Barker Pitelka PLLC
Helping driven teams navigate complex systems and structures to accelerate progress

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Helping driven teams navigate complex systems and structures to accelerate progress

Helping driven teams navigate complex systems and structures to accelerate progress

Expertise

  • Management: Organization of a legal function, including standardization of documents management, instruction of outside counsel, and building an in-house legal team

  • Product: How to design and develop products with legal considerations embedded from the beginning, including consumer protection, global implications, business customer ramifications and others

  • Contract: Deal negotiation, including partnerships, infrastructure, payments, customer agreements

  • Privacy: Data collection, use, storage, and disclosure advice and tactics

  • Policy: Strategic policy advice in new or highly regulated fields. Learn more about the practice ->

Amy Pitelka

Working with teams that are working towards a better future, locally or globally.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, I started my career practicing international private equity mergers and acquisitions law at Kirkland & Ellis in London. From there I joined Google to negotiate deals and advise product teams, then moved to Dropbox and combined my corporate, commercial, and product practices.

In January of 2016, I joined the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) at the White House and became their first practicing tech lawyer. At USDS I learned how to delve into discrete new highly regulated fields of law and developing policy areas, in order to provide confident advice in hours. In my last month at USDS, I served as the Acting Deputy Administrator, which gave me a new perspective on running a large and complex organization.

After founding my firm, Barker Pitelka PLLC, I was able to help driven teams navigate complex legal systems and structures — from enabling de-identified medical data sharing across research institutions to facilitate the application of AI to medical science, to the relatively straightforward work of establishing and growing a technology company. In 2020-2021, I focused back on government benefits and the infrastructure supporting services delivery in the Biden-Harris Transition and following administration. Most recently, I gained insight into the full spectrum of issues facing startup legal teams by joining Level, an employee benefits fintech, as its first Head of Legal and growing an exceptional team of attorneys. Learn more about Amy Pitelka ->