IT - Law | Institute of law

Statistics on the industry

5,8 %

projected contribution of IT to Ukraine's GDP by 2020

10 %

annual growth of the third largest export potential sector of Ukraine

40 %

increasing demand for IT professionals

150 %

IT market growth over the last 5 years

Program formats

Basic

Intended for students and everyone who want to familiarize themselves with the IT world.

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Advanced

Intended for those already familiar with IT industry.

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Modules

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Description of formats

Basic

Intended for students and everyone who want to familiarize themselves with the IT world.

Attendees will get a broad view of IT industry and its regional differences, an understanding of terms and processes in software development, rules of IT business structuring and contract negotiations, review of intellectual property questions in IT.

9 subjects of the Basic program:

Introduction to IT law
Foundations of ICT
Software development management
Structuring IT business
Options as a means of team motivation (2 hours) 6. Contracts in IT
Copyright in IT
Trade secret and patenting
Trademarks and domains
Legal issues in GameDev

Tuition: UAH 10550
Full-time students: UAH 5500

Advanced

Intended for those already familiar with IT industry.

Participants will immerse themselves in the subtleties of the taxation on IT and IP, will practice in working with different types of contracts: license agreements, service contracts, website development contracts, and SaaS contracts, will get acquainted with specific areas of the IT industry: GameDev, FinTech, е-commerce and will learn how IT issues are regulated under the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

Participants of the Advanced course will have the opportunity to listen the lectures from the best US law firms on capital raising, venture investment and technology transactions structuring.

Tuition: UAH 19990

Full-time students: UAH 9990

6 subjects of the Basic course + 6 subjects of the Advanced course, including 2 subjects taught by the US lawyers:

Introduction to IT Law
Foundations of ICT
Structuring IT business
Software development management
Contracts in IT
Intellectual property law in IT
E-commerce and FinTech
IT issues in the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU
Taxation in IT
Alternative dispute resolution
Venture investment and capital raising in IT (USA)
Technology transactions structuring (USA)

+ 2 thematic blocks of lectures:

GDPR
Crypto Regulation. Crypto Startups. ICO

+ block of practical exercises from in-house lawyers of IT companies:

License agreements / IT company Plarium
Free and open-source software / ILTI
Service agreements / ILTI
Cloud computing and SaaS agreements / ILTI
Website development contracts / IT company Art Lemon Group
Legal issues in GameDev / IT companies Plarium and Turnkey Lender
E-money and electronic payment platforms / IT company Chameleon Soft

Tuition: UAH 19990

Full-time students: UAH 9990

Modules

Cryptoregulation and FinTech

Within the one-day module you will receive information: how blockchain technology is used and in what direction the industry is developing; what is the status of cryptocurrencies in Ukraine and the world and what changes should be expected in the near future; how to token movable and immovable property and what you need to know to support ICO / IEO / STO.

The program of the module includes 3 blocks of questions:

Technical issues: Blockchain, smart contracts and tokenization
Legal issues: Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. Regulation. ICO / IEO / STO
Tokenization and Security Token Offering (STO)
Cost: UAH 3000

For students: UAH 1500

Protection of personal data in Ukraine, EU (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force for 1.5 years, but not all companies have complied with GDPR compliance. In the past, the first practice of applying the GDPR was formed and the first court decisions appeared. As part of the one-day module, we will analyze: how the GDPR works and what to do to avoid fines; what to include in the checklist for GDPR-compliance and how to prepare a Privacy Notice; what are the consequences of data leakage.

Personal data and their types
How the GDPR works and who is obliged to comply with it
Privacy Notice: differences in policy, requirements and submission format, checklist for GDPR compliance
Data Breach Workshop. What to do if there is a data leak?
Cost: UAH 2000

For students: UAH 1000

Workshops on contracts in IT from in-house lawyers:

License agreements / Plarium
Service contracts / Raccoon Gang
Cloud Technology Agreements (SaaS) / Mikhailyuk, Sorokolat and partners
Website Development Agreements / Art Lemon
NDA, NCA, NSA / Altexsoft
Coworking agreement / Knubisoft
Contracts in E-Commerce and Digital Marketing
Cost: UAH 6000

For students: UAH 3000

Lecturers

Olga Simson

The head of the program, lecturer, doctor of law, professor at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, partner of IT and IP practices Law Offices of OMP

Charles Whitehead

Lecturer, Professor at Cornell Law School, co-founder at the ILTI, Director of the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell Tech

Sergii Glynianskyi

Tech lead and full-stack web developer at AspireGlobal, ILTI technical consultant

Sergey Povolyashko

Certified project manager, CTO in IT-company TEAM International, author and head of IT-tuning project, trainer of Advance IT schools

Illarion Tomarov

Head of IT and IP practice of Taylor Wessing Ukraine, noted in the ratings of IP lawyers according to the edition of Legal 500, Chambers Europe, Ukrainian Law Firms 2017

Elena Vardamatskaya

Deputy Head of the APA Committee on Telecommunications, Information Technology and the Internet, Head of IP and IT practices of the law firm "Wolfe Tayse"

Pavel Kravchenko

Candidate of Science with the specialty "Information Protection", the founder of the company of the Distributed Lab incubator, has been engaged in projects with crypto-currencies, Blockchain and decentralized technologies for more than 10 years

Svetlana Petrova

Head of the Center for Law and Mediation, Director Conflicta.Net, Member of the Board of the ADR Institute of Europe, Master TOP Facilitator.

