| I'm Dell Charles Toedt III; I've gone by "D.C." since birth because of the Roman numeral. My last name is pronounced "Tate." I'm a lawyer in Houston (licensed in California also) and professor of practice at the University of Houston Law Center, teaching advanced business-contract drafting. I used to be vice president and general counsel of BindView Corporation, a publicly-traded software company headquartered in Houston, which (as outside counsel) I'd helped the founders to start; we were acquired by Symantec. I post sporadically at: - http://www.OnContracts.com - Startup Law 101 — a periodically-updated page of notes and links: http://www.OnContracts.com/startup-law - The Questioning Christian, http://www.QuestioningChristian.org (lying fallow at the moment) Undergrad: Math & physics. UT Austin alum for both college and law school. In between college and law school, I did my ROTC scholarship payback time as a Navy nuclear engineering officer and ship-driver (SWO 1110) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and was chief-engineer qualified. More: http://www.OnContracts.com/About Email: dc@toedt.com. Here on HN I follow: 'grellas 'patio11 'rayiner 'tptacek 'DannyBee 'ChuckMcM 'DoreenMichele | 