Founder
Haseeb Qureshi (HQ) is a Tennessee licensed attorney specializing in startup and entrepreneurial law. Being a self-taught full-stack software developer, HQ currently holds a software patent within the live music realm and was a founder of a past music technology company (Audiohand).
HQ is a Lecturer with the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship at the Haslam College of Business at University of Tennessee and serves as the Director of Startup Studio, an on-campus startup incubator with the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. His primary instruction focuses on entrepreneurship (ENT 350, ENT 451) and he provides faculty advisement to student business initiatives. As a teacher, HQ is known for his creative and experiential learning approaches, maintaining high student reviews and balanced grade distributions.
As founder and CEO of Forthlaw PLLC, HQ is reimagining legal services and their accessibility for modern entrepreneurs and small business owners. Using technology and business model innovation, his practice emphasizes building long-term relationships and creating solutions for clients in a process of addressing issues more broadly in society. Forthlaw reflects HQ's commitment to seeing entrepreneurs and business owners worldwide try to be a part of the solution, as opposed to doing nothing and being part of the problem by default.
"I didn't want to do the same thing before. Something had to change. That's why I made Forthlaw and pivoted away from the traditional law firm. Really that was for me and my family."
HQ holds a B.S. in Business Administration & Psychology (University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University and a J.D. from University of Tennessee College of Law, where he focused on Entrepreneurship, Music, and Internet Law. He has been a Tennessee licensed attorney since 2011, and a self-taught coder since 2000.
You can reach out to HQ via email ( [email protected] or via LinkedIn.