Law.com yesterday published an on-the-job profile of Mr. Antone Johnson ajohnson@eharmony.com, eHarmony’s Vice President for Legal Affairs. Some highlights:
- The company has 250 employees and makes $200 million a year.
- “‘The specter of Sarbanes-Oxley looms over us,’ Johnson said. Accordingly, eHarmony is ‘forever’ shoring up its governance and compliance efforts in anticipation of going public in the future, he said.” Yay, be the
secondthird online dating site (and first matchmaking service?) to go public. It might improve your transparency and your customer service. - “…as a growing tech company and well-known brand, is becoming the target of patent trolls. It has defended multiple suits ‘related to widely used tech infrastructure in the Internet industry.’” – Hmm I’ve never heard about any tech lawsuit against eHarmony. Multiple?
- “A Johnson career highlight was getting a competitor to withdraw an ‘egregious’ false and/or misleading patent claim before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau. ‘It is rare to play offense rather than defense as corporate counsel,’ he said.” Great job snubbing out Chemistry.com before the NAD-BBB…, but I don’t undestand how offense can be rarer than defense when every case has exactly one of each?
- eHarmony’s external legal counsels are Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (corporate issues), Heller Ehrman (IP work), Littler Mendelson (employment), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt (Canada) and DLA Piper (international).
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