PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

 

Private Practice 1999-Present

 

 

Partial Client list includes:

 

 

• California College of the Arts: Faculty and IP Counsel
  
• The Colburn School of Music: IP Counsel
• Art Center College of Design: Faculty
• P.R.omotion!: A Promotions Agency
• The L.A. Office: Marketing and Promotions
• Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network
• Southern California Presbyterian Homes
• Lumetique: Home Design Products/Candles and Oils distributed internationally
• Browne & Co.: International Kitchen Wares
  
• Unemployed Philosophers Guild: International Consumer Products
• Student of Fortune: Online Academic Exchange
• Grassini Family Vineyards
  
• The Daily Brink: dailybrink.com
• First Legal Network
• LSL Instruments: extraordinary guitars

 

 

Universal Studios Consumer Products/ New Media Group 1991-1999

• Vice President Business and Legal Affairs
  

 

 

 

Paramount Pictures 1988-1991

• Business and Legal Affairs Consumer Products Division
• Director, Anti-Piracy Division
  

 

 

 

Writers Guild of America, West 1986-1988

• Associate Counsel, Contract Negotiations and Arbitration

 

 

 

Gilbert & Sackman 1985-1986

• Union Side Arbitration and Litigation of ERISA disputes

 

 

 

Cooper, Epstein & Hurewitz 1984-1985

• Intellectual Property Litigation
  

 

EDUCATION

 

• University of Southern California, Juris Doctor (1984) /  Member of Law Review
• California State University, San Francisco, Teaching Credential (1981)
• University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts (1980)