Carl Schwenker

Carl has specialized in technology, intellectual property, entertainment, and privacy oriented legal issues for twenty-five years, regularly counseling individuals and emergent tech businesses on the gamut of diverse legal issues faced by tech start-ups, creatives, entertainers, and festivals, from business start-up to IP and brand protection to digital and consumer privacy concerns for mobile, IOT, and other products. Carl spearheaded and was appointed class and liaison counsel for a ground-breaking nationwide consumer digital privacy class action concerning mobile apps’ harvesting of iDevice owners’ mobile address books and the adequacy of Apple’s iDevice privacy safeguards. Carl is an AV® Preeminent™ and Texas Top Rated Lawyer, the founder of the Law Offices of Carl F. Schwenker, an Austin-based boutique firm with a diverse practice in tech- and entertainment-oriented business and litigation matters, has participated in angel and venture backed start-ups, and is a SXSW alumnus as both an interactive speaker and music festival drummer.