Thrush, Thomas Clark

After ten years in-house with the John H Harland Company's financial institution software division, Mark returned to private practice, joining Jones Keller, P.C. as Of Counsel in January 2005. Mark's practice includes financial institution regulation, commercial litigation, and software and technology law.

Mark has been a regular speaker and writer for the legal and banking communities on banking law, litigation, and legal technology, and is the former editor of The Colorado Lawyer magazines Automation Annotations law and technology column

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As Senior Compliance Counsel for Harland, Mark was directly involved in all stages of product development to ensure federal and multiple state compliance for secured and unsecured consumer transactions documented by Harland's LaserPro, LoanPublisher, Mortgage Publisher, and financial.center loan origination software suites. In the technology area, Mark was directly involved in drafting Harlands standardized software technology licensing agreements, maintenance agreements, and warranties, and negotiation nondisclosure, consulting, development, outsourcing and alliance agreements with major customers, vendors, and strategic partners. Mark was also corporate trademark counsel for Harland's corporate trademark portfolio.

As a litigator, Mark has been involved in matters as diverse as defending a national retailer against claims for unearned real estate commissions arising from real estate development, and averting litigation against a national securities firm in a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets.

Mark is also a licensed pilot and flight instructor and has written and lectured on many occasions to the Lawyers Pilot Bar association on multiple commercial and regulatory topics.