About

David Spoede is an attorney with a business, internet and e-commerce practice.  David Spoede has represented the nation's largest real estate development company, the wealthiest individual in Dallas and his wholly-owned companies, a large regional multi-family development and operating company, a small medical equipment sales company, and an extraordinarily successful internet marketing company. David Spoede has worked on contracts involving less than $5,000 to international agreements with sovereign governments.

David Spoede has had specific experience with virtually every legal issue an internet business can encounter, including Affiliate marketing, Privacy policies, Website terms, FTC regulatory issues, state regulation and enforcement of the internet and ecommerce, Reg E and debit card issues, paid search marketing, intellectual property law including trademark and copyright enforcement and defense, CAN-SPAM and other spam issues, Millennium Digital Copyright Act, domain name disputes, hacking and unauthorized access, employment issues (such as tracking employee use and access to employee emails), and taxation of e-commerce. In the area of general business law, David Spoede has extensive experience with real estate purchase and sales; corporate asset ascquisitions and sales; the organization, formation, and operation of corporations, partnerships, LLCs and similar limited liability entities; and general contract drafting and negotiation.

David Spoede has also been General Counsel of two companies, so he understands the needs and realities of business from the inside.

 He has also had a wide and varied career (from being a partner in a large regional law firm to being a senior political appointee in the Department of Defense) which provides him with experience and a perspective not shared by most attorneys.

Clients that David Spoede has represented during his career include:

• One Technologies, L.P. (an extraordinarily successful internet marketing company)
• Andrew Beal (a member of the Forbes 50)
• Beal Bank and its affiliated entities (one of the largest privately owned banks in the U.S.)
• Beal Aerospace
• Lane Strategic Investment, L.P. (a large regional developer of multi-family housing)
• Aminoil, Inc. (at one time the largest independent oil company in the U.S.)
• Bellamah Development Co. (at one time the largest land development company in the U.S.)
• Betawest (a real estate development company wholly owned by Mountain Bell)

David Spoede is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law (1981) and of Bryan College (summa cum laude).