• Counsel clients in all aspects of trademark needs from mark creation to registration and maintenance, including conducting and reviewing trademark searches; preparing search summaries and writing opinion letters; USPTO trademark prosecution; and portfolio management. • Provide legal services in trademark enforcement matters, including utilization and protection strategy; identifying and advising on potential infringements; drafting , issuing, and responding to cease and desist letters; drafting and negotiating pre-litigation settlements; and ensuring compliance with agreements. • Advise on copyright and other creative content matters, and filing U.S. copyright registration applications.

I am a transactional attorney focusing on the needs of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals in the creative industries - counseling individuals as they bring their visions from concept to commodity, and protecting the intellectual property interests of artists and businesses alike. I engage in direct client relationships, as well as contract work for other attorneys and firms.Practice Areas include: Transactional Law & Contracts. Small Business & Entrepreneurs. Trademark & Copyright. Art & Entertainment Law. Social Media, Internet and Privacy. Licensed in Illinois and California.

• Provide legal services to the creative industries, including filmmakers, post production workers, and recording artists, in matters including copyright, privacy rights, trademarks, employment, production contracts, and recording agreements.• Drafting and review of independent contractor and employment agreements.

• Provided advice and counsel in all aspects of clients’ trademarks and entertainment titles from creation to registration and maintenance, including conducting and reviewing title and trademark searches; preparing search summaries and writing opinion letters; USPTO domestic and international trademark registration counseling, drafting, and prosecution; and portfolio management. • Performed legal services in all aspects of trademark enforcement matters, including intellectual property utilization and protection strategy; identifying and advising on potential infringements; drafting and issuing cease and desist letters, USPTO oppositions, and DMCA takedown notices; drafting and successfully negotiating pre-litigation settlements; and ensuring third party compliance with agreements. • Identified complex issues in intellectual property and client matters; researched and analyzed relevant case law for the purposes of client counseling, assisting in litigation strategy and documents, and drafting legal memoranda for firm and client use. Legal topics included trademark and copyright law, social media and branding, trade secrets, agency, and employment law. • As the primary associate responsible for communications and trademark legal services across a diverse roster of clients, provided crucial support for the addition of four high-profile national and international clients in the entertainment, news, and wine industries.

• Conducted legal research and analysis and drafted legal memoranda for a firm on a contract basis. Topics included civil procedure, agency law, and copyright.• Drafted and reviewed independent contractor and employment agreements, and entertainment industry contracts. • Provided legal services to a variety of participants in the entertainment industry in matters such as copyright, trademarks, employment matters, and business organization.

• Counseled clients on a variety of legal matters including artist and band agreements, works made for hire, business organization, copyrights, and trademarks.• Drafted documents for client and in-house use, including memoranda on works made for hire, joint authorship, small business organization, and e-commerce; and contracts including production documents, music licenses, work made for hire agreements, and acquisition documents for maintaining chain of title.

• Co-authored the chapter “Sculpting Public Policy through Bioart,” a discussion of biotech related artwork and its relationship to public policies on genetics. (Bauman, Jalissa and Lori Andrews. “Sculpter la politique publique par le bioart.” Trans. Ernestine Dauber. Bioart: Transformations du Vivant. Eds. Ernestine Daubner and Louise Poissant. University of Quebec Press, 2012.)• Researched and produced memos on biotech issues, including reproduction technology, genetically modified organisms, patenting and usage of biological matter, and related public policy and legislation. • Assisted in organizing and creating materials for the interdisciplinary program, “Genetic Policy and the Arts,” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.

• Developed and maintained all aspects of content partnering relationships with museums, independent artists, artists’ estates, and companies, to create digital downloadable collections of artwork.• Researched and initiated contact with content holders and artists; negotiated and drafted licenses.• Resolved client relationships and closed files during the company’s voluntary dissolution.

• Secured copyright clearances and licenses for the 120 images included as illustrations in an art textbook. (Luecking, Stephen. Principles of Three Dimensional Design: Objects, Space and Meaning. Prentice Hall, 2002).• Researched and identified hundreds of often obscure artworks and photographs. Negotiated with foreign and domestic organizations, government departments, individuals, and agents to secure permissions.• Developed and maintained databases to track contacts, correspondence, deadlines, and contracts.