Alia Luria

Prior to entering the legal field, Alia had a career working for multiple startup companies as a web developer and software engineer. She has software experience in web-based application development spanning a range of industries, including the telecommunications, entertainment, and business-to-business services industries. Among her many projects, Alia coded interfaces for provisioning of cell phone services in Latin America and created customized user experiences for online photofinishing print stores for clients such as Yahoo!, Lucasfilm, Sears Portrait Studio, Delta, NASCAR and others.

Alia is also a writer and has had short non-fiction published by Northwest Review and Toho Journal. She was also a finalist for the Malahat Review Open Season Award in Non-Fiction. Her science fiction novel, Compendium, won the Reader’s Favorite Silver Medal in Fantasy, the National Indie Excellence Award in Fantasy, and was a finalist for the Independent Author Network Book of the Year in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Debut Novel. Her imprint, Willowslip Press, was acquired by Something or Other Publishing, LLC in 2021, and her forthcoming novel will be published through SOOP.

As the co-founder and now CEO of InFront Compliance, Alia has merged her development experience, her legal acumen, and her network of connections to simplify compliance with a flexible, module-based software platform that helps companies connect to vendors to monitor compliance, cybersecurity professionals conduct assessments on clients, and allow any corporate to conduct due diligence on potential acquisition targets.

With all of this in mind, Alia’s law practice focuses on all manner of transactional representation for creatives, professionals, technologists and entrepreneurs, including legal advisory, corporate governance, agreement review and negotiation, acquisition of rights, and licensing transactions. Her deep knowledge of the publishing, legal, and technology industries has allowed her to serve clients of all sizes on transactional matters for the last twelve years of legal practice. She holds a BS in Economics, with highest honors, from the University of Central Florida, a JD, cum laude, from the University of Florida, an LLM in Taxation from New York University, and an MFA in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University.