Catlan Mccurdy Email & Phone Number

United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

McCurdy Laud, LLC was established to provide nimble, personalized service in intellectual property and technology transactions and disputes. Our goal is to help clients protect their business interests from risk and uncertainty, working collaboratively to achieve success.As the Founder and Principal Attorney, I bring over a decade of experience in tech law.

Worked closely with clients to commercialize their intellectual property through various means including collaboration and development agreements, licenses, and advising on standard templates and business practices. Assisted clients in properly identifying and licensing or purchasing the intellectual property and services they need to run their own.

Minneapolis, MN

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Counseled various in-house teams, including programming, music, business development, digital services, consumer products/retail, information technology, and facilities. Drafted and negotiated licenses, service agreements, releases, software agreements (including SaaS), and programming agreements, among others. Managed national and international trademark.

Mclean, VA

Advised clients on a variety of intellectual property matters, from licensing and commercialization of intellectual property to trademark and copyright protection. Assisted with the structuring and drafting of technology and media licenses, pharmaceutical agreements, life sciences agreements, and other agreements involving intellectual property rights..

Minneapolis, MN

Focused on the prosecution and enforcement of trademarks and copyrights in a range of industries, including nonprofits, technology, restaurant services, and fashion. Aided clients in securing brand protection for their trademarks and brand identity.

Minneapolis, MN

Law clerk in the Intellectual Property group.

Minneapolis, MN

Researched and drafted legal memoranda in areas of real estate law, banking, civil and criminal litigation. Researched legal precedent and draft motions including motion for sanctions and motion to dismiss. Interpreted statutes and regulations relevant for litigation.

Minneapolis, MN

Researched wide variety of legal requests from faculty members. Edited scholarly articles for content and citations. Collaborated with faculty to discuss strategy and composed results in an organized fashion. Utilized online legal databases, search engines and law library materials.

Minneapolis, MN

Analyzed MacArthur Foundation Grants to Advance Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Era data and synthesized information in tables, graphs, and essay format to reflect findings. Created appendixes for official report to be presented to the MacArthur Foundation regarding the grantees' furtherance of intellectual property rights and research. Edited.

Minneapolis, MN

Authored demands and responses for discovery and claim petitions in workers compensation and personal injury lawsuits. Managed case load of 140 clients including daily phone calls and meetings to discuss case status and strategy. Created medical requests, demands for settlement, and mediation and arbitration materials for hearings.

Minneapolis, MN

Spring semester pro bono internship. Reviewed police reports and arrest records to determine restrictions and conditions mandated upon chronic offenders. Collaborated with attorney and paralegal team to monitor the success of the Court Watch program. Reported success of Court Watch program to leaders of the First Precinct and City Attorney's Office.

Alexandria, VA

Researched external sources to identify opportunities for litigation consulting. Analyzed dockets to communicate changes in case status. Ensured case database accuracy and collaborated with team members regarding the results.

Washington D.C.

Completed and filed various immigrant petitions including: Adjustment of Status Application for Permanent Residency, Immigration Petition for Alien Worker, and Naturalization. Wrote responses for Request for Evidence to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Composed official letters and responses on behalf of clients and counsel.

Washington D.C.

Organized large-scale catered social events. Created a filing system to organize various privileged documents in current and archived files. Communicated firm's mission regarding diversity at a New York City diversity job fair and designed the brochure used at the fair by the firm.

Washington D.C.

Fulfilled requests for library materials by consortium members.

J.D., Law, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Student Intellectual Property Association, Womens Law Student Association

Education record

Honors English study abroad program

Bachelor’S Degree, English, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Honors English major program