Areas of Practice

• Intellectual property, false advertising and media-related litigation including copyright, trademark, theft of ideas, unfair competition
• Counseling in a wide variety of advertising, entertainment and consumer product related areas including trademark, copyright and “fair use,” trade dress, First Amendment, Internet questions, music rights, advertising issues, reality programming, rights of publicity/privacy
• Negotiation of various agreements in the entertainment, merchandising and licensing fields
• Copyright and trademark portfolio management, licensing and enforcement
• Commercial disputes

Represent

• Advertising and media companies
• Entertainment industry performers and professionals
• Designers and creators

Bar Admissions

• New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Legal Career

• Joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP from MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc., after having most recently served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Litigation and Intellectual Property, MTV Networks
• Associate, Weil Gotshal & Manges

Author/Speaker

• Co-Chair, 2007 Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Section, NYS Bar Association
• Panelist, New York State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section Fall Meeting, “Hey, What’s the Big Idea? The Trade Secret is Out on Idea Submission,” October, 2004.
• Panelist, Copyright Society of the U.S.A., New York Chapter, “Yo Quiero Taco Bell? – Idea Submissions Cases,” May 2004
• Panelist, Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal Symposium, March 2004

Professional Activities & Associations

• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Member, Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
• Member, Special Committee on Cyberspace Law, New York State Bar Association, Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Law Section Committee on Transactions

Education

• J. D., New York University School of Law (1984)
• B. A., magna cum laude, Rutgers College, Rutgers University (1981)