Alfred M. Wurglitz

Al also advises on intellectual property protection for technology products and services.  He litigates complex technology performance, copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation cases, primarily in federal and state courts located in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

Publications and Speaking Engagements: Al has authored many articles and lectured on technology development and licensing, bid protests, intellectual property in government contracts, contract disputes and remedies, federal financial assistance programs, contractor self-governance, outsourcing transactions, and open source licensing. He co-authored (with Sandra Conn) seven editions of the leading book on using the federal Small Business Innovation Research Program to commercialize innovative technology (1983-1992), and contributed two chapters in the first edition of Employment Discrimination Law (BNA).

Before joining Miles & Stockbridge in 2005, Al was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He joined O’Melveny in 1993, after serving as General Counsel of a major systems integrator, technology developer and professional services company headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Al served in the Carter Administration as Assistant General Counsel, Executive Office of the President, Council on Wage and Price Stability. While finishing his law degree at Loyola University Law School at night, Al served as a procurement officer in the U.S. Air Force space program. Before then, he received a graduate degree in law and government from Oxford University in the U.K., studied law at New York University Law School, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy. Al served as a law clerk to the Honorable John Minor Wisdom on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Honorable William E. Doyle on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.