Presentations
Speaker, “IP Settlement Agreements After 1-800 Contacts,” Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association, November 5, 2021
Speaker, “Settling Trademark and Other IP Disputes: Key Lessons from 1-800 Contacts, Balancing Antitrust and IP Interests,” Strafford CLE, September 9, 2021
Speaker, Three Takedowns: Protecting Your Brand Online, Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, April 21, 2021
Moderator, Tuneful or Tone Deaf?: Three lessons in brand enforcement and management gleaned from the headlines.,Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, October 14, 2020
Speaker, Stories of Innovation: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Intellectual Property, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, September 17, 2020
Speaker, A Discussion about Business Law, Knoxville Bar Association, July 28, 2020
Speaker, COVID-19's Lasting Impact on the Practice of Law and the Courts, Knoxville Bar Association, May 19, 2020
Speaker, Introduction to Copyrights, University of Tennessee School of Music, February 4, 2020
Speaker, Introduction to Copyrights, University of Tennessee School of Music, April 2, 2019
Speaker, Vicarious Liability in IP Litigation: What Officers, Directors, and Employees Need to Know, Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, March 12, 2019 – co-presenter, Brad Brittian
Speaker and Organizer, Counseling Businesses about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Social Media: A Tool Kit for Attorneys, Knoxville Bar Association, September 28, 2018
Speaker, Cybersecurity: Detect and Prevent Cyber Attacks, Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, April 5, 2018
Chair and Speaker, Intellectual Property: CLE Bytes, Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville, April 5, 2017
Chair, A Look at the Executive Order Travel Bans, The Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court, March 14, 2017
Speaker, Legal and Non-Legal Strategies for Managing Social Media Content, Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, June 8, 2016
Panelist, Ethics Panel, 2016 Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Meeting, May 6, 2016
Speaker, Access Your Office from Anywhere, Knoxville Bar Association 2016 Law Expo CLE, April 22, 2016
Speaker, Safeguarding Trade Secrets: Tips and Tools for Identifying, Managing, and Protecting Confidential Business Information, Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, October 28, 2015
Don't Just Stand There; Do Something! Consequences of Pending Anti-Troll Legislation on Pleading Standards, Rule 11, and the American Rule at Knoxville Bar Association CLE Program Lord of the Bling: Trolls, Treasure and Trends in IP Litigation that May Impact Any Client, February 28, 2014
Publications
Contributing author, “What I Learned About Inclusion and Why It Matters,” Knoxville Bar Association Dicta, September 2021
“The Impact of COVID-19 on Law Firm Operations,” DICTA (Knoxville Bar Association), September 2020 – co-author, Brad Brittian
Guest Columnist, To increase inclusion, start by tracking diversity, Knoxville News Sentinel, December 2019
Fictional Brands, Famous Marks: Recurring characters, places, and elements can serve as source identifiers for creative works in LANDSLIDE (ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law), March/April 2019 – co-author, Ian G. McFarland
FTC regulates ‘influencer advertising’ on social media, in Greater Knoxville Business Journal (knox.biz), August 2018 – co-author, Elizabeth C. Harwood
John Winemiller: Proposed legislation targets patent trolls, Knoxvillebiz.com, April 7, 2014
Avoiding that ‘Cease and Desist’ Letter, KBA The Consigliere, Vol. 7, No. 1, Winter 2012
The Endangered Species Act and the Imprecise Scope of the Substantial Effects Analysis, 18 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 159, 2004
Casenote, United States v. Scheffler, 77 Tennessee Law Review 331, 1998
Recontextualizing Handel's Borrowings, 15 Journal of Musicology 444, 1997
Borrowing, Copyright, and Proprietary Authorship, 8 American Handel Society Newsletter 1, 1993