Michelle Rule
Senior Associate
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
+44 20 3206 2856
Email Michelle
michelle.rule@smb.london
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Michelle is a Senior Associate in the Technology, Corporate & Commercial teams.
She is a specialist commercial lawyer and advises clients on day-to-day business issues, with a focus on advising, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial, technology and intellectual property contracts, including software agreements, terms of business and supply of goods and services agreements as well as advising organisations on data protection considerations and compliance.
Michelle joined the firm in 2021 following periods working in private practice and in-house for a renewable energy developer. Michelle retrained as a solicitor in 2008, following 12 years working in digital media and technology businesses as a product manager and IT director.
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Insights featuring Michelle
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16th April 2024What is copyright?
Tech, IP & Digital Rights Partner, Raoul Lumb and Senior Associate in our Corporate department, Michelle Rule, discuss Copyright and how usage of original content is governed.
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22nd January 2024Social Media and the Online Safety Act 2023
Firstly, I fell into a discussion about user identification on LinkedIn. See here. I also read the heart-warming article on the BBC about a throw-away statement on University Challenge about the nascency of Jungle music. This got me to thinking about social media and the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA or Act).
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30th October 2023Intellectual Property Rights of University Research
Many important and potentially valuable intellectual property rights can spring up without formality. The most pertinent of these is copyright, but it is also true of unregistered design rights, confidential information and know-how.
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News featuring Michelle
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13th September 2022 Tech, IP & Digital Rights
What to consider for your privacy policy
It’s old news that the GDPR has significantly changed data privacy laws in the UK and EU. One thing that changed was the introduction of the privacy policy. This is the link on the bottom of a webpage setting out what will happen to personal data entrusted or acquired by the website owner.
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2nd November 2021 Corporate, Commercial & Finance
What does it mean to agree to act “in good faith?”
The phrase “in good faith” is sometimes found in clauses of commercial contracts and can be easily glossed over as innocuous. However, there is no general doctrine of good faith in contracts under English Law.
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