Intellectual Property

• Structures, prepares and negotiates licensing and other documentation involving copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets, for commercial and other monetization transactions.
• Projects include creating master service and curriculum development agreements for consulting and training firms.

Publishing

• Structures, prepares and negotiates contracts including publishing, packaging, contributor, photographic, work-made-for-hire, ghost writer, free-lance, licensing and distribution, for works to be published in print, digital and audio media. Also represents publishers and authors on dispute resolution.
• Prepared and filed Brief of Amici Curiae as legal counsel to the Romance Writers of America and The Authors Guild with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Keiler, et al. vs. Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., et al., which was favorably cited in Court of Appeals decision sending case back to lower court. Prepared contributor agreement for authors providing short stories for literary anthology.

Computer Software/Information Technology

• Structures, prepares and negotiates documentation to support clients’ acquiring and operating technology including master service agreements and statements of work, licensing, subscription, support, hosting, and custom development documentation; also prepares website disclosure and terms of use.
• Negotiated and consummated master service agreements for a communications company for call center management and property tax monitoring and management. Negotiated and consummated licensing and servicing agreements for electronic health records for non-profit health care providers.

Business/Corporate

• Represents closely–held companies, by providing outside legal counsel on an ongoing basis helping them to achieve their goals and objectives.
• Prepared and consummated equity issuance and ownership plans for executives and employees of privately held investment advisory, publishing and engineering firms.