CAPPO 2020

Leslie Marell

Marell Law Firm


Leslie Marell is a business and commercial law attorney with over 25 years’ experience as in-house and outside counsel. She is principal of Marell Law Firm located in the Los Angeles area. Leslie has represented OEMs, distributors, sales representatives, suppliers and customer in the manufacturing, technology, health care, medical device industries and public sector. Leslie specializes in purchase and sales agreements, distribution and independent sales representative agreements, intellectual property and technology transactions (software license/ SaaS agreements; professional services agreements), entity formation, management and shareholder buy/ sell agreements, and day to day business/ legal matters. In addition to her legal practice, Leslie is founder of Ink the Deal Seminars which conducts seminars and webinars across the United States on contracting, legal aspects of purchasing and sales, software licensing, and risk management. Thousands of purchasing, sales, marketing, engineering and IT professionals have attended Leslie’s seminars and webinars. Leslie’s presentations are a blend of lecture, clear communication, anecdotal humor, real world case studies and audience participation. The two most typical comments she receives are: “You made a dry subject really interesting” and “You have the ability to convert ‘legal mumbo jumbo’ into understandable, real world concepts”. Leslie published a collection of business contracts called “Purchaser’s Contract Forms” which contains 79 business contracts and co-authored Purchasing Handbook – A Guide for the Purchasing & Supply Professional published by McGraw-Hill. She has published many articles on contract law, business law, and intellectual property law and authored periodic legal columns for many trade associations.

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