Legal Services for Innovative Companies
A Practical, Efficient Approach
Trillium believes that great legal service starts with understanding your business need and stage. We tailor our work product and advice to the priorities and budget you set, and offer timely, achievable solutions. We offer fractional (fixed-fee) and hourly fee arrangements depending on your need.
Phil Decker, JD
Phil’s practice focuses on providing counsel to life sciences and technology clients on a wide range of business and legal issues. His experience includes managing, negotiating and drafting agreements from complex technology transactions to day-to-day contracts, providing intellectual property and dispute resolution counseling, leading and supporting diligence projects, advising on legal operations and legal technology implementation, and company policy development and training. Phil is a registered Patent Attorney at the USPTO.
Prior to founding Trillium Legal PLLC, Phil served as Senior Corporate Counsel at Sana Biotechnology, Inc. and as in house Corporate Counsel at SeaGen (formerly Seattle Genetics). Prior to his in-house positions, Phil was an associate in the IP Litigation and Technology Transactions groups at Fenwick & West LLP. Phil clerked for The Honorable Pauline Newman, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
EXPERIENCE
Sana Biotechnology, Inc., Senior Corporate Counsel
Seattle Genetics, Inc., Corporate Counsel
Fenwick & West LLP, Technology Transactions and IP Litigation Associate
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, IP Litigation Associate
EDUCATION
JD, George Mason University School of Law
BS, Microbiology, University of Washington
BA, International Studies, University of Washington
CLERKSHIP & FELLOWSHIP EXPERIENCE
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Law Clerk to Honorable Pauline Newman
National Institutes of Health (NIDDK), Post-baccalaureate Fellow (Intramural Research Training Award)