems that are not franchises, and we advise companies whose businesses may inadvertently fall within the scope of the franchise laws.

In information technology, we provide legal counsel and representation to a range of firms that are actively using the Internet in their growing businesses. We also assist clients that are not in the IT business with the Internet and networking aspects of their operations. We also represent more traditional computer companies, such as network integrators and software developers.

Intellectual property is central to our work for all types of clients. Our IP work consists of counseling and contract drafting and negotiation on business transactions that involve IP. We also handle trademark registrations and oversee trademark portfolios. The broad range of contracts we draft includes trademark licenses, software and patent licenses, maintenance agreements, development agreements, nondisclosure agreements, consulting agreements, web terms and privacy policies. For patent prosecutions, we work with other law firms.

Tom Pitegoff frequently acts as outside general counsel for companies that do not have in-house counsel. While some of these clients may be franchise or technology companies, others may be from entirely different fields, including consumer products, retail, business services, automotive, advertising and more. The firm also acts as special counsel for larger companies on matters within the firm's core competencies.

Counsel Relationships

The firm has a wide network of equally high-quality attorneys and law firms locally and around the world it calls upon for assistance on matters outside the scope of the firm's practice.

Gerry A. Fifer assists the firm on trademark, copyright and other intellectual property law matters, and information technology transactions and the Internet. Gerry has spoken and written widely on these topics, including co-authoring the chapter on e-commerce agreements in Trademark Law & the Internet (INTA, 1st & 2d eds., 1999 and 2001). She has represented multinational corporations at major law firms, as well as small businesses and start-ups. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 1986. Formerly she was an editor and an electronics technician. Gerry is admitted to the New York bar.

Leonard D. Andrew assists the firm on a variety of matters, including employment law and antitrust law. Len has more than 30 years of experience at IBM, retiring in 1999 as Associate General Counsel, Worldwide Industry Solutions Units. From 1990 to 1994, Len was the General Counsel of IBM World Trade Asia Corp., in Tokyo , Japan , where he was IBM's senior legal executive for 21 countries and territories in Asia and the Pacific. His responsibilities included international competition law, intellectual property licensing and litigation, and commercial agreements. During that period, he negotiated joint ventures in India and China . Len is admitted to the New York bar.