Representative Experience
Counsel clients in motion picture, publishing, music and television industries

Internet and high technology matters, with a particular focus on online privacy and security issues

Copyright, trademark, and related media and intellectual property matters

Counsel to Lions Gate Entertainment in trademark infringement litigation over use of movie title 9 ½ Weeks

Counsel to Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien in copyright infringement action over publication of unauthorized book based on The Lord of the Rings

Counsel to St. Martin’s Press in litigation over novel based on hit song The Christmas Shoes

Successfully obtained one of largest judgments in history of the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against domain name pirate on behalf of Advance Magazine Publishers

Represented Simon & Schuster and author in copyright and contract dispute over best-selling nonfiction book The Bible Code

Defended Nickelodeon in copyright infringement action over use of character Dora the Explorer

Represented BBC in copyright infringement and defamation action brought by a composer under the laws of the United States and the United Kingdom based on use of song in news program

Represented Polygram Records in a breach of contract action brought by musical group with regard to right to license master recordings in connection with television advertisements

Defended television production company producing an Internet talent show in trademark infringement litigation involving initial interest confusion (Big Star, Inc. v. Next Big Star)

Represented Granada Television in copyright infringement action over use of music in documentary television program

Prior Experience
Associate, Kay & Boose LLP

Associate, Dewey Ballantine LLP

Assistant to Chairman, Committee on House Administration, U.S. House of Representatives

Press Secretary, Hon. Charles G. Rose, U.S. House of Representatives

Editorial Assistant, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing

Publications and Presentations
Co-Author, "Confronting Blog Spam", GC New York, July 2005

Co-Author, “Cyber Outlaws: Tracking Spammers, Phishers and Cybersquatters”, The New York Law Journal, April 18, 2005

"Guarding Against Domain Name Hijacking", Multichannel Video Compliance Guide, April 2005

Judge, 2005 Saul Lefkowitz East Regional Moot Court Competition, sponsored by INTA

Co-author, “Commercial Defamation” chapter in Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (2d Ed. 2004)

Co-author, “The In Rem Action Against Domain Names,” The New York Law Journal, January 16, 2001

Co-author, “Who Wins the Game of Metatag?” The New York Law Journal, August 15, 2000

J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. and the Fate of the Peremptory Challenge, 73 N.C. L. Rev. 525, 555 (1995)

Lecturer on Internet trademark issues at the annual Southern Regional Entertainment and Sports Law Seminar

Lecturer on Internet trademark issues for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalitions foreign training program at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Memberships and Activities
New York State Bar

Copyright Society of the United States

Secretary, Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Editor, Privacy and Security Law Blog (www.privsecblog.com)

Education
J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law

B.A. in English, with honors, Duke University