Velaris, PLLC

Velaris is a law firm that pairs full-service legal counsel with business and brand strategy, aimed at owners, operators, inventors and creators. Its attorneys handle intellectual property, corporate and general counsel work, financing, litigation, privacy and AI, regulatory and advertising compliance, and name, image and likeness deals for creators and athletes. The firm describes itself as entrepreneurs first and attorneys by trade, with the goal of keeping legal work aligned with how a client’s business actually makes money.

Clients fall into two broad groups: high-IP companies whose value lives in inventions, software, data, brands and content, and operations-driven businesses, from the trades and agriculture to health and professional services, that are ready to scale. For growing companies the firm can act as outside general counsel instead of a full-time in-house hire. The team draws on backgrounds in federal and state court litigation, in-house corporate roles, public-sector leadership and running businesses of their own.

What to Know

• Its attorneys are admitted in Massachusetts, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and California, with an intellectual property practice that works nationwide.
• Patent work runs from strategy and prosecution before the USPTO to inter partes review and enforcement.
• Before founding Velaris, its lawyers worked on a federal jury trial over trade secret misappropriation that ended in a $222.7 million verdict.
• Consultations can be booked in advance through the firm.