John Stanley Giles

John delivers practical legal solutions to clients by bringing together knowledge, experience, insight, clear thinking, planning, project management, skilled resources, and efficient technology. He helps organisations grow and avoid legal problems. He is a surfer and a family man. John’s specialities include: Critical thinking to reach clarity. Making complexity, simple. Documents, discussions, processes, and laws are often very complicated – they don’t have to be. Helping people understand the implications of laws. Analyzing a situation to work out a practical course of action. Syncing body, mind and soul while surfing. John is currently providing various practical corporate and ICT legal services, including: Helping various organisations to comply with POPI, from dual listed multinationals to start-ups. In various industries, including retail, financial services, marketing, healthcare, manufacturing, and mining. Running workshops and presenting to thousands of people. Drafting and reviewing agreements, policies, checklists, templates, guides, reports, action plans, lists, registers, frameworks, letters, briefings, and opinions. Running projects to convert hundreds of legal documents to plain language. Auditing various companies for compliance. Running many large projects on IT GRC, information security, and records management. Helping organisations to address the legal aspects of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) in a practical way to real issues. Advising on the law regards marketing (including internet marketing) and advertising, including competitions and sponsorships. Working with direct marketers. Advising on the practical use of electronic signatures and the law regards electronic and automatic processes. Advising on the law regards email. Providing legal services regards digital or new media. Advising on source code escrow arrangements. Drafting MOIs and Shareholder Agreements. Dealing with issues relating to intellectual property, especially copyright and confidentiality issues. Conducting various IP audits. Assisting organisations to comply with their obligations to provide access to information. Finding solutions for technology start-ups. Resolving domain name disputes, including transfers and disputes

Education:
BA LLB

Admission Status:
Practicing Roll

Languages:
English