Varia Law

{ law • strategy • code }

advise()

Practical advice, specializing in:

• ▸Legal and regulatory risk mitigation
  • Diagnosis and actionable options for broad regulatory risk and private legal liability exposure
  
  • Approaches to niche, cutting-edge technical concepts
  
  • Securities law compliance and fundraising strategies
  
  • Privacy and data protection
  
  • KYC, AML, and sanctions compliance
• ▸Contracts
  • Employment, consultant, contractor, and advisor agreements
  
  • Contractual joint ventures, revenue shares, partnerships, license agreements
  
  • Tech-integrated agreements: service agreements, pilots and proofs-of-concept, hackathons, security audit and bounty agreements, ecosystem grants
  
  • Incentives: equity and option agreements, token grants and allocations
  
  • NDAs, terms and conditions, and privacy policies
• ▸Corporate law and startups
  • Full service assistance with starting, funding, and running your business
  
  • Operating agreements, board resolutions, bylaws, joint ventures, and more
  
  • Trademark filings
  
  • SPVs including RWA tokenization and securitizations
  
  • Global entity experience, from LLCs to Cooperatives to Unincorporated Associations and Foundations
  
  • Fractional general counsel services
• ▸Product counsel
  • Risk assessment and actionable recommendations
  
  • Decentralized application design, oracles, and smart contract governance
  
  • AI and LLM product and workflow design
  
  • Experience with client-side application design
  
  • Advised on the novel oracle mechanism for user-recaptured MEV, OEV Network
• ▸Dispute resolution
  • Negotiation
  
  • Arbitration
  
  • Mediation
  
  • Litigation preparation
  
  • Expert witness services

consult()

Combining legal and coding expertise:

• ▸Strategy, feasibility, and design
  • Ideation, to proof-of-concept, to launch, iteration, and beyond
  
  • Revenue treatment, token incentives, dependency reduction, and optimization
  
  • Market analysis and product differentiation
  
  • Advisor to Trustless Media, incubator of the first tokenized media cooperative Coinage
• ▸Code "translation" and diligence assistance
  • Code and product interpretation support
  
  • Litigation and legal opinion technical interpretation support for law firms
  
  • Crypto tax event and ownership verification and characterization assistance for accounting firms
  
  • Blockchain, AI, and other cutting-edge tech equity and token investment diligence
• ▸Communications and documentation triage
  • Whitepapers, website copy, press release review and drafting
  
  • Internal policies and guidelines for public statements and materials
  
  • Technical documentation and interface review
• ▸Trainings and hands-on demonstrations
  • Best practices and strategies for compliant and performant AI workflows
  
  • Seminars on cryptocurrency and smart contract usage, risks, and product design
  
  • Educational, plain English presentations on cutting-edge technical concepts
• ▸Bespoke software solutions for web3, AI, and more
  • Stablecoin integrations and automations
  
  • Noncustodial escrow, OTC swaps, and contingent payments
  
  • Token vesting and unlocks, including milestones
  
  • Immutable document and e-signature storage
  
  • AI/LLM workflow implementation, optimization, and compliance solutions

build()

Software development, docs, and audit services:

• ▸Program, optimize, test, and deploy Ethereum and EVM smart contracts
  • 5+ years of Solidity dev experience, hundreds of contract deployments, 50+ security audits
  
  • Bespoke DeFi interfaces, oracles, ERC20s, NFTs, automated LP and funds flows, and more
  
  • Emphasis on security-by-simplicity and thorough commenting
  
  • Pre-audit cost-effective security and structure review for existing Solidity codebases
  
  • UX and incentive design
  
• ▸Documentation audits
  • Rectify inaccuracies and under-disclosure of features
  
  • Code commenting and NatSpec
  
  • Official Solidity style adherence
  
  • Technical documentation and READMEs
  
  • Whitepaper and website copy drafting and review
  
• ▸Code security audit assistance
  • Network of 20+ security audit agencies and individuals
  
  • Arrangement and negotiation
  
  • Audit report responses and codebase remediation
• ▸Custom software, automations, and AI integration
  • Bespoke automations and scripts
  
  • Private desktop and client-side applications
  
  • Local LLM and NLP implementations
  
  • User guides and documentation

about()

Varia Law combines broad legal experience, technical fluency, and pragmatism:

• ▸Our Approach
  • Code-literacy is essential for autonomous software products such as crypto and AI
  
  • "It depends" advice is useless— clients must have actionable options
  
  • No matter is too small
  
  • Transparent fees are essential

We respect confidentiality and readily use privacy-preserving communication and payment tools

Founder

Erich Dylus is an attorney and programmer who has founded multiple companies, contributed to the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017, and uses EVM and LLM technologies on a daily basis. He is a frequent contributor to open source projects and nonprofit organizations, especially in the areas of privacy and P2P technologies.

Before founding Varia Law in 2021, Erich practiced secured asset and aviation finance at Vedder Price. His matters included international syndicated financings, leases and securitizations, and regulatory investigations and compliance.

• ▸Bar admissions
  - Maryland
  
  - District of Columbia
• ▸Education
  - J.D., The George Washington University Law School
  
  - B.A. in Economics, Harvard University

Clients

Our clients range from individuals to small businesses to multinational firms, with flexible fee payment methods and arrangements including fixed fees, contingencies, and capped hourly rates.

We often work alongside other firms as a code-native and cost-effective co-counsel or consultant.

Legal services and consulting or development services are provided via separate engagements.

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