Bruce Leshine
Partner

Connecticut

Email: bl@jordenusa.com
Phone: (860) 392-5044
Fax: (860) 392-5058

Having over twenty-five years of varied experience as a lawyer, business executive and systems engineer, Bruce Leshine represents and advises major corporations, healthcare organizations, financial services firms and government entities in their procurement, acquisition and management of varied information technology and telecommunications products and services and IT and business process outsourcing. In addition to the representation and provision of legal counsel to clients nationally, Mr. Leshine is a frequent speaker and panelist on the subject of the outsourcing of information technology systems and infrastructure, telecommunications networks and services, and business processes and operations. In addition, Mr. Leshine represents and advises clients respecting more general information technology issues in the areas of software development and licensing, technology transfer agreements, technology services contracts, the Internet, and non-litigation dispute resolution.

Mr. Leshine has a broad breadth of experience in the review and evaluation of existing information technology and telecommunications contracts, rates and charges and product and service delivery. Working "hand in glove" with client lawyers, business executives, finance and contract managers and technical staff, Mr. Leshine represents and advises clients regarding such information technology and telecommunications initiatives from start to finish--- preparing bid documents, managing the contract procurement and proposal evaluation processes, taking part in business and technical meetings, and fully negotiating and drafting the master agreement legal terms and conditions, statements of work, service level agreements, schedules of rates and charges, asset purchase and lease documents, and personnel transfer and transition plans.

Working with some of the country's leading consultants, Mr. Leshine reviews and evaluates all financial parameters and cost and pricing information regarding the organization's information technology or telecommunications products and services. This includes benchmarking or other financial assessments, and the identification of issues with suppliers' proposed pricing structures, such as hidden costs and whether there is appropriate variability in the overall pricing. Finally, in the area of performance standards and service levels, Mr. Leshine has broken new ground, completing several recent agreements with a dramatically different and much improved concept and approach towards the application of performance standards in information technology and telecommunications. Such a concept and approach dispels the traditional set of nominal monetary credits for short-term non-compliance with rudimentary metrics, and replaces it with a system of more meaningful performance standards and incentives guaranteeing the satisfaction of the client's long-term objectives.