Summary of Practice Areas:
Business Formation – business set-up, licensing, coaching
Business Contracts – including: operating agreements, standard client service agreements, vendor agreements, settlement agreements, joint venture agreements, affiliate agreements, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, license agreements, website terms & conditions, privacy policies and online terms of purchase, workshop/event releases and waivers, speaker and interview agreements and releases, publishing and agency representation agreements, and more
Contracts – numerous, across a wide variety of issues and for all kinds of clients
Dispute Resolution – settlement negotiations, agreements, facilitation, coaching & mediation
Intellectual Property Protection, Trademarks, Copyright, Trade Secret Protection (including creating Intellectual Property Protection Plans for online entrepreneurs)
Business Risk Assessments & Strategic Planning
Real Estate – disputes & transactions, including residential and commercial; real estate holding companies, landlord-tenant, easement, boundary, co-ownership issues, disposition, and more
About Heather Pearce Campbell
Heather is a warrior mama, nature lover, and dedicated attorney and legal coach for world-changing entrepreneurs. Based in Seattle, she is mom to two little, wild munchkins, and founder of Pearce Law PLLC, home to her legal practice. She is also the creator of The Legal Website Warrior®, an online business that provides legal education and support to information entrepreneurs (coaches, consultants, online educators, speakers & authors) around the U.S. and the world.
She hoards information, paper, and books while secretly dreaming of becoming a minimalist, and relishes an occasional rare night with her hubby when the kiddos are miraculously asleep and she can soak up HGTV without guilt. Heather is also the host of the Guts, Grit & Great Business podcast.
Work Summary.
Heather’s practice focuses primarily on information entrepreneurs and online businesses. She services coaches, consultants, online educators and experts, speakers and authors (and similarly situated businesses) with a wide range of business legal needs. She has a wide range of litigation and transactional experience within business and real estate.
She assists her business clients with numerous issues facing modern businesses and entrepreneurs – from business formation and implementing essential business contracts to protect her clients’ work and their relationships with their customers and clients, to advising on various issues including cybersecurity, protecting online content, services, programs and intellectual property, as well as asset and risk management. She has drafted, reviewed and negotiated all kinds of contracts for her clients, including licensed professionals across numerous industries, consultants, coaches, online educators, speakers and authors, amongst many others.
She has extricated numerous of her real estate clients from difficult scenarios, resolved boundary line disputes, undisclosed easements, adverse possession disputes, and represented numerous others in real estate transactions and development, including loan work-outs, refinances, partnership disputes, due diligence for major land acquisitions, and managed discovery, document review and database creation for large pieces of litigation involving hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation each and teams of attorneys.
To best serve her clients, one of the primary focuses of her practice is alternative dispute resolution, facilitation and mediation, having completed the Seminar on Advanced Negotiations at Harvard Law School. Prior to forming Pearce Law, PLLC Heather worked at The Buck Law Group where she assisted clients with a variety of matters in real estate, construction, and land use litigation, as well as employment, business, and contract matters.
Heather worked for U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Coughenour while in her third year of law at the University of Washington. She also spent some time during law school in London working for the British Government at the Audit Commission, and was a member of UW’s Mock Trial Team that participated in the N.I.T.A. National Mock Trial Competition held in Washington D.C. in 2001, one month after 9/11.
Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 2002
B.A., Utah State University, cum laude, in finance and economics, minors in French and Spanish, 1999
Memberships
Washington State Bar Association, 2002
Oregon State Bar Association (currently inactive, 2009)
Publication Contributions
WSTLA Employment Law Deskbook, compiled and edited Forms Section, 2004 (on behalf of Teller & Associates)
“Honesty and Washington Rules of Professional Conduct” in conjunction with “Lawyer Jokes and What They Tell us About Professional legal Ethics” through Law Seminars International, and in presentation to the Association of Corporate Counsel
Speaking Engagements:
“Protect Your Assets: Bite-Sized Legal Basics for Brilliant Entrepreneurs”:
– September, 2021, JVology Live (Business Conference – Online / Virtual)
– February 22, 2020, JVology Live (Business Conference), San Diego, California
– September 21, 2019, JVology Live (Business Conference), Calgary, Alberta
– May 17, 2019, Let’s Talk Impact – Code to Close Live (Business Conference), Scottsdale, AZ
MSBA (Maryland State Bar Association) Annual Conference: “Adapting to Market Disruption: How to Build Your Practice by Thinking Like a Business, Not a Lawyer” – Thought Leader Series, June 2018, Ocean City, Maryland
Speaker’s Success Summit: “Bite-Sized Legal Basics for Brilliant Entrepreneurs”, July 2017, Seattle, WA
Business Among Moms (National Networking Group): “Bite-Sized Legal Basics for Brilliant Entrepreneurs”, July 2016, Seattle, WA
WPPI (Annual National Photography Conference): “How to Turn Difficult Conversations into Success for You & Your Clients”, March 2010, Las Vegas, NV
CLE: “ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) and Construction Liens”; May 21, 2008, Tacoma, WA
CLE: Real Estate Development A – Z: ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) and How to Stay Out of Superior Court; Turning Difficult Conversations into Success for Your Clients”; February 27, 2008, Seattle, WA
CLE: “Lawyer Jokes and What They Tell us About Professional Legal Ethics”
– October 19, 2004, Law Seminars International, at Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
– December 9, 2004, Association of Corporate Counsel, Columbia Tower Club, Seattle, WA
– January 1, 2005, Law Seminars International, presented to King County Prosecutors, Seattle, WA
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Heather also provides strategic and legal coaching services to entrepreneurs and small businesses around the United States (and internationally, for those with clientele and services that are US-centric), helping them protect their online and offline business services and make difficult decisions quickly and with confidence. Visit her website here for more information.