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John F.

California Attorney | Contracts, SaaS Terms & Privacy Compliance

Most contract problems do not show up at signing. They show up fourteen months later, when the auto renewal already fired, the indemnity runs one way, and the "no sale of data" line in your privacy policy turns out to be false under California's statutory definition. By then your options are expensive. I fix those problems while they are still cheap: at the drafting table. I am a licensed attorney and legal operations specialist supporting founders and businesses on US law agreements and privacy documentation. My drafting covers commercial contracts (MSAs, SaaS terms, NDAs, independent contractor and consulting agreements, construction and warranty documents) and digital compliance documents (privacy policies, terms of service, AI terms, cookie and acceptable use policies). On the privacy side I draft against the current landscape, not the 2020 one: roughly twenty states now have comprehensive privacy statutes in force, Global Privacy Control signals are mandatory in California and about a dozen other states, GDPR Article 13 has elements most policies simply omit, and EU AI Act Article 50 transparency duties are live as of August 2, 2026. California plus GDPR framing is no longer sufficient, and I will tell you if that is what you currently have. Here is what you can hand me: ➜Draft commercial agreements from scratch: MSAs, SOWs, service agreements, NDAs, contractor and consulting agreements, licensing, supply and distribution ➜Review and redline counterparty contracts with a risk rated issues list, replacement language, and a negotiation position for each item ➜Rebuild privacy policies, terms of service, and AI terms for multi-state, GDPR, and EU AI Act coverage, with a documented change log ➜Reconcile document sets that contradict each other: privacy policy against ToS, order form against master terms, MSA against SOW ➜Termination and exposure analysis: what a contract actually lets the other side demand, and where the ambiguity gives you leverage ➜Legal research memos and 50 state comparison charts on discrete questions ➜Demand letters, cease and desist letters, and settlement correspondence My process is built for handoff, not mystery. Every review comes back as three things: the marked up document, a change log with severity ratings (critical, high, medium, drafting) so you know what to argue about and what to let go, and a short list of items that need a factual confirmation before anything is published or sent. I reply within minutes and I do not pad documents with clauses that serve no purpose. Send me the document and one line about what you are worried about. You will get back a scope, a turnaround, and straight answers.

🇺🇸San Diego, United States$100/hr100% JSS5.00 (1)Since Jul 2026

Earnings and projects

MRR
$633

Last 6 months ÷ 2.8 months active (since Aug 2026)

World#68,083 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#10,384 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $1.8k

Total earnings
$1.8k

Billed in all: $1.9k

World#342,608 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#52,722 / 62.1k
Per project
$453

$448 in the last 6 months

World#192,073 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#32,074 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
4
75% fixed25% hourly
World#51,813 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,181 / 62.1k
Projects in all
4
75% fixed25% hourly
World#283,741 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#40,819 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$1.9kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$1,860$1,880$1,900$1,920Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 15% in Contract Translation

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #13Privacy Policy Writing73 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #10Top 18%
  2. #33GDPR Compliance Review149 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #7Top 22%
  3. #52Privacy Policy181 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #25Top 29%
  4. #68Terms & Conditions253 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #38Top 27%
  5. #71GDPR319 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #15Top 22%
  6. #73Contract Translation486 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #5Top 15%
  7. #113Contract483 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #35Top 23%
  8. #143Contract Management593 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #42Top 24%