Greenberg
& Lieberman
(G & L) has long been of the
best known and most often called
upon intellectual property law firms
in the domain industry. The
Washington D.C. based firm's high
profile in our business can largely
be credited to attorney Stevan
Lieberman's presence at
key domain conferences ever
since they began with the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
show in 2004 right up through this
year's NamesCon conference
(where the photo at right was
taken).
What
you may not have known is that
Greenberg & Lieberman have been providing
escrow
services more than 20
years. The main reason you may have
been unaware of that is the firm
seldom handled transactions under $100,000.
That has now changed with the
firm's acquisition of the software
platform that had been developed by EscrowHill.com
- a company that was founded by Andee
Hill early last
year. Ms. Hill reportedly
plans to remain in the domain
industry and we've heard rumors she
will begin work with another company
in the near future.
Lieberman
told us the software automates much
of the escrow process making it
possible for G & L to handle
transaction of any size. The
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Attorney
Stevan Lieberman
Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC
APLegal.com
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system
can be accessed at escrow.aplegal.com.
While EscrowHill branding is
still on the page, Lieberman
said that will likely go away over
time as the brand is closely
associated with the former owner
rather than G & L. The law firm
bought only the software application
with no employees or system other
business assets included (since the
sale the EscrowHill.com domain has
been pointing to the escrow
information page at G & L's
APLegal.com).
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Lieberman
became more familiar with
EscrowHill earlier year when
the company, that was
registered in New Zealand,
retained
him to give
their customers the option
of using an associated
service provided based in
America. Lieberman said G
& L will service all |
geographical regions except Texas,
one of a handful of states
that has very strict escrow
licensing rules - rules that
EscrowHill ran afoul of a
few months ago (before
Lieberman was retained),
resulting in a stiff
fine from
authorities in that state.
Lieberman said he will
extend service to Texas
residents as soon as
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