What law school did you attend and what was your graduation year?
Tulane Law School, 2003.
Describe a typical work day for you.
As a patent attorney, my typical workday likely differs from that of many other attorneys. A significant part of my day is spent reading about, analyzing, and writing about the technology involved in the patent matters I’m handling. I also spend considerable time consulting with clients, discussing their technology, strategizing how to protect their innovations, and finding ways to navigate around the innovations of others.
Yesterday I had the perfect mediation. This mediation went perfectly because of four factors. The parties and their representatives knew the relevant law, they knew the facts of their cases, they came motived to settle, and they came with flexibility. An added factor was that once the parties talked and became convinced that the other side knew the law, knew the facts, wanted to settle rather than posture and had flexibility, then trust was quickly established between the parties, making the talks proceed even more smoothly and quickly.
We had a set of five related cases between two sets of parties. We worked well together, and in about five hours, reached settlements based on money paid in four of the five cases, and then in a cooperative discussion, agreed that the issues in the last case could best be resolved on terms other than money. We recessed for one side to explore the newly discovered issues and talk to their experts and decision makers to see how we could proceed with accommodating the other side’s concerns.
Following a recent court order enjoining the enforcement of the State Board of Education’s (SBE) temporary rule that had banned compensation for name, image, and likeness (NIL), student-athletes at public schools in North Carolina can now profit from their NIL.
The back and forth over NIL for high school student-athletes has been going on for some time now. In response to S.L. 2023-133, the SBE adopted a temporary rule forbidding NIL, which essentially maintained the status quo, until consideration could be given to a proposed permanent rule that would allow NIL.
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