Laura M. Carey
laura.carey@GovTechAdvisors.com

Ms. Carey has extensive experience involving technology, electronic commerce and online financial services. Her practice focuses primarily on negotiating technology contracts and software licenses, procurement of technology goods and services, merchant/bankcard processing, web site hosting, web site development, online bill payment and presentment, and electronic funds transfer.

Ms. Carey previously served as Assistant Vice President and Counsel for Bank One Corporation in the Technology and Contracts Practice Group.

Representative Matters      

Represented major financial institution in implementation of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-sign) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) for person-to-person online payment system

Represented major financial institution in business-to-business Web site development project

Represented major financial institution on various issues involving account aggregation, screen scraping, information security and online contracting with customers

Served as primary legal contact for financial institution's merchant processing business and advised regarding corporate matters, alliance matters, merchant customer issues and disputes, contract negotiations, vendor products/services contracts and issues, acquisition/conversion matters, association compliance matters, marketing reviews, and emerging markets/Internet matters

Education

Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, Rhode Island; JD, 1998; cum laude

Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island; BS, 1986, Paralegal Studies; summa cum laude