Snezhana Popovich

The lecturer of the practical block, the graduate of the program IT-right, in-house lawyer of the IT company Art Lemon

Konstantin Zerov

Assistant of the Department of Intellectual Property, Faculty of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University

Veronika Vasilchenko

Legal advisor at AltexSoft. In the past, he was a senior lawyer at ILF, a consultant for the Legal Hours for IT project.

Denis Vertegel

In-house Lawyer в AnyforSoft та Raccoon Gang.

Anna Lapitskaya

Project Team Member, Tax Specialist, CFO at Magecom IT Company.

Oksana Kobzar

Lawyer of the Law Office of Oksana Kobzar. For 18 years he has been practicing tax and customs law, foreign economic activity and Due Diligence.

Anton Zinchuk

Partner of the law firm ILF (one of the top 5 law firms in Ukraine for IT), leads IT practice, one of the most well-known IT lawyers according to the magazine "Legal Practice"

Sergiy Ostrovskiy

Partner and co-founder of the law firm AURUM, which focuses on areas such as Fintech, e-commerce, blockchain (DLT) and virtual assets.

Taras Kisliy

Partner of the practice of intellectual property and TMT of JSC "Arzinger", lawyer, arbitrator of domain disputes under the UDRP procedure and domain disputes in .UA and .COM.UA under the UA-DRP procedure of the International Center for Arbitration and Mediation of WIPO (Geneva, Switzerland). Has more than 19 years of experience in the field of intellectual property. Taras's area of competence covers all aspects of protection of intellectual property rights (judicial protection, protection against unfair competition, fight against counterfeiting and piracy, alternative dispute resolution procedures, portfolio management of IP objects, etc.), as well as e-commerce, data protection and legal support of clients in the field of media, telecommunications and technologies.

Oksana Kochkodan

Partner at Axon Partners. Specialization - personal data protection, telecommunications, contract work in IT. Coach of NaUKMA teams at ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law.

Andriy Udovichenko

SRO in Bot & Partners, Notion Pro. Specialization - personal data protection according to GDPR. He has been involved in the Marketing Compliance and GDPR procedures in international product IT companies with more than 20 million users, cryptocurrencies and companies with sensitive medical data.

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Alumni feedback

Ganna Movsesova

Lawyer

Thank you for looking into the future, thank you for giving the opportunity to study remotely. Thank you for the good communication and technical support. Thank you for gathering such a cool and advanced pool of lecturers. Thank you for the program content. I am glad that I chose you. I graduated from the university in 2009 and I am a practicing lawyer, therefore the vision of the training program for myself differs somewhat from that of a student studying at university at that moment. What you give is practice. That is what is needed. Wish you successful and all-round development.

15 March 2017

Andriy Bogancha

Advocate, senior partner of the Legal Alliance «Pravosoznanie»

Loads of interesting and useful information in the fields of intellectual property law, IT business and international relations. Thanks to the knowledge gained at the very first session of the program, the lawyers of the Legal Alliance «Pravosoznanie» managed to unravel the tangle of a complex electronic fraudulent scheme, as well as provide additional services for IT clients. A great opportunity for colleagues to improve their skills and be "on trend." I recommend!

15 March 2017

Artem Donets

Advocate, managing partner of the law firm “Donets & Partners”

Personally, in some aspects of IT / IP law, I was lacking in academic excellence, and when I went to study at your institution, I intended to increase my general theoretical level, to get acquainted with my legal colleagues and, what to hide, to understand for myself, whether I was all doing the right thing from the profi’s point of view. With the results of the training I can state with great pleasure that all the goals have been achieved. I want to thank Olga Simson for organizing this unique program and delivering equally interesting lectures. I would like to point out the very high level of subject matter of teachers and lecturers, their knowledge of the theory and current practice. The educational process is rich, the subjects are not only interesting but also practically oriented, literally filled with know-how and expertise practice in this field, with the information being provided accessible, but not in a superficial manner.

NATALIIA KOVALENKO

Attorney

I recommend to all young and progressive lawyers! Thank to Olga Simson for this course, it proved tself useful

SNIZHANA POPOVITCH

IT lawyer, inhouse lawyer at IT company Art Lemon

The program gives you a chance to look at the field of IT from the inside, opens up new horizons for you, and simply gives you many impressions, new information and good friends. Because of this program I found a job at the IT company.

YEVGEN ZHUKOVSKYI

IT Lawyer, Senior Lawyer at IT company Chameleon Soft

The program provides great opportunities, meets with cool lecturers-experts in the field of IT. Due of this I found a job at an IT company.

About the program

IT courses for lawyers: practical skills from leading experts.

The profession of a programmer has long been at the peak of popularity and the number of offers to pass IT courses in Kharkiv is only growing. The rapid development of the IT industry in Ukraine leads to the expansion of the industry, where not only developers and testers, but a full-fledged team to support IT business is in demand. Kyiv and Kharkiv are leading in terms of IT market size, therefore IT courses in Kyiv enjoy the same popularity.

IT Law courses are an excellent opportunity to keep pace with the times because today, the IT lawyer is in demand in a huge number of directions, from the structuring of IT business and ending with the protection of intellectual property in IT products of the company.

That is why IT courses will be needed for:

- lawyers who want to learn the subtleties of IT sphere in Ukraine, get useful skills of legal support of IT business,

- the owners, CEO of IT companies that plan to develop, enter the international market and be aware of the legal issues of the company's activities.

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