Derek Colla is a partner at Cooley LLP, where tenure began in September 2008. In addition to legal practice, Derek Colla served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center from June 2018 to January 2022, teaching a course on legal representation for emerging growth companies and venture capital firms. Derek Colla earned a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School between 2005 and 2008 and holds a BS summa cum laude in Computer Science from Washington and Lee University, completed from 2001 to 2005.